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Edited: Aug 07

Trunk episode 1

in 1/8 Revell Jaguar E-Type

1/ Cutting:

2/ Put back in place:

I used this tool:

Cutting of the floor:

Problem, the back of the spare wheel goes up too high and prevents putting a cover:

It does not go forward enough because it is limited by the curvature and thickness of the plastic.

Solution: Change the shape of the curvature and reduce the thickness. For this, a small cut is necessary:

Now the wheel goes down enough:

All that remains is to replace what is to be cut...to be followed....

Sorry, my English is bad but I hope it will be easy to understand just by looking at the photographs.

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Comments (10)

smillervette4

Jul 31

Gorgeous hinges! Excellent photos! Thank you!

smillervette4

Jul 30

Beautifully engineered, Ed Bird!

Ed Bird

Jul 30

Hi Chris,

Yeah that is what I discovered even at the beginning tries, as I said had several different hinges that I purchased and the ones the did work even though barely did lift a bit before it began to swing out. Just not enough in my mind. Once I was stuck in the water to say, I began searching for pictures of real ones and came across the ones I used. And right away when I saw them I knew they would lift better then swing.

Not the I have not failed on other times I have tried on model making and learned, I think the panic I had when the ones failed, pushed me to try again and a good learning experience. Can't find it - make it. Can't wait to see what goes wrong next!!

Ed Bird

Jul 30

Yes did have a few problems with the rear hatch hinges. Over a year ago I thought about doing it, so got a spare body to see if 1. can I cut it out - yes I did. 2 can I make hinges - don't think so. So I searched and located some various design hinges and tried them out. I did get a set to work, although just barely. But when I went to do it on the actual build I must have "pulled" something tight as it would not work at all. Great now what??

So I thought I guess I better try to make my own. Found a good picture of them, so made some scaled down decals of them and attached then to a piece of plastic. Long story short - They work! So from now on if I need hinges - will do myself.

Unassembled hinges - sorry picture is so big

Chris Craddock

Jul 30

Hey Ed, one thing you need to keep in mind with kit doors/hinges is that the door skins and the bodies are waaaay thicker (in real life, never mind at scale) than the real car. In the real car, the panel edges can move past each other pretty easily because they’re thin. In a model, you need to either add a little wiggle room so they don’t get caught on each other, OR you can thin the door material as you get closer to the edge.

Even so, the action of the hinge needs to “lift” the door by just a smidge before swinging it. I hope that makes sense.

Cheers,

Chris

Gilles

Jul 31

Nice job Ed with the styren.

And thank you for putting the photos of the real hinges. I understood that the photo I showed corresponds more to hinges from the roaster.

Thanks to you I will go in the right direction. Wait and see.

I found this precious photo that shows their location on the tailgate

Colin Shannon

Jul 30

Very cool. Its' going to be great seeing this with the spare tyre in place.

Hopefully Ed says hi on this one as I know he did a lot of head scratching to come up with working hinges for the hatch. There are some pretty interesting angles getting those to work well.

By the way, your English and translation is absolutely fine, and as always, a picture is worth a thousand words!

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Gilles

Jul 30

Thank you Colin for your response and encouragement.

I found a photo of a hinge and I will use it as inspiration to make some in brass...wait and see...

Chris Craddock

Jul 29

Great! I like your solution for fitting the "spare" tire.

Gilles

Jul 30

Thank you Chris, work in progress !!😉