Rear sub-frame and more, work in progress

Thank you for your appreciation, ED

Agreed

Fantastic. The machined metal look can only be approximated with styrene.

Hi Stephen

I am as admiring as you are with those who know how to use a lathe but nothing actually prevents from starting slowly...

Milling machines allow us to go even further, but they are very strange machines and getting to grips with them can take a lot of time...

With only tubes, profiles and plates one can already go far..

Regards,

Gilles

Yes, the hinges are a real challenge. I am still thinking about how to proceed...

In addition to the two doors I also cut out the tailgate and I will do the same for the fuel filler flap 😮.. So still other hinges to think and make...

We are a little crazy, aren’t we?...🙃😂

Yes we are! Most modelers think it’s crazy to cut into a “perfectly good” model. On the other hand, I don’t even flinch at carving things up.

At the moment I’m wondering how best to fix a problem with the trunk floor. I had (incorrectly as it turned out) inserted a dart to level the floor because it was impossibly shallow at the tail end. Then I realized the real car’s trunk floor follows the same line as the coupe, and is impossibly shallow at the tail end. Anyway the dart is now cracking from all the handling it has been getting.

I can “weld” in some support from below and that might be enough, but I also need to rework the license plate opening (you will too). The kit has a lozenge shaped opening, but the real car’s plate opening has straight sides and is quite a bit wider. I could handle that in plastic but the top half of the tail is a resin cast and it’s not particularly strong. I may even end up scratch building the whole tail before this is done. I have enough material and I have roughed it out. It would mean a ton more work though, so I will probably defer that for a future build.

BTW I tried opening the fuel filler cap, but had 2 problems. The practical problem is that the material is too thick, so fashioning a functional lid was required thinning it by more than half. The aesthetic problem is that the fuel filler is in the wrong place compared with the real car. So even with your extreme talent, I’d recommend NOT trying to do the fuel filler. Just scribe the opening to be more realistic and call it a day.

Thank you for your feedback.

Don’t hesitate to come on this forum to share your progress