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Frazer Nash

Postby jmsh54 » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:43 pm

Greetings, I got this resin 1/32 body from AA Slot car Bodies. The body can be had either in fiber glass or resin. Never having worked with a fiber glass body before I elected resin. What you get is a body with a molded in driver and a wind sreen.

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I opened up the hood scoop and all the molded on marker lights and head lights. I left the molded in driver figure. But in the end I wish I had cut that out too.

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I used a PCS chassis. Added a yellow Slot it crown gear and pinion. Slot it axles and Protoslot wheels, inserts and tires. The motor is a 18,000 rpm that either came form the good Professor or Electric Dreams

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Added a review mirror and drivers head from the spares box and some small rivets to the seat cover to simulate snaps.

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Hooks up real well on my Carrera track. Fun build but almost had to have a hazmet suit to remove all the extra resin. Need to remove some of the black wash on the hood as I got a bit carried away. Regards, John
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby TsgtRet » Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:44 pm

Beautiful build. As for your hood....tell 'em you blew an oil line in practice and it got a bit smokey under there. :roll:
Those wheels just look so right!
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby dge467 » Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:34 pm

Awesome build! That is a great looking car!
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:22 pm

Ditto, great work sir. Just love that look.

I want to try these wheels myself.
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby RazorJon » Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:31 pm

great job
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby dreinecke » Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:42 pm

Excellent work! I say that because I have that car in a box...I was reluctant to start mine due to the cleanup it needs, but you did a fine job there!
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby Dangermouse » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:49 pm

Love the rivets, what did you use?

I was going to see if I could find some suitable Grandt Line model railroad 'bolts' to use as rivets for my Aston.

http://grandtline.com

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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby jmsh54 » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:39 pm

Greetings, thanks for your kind comments and views. Well it looks like an oil line leak it is. Learned a lot about putting a wash on. Hope for better results next time.

Harry, Protoslot wheels are fine wheels, however a caution should you use them. Make sure the grub scew is going in straight becasue the hole in the wheel strips out real easy, however if that happens 2 part epoxy glue holds them real well to the axle.

Bibster, here in Northern Michigan the time between end of summer and ice fishing season is car building time. Plus I have found now that the Detroit Lions have gone back to their old ways of playing horrible football that most of my Sunday afternoons are free. Can't stand to watch a 4 hour live horror show.

David, if your car leaves the box find a hazmet suit. I have never seen so much resin dust in the air. I wore an old rain suit and a dust mask and still looked like I had spent the day in a mine. Just took the suit off, dropped it in a plastic bag and threw it out. I have 3 more AA bodies and they are all the same.

Dangermouse, David, The product you mentioned is what I used. They are plastic, at least the set I have, and kind of hard to use. you might want to take a look at this site, http://www.scalehardware.com/. Their rivets are metal and look like they might be easier to use. I ordered up some sets of different size and should get them in the next day or so. I'll give you an update when they arrive.

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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby Dangermouse » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:16 pm

Thanks John

I am trying to work out an appropriate size - there are 0.030" rivets , and 0.035" and 0.043" = at the moment I am thinking 0.030 as these I can get locally for $6 for 200.

I think these scale out just under an inch which is probably big enough (if not too big)

awesome link by the way - thanks

The rivets I have found are from this company http://tichytraingroup.com/index.php?pa ... s&offset=0
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby Dangermouse » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:56 am

Not to hijack John's thread but here is the result of my riveting
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby jmsh54 » Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:09 pm

DM, are those the.030 rivets? Those look spot on. Regards, John
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Re: Frazer Nash

Postby Dangermouse » Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:55 pm

Yes John

tichy train 0.030 rivets. I cut the head off and used a tooth pick to put a dot of super glue on the spot and the carefully as I could picked the rivet up, I used a wet blade and placed it on the dot. In putting 16 on and lost about 4 because the dropped of the blade and disappeared. But at $6 for 200 I have plenty left

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