The Scratkiller´s brother

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The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby walker » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:26 am

Time flies but I haven´t forgotten the second truck, the brother of this one
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It had been ready for quite a while, but the guy it was made for had spilt nail - polish - remover over it... You can imagine the result.
So there was nothing else for it but painting it a second time. It was not easy to remove the oil that is mixed into the polish - remover from the surface.

Well, here it is, as promised.

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Re: The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby buspor63 » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:08 pm

Can you show us the drive train?
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Re: The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby dge467 » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:58 pm

Very nice!
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Re: The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby BARC 1 » Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:07 pm

Very nice Roland. Too bad photo etch mirrors weren't available for this truck in this scale. Although this is a slot car so perhaps they would be damaged too quickly.

Regardless nice job on the truck and the paint. I would like to see the drive train as well. Front duallys are powered with a drive shaft to the motor up front?

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Re: The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby walker » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:54 am

And again - a matter of taste, Dan.

Photoetched parts are highly praised as a kind of non - plus - ultra, a "must - have"...

By no means.
Photoetched parts are a bit finer, that´s all. But they are always more or less two - dimensional. Spokes ? I have never seen flat spokes on a real car. Truck mirrors so flat ? Never. Wipers 0,3 mm thick ????? Where ?

There are some places where PE parts provide a kind of upgrade, such as static models. But on slotcars ?
I am always amazed by the contradiction between poor casting/workmanship, painting and decalling, and on the other hand photoetched parts...pearls before swines. If I´m not able to build real good models, I don´t need PE parts at all.
Not my cup of tea, unless I build a slotcar in such a high scale model quality that such fine detail is necessary to enhance realism.

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I can´t show the chassis because I don´t have the model. As I wrote, this was an order.
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Re: The Scratkiller´s brother

Postby TuscoTodd » Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:25 am

Great looking sibling!
Thanks for sharing the pics! :D
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