Some questions, how do you bend the paper clip roll cages and bumpers so prescisely, are all your exhaust headers brass tube (some look like RRR resins), What body filler do you use to make the hood scoops and lastly what do you use to cut and section the bodies with ?
Chet
Chet in answer to your questions
To make the bumpers and cages all I use are these
The pliers are the flat nose kind without any grooves in them. I just bend them by eye and
trim them with a pair of cutters and grind them flat or whatever I need using a dremel
with a cut off wheel on it. No jigs or anything fancy like that.
The only headers that were made of tubing where the ones on the gold coach.
All the others are resin cast made by a guy who goes by the name Partspig.
All the hoods,hood scoops are made from sheet plastic. All the pieces for them
are cut and glued together. Any seams are filled with real thin ca glue and sanded.
Very little putty is used except to fill any defects in the seams after some
primer is applied. Right now I'm using the green squadron putty because I have it
but you can use automotive spot putty also.
Just an example, All these are separate pieces on the hood.
As far as sectioning the bodies, I just see how much I need to take out, run tape on each
side of the cut and make the cuts with an X-acto saw. After cutting I just glue them back
together and hope for the best. the roof cuts and deck cuts if needed are done
freehand by eye. I try sometime to sand the seams before the glue totally dry
and use the dust to fill the seam, again very little putty is used for filler.
Hope this answers your questions
and thanks for asking.
I have no secrets and will share any information
about this I can.
Kevin