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Converted...........


Red Devil

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Brief mention of the Chris Cornell etched kit for the Leeds convert(ed) cars in an earlier entry, well the festive boredom set in so thought I'd start fabricating a few of the major sections up ready to build up later, didn't quite happen that way.

 

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I'm going to have to build it slightly differntly to how the instuctions suggest to make painting and glazing a bit easier, I'm not certain yet but may build it with a seperate chassis, comprising the platforms, bulkheads and truck, which will slot into the main body unit, roof will be removeable to glaze and populate the interior

 

Still needs a fair bit of fettling, but all in all, it's going together pretty easily, I think from the photos you can make out the style of construction, the sides and ends being built up from laminates, hardest part so far was getting the raked front upper windscreen in and looking right..

 

All in all there's a fair bit of brass and I've got a nearly complete lower saloon spare as well.

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Impressive, lovely clean work, well done.

 

Looks like an interesting approach to assembly. On the kits I started, I left out the floor completely so the mechanism would plug in. The fold-out platform always seems a bit vulnerable during construction, but none have yet parted company.

 

I'm planning on attaching platform to chassis, too, provided I can build both chassis and body square enough to get an accurate fit. Not 100% sure how I get a good match to the main body where there are windscreens, though. Will solve that problem when I get to it, and before that, must build chassis I'm happy with, and solve the problems of lighting, head, tail and interior!

 

Very intrigued by your plan to include the bulkhead in the chassis assembly. This has set me thinking. So far, I've made up the lower saloons as pen-bottom boxes with the bulkhead being a key ingredient for strength and squareness, but I can now see there are other ways for certain prototypes...

 

Best wishes.

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Cheers E.L.,

thing with the convert is, it has platform doors, so when I was thinking about having the bulkheads as part of the chassis, the body would have enough strength without the bulkhead, however thinking about it again it's going to be a pig to do that way, and of course, I've built up the bulkhead platform assemblies, so it's going to make it an utter pig to glaze the front platforms.....................

 

So, current thinking, to save work is to build it with the platform doors open or removable and fit on near completion, Chassis now likely to be as per other 4 wheel cars with a cradle to take a Halling drive and hopefully some Meadowcroft cast brass trucksides, still working the roof out..................

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