Pocher Rolls Royce Phantom 1:8

[jeaton01]

Cool! Love the brass.

 

[moon puppy]

Nicely done Paddy!

 

[paddy]

The inlet manifold is separate but its flanges to mount it too the head are part of the head, so you need to be very good at masking or good at free hand painting. I chose freehand painting

 

[Paulw]

Im glad you are good at free hand. If I did something like that it would look as if a 9 year old had done it.

 

[moon puppy]

Handled nicely. Like it Paddy!

 

[Brokeneagle]

beautiful work!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Still looking good Paddy!

 

[Greg Kimsey]

Brilliant freehand! Those metal finishes are beautifully done.

 

[centaur567]

Very impressive!! Gary S.

 

[paddy]

hmmmm. this proving a lot more difficult that expected

My problem is i have lots of parts like this

and no idea where they go. They would have come ina labelled numbered bag and the bag was stapled to a card with their identity on..
What i have is a load of bits. the instructions are not detailed enough to identify the parts and to make matters worse i did take pictures of most of the already assembled parts

but it looks like they were assembled wrong...lol

I will persevere but the temptation is to build this without all this linkage which is totally made up anyway and build it as an accurate model rather than a model with working brakes that, ironically would have been hydrolic on this model of phantom II anyway....

Meanwhile i have made a brass conduit for the ignition leads but in life it would have been bakelite i suspect ? Certainly not brass as its electrically conductive

 

[moon puppy]

Wow, I would have thought they would have been accurate instead of just making up working parts. Good thing that's not how things really are, way to many cotter pins to trust for brakes.

 

[paddy]

Yea its a bit of an anomaly with these kits i think, its odd because devotees to these builds mount their cars on mirrored bases to display all this completely made up mass of linkages and rods

 

[Heavens Eagle]

hmmmm. this proving a lot more difficult that expected

My problem is i have lots of parts like this

and no idea where they go. They would have come ina labelled numbered bag and the bag was stapled to a card with their identity on..
What i have is a load of bits. the instructions are not detailed enough to identify the parts and to make matters worse i did take pictures of most of the already assembled parts

but it looks like they were assembled wrong...lol

I will persevere but the temptation is to build this without all this linkage which is totally made up anyway and build it as an accurate model rather than a model with working brakes that, ironically would have been hydrolic on this model of phantom II anyway....

Meanwhile i have made a brass conduit for the ignition leads but in life it would have been bakelite i suspect ? Certainly not brass as its electrically conductive


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As to the bakelite, that is what paint is for.

As to all the parts, they are in the instructions, it will just take a little while to figure out where they go. These kits are kind of like the subscription kits. Those usually need a lot of aftermarket fixes to make them more right. The DeAgostini (now FarHome) Back to the Future Delorean is an example of that. There have been folks online that have gone over the top with redoing the detail parts. Unfortunately with the demise of Shapeways, the aftermarket parts have dried up for the moment.

 

[paddy]

More than happy to do the detail work and i will... but adding this multitude of links and rods and brackets to make the brakes work on a car that had hydrolic brakes ??.....thats bordering on turning a good model into a toy car its a bit like adding a refueling probe to a mustang
I think most of these unidentified parts are just spare. I mean i have spare con rods, pistons ,main bearing caps etc so i suppose there is likely to be spare everything.

 

[paddy]

You are right Paul, i tried this painting thing you mentioned and the brass tube turned into a sort of bakelite tube.

You can see here if you enlarge or look carefully this tube has shattered on the left ? so i presume it's bakelite

 

[Paulw]

Well Bakelite makes sense to me. Fairly heat resistant but after a while brittle. That color looks pretty authentic to me, Paddy. Keep on keeping on, as we say here. AS for the cotter pins in the linkages I am sure that you could come up with a suitable replacement as well as being more scale. Soldier on, mate.

 

[Greg Kimsey]

Crazy cool. I hope you figure out the brakes. What a predicament!

 

[jeaton01]

I think it is black

 

[Heavens Eagle]

 

[Rhino]

I vote (no. nevermind.)