As I spent Christmas and New Year as the only man in the house with five women, you might imagine that I needed to escape occasionally to calm my nerves!
Luckily I had a few projects on the go to soothe me...first up is a Ferrari 246 from 1958 made from a resin moulded body made by and gifted to me by Alfetta of this forum (thank you Peter!) and a scratch built chassis with a long can motor. Lots of the usual challenges and cock ups along the way, but I am reasonably pleased with the end result and it seems to go quite well so far on the home test track. I am still not sure if I should paint in the cooling louvres or leave them as they are?
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My daughters had asked what I wanted for Christmas, so naturally I gave them a list of parts to order from Pendles to build a Maserati 250f streamliner. I had been lusting over one of these bodies for a while and having seen a clutch of them at the Pontyslot CSCRA meeting it was an easy choice to make. The body shell kit is one of the Penelope Pitlane series and comes almost ready for painting, so it is a quite straight forward build process. I assume that all the PP series bodies come prepared in the same way? I have used a PP competition chassis with a Slot it flat 6 motor and running gear.
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Last up is a Betta vac formed Ferrari P4 which I had picked up in a job lot of bits. During my teen slot years I had one of these and was keen to recreate the memory. The chassis is a Tover angle winder, which happened to fit perfectly, with an old Parma 16D motor and Slot it gears. I don't think it will comply with any racing class, but it was fun to build, although masking to spray paint a vac formed body is a challenge. Back in the day it was all done with a paint brush!
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I now need to start planning projects for next Christmas!
Mark
Luckily I had a few projects on the go to soothe me...first up is a Ferrari 246 from 1958 made from a resin moulded body made by and gifted to me by Alfetta of this forum (thank you Peter!) and a scratch built chassis with a long can motor. Lots of the usual challenges and cock ups along the way, but I am reasonably pleased with the end result and it seems to go quite well so far on the home test track. I am still not sure if I should paint in the cooling louvres or leave them as they are?
My daughters had asked what I wanted for Christmas, so naturally I gave them a list of parts to order from Pendles to build a Maserati 250f streamliner. I had been lusting over one of these bodies for a while and having seen a clutch of them at the Pontyslot CSCRA meeting it was an easy choice to make. The body shell kit is one of the Penelope Pitlane series and comes almost ready for painting, so it is a quite straight forward build process. I assume that all the PP series bodies come prepared in the same way? I have used a PP competition chassis with a Slot it flat 6 motor and running gear.
Last up is a Betta vac formed Ferrari P4 which I had picked up in a job lot of bits. During my teen slot years I had one of these and was keen to recreate the memory. The chassis is a Tover angle winder, which happened to fit perfectly, with an old Parma 16D motor and Slot it gears. I don't think it will comply with any racing class, but it was fun to build, although masking to spray paint a vac formed body is a challenge. Back in the day it was all done with a paint brush!
I now need to start planning projects for next Christmas!
Mark