Ferrari 126C2 1:8

Thanks guys

@Latsyrc

"Taking a break from the 250?"

No not really.....but this car is crawling in my mind to often lately so I thought ...let´s start with the difficult things The 250 stays on the work bench

@the_stig

"I'd be much more inclined to drive to Manzoni's house and shake the parts out of him!"

It passed my mind occasionally ...but it is useless ...if there is nothing you can get nothing

 

In the last couple of weeks I made a nice progress on reproducing the missing parts of the gearbox. It is not finished yet but there is enough to show

On this picture all the reproduced parts are shown. The part in the middle is the "collar" between engine and gearbox housing. It is made out of plastic for the right measures but will be reproduced in brass because of the weight on both sides. The blue square show the parts from the kit which are the reference for reproducing the missing parts



A dryfit is shown from the reproduced parts and the picture in the left corner shows the original without missing parts :evil:



regards

Ton

 

Ermmm....well I dreamed about it

 

Some progress again Last time I stopped at the point were I had to make the brass connection point between the engine and gear housing. I used a plastic mould which I showed earlier to fabricate the brass connection.



At the left you see the plastic mould and the big picture shows the brass connection. The next picture shows the ready connection were I used copper plating to close the voids.



And here the gearbox housing is ready: plastic, white metal and copper/brass are painted and dry brushed to get all over metallic look.



On the next pictures you see the supports assembled for the complete suspension/wheel setting. I received a spare part of the suspension from another owner of the Promocom 126C2 so I only have to reproduce its counterpart.

This is my goal for the next update and probably I will make the wing strut too!







Ton

 

Thanks Travis ......maybe there is more interest on the moment a car is evolving Collectors like shiny cars that you can put in a showcase ...not all kind of parts

Ton

 

Thanks guys!

 

Here you can see someone building the engine of the Promocom 126C2: TK Chan helped me alot with information about my missing parts.

http://www.tkcgallery.com/scalemodels/F126C/F126_01.shtml

 

Another update: a few parts less are missing now This update concerns two vital parts: the wing strut (orange) and a part of the suspension (blue). The wing strut is completely missing and I have the other suspension part as an example.



After a failure in brass and aluminium sheet I decided to use plastic. The aluminium wing is so light that the structure has almost nothing to support. Here the inner parts are shown



Here the strut is almost finished



And here it is ready and assembled to the gearbox. The photo etch part is the mount for the wing.



The next part is the suspension part which gave me a considerable headache. As you can see nothing is straight but all these angles need to be united in one piece.



How do you get these parts together? On the next picture you see the different stages. I took the original (upper part) and I replaced the virtual lines on the previous picture by brass tubing and soldered them together. This gave me a template ( middle part) with the right angles to make a base frame for this part (lowest part)



Because of its stiffness I used plastic to cover the base frame instead of brass



And here it is finished



Another two parts are from the list and rest is work for the lathe. I will finish the aft part as far as I can get and than back to the TR 250

:mrgreen: Ton

 

Thanks guys! 360C, nice to meet another "victim" of Promocom. I assume you did not get a response either when you asked for a new part I am glad you were able to fix the part because it is a wonderful model of an icon of a car.

Ton

 

I have heard it before ...more than once. To much ambition !

Ton

 

You treated the kit as a good bottle of wine I bought and built it around that period too and it is a real delight! And this promocom kit is the most awesome kit I have ever seen and built ...unfortunately its creator and manufacturer is the opposite.

 

LOL ....that is the best investment

 

For a good model you don´t need a lot of goodies: basic instruments (knive glue and a spray can) do wonders

Ton