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Post by Patrick on Aug 26, 2009 14:56:07 GMT -5
This was the first D50 I made back in the '80s...  Then, in the '90s I did this one,  and the last D50 was this one (I still have this one!)   I think this began as a MPC slot car body and after much research (the car was hand painted!!)... the car which still needs the correct knockoffs, mirrors, and windscreen. Patrick |
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Post by indydog on Aug 26, 2009 16:13:35 GMT -5
Most excellent Patrick! I'd love to get me a Lancia kit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 18:17:19 GMT -5
Hi PAtrick,
A model after my own heart! ;D
I found my camera, so I can finally take some pictures of my *yellow* D-50 built from a Strombecker glue bomb. It is in about the same stage of construction as yours, but no decals yet......
Mongo
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Post by Patrick on Aug 30, 2009 18:58:06 GMT -5
Bill,
I started on my Typo801 modified D50 yesterday. I'll have photos as it progresses.
Patrick
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 8:04:49 GMT -5
Bill, I started on my Typo801 modified D50 yesterday. I'll have photos as it progresses. Patrick Hi Patrick, I can't wait to see that! We are about finished with the bathroom destruction/remodel, so I hope to get back into the swing of things real soon. Mongo |
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Post by Patrick on Sept 12, 2009 19:42:06 GMT -5
Well here's the progress on the von Trips Italian GP 801. The slim sides are done, the nose is now a long version (to be painted yellow for Trips), and the exposed side exhaust (what BLOODY hell they were!).   more to come... Patrick |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2009 20:06:43 GMT -5
Hi Patrick,
I picked up a built up on ebay a while ago. From the pictures it looked like it was a real glue bomb, but when it arrived I couldn't bring myself to touch it! It had Herb's wheels (back when he had all the parts, tires and all!) and the brackets to hang the tanks and everything else was very, very nice! A real surprise, but kinda a bummer, too....... I wanted to use it for a base to do a very good model and it already was! LOL!! Other than the windscreen, and the circular hump on the nose in front of the hood, it is very nicely done. I had a magazine from the early '60s (MCS??) that had an article on doing the conversion and actually started it back then...... found one of th etanks which I had removed in a box of stuff a couple weeks ago. ;D
Mongo
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Post by Patrick on Sept 15, 2009 0:12:00 GMT -5
Cool find my friend. How 'bout a photo?
My 801 project is going well, I'm working on the rather simple interior, not too detailed, just some slab sides and a semi accurate ladder frame. I need to keep it simple. Photos to follow.
Patrick
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 1:21:24 GMT -5
Cool find my friend. How 'bout a photo? My 801 project is going well, I'm working on the rather simple interior, not too detailed, just some slab sides and a semi accurate ladder frame. I need to keep it simple. Photos to follow. Patrick I had misplaced the camera, but I will take a picture or two and post them. ;D Mongo |
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Post by Patrick on Sept 19, 2009 23:07:47 GMT -5
LOL! Look in the bathroom you just remodeled!
Patrick
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2009 22:19:47 GMT -5
LOL! Look in the bathroom you just remodeled! Patrick Hi Patrick, Found the camera, but not in the bathroom! LOL!! I finally got the wiring to the panel box and you wouldn't believe how good that whirlpool tub is for my beat up old legs. ;D Mongo |
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Post by Patrick on Sept 24, 2009 1:11:01 GMT -5
Hey! I'll come for a visit, we talk models, and I sit in it for my old bad knees! Gettin' old sometimes sucks young 'uns!!
Patrick
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Post by racerbrown on Sept 24, 2009 7:42:35 GMT -5
yea, getting old can suck but it's better than the usual option!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2009 23:02:11 GMT -5
yea, getting old can suck but it's better than the usual option! duane Yep, I am not quite ready to opt for the *option*, but not having anything left in one knee and tearing the cartilage in the other knee last April is not much fun. ;D Mongo |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 4, 2009 0:41:00 GMT -5
The 801 is progressing to the finishing of the body mods.  Patrick |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 4, 2009 0:42:14 GMT -5
Why are the photos so small?
Patrick
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Post by Patrick on Apr 16, 2010 15:40:43 GMT -5
Finally got off my keester and painted the Typo801. Now it is scrounging up rear suspension and wire wheels. I dislike photo etched ones so this may take some time.  I can hardly wait 'till I paint the nose extention...white I think for von Trips' Monza car. Patrick |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 8, 2014 1:18:53 GMT -5
Wow! 4 years ago! And progress has been made. You see one must go back and finish something once in a while...So...  that's where it stood so long ago, until...  I opened the box and Bing! I saw how I could finish this conversion...adding the unseen transaxle...  I added some Evergreen rod and aluminum paint trailing links...  the interior in glued in as are the %*#&@ exhaust pipes...  Now, I have to get the nose painted yellow for Trips' car. He had a good finish at the Italian GP of 1957. It was a 3rd place, first Ferrari to finish. He was a talented driver against the likes of Moss, Fangio, Musso and others.   Patrick |
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Post by indy on Jan 8, 2014 8:35:36 GMT -5
Nice job, Patrick. So Trips ran a yellow nose and not white?
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Post by Patrick on Jan 8, 2014 12:14:26 GMT -5
Yes, Musso ran the white nose, Hawthorne ran the BRG nose and Collins has the blue nose. Interestingly, Hawthorne and Collins did practice with long carb intakes, but Hawthorne did the race without it.
Patrick
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Post by Calvin on Jan 8, 2014 12:22:44 GMT -5
Gosh darn it! I like it!
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Post by kurzheck on Jan 8, 2014 13:17:48 GMT -5
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Post by Patrick on Jan 8, 2014 15:02:19 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Trevor, I just noticed the difference in the shape of the intake space. Hawthorn's is flattened and Musso's is rounded. Cool!
Patrick
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Post by Patrick on Jan 11, 2014 15:13:11 GMT -5
It is getting a bit closer to being finished. I added the splash guards..  and decals. The nose isn't glued yet...  the interior is pretty much done with wire bezels around the instruments that are filled with Testors' Clear Parts Cement. The seat is a Monogram 427 Cobra one and the steering wheel from the "bottomless spares box"...  Just a few more little things and Trips' car is done (only took 4 years, eh?). Patrick |
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Post by Calvin on Jan 11, 2014 18:37:39 GMT -5
The seat is a Monogram 427 Cobra one You sure like to "Ferraize" those poor Cobra's  Carroll Shelby wouldn't be that happy with you! |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 11, 2014 20:48:17 GMT -5
LOL! I such a dirty ol' dog. Better than a ol' chicken farmer.
Patrick
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Post by Calvin on Jan 11, 2014 21:46:26 GMT -5
Whats next? Turning Carroll's Chili into Italian food?  |
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Post by Calvin on Jan 11, 2014 21:50:34 GMT -5
For those that dont know, Patrick has the tendency to turn Cobra's into Ferrari's! Last year on the sportscar forum he turned an AC Cobra into a Ferrari 225S! |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 17, 2014 13:53:49 GMT -5
Well. it is officially done, not the best, but done!    Not the best and the exhausts are a bit too long, but...  I still have a Hong Kong toy version of this car...maybe someday I'll do the full body work car. Patrick |
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Post by indy on Jan 17, 2014 14:08:37 GMT -5
I like it and I think the exhaust work is really well done.
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Carroll Shelby wouldn't be that happy with you!