Hallo Everybody,
Christmas greetings to you all and to your dears...
Here is a Christmas Day update on The Thing:
- Made a suspensions system (same as the back wheels) on the front wheels
- Put a balancing suspension on the front end of the back wheels tilting beams
- Some additional details (dark grey pieces)
an inspection window, a "battery" and two anchor points for a "seat chain" (more details will follow!
)
- I prepared the fuel tank and the exhaust tubes, with a rubber tube within which I inserted a copper wire to make it easier to shape
- I had to separate the big engine in two sub assemblies to be able to paint it, I also put some metal rails to hold the fuel tank
- then I decided to make some headlights, I found some transparent pieces on an old sprue and found they fit into two propeller heads from a former build. I found also a chrome plastic piece (a Porsche wheel disc of which you see the internal face here) for the main light.
I filled the gaps on the propeller head where the blades should be inserted and put a stem
here the "glasses" are just dry fitted
I built a framework to hold the lights over the head of the driver
It's all for now, I hope to sit at the bench a bit longer today and tomorrow afternoon.
Ciao and thanks for watching!!!
Antonio
