Promocom Toy group Ferrari 126C2 scale 1:8

[Ton]

Hi Andy,

Thanks and I will keep your pictures in mind!

Some progress again :D 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

[RC-Archer]

Wow, I love to see more of this!

[Herman]

Looking good!

Already received the T35?

[Ton]

Thanks guys! Herman the T35 is now at Dutch customs..hope they will be nice :)

Ton

[RonOC]

Ton,

Have you seen this site?

Ferrari 126 C2

He seems to have been one of the lucky ones.

Ron

[hot ford coupe]

Wow, that's a great site. It's just too bad folks are having trouble getting the parts.

[Herman]

David has a very early one. I have no idea of the status, what he shows on the site, he shows 2 years ago as well...

[Ton]

Ron I know this site...it was one of the "appetizer sites" that made op my mind to buy it. The bad stories about missing parts came later on this log.

I have the impression that he stopped and switched to remote control choppers...the car will probably somewhere on the shelve.

I have send Manzoni/Promocom pictures of my results and since than we have communication again (I would get nervous too) and again they promised that I get the parts...probably after I have finished reproducing To be honest I don´t believe a word of it because I did not get even parts during this year of waiting which you can buy in the hardware store

Ton

[Ton]

Another update: a few parts less are missing now :D 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 2

Ton

[hot ford coupe]

I see some great modeling going on here. I'm watching this develop.

[Ton]

Another "missing part" fixed. A part which I cannot give a name but on the last picture you can see the location.
It was not necessary to work from a drawing: one of the two parts was delivered . So it was a rather easy job.



The difference is less when it is painted



After fixing this part I finished the whole sub assembly of the engine. The orange glow is caused by the lamplight





Ton

[Rick]

This is a fascinating thread Ton, thanks for shareing it with us.

[Ton]

Thanks Rick The biggest part for me is done now. I am waiting for parts which are pruced with the lathe..a skill I don´t have. But luckily there are still people who are willing to help and that gives me a good feeling after these kind of experiences.

[TK Chan]

I've hosted the building logs up to the completion the engine block:

Here is the site

http://www.tkcgallery.com/scalemodel.../F126_01.shtml



TK

[Ton]

Hi TK

I really love it...one day I should be that far....anyhow you made it possible! Thanks again!