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With endless days of frozen weather in the forecast I decided to continue on with a 1/24th scale model I started many years ago. It is a very complex model designed to take you through the actual steps the factory did to make the real thing. The instructions are 34 pages (both sides). I completed the engine years ago and boxed it up for another time. They tell you the exact color for every single item if you want to mirror the factory's original.
i truly regret that I didn't keep the burned up piston from my sprite as desk art.
It was truly a thing of beauty. a hole through the piston crown you could put your baby finger through.
i truly regret that I didn't keep the burned up piston from my sprite as desk art.
It was truly a thing of beauty. a hole through the piston crown you could put your baby finger through.
I regret not keeping my blown S2000 motor, I should have made a coffee table out of it. I gave it to the friend that was handling my other motor swap at the time, he was in Tennessee and I only had room to bring back the good motor when I visited him, so I left the blown motor with him.
I didn't get far on my model project. I spent the past two afternoons going through my inventory of paints. Many had not been opened in so long I had to put them in a vice and use pliers to remove the caps, then try stirring with an ice pick. A couple had dates on them -2001 & 2002 - and the first one still was good, other went in the trash. One has 35 cents on the cap and is still good. So I ended up with near 25 still good and a wide variety of colors, gloss and flat, etc. Both tubes of glue were rocks but I still had two small never opened instant glue which is best but handle with care.
i truly regret that I didn't keep the burned up piston from my sprite as desk art.
It was truly a thing of beauty. a hole through the piston crown you could put your baby finger through.
I had one of those. My dad bought a Yamaha motorcycle that I was riding across a dry lake bed, when I was around 16 years-old, and it just lost power and died. Andy took it apart and found the piston holed. The jetting was too lean. Easy to work on for him, in those days.
I just finished the Lego Apollo !7 Lunar Rover. I have to say this is one of the most difficult set I have done. I afraid to try one of the race cars. The thing folds up just like it was sent to the moon plus the suspension and steering is amazing.
I have to say the people that design these high end sets are remarkable.
