Engine progress thus far....
Painted using Gunze Red Steel. Looks good to me.
Blower assembly parts...
Engine completed. The blower fought me because one being the platform it's suppose to sit on was a tad long to sit properly. Once I trimmed from the back to make it sit properly, you'd thnk its all good. Wrong!!! Even though I had glued it in place and was ready to put the belt assembly on, the top pins it didn't line up evenly to the blower panel.
I needed to add a piece of something to raise it a hair. I didn't have any styrene sheets for I never saw a need for them all these years. So what to do? What to do? Looked around my bench and saw a red party cups and the idea came to mind. I cut a small piece and placed it on top of the platform, put the blower assembly on, dry fitted the belts. Perfect!!
I then proceeded to cut the same size as the platform it sits on, glued it on, glued the blower assembly on top, glued the belts and let it sit over night. This is the end result with blower assembly touched up with Molotov chrome....
Exhaust pipes...
Consists of 4 pieces and really fought me for a day and and let dry overnight. Next I super glued the malean hour or so along with a bit of swearing and cussing.
You'd think it would be easy right? Oh hell no!!! Nothing lined up straight or right. After awhile, I simply nipped off the locating tabs on the one half of the exhaust pipe. First I glued on the little nub part to one side of the pipe with super glue, let dry overnight. Next night, I glued the other half to line up uniformly to the nub. perfect! next I glued the exhaust tips on and let those set overnight.
Here's the end result prior to paint...
It's funny how times had changed when I first built this kit back in the 80s. Everything went extremely well and never had issues with fit. This time around, I was having fit issues. Must be the age of the molds or something. I don't know.
