"Ghosty" adds a Rolls-Royce model to his collection!!!

[fixer]

ahhh your a good kid at heart
detailing is looking good so far

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Here are the next Three pictures...

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Yes, I had a loose valve so a tyre kept going flat...!

The wheels are made 'OOB' but had to have the inner rim surface painted to try and minimise the reaction of the Nylon based tyres touching the Styrene plastic of the rim, as due to the age of this particular example (1975 she was brand new!), the tyres had started to shed some chemicals and would have caused a problem with the rims had I not tried to do something. The tyres themselves were cleaned with house-hold spray polish. The little valve is just a tiny piece of fuse wire with piece of wire insulation popped onto the end to represent the valve cap, then just painted Silver.

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Plug leads being fitted.

Fuse wire again stuck in some pre-drilled holes on each magneto, ready to be fed across to each spark plug and connected with just a tiny nylon sleeve. The leads on these cars are not fixed like modern cars, they are at an angle and held in place with the supplied screw terminal for each plug. Two each side are now done, Two more each side to do.

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The other side. You can see I have also added some plasticard to the switch-gear of the magneto, the White plastic on the lower part, this will have a lever or Two and some connecting rods added.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

While parts on the engine and wheels were drying I tackled the grille and while it looks OK straight out of the box, this is one component I decided would be superdetailed. The real car has 'Stone Gaurds' in front of the headlamps and a large Gaurd covering the radiator. I wanted to replace these with some real mesh, so brought some tea strainers for a £1 as they had a mesh pattern close enough for the kit. The mesh once fitted would foul the plated grille surround, so severl layers of plastic were shaved away from it's inside surface. The mesh was simply cut to an overlarge shape and simply offered to the surface of the plastic mesh component and the edges folded around the back, that's it, it is not even glued and if you touch the mesh with your finger it can be moved slightly.

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Part #166B, represents the wire mesh Stone Gaurd and all I did was place my new mesh onto this and fold the edges around the back. This did however mean the whole assembly is now too big to fit the plated grille surround #168C, so some trimming was done to the locating pins on the back of #166B and the locating posts on the front of part #167B.

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Here is the finished mesh component waiting to be fixed into the plated grille surround.

Another very important job to do on the grille is to remove the 'Fying B' Bentley badge and move it further up from where it is. Amazingly Airfix moulded this badge too far forward, so it faces forward but on the real car it looks more up into the sky!

GHOSTHUNTER.

[Fred7A]

Nice work there on that kit. I should think the mesh will really improve the look of what would already be an impressive model. I look forward to seeing further pictures!

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Here the engine has all the plug leads now in place and painted.

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I have also finished the starter assembly and decided to leave it engaged with the starter ring. This part is not supplied in the kit so found an old friction powered toy car, cut the axle with the small cog at the end, drilled the plastic part protruding from the side of the block, made a small spring out of wire and push fit the unit into the pre-drilled hole. The actuator unit on the other side is supplied in the kit, but I have added some extra detail in the form of the little stepped strip on the side and Four bolts on the end-plate, will add a small connecting cable later.

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The other side of the engine now has the Two 'Blow-Off' valves attached to the inlet manifold, they are the round objects.

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I have tackled the 'Supercharger' unit by building as per kit instructions, including the Two 'SU' Carbs, but of course adding extra detail.

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The plastic behind the mesh grilles was painted Matt Black, then some mesh stuck over and trimmed, then Two circles of solder made and stuck on top of the mesh and then the edges had to be filled. I did not have any modelling filler with me, nor any Plasticine, so used 'Blu-Tak' rolled into a thin sausage and fed around each unit. When fully smoothed, I painted Gloss Black, job done!

Underneath the Carbs I have been adding bits and bobs of plastic tubing and pieces of fine wire which when finished and painted, will be fuel feed pipes and linkages.

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The Fire-Wall has also been touched. The Yellow arrow to the left, points to where a hard plastic blob was moulded to represent a hose, this was cut away and a new wider blob was added of a more accurate design, then I will add Two separate hoses here with the tops going through the circular alloy disc, also arrowed. The Yellow arrow to the right is highlighting an alloy cover (mine!), held in place by Two metal (plastic!), straps.

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The odd looking black rods sticking out, arrowed Yellow in the picture below, when trimmed and painted, will be the bolts holding the straps in place, another job done!

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Next will be some more work on the grille and radiator and then the large 'Le Mans' style petrol tank, see you soon.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[leonty24]

Kevin i am impreeed by your modeling skills as regards to detailing i did enjoy building 1/24th trucks and trailers
doing a lot of sratch building but sadly i have not built any in 15 years but the reason has been the business which
is making display cases so if one is required for your model pleae contact me i have attached a sample of a cover
but bases can be supplied

[fixer]

looking good Ghosty detailing is what will make this model , how many hours have you invested so far ??

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Thank's Guys for the comments so far about the Bentley build. It makes a change for me to do this as like "Leonty24", I have not been involved in plastic modelling at this level for many Years, the late-70's in fact when I built the 'ENTEX' Rolls-Royce 'Balloon Car', a 'GAKKEN' Rolls-Royce 15H.P., a 'MONOGRAM' Rolls-Royce Phantom II and the start of the big 'ENTEX' Rolls-Royce Phantom III (which is still waiting to be finished...!), I then concentrated my modelling on 1/43rd scale models for a few Years, while still building up my collection of Rolls-Royce and Bentley models, because I had started to notice among my many Corgi, Dinky and Matchbox models, there were lots of variations and my collecting was steered towards sorting them out in order of production and indexing them. In later Years I made a few plastic kits but classed as 'OOB', meaning they were built straight 'Out Of the Box', with no painting or extra details, just cleaned up mouldings and stuck together to show what the models are like in their most basic form.

I am not sure "Fixer" how many hours spent so far as I am not working on it every Day, but I tend to spend Two to Three hours at night, a couple of nights a Week, when Father has gone to bed, he then can't here me when I stab my finger with the modelling knife...!

I am really enjoying this Bentley build as I am having to call on my past modelling skills to achieve the desired effect on various parts and so far it is working, but if later on you see a picture of a crumpled-up mess of a Bentley, you'll know something has gone wrong and I've given up on it...

GHOSTHUNTER.

[motorman]

Great work so far Kevin!

[motorman]

Wont the blu tac you've used on the carbs always be soft to the touch or does paint harden it?