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Hello Michael,
My paper-cuts are never plug and play so to speak. You need to study the real thing as much as possible, use my pictures and so on. Printing multiple times the body lay-out to ad more details like the window frames. The bumpers are now integrated in the fenders but with the right skills you could create them separately... There are rough lay-outs of the body, chassis plate, motor, tires and hubcaps but thing is if I launch it for free or even for sale on whatever site on the web someone else will claim the authorship and even starts to distribute under its name or site. I've experienced it with the little Mercedes 190sl I'd put on this site, okay the lay-out isn't mine and I specified that very clear but they used pictures of my assembly without mentioning my name or avatar to present it to whoever liked to download it. Anyway, saying that, I have nothing against someone who likes to make one of my models as long they're not starting to distribute it themselves ( do I need a membership at some society so that I can keep the authorship?). I would gladly give away my lay-outs for free. Thanks for the lovely comment. |
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New grill and all
I finally assembled a part of the engine block, than removed that strange looking grill to replace it with a freshly buid one. On the pictures you see one of the first grills i'd created for this car.
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Progress... .
Last pictures shows where I am right now. |
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that looks awsommeeee!!!!! you did a great job on the grill!
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It shure's looking a lot better, thanks Michael.
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Drive train
To create the drive train for this Cadillac I had to make a drawing that displays the underside of engine, drive-shafts and transmission. I googled like mad to find pictures so I finally have an idea of how it's going to be.
The drawing helps me a lot to determine the dimensions of the whole thing. The tranny is apparently the same as the one they used for the oldsmobile toronado of the same year and it's really something. Also a 67 engine is different from a 69 or 70 so forgive me when some solutions am about to make are not fully of a 67 but after all the model is not a real car. |
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I ame this far now:
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that looks great! lukke49 I got to handel it to ya? you got talented!!!!!!
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Wowza....she looks really nice thus far !
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Now please don't take this the wrong way Lukke ... I really do love what you're doin' with this model and I'd bracket the original as among the last of the "Proper" Yank Tanks which I also love, BUT ... this'n really does beg the question "Just how BIG can a two door coupe be?" Hell, wherever ya goin', this'n's already half way there afore ya start movin'.
As said, I do love the old Yank Tanks, although my real preference is with the late '40s step-down turtle backs. I actually owned a part share in a '49 Hudson Commodore back in the '60s. Never did get around to lead sleddin' it as I longed to do though. We just couldn't bear to take it off the road long enough. There probably wasn't one of the '50s USA builds that I didn't like, but although the '59 Caddy was accepted as the ultimate in Fins'n'Chrome, somehow I fixated on the '57 Eldorado Biarritz. I just loved those dinky little shark fins. Must admit that I never enjoyed driving it though. I always felt that it would have been a better drive if they'd thrown out the back seat and shortened the car four feet. Talk about wallow round the bends. I had a pack of sea-sick pills stuck on the dash as a joke. Keep on snippin' away at this one though Lukke. You're doin' a great job. Pity it's a scratch build though. I get the feelin' there's quite a few of us would love to build it if it were released as a kit. Regrettably there's just more than a few of us builders who just don't have a clue about designing.
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