Derek B Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 My first ever 'Car' model! (In this case, a 1/48 scale full resin kit of a 1920 Rolls Royce armoured car which I am making for a friend). Slowly working my way through it, cleaning up and correcting as I go. Derek scvrobeson, denders, LSP_Kevin and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Good start! Who is the manufacturer? Edit: Oops! Friendship Models. Gotta read the title, too! Looks like they are pretty nice castings. or have you done a ton of cleanup already? LSP_K2 and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 12 hours ago, LSP_Ray said: Good start! Who is the manufacturer? Edit: Oops! Friendship Models. Gotta read the title, too! Looks like they are pretty nice castings. or have you done a ton of cleanup already? Hi Ray, Yes, you are correct, a ton of clean up already completed with more to come. It was particularly bad at the rear and underneath the car, hence the plastic card at the rear end! I think the problem is that this is a large one-piece resin item which has been hand casted without the aid of vacuum to deaerate/gas it, so the air bubbles are very prominent all over the kit and its parts. There is also warpage and distortion in the main part (and some of the smaller ones), so it is far from perfect, but I shall prevail! I had to sand the the cab top decking wafer thin to look correct (some of the plate areas vary in thickness and can be extremely thick in places), which necessitated replacement or addition of new scratch built rivet and hinge details (also necessary because I separated the driver's visor to display it closed). likewise, because of the very poor casting block ends and air bubbles, I had to face the whole rear face of the back of the vehicle and add new/missing rivet detail (the turret also needed replacement rivets in areas). two of the six page instruction sheet are missing (I contacted Friendship Models, but have had no response from them about this), so I am using photographs of the actual vehicle and educated guesswork to understand how all of the parts are assembled (some minor parts are missing, but I can scratch build those). Confusingly, the rear underbody fuel tank has protection armour plating moulded into the casting, but also provides a separate casting for it as well, which would be impossible to fit unless the original casted armour was cut and filed away, which is extremely difficult to do. However, as the rear face of this fuel tank armour is not on the kit due to a moulding block (and also has severe air bubbles), I cut the rear face off the separate armour moulding part, extended its height with plastic card, and glued it onto the main kit moulding rear face to offer a degree of detail - I still need to rebuild the undercut in that area (you will see this in the next set of images on my next update). So, yes, it is a lot of work, but is the only decent RR armoured car available in this scale (it will eventually be accompanied by a 1/48 scale Airspeed Oxford aircraft). Cheers Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 I wondered, looking at your pics. Do you know the age of the kit? Sounds like an old school, early 90’s type kit. I may have a 1/35th RR armored car in the stash. If I haven’t already sold it, I will pull it out and send you a copy of the instructions. Might help with some of the details. LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 59 minutes ago, LSP_Ray said: I wondered, looking at your pics. Do you know the age of the kit? Sounds like an old school, early 90’s type kit. I may have a 1/35th RR armored car in the stash. If I haven’t already sold it, I will pull it out and send you a copy of the instructions. Might help with some of the details. Hi Ray, It is like a very old kit, but had been recently purchased from Friendship Models by my friend for me to make for him. Luckily, there are relatively few parts, so I worked out where they all go! So thank you, but I shall not be required to use your instructions (thank you anyway). There are no decals with the kit, so I shall have to make my own. Cheers Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 OK, good work! I think I sold the kit as I couldn't find it. But, just in case you want a look, I did find the RR car instructions online from the Meng kit: 2022-02-12 12:23 (scalemates.com) . Have fun! Derek B and LSP_K2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 12 hours ago, LSP_Ray said: OK, good work! I think I sold the kit as I couldn't find it. But, just in case you want a look, I did find the RR car instructions online from the Meng kit: 2022-02-12 12:23 (scalemates.com) . Have fun! Thank you Ray! Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 The wheels are taking an inordinate amount of time to clean up and restore to the correct size, shape and detail. Some of the issues, which cannot be corrected, are that they are cast unevenly in thickness, concentricity (not truly circular). The moulded wheel rims, as moulded, are too thin and were broken/incomplete, so these have been removed and I am replacing them with metal wire rims. Derek Alain Gadbois, LSP_K2, LSP_Ray and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 Derek Fanes, LSP_K2, chukw and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Those look much better! Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 Five out of the six wheels have now had their wheel rims refined to look less like beaded rims and more like the real thing! Derek patricksparks, LSP_K2, LSP_Kevin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 Machine gun shield scratch built and running boards and bridging ramps added. I have a few additional items to scratch build which are not included in the kit. Derek TankBuster, chukw, Tnarg and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 I have scratch built all of the equipment that it would have carried. The model is now completed, but requires painting (I will have to add/make my own markings for it). Hopefully, it will something look like this when completed: Derek LSP_Kevin, LSP_K2, Shoggz and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelboy Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Get down with your bad self. Derek B and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 That looks good, Derek! Looking forward to seeing paint on it. Derek B and LSP_K2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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