MyronPetermanSAE Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I bought a pair of 1/160 scale hot rods off the Shapeways.com site, with no real plan what to do with them. Handling them, I noticed the tiny engine was a bit loose, and looking closely under my OptiVisor I saw both the engine and the body were only attached by thin threads of resin to the chassis. So, I used a sharp X-Acto to separate the 3D model into three parts, then cleaned up and sanded away printing lines with 3,000 grit paper. The body was primed with Tamiya fine primer and then their coral blue. The flame decals are one tiny section of 1/25 scale flames from the Revell '32 Deuce kit. Incredibly, the engine has a transmission and there's a bench seat (now painted brown) in the interior. I painted the engine block with Testors red, the valve covers with a Molotow chrome pen (also touched the front of the headlights with the pen to simulate lenses), and used Tamiya panel line accent to pick out the grille and door lines. I think I'll leave the 2nd hot rod as is for comparison. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKrypton Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Tiny but very nice. cheers, Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeah Nah Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Amazing detail for this teensy scale! Always fascinated by different stuff like this. Thanks for showing Eric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kah puts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 My eyes are watering 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cifenet Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Interesting work and fantastic result! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XYHARRY Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 That's one cool hotrod there Eric, even though a microscope is needed to see it. Well done and welcome to the forum. Cheers, David. 😎👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Very nice Eric! I'm into N scale (1:160) model trains and I have also built few of miniature cars. These are smaller than a typical 1:25 scale V8 engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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