Making Door & Hood Hinges

[blunc]

The hinges in the tutorial are friction fit till final assembly but may just stay that way in case I need to modify/repair interior elements.

[Dominik]

Tought, it is coming up an other alternative to the tubes and wires...

...how many generations of hings will follow, if this interesting tutorial will start?

[northendmetalallstar]

These look really good! I'm sure they're challenging to make, and not cheap$ but they certainly look sturdy.

[crazyjim]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[blunc]

I feel that anyone that can make the j-bend type hinge can make this style hinge and brass channel isn't very expensive.

Now, making torsion sprung trunk hinges will be a bit more involved...

[fractalign]

thanks for the tutorial, i know how i will hing my doors in the future !

[Yahshu]

Thanks for the tutorial, I'll be using this, I never liked the wire & tube method.

[rayu1988]

Just bought a can of metallic rustoleum, and it had a safety clip on the trigger-I assume to keep from being sprayed in the store. After removing the safety clip, it is plastic and looks remarkably like the hinge bases on the older kits. Drill a hole thru from side to side and done. All that is needed is the wire hinge itself. Hope this helps someone, I already have plans for some of these things. Ray

[sjordan2]

Pictures?

[Darren B]

yes pics?

[Marty "Hatchet"]

Or at least 950 more words!

Edited February 6, 2013 by Marty "Hatchet"

[Darren B]

[Harry P.]

Well, this was certainly a helpful tutorial...

[rayu1988]

I don't know how to post pictures yet. I am a real newbie to scratchbuilding, and I had a half-dozen ideas for these things before I left the store. Just look at a can of Rustoleum metallics on your next store visit. Thanks.

[Midget Whisperer]

What type of Styrene Plastic do you perfere to use when creating the door jams.

[MrObsessive]

What type of Styrene Plastic do you perfere to use when creating the door jams.

I like to use Evergreen .020 sheet plastic for body/door jambs. It's just thin enough to work with and be in scale.

[blunc]

I use Evergreen for most of my modification/scratchbuilding whenever I'm making modifications in plastic.

[crazyjim]

You might want to contact Fatkidd for one of his hinge bending tools.

[b_lever1]

Here's a simple way to make hood hinges.

Bend some paper clip wire to make the left and right side hinge arms. One end of each arm is epoxied to the underside of the hood, and the other end goes into a length of brass or aluminum tube epoxied to the underside of the cowl (tube should have a diameter just large enough to accept the paper clip wire arms without the arms binding). These hinges are not prototypically realistic, but they work...and they're easy to do.

The exact placement of the hinge arms and the hinge tube depends on the model you're building. Try it first with the parts simply taped in place, to make sure everything works smoothly, before you epoxy the parts.

thanks Harry this solved my question working on custom van The Grim Repear

[DrKerry]

Kool stuff, I'll be using some ideas on opening up the doors on an 06 Mustang body....

[spotarama]

trumpeter provide a very complicated PE (to a non PE user like me)set of prototypically correect hood hinges in some of their kits (the 62 bonneville if memory serves is one of them)

they're made of at least 4 pieces per side and require some folding and pins inserting through appropriate holes which become the pivot points.

i imagine they'd look most effective when complete but just looking at them scared the hell out of me

[budhi]

very cool tips. I have a question how do you make up that the door can be opened (wing) as lamborghini aventador?I need help. thanks for the help.

[Definit1]

Got any tips for this? I'm doin a 1:25 1948 Ford Super Deluxe four door Sedan Resin kit.

There's no room for that curved wire they showed as a support for these hinges.

So far I had to mill and cut a little to fit, and make them look alike. There's just not enough room.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Definit1

[allparish12]

This is a Revell Dodge sidewinder show truck I was working on. The hinge was made out of sheet plastic thick enough to drill and and insert a wire pin through. It takes up very little space and allows realistic operation. I'm currently working on a more durable metal version that i will shoot a how-to on. Any interest?

bump

did this ever get posted??

[Sean W]

Hi all. I just recently abandoned my first opening door project because it was just giving me fits. I really want something that looks closer to oem hinges on real cars. I think I may have hit on something, two words, "eyeglass hinges". Go to this website; www.tailiglassesparts.com

Just look at the hinges, the ideas start to roll. Or, you could go to the dollar store and literally spend $5 for 10 hinges. Armed with a hobby saw and super glue cut the hinges out and make them fit and work in your project. I am actually excited about starting another project with opening features. If anyone has tried this and ran into nightmares let me know, but I think this sounds really good so far. Best wishes, Sean.