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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 17:11:23 GMT -5
Johnnie Parsons finished fourth in the 1956 Indy 500 driving J. C. Agajanian's Kuzma. My model of that car is built from Gary Doucette's kit of the Agajanian Kuzma. The model is painted Tamiya TS-7 Racing White with a little yellow added and TS-8 Italian Red. I replaced the kit wheels, which are certainly usable, with American Racing Miniatures late 50's Halibrands which are a little sharper than the kit wheels. I replaced the kit torsion bars and radius rods with some I made from plastic sheet and rods. Decals are from the kit.
Jerry Sudduth Frankfort KY
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Post by Art Laski on Sept 8, 2015 18:48:08 GMT -5
Pretty Sweet, Jerry!
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Post by Lance on Sept 9, 2015 1:36:14 GMT -5
Nicely done Jerry, the kuzma was a beautiful car.
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Post by illeagle10 on Sept 9, 2015 6:08:59 GMT -5
Nice job Jerry!
Jim
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Post by kip on Sept 9, 2015 7:02:20 GMT -5
Very, very nice. Looks like you nailed the cream color for the body. I would like to see how you made the torsion bars--they look great to me. I always have trouble with them. Either the resin is not crisply molded or weak or if they are metal it is bent and rough.
Did you open the rear of the side tank or leave it closed? There has been some debate about which is correct.
kip
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 21:32:06 GMT -5
Hi Kip,
On the oil tank, I assumed, (yeah, I know) that if air entered the front of the oil tank/cooler? that it probably exited through the back. But being a lazy modeler rather than hollowing out the back, I just painted a flat black rectangle on the back.
For the radius rods I used Evergreen plastic rod, tube and sheet. I just used the kit radius rods as a pattern. First I cut a short piece of tube, maybe a 1/16th inch wide from a piece of 3/32 tube which is the smallest size I had on hand. I glued it to the end of a length of 3/64th rod. I then temporarily pinned the rod to the appropriate hole in the body using a small piece of brass rod thru the eye on the rod formed by the plastic tube. I then laid the rod across the axle and marked where it contacted the axle and then cut the rod. I then cut a narrow strip of thin plastic from .010 or .015 thickness sheet plastic. I then cut two equal lengths from the strip for use as the radius rod mounting ears on the axle. But because I have old unsteady hands, I glued the ears to the ends of the rod rather than trying to align and glue them to the axle. Then I reinstalled the eyelet over the pin in the body and glued it and then glued the opposite end with the mounting ears to the axle. You could add more detail than I did but I'm lazy. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions.
Jerry
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Post by jj66 on Sept 12, 2015 14:11:21 GMT -5
Very clean finishing. Nice work!
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