XE Falcon S-Pack ** so anyway 8 years later- **

Awesome can't wait to see more Shawn.

And I am still definately interested in one if you cast them for sale as I am sure others here are.. A Ute would be on the shopping list too.

Cheers

AJ

ShawnS wrote:Finally, I have decided to put a Group C racing version on the back burner as I cross checked the decals on Patto's site with pics of the real things and decided that the artwork (mostly incorrect fonts) on Patto's decals isn't as good as it could be. Making a ute version is still high priority.

in past i've mentioned changed to patto that i'd like and he's been happy to accommodate them. Perhaps we need to get a few computer artists together to make up a more accurate decal sheet artwork?

anyone?

Woohoo I'm back into it. Well not quite full on like before but it's all coming back to me slowly. Over the last couple of weeks I've been tweaking a few things here and there, mostly making the interior fit the 2nd version of the body cast.
One new thing that I have done is make the bracing under the bonnet. It's not fully detailed like it's 1:1 counterpart but it's enough to make it look right. Here is how I did it.
First thing to do was to remove the bonnet from the body. I just scribed the panel lines until she popped out.

Then I made a new bonnet the same way I made it the first time. You can see how thick the resin part is compared to the remade version.

I cut out a section of evergreen sheet that is slightly smaller than the overall size of the bonnet.

Then after checking my reference pics I drew the pattern that I needed to cut out.

Then I cut out the required areas and sanded the edges smooth.

I glued it to a bit of very thin evergreen sheet and cut out the centres leaving a small flange around the cut outs.


I glued that to the bonnet and added extra bracing with very thin evergreen sections.

Here is the final result with a few extra details like raised areas on the sides and some lumps in the front corners and after a coat of primer.



That's it for the moment. It's good to get that out of the way as it took me a while to figure out how I would do it as the 1:1 XE Falcon bonnet has a lot of extra lumps and bumps and a shed load of slots cut into the bracing. It had a lot of detail that I just couldn't replicate so I didn't even try. I'm happy with how it is as it won't be a focus puller as once the bonnet is open all eyes will be on the engine.

Thanks guys.
CheersSS

INCREADIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a cool way of doing it, nice work.

sonofabitch, yeah incredible comes to mind

As always you break it down into such simple logical steps and the result is fantastic.

That's AWESOME

Wicked job mate!!

Shawn, that is unreal!!! Man, that's better than ant kit bonnet bracing I've ever seen. Good to see you back into it!!

i've never seen so much effort put into the underside of any panel.

Just sensational workmanship, it is a showcase of your building skills.

Thanks fellas. Hope you all had a good easter. Just a quick one today. I finally got off my arse and cast the interior tub yesterday. I glued the sides on to the tub and filled any gaps that were present, shot it with some primer and decided it was good to go for casting.
The original part after the final coat of primer.

Because I needed both the top and the bottom of the tub to be as I made it, I decided on a 2 piece squish mould. Here is the finished mould after a fair bit of fart arseing about.

The final product.


Casting things isn't all beer and skittles. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the original part to get a good casting. The mould I made was pretty low fuss but it was tricky to remove the master and the inherent weakness in the plastic joints meant that when I removed the master, the weak joints cracked and snapped off.

No real big deal it just means in the future if I have to remould it, I'l have to spend some time fixing it. The resin part came out fairly trouble free though and after some light clean up it was good to use.

That's it for now. Time to start work on the engine bay.

CheersSS

Nice

Once again, Great work Shawn, flawless.

nice looking mold. (is the key to a good part, right?)

Well it's been a while so I thought I had better give youse an update. Over the last few weeks I have been making bits and pieces for the whole front end. But before I start the engine bay I first need to give the engine a home. That means making the chassis rails, the cross members and the engine and trans mounts.

I had planned to use the original front chassis section but after some dodgy cutting and shutting it didn't look so flash so I decided to make new front chassis rails.
The original Mustang rails weren't all that straight to start with but my extra work on them really stuffed them up.

Cut the bastards off and make some new ones from thick evergreen strips.


Once they were sorted I made the trans mount from the same thick strip.


All done and detailed with T2M bold heads.

I made the engine crossmember from many different evergreen sections. I started with some thin stuff cut to shape.

I forgot to take pics of the rest of the crossmember construction sequence so here it is in place on the chassis. The trans mount is glued into place at his stage too.

I made the front radiator mount crossmember too. This won't be glued in place until I am happy with where everything else is.


To make the engine mounts I started with evergreen angle strip that was cut to shape then I drilled some holes for the T2M boltheads. The bolt heads have a shaft on them and I will use those shafts to help mount the bracket to the engine.


It was just a matter of adding more small styrene sections to increase the detail.

I added a couple more boltheads to the sides and made a mounting bracket for the chassis rails.

This is what it looks like mounted in place.


Obviously I repeated that for both sides.

I have started work on the firewall and on the sides of the engine bay itself but as it's not near completion yet I will hold off showing you. It's a tricky area to do because I can't finish one thing without starting another. There are still plenty of things left to do so stay tuned.

CheersSS

Far out. That is mindblowing how you have the patience to do something that small to that amount of detail..
Great work as always

Holy crap dude ! thats friggen Awesome

will all above

Insane work, as usual!! Well done, you oughtta be proud of that!

...all I can say after I picked myself up off the floor. Keep it up. Great stuff!