Endzeit - Porsche 911 "Zombinator"

[kerick]

Nice welding job! This gives me ideas......

[MaxHeadroom]

Thank you for the compliments about my welding-job.

I have much too often seen additional welds (while trying to pimp up a tank-modell, for example) which were much too thick/broad/strong in relation to the scale.
They were made in purpose to make the model more realistic instead of the out-of-the-box-status, but also between the protection-steel-plates of tank-turret I'd never seen welds in reality which have the size of 10 cm!
So, welds between body-steel-plates in average car-making are at best 5 mm!
(Btw: Body-steel usually is spot-welded and only parts of the suspension, for example, made of thicker sheet metal, is welded by continuing welds!)
And so 5 mm, scaled down in 1:25, are only 0.2 mm!
Now, the thickness of the yarn, I'd used for the Porsche, is a compromise between realistic scale and visibility (I used 0.4 mm yarn).

Max

[Captain Canada]

The screen from a screen door is also cheap 'mesh'. I was going to use some for chain link fence, as well as deck netting for a helicopter pad on a ship.

[kerick]

What kind of glue are you using with the yarn? I wish I could read German.

[MaxHeadroom]

Hi kerick!

The glue, I used, was "UHU Flinke Flasche" (UHU is Germany's well known glue) but I suppose it isn't sold in UK or elsewhere outside Germany (except Austria and Switzerland).
But it's an ordinary householdglue -a glue for universal use- which connected paper, wood, cardboard, felt, cork and so on with each other, it's viscous, clear and needs  it's time to become stiff.
Therefore: don't use waxed thread/yarn; you have to keep it fixed with your fingers for a much too long time to be convenient.

Max

P.S.:   lucky, I speak english... you see: knowing a foreign language is advantageous.
(btw: I also speak netherlands as good as german and english and a bit french, spanish and latin)

[kerick]

I have plenty of that type of glue at my house. I'll have to check the sewing box for unwaxed thread.
The only german I know is a few words I learned from my grandmother as a kid. Some of that was plough deutsch! In the Air Force I visited Germany. I knew enough to order beir and bratwurst.

[MaxHeadroom]

"Bier" and "Bratwurst"... yeah!


Continuing!
(I'd thought, I never can say this... LOL)

O.k., without the color I need, but yet finished: The window-shields.

First pic:

After the body has been broken, I'd added some pieces to strengthen the points, where the shields will be mounted. (and so, I strenghen the plastic-body also).
I also opend the drivers window by using my precision saw easily.

Outside of the protection:

and inner view:

Simply cutted by a manicure-scissor ot of a common colander.
The frames are from plasticsheet and the distanceholder are made of thin plasicsticks of a 1:87 (H0) house-kit.

That's all for today.

Max

[kerick]

Are you going to rust the screen for the windows?

[MaxHeadroom]

Not much rust generally at the Porsche and/or it's extensions is my intention.
'Cause the Porsche was freshly restored short before the apocalypse was breaking out it has looked in a nearly showroom condition.
So the aging of the car will be only a bit and the used-look will be made only by a certain quantity of dust, dirt and a little bit of mud (and blood).

Now some of the extensions/protections are "welded" and painted with anti-rust-primer.
Pic 1/2:

and 2/2:


...and the meshed frames of the doorwindows and rear-side widows are also "welded" at the body.

While I was busy with deassembling the Peterbilt and making the rifles, machetes and mesh-frames, I was going to a number of my neighbors and asked them and some of my other friends for some old anti-rust primer, in Germany called "Rotmennige" or "rote Mennige" (look here).
Unfortunately no one had left over some relics of that classic colour.
So I was forced to mix the shade by myself and I think, I succeed.
(Btw: it's the colour the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA, USA was originally protected with against rust.)

The reason was: The Porsche's owner uses the old primer because he didn't like to do a suicidal trip to the next do-it-yourself-supermarket through a world of zombies only to look for modern primer.

And the meshes of the window's protections will stay shining the way they are, because it is made by rust-free steel meshes.

See you,

Norbert

(I will try to sign in future with my real name, not by using "Max")

[kerick]

Looks great! Will the Porsche paint match the truck?

[Captain Canada]

Looking good ! I like the look of the mesh....I was thinking the same thing for my pick-up ( if I ever get to it  ) Here in North America we call it 'chain link' fencing, and I was going to use pieces of mesh window screen to replicate it. It may be a bit off-scale, but will give the appearance of thinner gauge wire. As for the rust-free part, we call that 'stainless steel', if you're using the expensive stuff, or 'galvanized' as in 'galvanized chain link fence'

Keep up the great work !

[MaxHeadroom]

Thx for the kind replies; I'll do my best not to disappoint you!

Many thx, Capt. Canada, for your english-lesson...
I beg all of you to correct me, 'cause I like to know and to learn more - esp. the correct phrases.

Yes, "stainlees"... how stupid I am!
I remember "stainless" as imprints at forks and knives and the backs of watches and so on.
Sometimes I don't have the words, so I use some similar phrases. Nice, you discover my intention!

Norbert

[Go4fun]

Thx for the kind replies; I'll do my best not to disappoint you!

Many thx, Capt. Canada, for your english-lesson...
I beg all of you to correct me, 'cause I like to know and to learn more - esp. the correct phrases.

Yes, "stainlees"... how stupid I am!
I remember "stainless" as imprints at forks and knives and the backs of watches and so on.
Sometimes I don't have the words, so I use some similar phrases. Nice, you discover my intention!

Norbert

We knew what you were saying even if you didn't have the words just right. Sometimes it's harder to understand fellow Americans! 

[Old Wombat]

We knew what you were saying even if you didn't have the words just right. Sometimes it's harder to understand fellow Americans! 

He doesn't even want to approach the subject of understanding us Australians!



Guy

[kerick]

There is three kinds of English; British, American and Australian. And this does not include different dialects!