Zenrat's Flying Circus

zenrat · May 22, 2016, 03:10:26 AM

Finished the Italian rally car in an all day thrash yesterday and then to Ballarat for the NNL today.
Driven there in a very fast, very comfortable, thoroughly modern Lexus by an exceedingly competent driver who regaled us with tales of his life in the motor industry.
A very pleasant day (unusually warm for Ballarat in May - 18C) with good people.
And, to my surprise not only did the Wowhawk place 3rd in the aircraft class but the Italian rally car won the Special Theme class despite me thinking I hadn't done that good a job. Perhaps it was because it was the only entry that wasn't red?

Old Wombat · May 22, 2016, 03:18:10 AM

Quote from: zenrat on May 22, 2016, 03:10:26 AM
... the Italian rally car won the Special Theme class despite me thinking I hadn't done that good a job. Perhaps it was because it was the only entry that wasn't red?

Just goes to show; it pays to think outside the box!

Well done, mate!

zenrat · May 22, 2016, 03:40:48 AM

The irony being that it was built and painted/decaled OOB!

Thanks bud.

Old Wombat · May 22, 2016, 05:46:32 AM

Ah, but, either consciously or otherwise, you chose Option Q - the not-red one!

Captain Canada · May 22, 2016, 05:55:16 AM

Are we going to see the rally car ? I've always wanted to build one for my shelf.

zenrat · May 22, 2016, 04:50:11 PM

Historically red paint and I have not got on.

Yes, pics of the finished Wowhawk, the Zlin v1.2, Italian van and Italian rally car are due. I will take the camera down to the shed and have a photo session later today when i've put all the cars away I took to the show.
Wampyre isn't finished yet as it's been on the back burner while I finished off the two Italian cars.

Rick Lowe · May 22, 2016, 07:19:37 PM

"I'm completely Normal, my Mother had me tested..." ... *twitch*

Well done on the Show Placing front, mate.
Not unexpected, from the pics showing the quality of your work.

zenrat · May 23, 2016, 01:24:42 AM

Thanks Rick.

Now, the rest get their own threads but seeing as this is a RW build i'll put it here.
It's the 1/24 Revell (nee Italeri nee ESCI) kit of the car which won the 1980 Monte Carlo Rally.

It's a very toy like kit with a grey plastic cube thing that is supposed to be a Fiat twin cam engine. I left that out and glued the bonnet shut. Decals are by cartograf which I think was the builds saving grace. The second driving lamp fell on the floor and was claimed by The Spiders (I think they are building their own whiff somewhere under the bench).

NARSES2 · May 23, 2016, 02:48:30 AM

That's tremendous mate

PR19_Kit · May 23, 2016, 09:09:46 AM

Terrific looking car, both in the RW and as your model too.

And producing that out of the old Esci kit is amazing!

DogfighterZen · May 23, 2016, 03:38:28 PM

Caught up with this now... and i must say, EXCELLENT!! Congratulations for the show results!

zenrat · May 24, 2016, 01:48:47 AM

Thanks folks.

Busy day today (work, tip run, empty our storage bunker and hand the key back, cook osso bucco for tea) so no modelling done other than squirt a bit of clear on some Bird Dog parts.

zenrat · May 24, 2016, 01:58:26 AM

Box stock in NMF with zenrat industries stripes and tail logo. A land plane companion to the Zlin. It's such a nice simple little kit and practically fell together.
I'll be looking for another one in the swamp & smell at Expo this year, plus a Cessna O2 to go with it.

zenrat · May 26, 2016, 02:36:11 AM

Beware the TurboCat for I have finally got my finger out and attached the Hercules Nacelles to the wing centre section...

zenrat · June 05, 2016, 05:32:58 AM

Almost finished the PSR on the TurboCat wing centre section. Probably one more round to go.

The too long dormant Beaufighter BizProp is in colour needing only 1 more coat of the darker zenrat industries blue before I move on to clear coats, decals and fiddly bits.

I have started a Hasegawa F4-EJ intending to do a real world build using these decals

However, the voices have started whispering "what would it look like in greens, or reds, or pinks..." so now i'm not sure.
I am sure that it's not the best kit. Not as bad fitting as their F102 but probably as old if the faintness of the raised detail is anything to go by.

I've also started a couple of 1/25 vans. Both MPC Dodges. One will be mildly customised '78 Van with big & little jellybean mags, sidepipes and probably Simon Bisley ABC Warriors artwork. The second will be slightly different. On the side of my bench I have a number of orphan car bodies i've chopped up but got bored PSRing (they give me somewhere to put spare 2 part filler so it doesn't go to waste). Amongst them was a later MPC van body i'd drastically shortened, glued back together (replacing missing A pillars and reshaping the side windows) and then abandoned. I've sanded the filler, applied more and started sanding off the trim. Its going to be a wheelstander with a rear mounted V8 in a scratchbuilt chassis.