Migrant's Flying Ford, (finally) Finished.

[BlohmWolf]

Wow. Awesome work (again). I love the little machine guns out the front. Very comical!

[Narayan]

A very nice unusual car and design. The interior colours and outer blue and yellow really look good. A fantastic finish.

_________________
Narayan

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.

A:B 2013 38:11 2012 20:05 2011 11:10 2010 44:12 2009 19:16 2008 16:03 Overall 231:62

[JohnRatzenberger]

Just beautiful !!!

[Zee28]

Absolutely tremendous job Mike, a superb finish.

As we've come to expect, a fabulous model!

c. Chromed parts – at least those found in AMT kits – are evil. I spent a small fortune on 3 types of bleach and a can of brake fluid trying to find a solvent that would remove the plating. The thickest bleach worked the best, but even so after a couple of days had only removed about 1/3 of it. In the end I resorted to scraping, sanding and polishing. I've watched YouTube videos where thick bleach completely removed plating from Tamiya parts in minutes, so maybe it's the chroming method that AMT uses.

If I recall correctly, the Americans invented the process for chroming plastics (mainly for the car industry, dashboard switches and instrument bezels, that sort of thing) and they're very good at it!

And the trouble with chromed parts is that there are two kinds of chrome plating used on plastic. The first is actually a thin coating of aluminium. The process is called vapour deposition and the bare plastic parts are put in a vacuum chamber while vaporized aluminium flows in and condenses on the parts. They are then polished.

The other method is more of a 'true' chrome and is usually a more involved process. The process starts with vacuum deposition, but using copper instead of aluminium. This copper coating then allows the normal process of nickel and then chrome electro-coatings to be applied, similar to chroming real metal. And the results are better. It's shinier and tougher.

I'm sure some of our clever chemical and scientific chaps on here can explain it much better than me!

Depending what method is used can dictate how difficult it is to remove and, just like the real car industries, the Japanese are not quite as good at chroming as the Americans, so the Tamiya stuff falling away so easily in comparison to AMT is no real surprise to be honest.

Anyway, that is a wonderful model Mike, I love the theme and, like you, I don't really build car models (this GB was my first ever!) but I really enjoyed the theme and everybody's models, it's been terrific. If it was that time is too short I'd actually do another one, as I still have some left over ideas!

Once again, top work Mike!

Zee28

[Clashcityrocker]

Great looking model. The colour and markings suit the car perfectly.

Nigel

[Migrant]

Thanks a lot for the feedback guys

[VickersVandal]

Fantastic idea, executed perfectly

So much love.

[TimJ]

Cracking build, it looks great.

[Miss-Stang]

A truly amazing build and I love your cockpit - all so very detailed, you put the rest of us to shame!