'65 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C

[Ialarmu]

Ok, here's the result of 48 hrs in the Cola,





Started the engine tonight and I'll get some photo's up tommorrow.

 

[Eastrock]

details, looks great looking forward with the monster engine

 

[NecronautDrummer]

Hey, that came out quite nicely! Awesome!

 

[Ialarmu]

Engine assembled and painted, mounted to the chassis which completes step 2.

More wiring to come when the engine compartment is completed.

 

[Eastrock]

Now that's one wicked engine!!!

 

[Grendels]

Love the wiring!

 

[Ialarmu]

Love the wiring!

Hey, these wires might work for the pink corvette ;D

 

[noname]

That was quick. Looks great.

 

[Grendels]

Love the wiring!

Hey, these wires might work for the pink corvette ;D

They sure would. She should be back at that one in three or four weeks. Work is consuming her life right now....

 

[Ialarmu]

Here's another update folks but first of all "holy cow" what an active forum. The buzz is definately on!


I spent the last 2 days working on the body, filling sink marks and sanding down mold marks.
Today I hit the body with a coat of Tamiya XF-20 medium grey for a primer coat and to bring out any rough spots that I may have missed...and I did find a couple which I fixed no problem.


I started with the custom mixed blue that I made from a few drops of X-14 sky blue into a new pot of XF-2 flat white. The stripes are X-6 orange with some white added for a faded look and XF-1 flat black for the smaller pin strips.

I masked with Tamiya tape and Proband fineline 1.6mm pinstriping tape.






I'm quite happy with the result, next will be a coat of future for some small decals I want to use and then probably a dull coat for the finish as I want to avoid a diecast look to this machine.

 

[Eastrock]

paint job looks great, man!!!

 

[Glorfindel]

That looks sharp. Sure it's not a Bond car? Cause a Bond car could throw itself together like that.

 

[Dark Kyp]

impressiv job, an't wait to see the nexts steps

 

[noname]

This is turning out real nice so far. Should be a looker upon completeion.

 

[Leighbo]

You're really moving fast man

I love the paint job, great choice of colour and fine work with the airbrush, this is going to be sweet

 

[Grendels]

Nice paint job!

 

[Tobes2us]

She looks really great!

 

[Ialarmu]

The wheels are done guys,








These tires came with a blue ring decal or you can paint the blue ring using the provided groove in the tire, and then gently sanding the area when dry.

I used paint.


Looks realy good with the colour scheme.






Dashboard done:





Decals were included for the gauges and I finished the dials with 3 coats of future.




Here I flocked the interior.






Things are coming together, I have to wait for final assembly as the gloss coat on the main body is not fully cured. I'm going to polish it out. It's only been on 3 days and I think I will give it at least a week.

 

[Grendels]

Nice interior, how did you flock it?

 

[Tobes2us]

I was curious about the flocking too. That's really cool looking.