LKS

Awesome work!

Sure i wish have both in my garage!!!

Love the swaps! Five spoke real riders are just perfect to the Ferraris!

Nice wheel swaps!!!

When I made the M3 Safety Car F1 sometime ago, some people suggested me to make the Safety Car of Moto GP.

After a long time searching pictures, models, sponsors logos, i finally finished the job! I really like the result, i hope you do so!

- As the rims of the real car are black, i thought there are no need of special wheels... so the rims came from a Murcielago,

- The interior was painted black and detailed the seat belts,

- Tails lights, front grille and air intakes detailed,

- Decals printed in a special inkjet paper.

My inspiration:






















Sorry, not for sale...

Thanks for all for visiting my thread!!!

Daniel i think you´re right, F1 safety car is licenced only to MBenz, neither BMW nor Porsche have the rights...

Thats why i just finished the Moto GP car...

Thanks for the info, i´ve never tried notebooks screws, probably they are smaller than desktops ones!

What was done:

- Swap wheels & interior from a 2001 Skyline TH
- Detailed seat belts and tail lights
- Opened side windows
- Decals applied
- Light bar made of disposable plastic spoon









And now the entire German Force !

Thanks for all!

Madmax, I think the procedure could be the same. First draw the desirable shape in a paper to plan the job.

If two welds are too close, when you are welding one point, the other may melt and loose, because the copper wire is a good thermal conductor. In this case it´s advisable that you put some jaws near the welding, in order to dissipate the heat.

good luck!

Luiz

wow! thanks so much for these kind words!

Thanks Sinclair!

Not yet, but there is enough room, i´m looking for a V8 to put in!!!

The one on the left is original, doesn´t open:

This custom is quite simple, you only need to do 2 cuts at straight angles, one vertical and another horizontal.
The most laborious part is to remove the rivet post.

You will need a jewelry saw to do this job and a drill to remove the rivets! Also a file to remove some burrs!











"The Making Of:"

Thanks guys for visiting!

Be sure i´ll keep posting more tips!

Awesome painting, decals and pretty box too!!!

Let´s pray for those little angels

Before:(what is this under the door???)


Drilling:


Here they are! A real exhaust pipes!!!

I don´t like blind tail pipes!!!

I use small drills as 1,2 mm 1,0 mm 0,9mm depends on the pipe size. Choose a drill a little bit smaller than the pipe.
Use very small rotation!

How it was:


Drilling the tail pipe:


Now th pipe is breathing!!!




Another example with the Custom Beetle:

The blind tail pipe!


Drilling:


Finally breathing!!!


Now with the Torino!
Before:


Drilling!


After!

This is a tip on how to make a roll bar using a solid copper wire, easily found at home!

Materials required:

- Soldering Iron
- Good quality solder
- Small pliers
- Solid copper wire 2,5 mm² or 1,5 mm²

Attention kids! Risk of burn injury! Ask adult help!!!

Also: Never hold the wire with bare hands when welding! Use the pliers or metallic jaws.



The process:

Bend and cut the wire with the desired shape:


Weld the parts:


A good welding should look like this:




Check if any adjust is necessary:


After painting:


Ready!!!






Added: 26/june/2011

One of the best 2011 premières in my opinion!!!
This casting is awesome itself, but...

Thanks for the feedback!

Keep your nice work!!!

eight wrote:

i had to sacrifice 1 FE delorean just for the door... the time machine delorean doors were sacrified too...

the hinges are very similar from your custom tip on how to do hinges... thanks for the great tip...

Outstanding work!!! Congrats!

How many casts did you sacrified? Did you make the hinges?

Hi Desmond!

I don´t know if I did something wrong, but in the new message box, i can´t see what i´m writting.... the letters are white and the box white too...
Today i was editing my profile, maybe i altered the colors?

waht happened?

Hi! Thanks everybody again for the sweet coments!!!


I´ll post all tips and customs i´ve made, so all users may try to do some of them!

Nice to see you here too!

Hi bros!

Thanks for the comments!!!

These screws are easy to find in great screws stores (the ones that sell only screws, drills, they have a wall plenty of small drawers with any type/size of screws).

Some people says that computers screws works. I don´t think so. The hard disk screws are too large (3mm) Computer case screws are large too (3.5mm). See the picture below.

The correct is on the left Ø2.2 x 6.5 mm

The smallest one in the center is a screw from a broken calculator, too small (1.6 mm)

These examples are the most commom small screws found at home!

Thanks Daniel, Sinclair and CKH!

Be sure that i´ll keep posting tips and customs here!

Here are some more pics, now painted the cut part and wheels swap!!!

Hi buddies!

I´m new here!, I´d like to share a tutorial I made some years ago, to help anyone to easily open your diecasts!

This is my standard procedure to open & close customs and works very fine for me.

Note that this is not the only way to do this job, neither you have to use exactly the same tools I recommend.

This is only a guide and you may change, add, ignore, switch steps to meet your purposes.

The advantage in using screws is the fact that you can assemble and disassemble many times very easily.

Some sizes of drills/screws may be not avaiable in any region/country.

Remember:

- Always wear safety glasses;

- Be careful with your hands;
- Children, ask an adult to help you!

- Always hold the diecast in a secure place as a vice

- Protect the discast surface with a cloth


Tools & material needed:

01 - 2mm dia. drill (5/64 in)
02 - 3,5 to 4mm dia. drill (9/64 to 5/32 in)
03 - Sef tapping screw flat head philips 2,2 mm dia. x 6,5 mm lenght.
04 - Cordless drill
05 - Philips screwdriver







1st. step:
Drill a hole of 2mm dia. aprox.(1/64 in) on each rivet. The red tube is to limit the depth
This will be the guide for the self tapping screw.


2nd. step:
Drill with 4 mm dia until remove completely the rivet´s head


This is a view of the removed rivet and the guide hole ready to receive the screw:




3rd. step:
Open the car and do what you have to do! (your project)


4th. step:
Close with the screws


Ready!!!!


Factory rivets x Custom screws


I hope this help someone!

I love this casting, the red color is stunning and it surely should have the engine revealed!!!

Simple cut with jewelry saw, didn´t make the hinge yet, also didn´t decided the opening side, frontward or backward...

I hope u enjoy it!, comments are welcome!