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Post by Vermin King on Jun 8, 2019 19:34:26 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Jun 9, 2019 8:34:54 GMT -9
Just make sure you don't run anything into the rear end.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 9, 2019 8:36:58 GMT -9
I had thought of having a flaming trunk as an option
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 9, 2019 11:03:11 GMT -9
WIP build of my new geometry is printing. I reworked a lot of the graphics, as well as changing geometry. It still is far from being a model of a Pinto (lfuente over at papermodelers.com found a Pinto wagon that is much better looking, but it is a far more complicated model). I may come back and incorporate some of the ideas of it into this one later, but let's just see how bad this one is first. Like I said before, I don't trust the four-view I found. The roof on this other model is not nearly as narrow. It also has the longer nose and tail end
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 9, 2019 14:34:47 GMT -9
Well, on the WIP, I kept the old format, mostly because I was curious if my fixes worked. On the original, the axles did not align with the wheels. They had the windshield frame wrapped around the A-pillar, which was wrong. Windshield and rear glass were too high on the vehicle. On the wip, the front bumper lines up with the sides only because I allowed the front of the roof to sit between the sides, instead of wrapping over the top of the sides. The rear bumper does not match because the hatch sits too high. I think that lengthening the roof by about five pixels in front and ten in back will fix things, using 67# cardstock. I also need to add more pointiness by the tail lights. But it sure looks more like a Pinto than the official paper model. I'll fix the file and double check the fixes by doing a final build. If I weren't sharing this, I would definitely call this build 'good enough'.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 9, 2019 16:28:45 GMT -9
By having the front and tail separate, after gluing the main body of the car together, line the bumper up with the sides and glue down to the remaining tabs for the front and repeat for the rear, finally gluing the chassis panel to the bottom
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Post by whiteknight06604 on Jun 10, 2019 9:50:13 GMT -9
now this brings back some (bad) memories. when i was a kid we had a red one with a black top.....
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 10, 2019 12:12:32 GMT -9
It would be real easy to make the red one with the black roof...
Yes, eventually I want to get the Blues Brothers Pinto done, but this was one of those things where I went through my files looking for 'crappy teenager cars', and this one jumped out at me
And then I came back to it because I have always had issues matching up designs where there are angled sides matching. I've also had issues with curves. So, I had to do it. Doing those tracks for the Ebbles model also helped.
Now I have to remember which model I gave up on matching angled surfaces a while back...
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 19, 2019 9:12:41 GMT -9
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Jun 19, 2019 21:43:05 GMT -9
I showed that to my wife and she immediately recognized it as a Pinto. So I think you did a really good job based on that basis alone.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 24, 2019 13:17:24 GMT -9
now this brings back some (bad) memories. when i was a kid we had a red one with a black top..... Was it the 'Rally' version? EDIT -- Not sure why I'm obsessed with these stupid little Pintos, but I've been working on a very clean red version. Then I plan on adding the black vinyl top on a second red one. At this point, I have the sides done, and enhanced a lot of things like the hardware and lights. I still have to do the flaming plume for the back, too
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 25, 2019 8:16:01 GMT -9
And now available in red
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