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Post by jffj on Feb 10, 2021 10:33:51 GMT -5
I have started my "Crazy Ken Carter" RaceToons entry! After finding some good reference pictures...  Like this oldskool cart with scrubber brakes and other details shown clearly, then some with drivers....  .... and this dude looks EXACTLY like someone I used to work with 😳, anyway, so now to get that lovable Endsville Eddie into a similar position.... 🤔  Well, that's what Zona razor saws are for.... 😄 From my WeirdOhs body parts stash, I gathered arms from Louie (?), legs from a Frantic, feets from Fowl Francis, and most of Eddie....  Borrowed Diggers' steering wheel, and so far, so good 😁  Then, after getting Eddie to assume the position, with much tape, it was time to mock up the kart. Two sets of official WeirdOh slicks- and I believe I am on the right track. Now for the really fun part: fabricating his oldskool cart! 😎 |
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Post by jcon on Feb 10, 2021 11:28:36 GMT -5
Wow that's awesome!!!
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Post by TooOld on Feb 10, 2021 11:54:44 GMT -5
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Post by sharp on Feb 10, 2021 20:24:25 GMT -5
Very very cool!!! I'm liking this!!!
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Post by Starryeyes on Feb 11, 2021 22:36:27 GMT -5
I like where this is going !
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Post by jffj on Feb 16, 2021 7:25:48 GMT -5
Thanks guys 🤗 I started some glueing, but before glueing Ken's face in place, I painted his inner mouth as someone suggested to me- so thanks to whoever that was 👍👍  It was a little bloody.... even got some on his slicks 😂  Decided to modify the slicks to give them more rounded edges, so using TiteBond wood glue- a PVA - I glued these layers of balsa wood to both sides.  Here, Ken is in primer and sitting still while I draw up plans for his kart frame. Front tires are ready for paint, rears are still in progress- adding some balsa to the tread area too, to make them larger diameter.  Got his kart bloop-print done, and stood Ken up for a picture. 😳 Now he looks like Eddie-Stein! 😂  Hey! Who are you? Dude! I'm YOU.... 😂😂 Alright- that's enough foolery Tom....  Finally, a proper mockup, and we're going to use the hot V-twin from Daring Dee's snowmobile, since she's history. Things are looking good 😎 Thanks for looking. Stay 'Tooned 😁 |
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Post by jcon on Feb 16, 2021 12:13:37 GMT -5
Shaping up nicely!!!
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Post by wardster on Feb 19, 2021 22:29:02 GMT -5
Love the whole idea and the whole build, but I gotta say: it's very cool seeing the use of old school techniques, like using balsa wood, here or there. Puts me right back at the hobby shop I used to frequent when I was a kid, wondering what my grass-cutting money was going to buy me, this time around. (Jack's Hobby Castle in Cleveland, Ohio.) Loved seeing so many kits at that place, not all of which were plastic. And knowing what the flying airplane guys did with the strips and sheets and blocks of balsa wood, always made me like seeing the little display of raw balsa they had!
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Post by jffj on Feb 25, 2021 20:50:03 GMT -5
Love the whole idea and the whole build, but I gotta say: it's very cool seeing the use of old school techniques, like using balsa wood, here or there. Puts me right back at the hobby shop I used to frequent when I was a kid, wondering what my grass-cutting money was going to buy me, this time around. (Jack's Hobby Castle in Cleveland, Ohio.) Loved seeing so many kits at that place, not all of which were plastic. And knowing what the flying airplane guys did with the strips and sheets and blocks of balsa wood, always made me like seeing the little display of raw balsa they had! Thanks everyone, and thank you Wardster, for that little trip back to the Good Old Days 🤗. I didn't have a local hobby shop until I grew up, got married and moved into an apartment. Great LHS then, with train layout, 3 slot car tracks, and oodles of models! But at age 11, while still at home, I became a newspaper carrier, paperboy, and spent my money on models from the general store in Saxonburg Pa. $2.12 for one back then! Anyhow, at 68, yes, I am old school and love it. Love everything about our hobby 😍. |
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Post by jffj on Feb 25, 2021 21:07:52 GMT -5
Painting has commenced.... but first....  Started Ken off with a base for his skin color.... "prima facia" 😂 But seriously, I forgot, I fabbed up a face shield for him like many of the old time karters wore, to protect them from flying rocks I guess.  Finally doing it "right" by using my artists acrylics, which are transparent. Helps get facial features better I have found. Going with a default WeirdOh greenish.  Gold wheels, blue jeans, and my favorite craft acrylic paint- PAVEMENT- for the tires and Ken's jacket. The PAVEMENT color is my go-to paint for priming as well. Balsa wood slab for mocking up only.  Pretty good day getting Ken prettied up.... as best I could. He did have 3 eyeballs for a bit.... 😂  Hmmm.... guess 4 pictures are the limit? Ok, later then 😎 |
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Post by jffj on Feb 25, 2021 21:23:09 GMT -5
Found an old gas engine from a control line balsa wood airplane that a buddy gave me years ago, in hopes I could rebuild it. The plane was his Dad's, that he built back in the 70s probably. I figured I would see how it looked behind Ken.....  And we both dig it, so I get to scratchbuild ANOTHER WeirdOh-ish engine! Yay!  Finally, it was frame fabbing time. Gathered up as much WeirdOh kit sprue as I could find, cut and sanded the lumps off, and I'm sizing up the front axle here- according to plan.  And putting the "drop" in the axle, with one of my favorite tools 🤗  Fabbed up some WeirdOh-ish appropriate faux spindles and linkage and set it aside to cool....  And started fabbing up the main frame. It has a nice warped & twisted main rail which will help with the overall look..... That's all for now..... Stay 'TOONED..... 😎 |
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Post by wardster on Feb 25, 2021 21:56:41 GMT -5
I really like the way you not only build stuff, sir, but also how you photograph it. Nice "step by step" sequence, and "tell a story" layouts. And laying parts out, over a blueprint? I'm digging it! Bravo!
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Post by jcon on Mar 1, 2021 11:36:43 GMT -5
That is very cool!!! Nice fabrication going on for sure!!!
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Post by jffj on Mar 2, 2021 11:38:54 GMT -5
I really like the way you not only build stuff, sir, but also how you photograph it. Nice "step by step" sequence, and "tell a story" layouts. And laying parts out, over a blueprint? I'm digging it! Bravo! Thanks everyone, and thanks Wardster for your comments about my presentation. Kind of a bane of my modeling. I love, love, Love WIP pictures..... but there are times when I literally spend more time on getting my WIP pictures ready to post than actual sitting at my bench modeling time. I've finally reconciled it all, by just enjoying my love of modeling and my fellow modelers- so it's worth it. Over the years, other modelers' WIP pictures have helped me, inspired me, so I gladly post mine in the hopes tbat they help or inspire someone else 🤗 |
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Post by jffj on Mar 2, 2021 12:01:49 GMT -5
Finally! Yay!  I started on Ken's Crazy engine. Using meat packaging foam as the main ingredient. Laying out the cylinder discs here....  Easily cut, and cutting out the fins here and stacking them on the old trophy base- a very handy tool that I use a lot.  Here, I have put all the engine fins, only, on a bamboo skewer (another one of my favorite things 🤗) to sand a uniform angle and hopefully roundness on them all.  A quick test fit, mock up, before glueing, of the cylinder discs and fin discs 👍 A little bigger than I planned, but my WeirdOh License allows me to change up as I feel like it.... 😄  After carefully de-skewering the discs and laying them out in proper order, I started glueing them up. Sorry for it getting tacking here, but I still use TACKY glue at times. Great stuff, but not sandable.  And TA DA! While the stacked discs were setting up, I cut a disc from a thicker meat foam packaging tray, layed out some lines and filed the grooves with a rat tail file. Just hit the BBCode tab, so I have no idea what's going to show up..... here goes |
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