smillervette4
Gorgeous hinges! Excellent photos! Thank you!
smillervette4
Beautifully engineered, Ed Bird!
Ed Bird
Hi Chris,
Yeah that is what I discovered even at the beginning tries, as I said had several different hinges that I purchased and the ones the did work even though barely did lift a bit before it began to swing out. Just not enough in my mind. Once I was stuck in the water to say, I began searching for pictures of real ones and came across the ones I used. And right away when I saw them I knew they would lift better then swing.
Not the I have not failed on other times I have tried on model making and learned, I think the panic I had when the ones failed, pushed me to try again and a good learning experience. Can't find it - make it. Can't wait to see what goes wrong next!!
Ed Bird
Yes did have a few problems with the rear hatch hinges. Over a year ago I thought about doing it, so got a spare body to see if 1. can I cut it out - yes I did. 2 can I make hinges - don't think so. So I searched and located some various design hinges and tried them out. I did get a set to work, although just barely. But when I went to do it on the actual build I must have "pulled" something tight as it would not work at all. Great now what??
So I thought I guess I better try to make my own. Found a good picture of them, so made some scaled down decals of them and attached then to a piece of plastic. Long story short - They work! So from now on if I need hinges - will do myself.
Chris Craddock
Hey Ed, one thing you need to keep in mind with kit doors/hinges is that the door skins and the bodies are waaaay thicker (in real life, never mind at scale) than the real car. In the real car, the panel edges can move past each other pretty easily because they’re thin. In a model, you need to either add a little wiggle room so they don’t get caught on each other, OR you can thin the door material as you get closer to the edge.
Even so, the action of the hinge needs to “lift” the door by just a smidge before swinging it. I hope that makes sense.
Cheers,
Chris
Gilles
Nice job Ed with the styrene.
And thank you for putting the photos of the real hinges. I understood that the photo I showed corresponds more to hinges from the roaster.
Thanks to you I will go in the right direction. Wait and see.
I found this precious photo that shows their location on the tailgate
Colin Shannon
Very cool. Its' going to be great seeing this with the spare tyre in place.
Hopefully Ed says hi on this one as I know he did a lot of head scratching to come up with working hinges for the hatch. There are some pretty interesting angles getting those to work well.
By the way, your English and translation is absolutely fine, and as always, a picture is worth a thousand words!
Gilles
Thank you Colin for your response and encouragement.
I found a photo of a hinge and I will use it as inspiration to make some in brass...wait and see...
Chris Craddock
Great! I like your solution for fitting the "spare" tire.
Gilles
Thank you Chris, work in progress !!
