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Post by nickvoges on Nov 22, 2008 17:28:09 GMT 1
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Post by DavidJohnson on Nov 23, 2008 3:32:17 GMT 1
Nick, Nice work. The lettering on the Studebaker adds a lot. Did you make decals yourself?
Dave
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Post by mstar on Nov 23, 2008 11:30:00 GMT 1
I love the Opel Astra!
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Post by nickvoges on Nov 23, 2008 17:37:22 GMT 1
David, I´m very ashamed, but the Studebaker Logo is made with a paint program in the picture. Thats illegal and I´m very sorry for not declare it before. Would be happy to be able to make some decals for the car like this.... nick.
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Post by Christian on Nov 24, 2008 1:05:25 GMT 1
Nick, the Astra looks especially accurate, great work. I'll have to see if I have anything for a trade.
Would you mind showing us your original wax model or one in progress? I'd like to get a look at the process.
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Post by DavidJohnson on Nov 24, 2008 13:50:34 GMT 1
Would you mind showing us your original wax model or one in progress? I'd like to get a look at the process. Me too
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Post by RAOlson on Nov 25, 2008 1:00:10 GMT 1
I, too, am curious as to your model molds and materials.
Richard O.
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Post by superba on Nov 25, 2008 17:03:26 GMT 1
Nick's models never cease to amaze me. The fact that he sculpts from wax in extraordinary.
Nice to see someone else model Studebakers!
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Post by skunk on Nov 25, 2008 20:33:21 GMT 1
Sculpting from wax also sounds like a great solution for making quick casts of detail parts, engine blocks and such. I have never worked with wax, but I like the durability of Evergreen and I don't know if wax can offer that?
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Post by nickvoges on Nov 29, 2008 23:42:42 GMT 1
Skunk, the durability of wax maybe is a problem over the years, because its loosing material after long time. At my beginning with modeling american cars in the eighties, I used only wax for everything. But for working wax with heat, of course its not for the most fine parts like grille and chromestuff etc.. So I started to make this parts from metal, needles and other stuff that I fixed in the wax. Now I normally make only the general body of the model, or if there are enough good parts from other cars I use the wax only to combine the parts to the new car. Then I transfer this in a certain state of building in plaster to make the textures and other fine lines with an X-acto and combine this with all parts from other cars or shrunked parts from other scales. I never managed to shrink a whole model in one part, too much warped lines at all. But to shrink a front or the back of a car and combine this with wax helps a lot. Plaster has totally other characteristics like wax and I can use the best attributes of both of them, and the plaster is absolutely durable over the years, but you have some problems with the not very fine surface, which is much better with wax to polish. From my first cars of pure wax exist nearly no master anymore or only in bad circumstances. I never understood the use of evergreen and have seen lots of cars stopped at the state for the small wholes or other difficult parts, because of take off to much material. With wax there is no problem to put and cut off so much material as needed. To work with wax you need only one instrument, you can polish this perfectly, its cheap and exist in all varieties from superhard to soft or smooth. To heat the instrument I use a normal candle, for polishing a rest of a sock or something. In the next time I will show some photos of my masters and all the material you will need. I use to buy it in the dental technician shops. There are also interisting textures of all kind of wax, I never tried this but it could be very helpful as well. So far...... good luck nick
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Post by cfesmire on Nov 30, 2008 3:06:18 GMT 1
Very interesting technique Nick. That you do most of this by hand is incredible. Your results are inspiring.
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Post by nickvoges on Feb 28, 2009 12:35:28 GMT 1
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Post by DavidJohnson on Feb 28, 2009 14:41:28 GMT 1
Nick, Great work on both models. You got the distinctive Rambler roofline right. Have you seen that a couple years ago Nissan introduced a SUV with a similar roofline and reverse slanted C pillar? Your Caddy looks especially nice.
Dave
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Post by stevette66 on Feb 28, 2009 21:29:38 GMT 1
Very nice work in deed. I enjoyed looking at the models and your site. Great stuff. Really like the rambler and caddy Steve D
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Post by nickvoges on May 10, 2009 19:27:44 GMT 1
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