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"Çiçek Abbas" |
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"Çiçek Abbas" |
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Scale
: 1/24
Start:
22 October 2016
Finish: 20 February 2017
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| 24 November 2016: I prepared the inner frame of the rear door. 
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25 November 2016:
I made the inner of the B-post, then installed the door and checked the opening and closing.  |
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I prepared the
C-post inner and glued in place.
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28 November 2016:
Since the vehicle was a minibus, I did not want to use the bare sheet metal profile of the floor. So I trimmed the rear wheelwells and glued them on the main floor. 
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I glued two magnets inside the
body to hold the door in place.
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29 November 2016:
I prepared the sections where the inner panels will rest on.  |
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I
made the inner panels. I made the top of the panels as notches that
will mate with the bottom part of the window inner panels.
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| 30 November
2016: I started manufacturing the roof top luggage from wire. 
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| 02 December
2016: I finished the upper part of the roof luggage rack . 
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| 03 December
2016: Manufacturing the supports of the roof luggage rack. I drilled the feet points of the rack through a balsa block, inserted a spacer for the roof gap and bent the wire supports. Then I glued the upper part with CA glue and activator. I cut the supports where they enter the balsa block and took out the rack. 
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I drilled
blind holes for the rack supports and placed the rack, testing for
matching.
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I
made the stairs from wire, and shaped it to the ridiculous shape as in
the original vehicle. The stairs will be the last item to be installed
on the model.
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| 04 December
2016: The turn signal outline in the fender was straight, and not angled like in the facelift model. So I made a plastic substitute for the turn signal and applied polyester putty in the remaining void. 
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| 05 December
2016: I noticed that the task was not over with just the turn signals. The front grille height was narrower in the previous version. So I glued a styrene strip at the lower side of the grille void and adjusted the turn signal heights accordingly. 
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| 10 December
2016: I made a shaping die for manufacturing of round headlight bezels. 
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I squeezed a piece of acetate
between two lower layers of the die
I heated the acetate wit a heating gun and softened the acetate. I deformed the acetate with the rod. 
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The acetate as raw outcome from
the die
Piece trimmed and headlight hole punched. 
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I cut off the lower part of the front grille to match the grille void. 
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I made the same operation above with styrene sheet and made the bezels, glued inside the grille, applied putty and base coat. 
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11 December 2016:
I manufactured the bumpers from
brass U-sections. I made the rubber end for the left rear bumper from
styrene block.
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I made and shaped the rubber end for the right side of the front bumper, from copper sheet and fixed it to the bumper by soldering. 
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