grum64

Very, very nice. Surely your second most beautiful build to date

Thank you my Friend, that’s the plan. To be honest, the really interesting part of the build was the chassis etc., but the body is more of a challenge as there are many parts fitted in difficult to access places but to me that’s the fun of building.

What an eggstraordinary contraption.You clearly have waaaay too much time on your hands

Coming along nicely Igor. Keep up the good work

Today’s Building time 5hrs 15mins - Total build time 40hrs 30mins Not much to say about today’s building. It’s been a tad fiddly at times but I feel I’ve gotten a good bit done nonetheless. A long way to go yet though. Today’s pics.

Surely my first (and only) attempt at a MOC, my MK1 Meyra Optimus 2, is a contender... Too wide, tyres are completely wrong, total absence of curved surfaces... The list goes on

These days Skoda’s are good cars, especially the diesels so I’m not at all surprised you’re happy with it. Everyone I know who has one is. Bearing in mind they were once the butt of all automotive jokes the company, with help from VAG, has certainly had the last laugh.

I’d say you’ve got it spot on. Nicely done. Someone has to

Welcome Srdjan. Nice to have you join our motley crew

Welcome to Eurobricks. I can't help you with your question, most of the time I barely know what day it is, but you've certainly come to the right place.

Good to have you with us. I just know you're going to really enjoy your time here.

Welcome to Eurobricks Jo. Good to have you with us.

Excellent. Makes me want to buy another Chiron

I'm sure you wept as you typed . Here, have tissue...

She is our Little Princess but above all she’s a beautiful, very well behaved and mannered 6yr old little girl .

Hmmmm... Your sincerity isn't entirely convincing But it's pink! Penny has her own building table in my shed so her pink bricks don't contaminate the rest

Good grief Jim, don’t encourage this sort of behaviour. I have a 6yr old Grandaughter who now wants my entire Technic collection rebuilt in pink. Yes, PINK!!! I need to go lay down and start the day again

Thank you Andy. It's a build I'm enjoying very much. With it being the Pimped version the body can be removed in one piece so the good stuff underneath can be seen.

Thank you Igor. It’s coming along nicely. I do indeed. Sturdy framework. Very sturdy framework

Really interesting mechanism. When I saw (TC15) and Dart and mistakenly thought it was going to be the Sea Dart made by the same company, Convair. It's such an interesting aircraft that I'd build myself but I haven't the building skills. For anyone not familiar with the Sea Dart you can see it in action here - Convair Sea Dart

Very easy to see what this is. A real blast from the past. Good work

Nice progress Edwin. Looking forward to seeing the superstructure take shape

Building Time 5hrs 40mins - Total Build Time 35hrs 15mins With the completed chassis sitting to one side work on the body continues at what, for me anyways, has been a reasonably good pace. I’ve always found fitting pins, parts etc., inside frames difficult mainly because I can’t get a tooth in far enough to get purchase to push them into place and using a finger ends with bits going off in all directions. Today I’ve had two to do. Warning: This next bit may (OK, will) go on a bit. Sorry. Over the years I’ve tried all sort of ways to make this easier but nothing worked particularly well. Today though I had an idea. I took a piece of a bamboo kebab stick, broken so it was about 3 studs in length, and pushed it snugly into the end of the pin. From the inside of the frame I then pushed the bamboo through the hole so a short bit of the kebab stick stuck out. After joining 5 x Technic Plate Rotor 6 Blade with Clip Ends (64566) one on top of the other I raised the frame and lowered it so that the kebab stick went into centre hole of the joined plates. This held the frame upright and the pin in place over the hole. I’ve tried many ways of pushing the pin down and into place but found a 2 x 8 Plate with Waffle Bottom (3034old) is best as it has square indents underneath that the top of the pin can sit in. So, with the plate carefully passed through the frame and held above the pin it was just a case of wedging the plate between my palms, locating the top of the pin in as close to the centre most square under the plate as possible and gently pushing down and bingo, pin in place. All that remained was to remove the kebab stick. I know this sounds a convoluted way of doing things (made worse by my less than clear explanation) but it’s quicker than struggling to do it other ways. The rest of build went well. Enough of my rambling, here’s today’s pictures.

I'm not sure but could it be something like this: