Thread: WIP Toymaker Press Ciccarelli GranPrix

HI Pogo
Its 7:35am here in East Coast Australia so I shall say good morning In Ref to my last post to you I can see your lathe and so that makes things clearer for me to see what you meant.
I shall watch your girlfriend’s cousin progress with interest… cold you tell us a little more about the scroll saw magic is it a book or just a set of plans.
Colbra

Well done Pogo,
I love the words of encouragement that you gave the young bloke.
What a great opportunity for him to learn a new skill as you share your knowledge, know-how & shed.
I hope he catches the "bug" to use his hands and head.
Watching for the followup photos, thank you.
Cheers, crowie

Good to see you encourage the young one Pogo. Hope he sticks to it. I also would like to see the outcome

Originally Posted by colbra

cold you tell us a little more about the scroll saw magic is it a book or just a set of plans.

It is a set of plans. It has a lot of different views of a finished car, a few pages of full sized plans and a simple description of how to put it together. It is pretty straight forward.

Here are some pictures of the progress with:
him sanding (gave me the wax on, wax off feeling of karate kid )
a testfit
using a drumsander on the vertical driller
the fenders
and painting the car

He did not like the sanding very much, so it has some rough edges, but who cares for his first made car? We also dropped the lights on the car because of time pressure. We can barely paint it twice before gluing it together so he can take it home with him.

Have you tried to hurry up the paint drying with a fan blowing air across the car????

Originally Posted by crowie

Have you tried to hurry up the paint drying with a fan blowing air across the car????

Or, nicking your girlfriends hair blower ( or yours ). Thats why I like acrylic paint. Lots of Caricature woodcarvers have a hot and cold hair dryer in the shed. It enables you to put a second coat on within a couple of minutes.

Unfortunately, I had to buy my own for the shed, or leave home. Lol

The other trick with Acrylic is to give it a final coat of clear gloss spray. It really puts the shine into it which is one area I think the enamels have the advantage. But the spray gloss is a lot quicker and easier and I think superior in finish.

Pete
Star.

We did not try to dry the paint faster. It was already 10 pm, so time to go to bed, and he put the paint on pretty thick, so I want it to dry overnight.
I now leave for work, when I come back he can sand and paint the final coat, see a movie, and saturdaymorning we glue it into one piece so he can take it home with him.

Crowie,
When I paint with acrylics I use a thin coat, leave it to dry and put another coat on in 1-2 hours. I think it can be done quicker, but normally I'm not in a hurry.

Pete,
Hair blowers are a good idea, I will keep them in mind!

Originally Posted by Pogo02

It is a set of plans. It has a lot of different views of a finished car, a few pages of full sized plans and a simple description of how to put it together. It is pretty straight forward.

I have found the plans you are using http://toymakerpress.com/website/Pla...gran-prix.html you have to buy them but there are some top toys there.

Colbra

Originally Posted by colbra

you have to buy them but there are some top toys there.

Yes you have to buy them, this is the first one I have bought from them. They are introducing a lot of new realistic toys the last few weeks, that's why I got interested. Before they had toys for younger children which are fun, but I'm less interested in those. If you subscribe to their newsletter you will get almost a mail a day, but every new introduction (every week I think for the last few weeks) has a discount for people who have the newsletter.

Pogo

I agree with your above statement. Their new toy releases have been more realistic. I too am subscribed to their newsletter. I have a couple of their books


Bret

Well done Pogo, It is great to see a kid with a 'can't do that' attitude being taught something and seeing that they really can. I have just purchased this plan and the helicopter plan and I'm looking forward to geetting into the workshop with my son and showing him that he 'can' too!

Here is the finished product! He is pretty proud about it.

Originally Posted by Pogo02

Here is the finished product! He is pretty proud about it.

And justly so will done Pogo3 and there I have given your young friend a user name........Hope to see more of Pogo3 work


Colbra

He did a great job for a first I hope you let him read the comments here as this hopefully will encourage him to do more