Cinder

Ooh thats a pretty wheel right there!

 

Dropped my parts off for powder today and looked at some of the colors he had available. We're going to do one in a dark bronze and see if I like it and go from there.



After the initial sandblast, they still were pretty scratched up:


Had to grind them down a bit


And re sandblast




Oh, I also had one pin (or whatever you call these things) that gave me a whole mess of trouble. I eventually had to take a drill to it and rip it out, scored the sidewall a little, but it should be fine.

 

you want it? I'll trade ya

 

no thanks love the progress you're making though!

 

Just had a look at the sample part that he did for me. It's not exactly as I was expecting, but I think it will be really cool so I told him to go ahead with the rest of the parts. I was originally thinking of going with a brighter gold, but most of the real RC30s have these parts in black or at least a very dark bronze, so this is a little more true to form. Also some of them are a little beat up still and the texture will "smooth" them out nicely.


It's dark bronze BTW, it might look black in the pic.

Obviously I've got to sand off the gasket surfaces (powder sometimes leaves kind of a nasty mask edge so I had him only mask things that I couldn't sand clean)

 

Nice. Thank you for starting this thread and sharing your progress, I can hardly wait to see how cool this is going to look! Its like Christmas but I'm not paying for it..LOL. Now, can I expect it under MY tree for Christmas...Santa? (I threw in the Santa thing because that would make it free.) Seriously, keep up the good work.

 

Breakdown

Hey folks, so taking a cue From MrOrange I decided to do a little rebuild on my tail end:

If you'd like please follow the full story on my *blog* (Click it)