BTTF diamond select DeLorean 1/15 upgrades/mods

steveo3002 · Oct 10, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

hi there

thank you for joining , i think you should make a thread for your delorean , i would like to see some close up pictures if you can

steveo3002 · Oct 17, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

right more progress today

chassis seemed to hang a little low , so 2mm cut off there, thats s far as you can cut without all the underside bits showing

front bumper area is coming along , got a coat of colour on there to show up where it needs more work

flux band cut out on the body is now smoothed over

and better not forget those vents in the pillar

steveo3002 · Oct 17, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

also made an effort to make the doors close and align nicley , theyre awefull at the moment

im making some progress but the latching system isnt good enough , you see it has a small tab under the door and a hole in the side that it clips into

can anyone think of a better idea to make the door latch better , so its tight and closes in the same spot every time

tek2graphics · Oct 17, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

very nice my friend! I LOVE the vents!!! I was lazy in building these (just going to paint them on).:rolleyes
BTW, i WAS planing on correcting the doors by making the hinge more accurate... (top of doors should NOT fold inside the vehicle :sick) why don't you do this now while you still can? :love

masterjedi322 · Oct 17, 2011

Perhaps try some small magnets?

Sean

steveo3002 · Oct 17, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

i'll take a look at the doors hinges , tbh im finding so many problems with it ,some stuff will have to stay slightly wrong

if you look at a real one the side molding is inline all the way along and matches the rear bumper...not so on the model lol

steveo3002 · Oct 21, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

got some 2 x 0.5 mm magents today , one is strong enough to hold up a steel ruler so they should be ideal for the doors

steveo3002 · Nov 30, 2011

Re: steveo's diamond select delorean 1/15 upgrades

cut away the battery compartment and filled in the holes /gaps where the hinges were , ive smoothed it all and the hood now snap fits with 4mm magnets

i noticed the under fender /arches area was poorly made and had a large gap that makes it look toy like , so ive filled them in best i can , still a bit more work to do

notice theres a bigger gap one side lol

steveo3002 · Dec 14, 2011

right this doesnt look much , ive spent forever making the doors fit nice and close tight onto magets

once they fitting nice the door rub strip molding no longer lined up..infact i dont think it ever did , so i sanded that off , and it revealed another mistake in that there was a line in the body thats not there on the real car so thats filled in now with bondo

once im nearly ready to paint i will attach a new rub strip made from styrene

OUTATIME1984 · Dec 15, 2011

if you go to the DeLorean web site you can look up all the parts and see how they were put on the car to give you a better idea on how the door were put on the car.

SPS · Dec 15, 2011

Just read through the whole thread...
This is freaking insane! Can't get over how intricate the detail is. Amazing work.

steveo3002 · Dec 16, 2011

thanks for the kind words sps

outatime...im not sure i can do realistic door hinges etc, im pushing my abilitys as it is lol

steveo3002 · Dec 21, 2011

time for some rear corner details

the swage line in the side was missing , and the lower line is in the wrong position as shown here

so i added the swage line, and made a cut out for the marker lense which hopefully will light up

needs some fine detail work , then add the rub strip and make a new lower line

docs cat clock keeping an eye on things for me

steveo3002 · Jan 28, 2012

okay another update

slowwwwwwww progress on the door mirrors , as you can see by the pics the original toy mirror is too big and rather poor all round

ive cut it in two , heavily modded it reshaping etc so its close to how it should be , still not finished and i have the other side to do , just painted it quick to check its okay then on with the other side

here the corner line was wrong ..filled in and smoothed off

scribed in a new one in the right place

Ruddigger · Jan 28, 2012

You sir, are insane. Fantastic.

steveo3002 · Jan 30, 2012

now for the door card ..it was crudley molded as one piece into the inner door frame , this made making the doors close hassle , so i cut away the door frame and door card/trim
heres the orig piece

cut into two peices

frame glued to the door

lots of filler and smoothing to make it all fit together again

new improved door, with seperate panel ready in primer

the inner door trims werent so good so ive modded those to make them a little better
here you can see the inner grab handle , its too far toward the rear of the door

i cut it away with my dremel and moved it along and glued it into place

filled , rescribed the outer line and primer, just some more detail work before paint

the upper part of the arm rest was smooth with zero detail , the actual car has switches and a vent here , i scribed some detail in best i could

Engelnicht · Jan 30, 2012

Looks fantastic!

docbrown2015 · Jan 30, 2012

That is AMAZING! Great Job!

TotalusK · Jan 30, 2012

Great work Steveo, I'm glad to see your still making progress towards your goal no matter how long it takes. The best results are the ones that take the longest, just shows your love and attention too detail, been following your updates with interest owning this particular model myself.

So keep it up.

regs,
TK

steveo3002 · Jan 31, 2012

yes its a slow job , been on it a year now lol

should come along a bit once the doors are fitted to my liking

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