First, a thank you to my wife would doesn't know yet, but will very shortly that I have begun a new project. May you only see some of the bills and all of the smiles. The goal is to craft a machine with my young daughters and instill in them the love of speed and working with your hands. I'm hoping to give them what hot rodding and drag racing gave to me, without the pitfalls. So with that said here it goes.
For quite some time, well only 6-8 months actually, I have been lurking on this site looking, watching, learning and beginning the itch. After looking at a few of the cars for sale, I set out to do the unthinkable (slightly risky), buying a second hand flat pack kit by the beloved (insert other phrasing as you need to) Gt Forte . Not to fear as it was really just a base for me to start thinking dimensionally, it was not a bad purchase. The seller ( from this site) was easy to deal with and the kit basically held true. If you don't know and are shopping for a starter kit, the GT Forte Flat pack is not bad, but go into knowing a few issues will exist. Moderate to minimal communication regarding the construction, availability, delivery of the complete kit and fit/finish.
This particular kit either never had or went missing along the way a good deal of the pieces, about 25 structural pieces. Not the end of the world, but annoying. In the early stage of layout and construction, I found some of the laser cut items were the wrong angles or needed quite a bit of clean up from a what was likely a worn cutting tip. A few of the bits will need recutting, but as a starting platform, it was fairly predictable. I will update as possible to my album and here of the progress, starting with as all build should: A PLAN. After many a builds and many changes, I finally learned to get in with good somewhat detailed plan. More on that next time.
For quite some time, well only 6-8 months actually, I have been lurking on this site looking, watching, learning and beginning the itch. After looking at a few of the cars for sale, I set out to do the unthinkable (slightly risky), buying a second hand flat pack kit by the beloved (insert other phrasing as you need to) Gt Forte . Not to fear as it was really just a base for me to start thinking dimensionally, it was not a bad purchase. The seller ( from this site) was easy to deal with and the kit basically held true. If you don't know and are shopping for a starter kit, the GT Forte Flat pack is not bad, but go into knowing a few issues will exist. Moderate to minimal communication regarding the construction, availability, delivery of the complete kit and fit/finish.
This particular kit either never had or went missing along the way a good deal of the pieces, about 25 structural pieces. Not the end of the world, but annoying. In the early stage of layout and construction, I found some of the laser cut items were the wrong angles or needed quite a bit of clean up from a what was likely a worn cutting tip. A few of the bits will need recutting, but as a starting platform, it was fairly predictable. I will update as possible to my album and here of the progress, starting with as all build should: A PLAN. After many a builds and many changes, I finally learned to get in with good somewhat detailed plan. More on that next time.