Resin Eagle 997

Kyle DeHart
I have never worked with resin and really have no clue what I'm doing at all. Should be terrible. Got the excess resin mostly sliced off and did some quick clean up on the body. This uses a lot of parts from the Revell Reynard as well as some scratchbuilt bits out of styrene. Started that process as well with the transmission covers at the rear of the car.

Kyle DeHart
Did some light scratchbuilding of winglets in front of the radiator inlets and the air channels on the undertray. Now need to do some more filling and sanding and get some primer on it to see what it looks like.

Villiers de Vos
Lots of elbow grease

Dominik Weitzer
holy....there is a lot of work on that massive body

bossy122
Did you soak it overnight in Tyre Blech? That was the first lesson I was told about doing resin kits.

Kyle DeHart
Yeah guys, like I said. No idea what I'm doing. Just stumbling through it and we'll see what I end up with.

Bossy, no, I did not. Wasn't told to by the caster either. I did thoroughly clean it. First in super clean and then a good long soak and scrub in hot soapy water. And I'm probably going to end up wet sanding the entire thing before I even attempt to put primer on it, so hopefully that'll take care of any residual release agent.

bossy122
I was taught to soak it 24 hrs in Tyre Blech ( which you should be able to get at a car parts store), then thoroughly wash it with soapy water - be careful as those things are VERY slippery at that point - then prime and paint. The fun thing I have always experienced : if you do any masking, you never know how much paint will flake off when you remove the tape.....that gets a TAD annoying. Good luck. Oh! I drill all the necessary holes before priming.

Kyle DeHart
Appreciate the tips and the heads up about masking. Fortunately this one is going to be all white other than decals. This is a cheater resin build just to see how badly I screw it up. Lol

bossy122
Piece of cake!

Kyle DeHart
We had forgotten about this one, had we not? I have been slowly working on it this whole time. Taking my time with cleaning and sanding and prepping. This resin stuff is a lot of work. Took advice from bossy and made sure all holes were drilled prior to priming. Slicked up the body and got the primer and paint down. Decals on this car are their own nightmare. I have plenty of experience with Indycals and while I appreciate their thin-ness for following contours it's also extremely easy to tear and wrinkle them. I was as careful as I could be but I'll still have to do some touching up. Now it actually resembles the car it's supposed to though. Time to start attaching pieces from the donor kit and trying to keep everything square and level. 😬 I work on this so slowly partly so I don't mess anything up and partly to try to keep my stress level low. More updates will come eventually.

Mona
looking forward to seeing more 👍

bossy122
Ooooh! That nose looks like the opposite of a piece of cake!

Christian W
Great! This shape and design / decalling is awesome!

Kyle DeHart
Mona, welcome! Updates will be slow, but know that it is always on my bench! 😂

Bossy, yes. The nose decal was not the most fun I've ever had but it's there and almost resembles what it should. Lol

Christian, thank you!!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Dave
That is sharp looking.

Kyle DeHart
Thank you Villiers and Dave!

Guy Rump
Looking great. 👍

Bozzer
I've kinda kept an eye on this, purely out of curiosity. I've gotta say mate, that's pretty slick! For someone returning to the hobby, from years ago, I can't imagine where your skills are going to take you, in the future? Nice work mucca 👍

Laurent VILLANUEVA "HELLER-forever"
great

Kyle DeHart
Thank you Guy and Laurent!

Bozzer thank you, it's been a slow grind coming back into the hobby and I've just tried to learn a bit more each year. I just hope to keep the trend going!

Bozzer
Kyle, I said the exact same thing, when I became an international adult star. Unfortunately, it was short-lived, because glue fumes have some strange affects, on the human body? 😉

Kyle DeHart
🤣🤣 Ah yes, can cause problems across the board. I'm sniffing some now and have no idea what's going on.

Kyle DeHart
Some further progress on the slow and steady Eagle project. Rear lower suspension mounted, front lower suspension mounted and shock rods mocked up. That all has worked out. This is all drilled and pinned to the best of my limited abilities. I'll get the top suspension mounted. Really starting to come together

Kyle DeHart
Front and rear suspension finally complete after much cursing and gnashing of teeth. It's all pinned in there though so I don't anticipate any future suspension failures. Now I'll do some detail painting. Ti silver on mounting points probably just to accent it a little bit as well as some touch up paint. Once I get back home I still need to paint the nose wing blue and the roll hoop and rear wing red. They're already primed but I had to come on this work trip before I could get to them. This has been a very slow process from the start but I'm really enjoying it. Totally different for me.

Kyle DeHart
My goodness, this has gone on for awhile. No matter. We take another step forward today. And the end is drawing ever closer. Wheels are just on there for mock up purposes, so those need attached. It needs a steering wheel, windshield and rear wing and a few more decals and we're there! I have more resin in my future and this was an excellent way to dip my toes in.

Kyle DeHart
All finished finally. I have no complaints and I learned a ton. It's not perfect but it's good enough for who it's for. I will chalk this up as a success and try some more resin stuff moving forwards. A most interesting experience.

Bozzer
You did good mate! She's come out perfectly, ready to race. I bet there's some weight in her though?

Villiers de Vos
A master level finish on what seems to be a difficult kit. Pure eye candy.

Guy Rump
Gorgeous! 👍

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Bozzer. Rather weighty for sure. I've actually been considering putting a couple of those clear little rubber dots on the bottom to keep the weight off the suspension.

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Villiers and Guy!!

Bozzer
Just wait until you start soldering brass rod mate. Then you'll know how crazy stuff gets! 😉

Christian W
Still like the design / decals / paint scheme. This is one, I'd put into my shelf

Kyle DeHart
I'm sure my wife is convinced I'm quite insane enough already Bozzer. 🤣

Christian, it absolutely was a great looking design and livery. The gentleman over at AAR nailed the aesthetics.

Bill Newcomer
I love that paint scheme.

Kyle DeHart
Definitely one of the reasons I've always loved this car Bill. Such a great look!