Aston Martin DB3S: Engine and Chassis (II)

Got the chassis complete. It's a simple ladder frame, must have flexed like crazy, although to be fair it used torsion bars rather than transverse leaf springs as some of the competitors (the AC Ace, for instance, which became the Shelby Cobra) were using. 

 

As always the spark plug wires provide in MFH kits, while reasonably accurate in terms of thickness (0.014" = 0.35 mm, or about 0.350" at full scale), are too limp to be easily pushed into a small hole. The Detail Master wires are nice and stiff, given they have a metal wire core, and are preferred in my opinion.

One of the wire wheels is damaged but I've got a range of spares in the boneyard. At least it sits square on all 4!

 

 

Next is the interior. Soon I'll be getting to the point of needing the body painted, which will require someone with an airbrush as there are no close approximations of this metallic green in spray cans. 

 

 

Stay tuned!