Moving right along...
I didn't take any photos of the front leaf springs, so here are the rear ones, freshly made today. These are for my 1/8th scale  Pocher   Alfa Romeo  project. All individual steel springs, real nuts and bolts. They will get primed and painted shortly.​

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Here are a couple images of the completed rear end assembly.
With the rear end mounted to the frame, it's looking like a car.

As I expected the rear brakes come closer to working. The calipers can be moved via the brake pedal. The front ones move, if you give the linkage a little help. And actually, from what I have read, that's pretty good.​
​With the addition of the exhaust system, the chassis is complete. The next step is the madness that is the wire wheels. All the spokes on this one are real and individually assembled in three layers. There's two spares so that's six wheels. It may take as long as the rest of the car has so far to get them done.

I should try to take a better picture of the bottom. It's hard to hold it, and the phone, together.
The spoked wheels are one of this model's most complex and time consuming features. But it's worth it.

​This is the beginning of one layer of spokes. Each spoke is a piece of wire with a certain bend at each end. There are three different spoke shapes. The middle hubs have holes that the spoke inserts into, and on the out end there is a metal tube-like piece on each one that gets inserted into a plastic layer. The wheel is built up in layers of plastic and metal disks.
Countless hours later, one completed wheel, primed and painted. This will, by the way, be the car's body color.

Three layers of metal spokes... There are size wheels to do in all.

There is a hole visible in the lower inside of the rim. That is where the stem goes.
Iris the cat may not be impressed, but what does she know? These wheels look pretty good!
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