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AUTOS - Racing Car Group Build (ends 12/1/04)

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Posted by Daryl Huhtala on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 8:11 PM
New to this board and just found this group build. It sounds like what I need to get started on my Fujimi 917K. I'm trying to post a pic here as a test to see how this board works. Here goes........
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Posted by luke on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 8:37 PM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome] Daryl Huhtala to the FSM Forums; and great car!

joelwideqvist - i dont use stretched spur, but like SeaBee, I use stiff wires or a hair off a large house-painting paint brush. These brush hairs are long and thin and you can cut them to any length.

SeaBee - you may already know this, but I'll type it for others who want to know. Right mouse click on the enlarged photo format, select properties, and copy the photo's address URL in full (eg this is my example - http://img67.photobucket.com/albums/v205/lbsyl/Tam24PeugeotWRCFSMGBlbs01.jpg). Place this inbetween the two symbols [ img ] **place here** [ /img ], but don't leave any spaces inbetween the brackets (I need to leave the spaces so that a red square mistake doesnt come up - you'll know what I mean if you leave a space).



It's June 1st . . . .

"Gentlemen . . . start your engines."
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Posted by SeaBee on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 1:31 AM
QUOTE: It's June 1st . . . .

"Gentlemen . . . start your engines."


Sorry, have to do some other stuff before getting to start the engine on mine! Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D] But at least I'm up and running! Will post pic(s) as soon as I have something sensible to photograph.

Even my wife was excited yesterday eve - for the first time she came to me, asking whether I've started building yet... (Allready one good thing came of this GB! Wink [;)] )
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Posted by U-96 on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 4:34 AM
Hey folks, can I play? Big Smile [:D]

Modelling's been on the back shelf for the last few months with moving house and getting married, but this gives me a reason to have a crack at the Revell 1/24 Lancia 037 that's been sitting in a box for the last couple of years. And the timescale is realistic for us less-than-ubermodellers!

Plus I get my first GB groovy icon Wink [;)]
On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:09 AM
Found a car with a lovely scheme and my idea was to superdetail the kit. And then you realize that the decals doesn't corespond to the actual car... Don't you just hate when this happens?
I can accept minor flaws but to have the roof "206" decal that you can see in this image printed in white instead of yellow makes you wonder....



There went my great build Dead [xx(] I think it's pretty impossible to paint it in yellow so I have one idea to try. I found the sheet from another manufacturer (That I haven't heard of before, perhaps I could get the decal from that one instead and hope that the quality is OK. Great build --> Expensive build...

regards
/Joel
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Posted by luke on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 7:12 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by U-96

Hey folks, can I play? Big Smile [:D]

Modelling's been on the back shelf for the last few months with moving house and getting married, but this gives me a reason to have a crack at the Revell 1/24 Lancia 037 that's been sitting in a box for the last couple of years. And the timescale is realistic for us less-than-ubermodellers!

Plus I get my first GB groovy icon Wink [;)]


Sign - Welcome [#welcome] aboard mate . . . I have to give you an excuse to use on your 'new' other-half Wink [;)].
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Posted by luke on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 7:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by joelwideqvist

Found a car with a lovely scheme and my idea was to superdetail the kit. And then you realize that the decals doesn't corespond to the actual car... Don't you just hate when this happens?
I can accept minor flaws but to have the roof "206" decal that you can see in this image printed in white instead of yellow makes you wonder....

There went my great build Dead [xx(] I think it's pretty impossible to paint it in yellow so I have one idea to try. I found the sheet from another manufacturer (That I haven't heard of before, perhaps I could get the decal from that one instead and hope that the quality is OK. Great build --> Expensive build...

regards
/Joel


you could scan the decal (the orginal in white print - is that correct?) and have a graphics programme (like Adobe Photoshop or PaintShop Pro) and change the colour to yellow, and then print it out on decal paper on an ink-jet printer. You can make your own decals!
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Posted by U-96 on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 7:39 AM
haha thanks for the welcome, luke, no need to give "her indoors" an excuse, she's grateful I'm out of the way so she can catch up on the soaps!

Just one Q for anyone that may know... is it the case that the Revell 037 is a reboxed Hasegawa mould? If so, will the Hasegawa-designed etched parts be suitable for it? It's the back grille I'm keen to replace, the idea of drilling out the holes in the plastic fills me with trepidation Shock [:O]
On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 8:09 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by luke
you could scan the decal (the orginal in white print - is that correct?) and have a graphics programme (like Adobe Photoshop or PaintShop Pro) and change the colour to yellow, and then print it out on decal paper on an ink-jet printer. You can make your own decals!


I had that in mind but I think I'll try the All Model decal's first. Otherwise I have to buy paper and the stuff to go on top of the print so they could equal in cost. If the new set is wrong as well (perhaps in size this time...) I'll go your way ---> an even more expensive model Big Smile [:D]
/Joel
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Posted by U-96 on Saturday, June 5, 2004 6:42 AM
Crikey! What am I letting myself in for! 140+ parts!
That's about twice the number of anything I've built so far (well except maybe the Italeri PzIV, but millions of road wheels don't count Dead [xx(]), so this is going to be an interesting few months!


On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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Posted by SeaBee on Monday, June 7, 2004 6:10 AM
Hmmm... why so quiet? I have a good excuse - was in bed with the flu since Thursday. At least gave me time to paint something now and then and build over the weekend. Basically my chassis is almost done - will finish it tonight. The the interior starts, beginning with the dash.

U-96: I presume it's your first car build. Welcome! It looks like a very nice kit - something very different - cool! Do enjoy!! By accident I saw an insert on the history of the Acropolis rally over the weekend.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 1:29 AM
Hi
How do you go ahead if you have to paint the interior of the body shell in a different color than the exterior? My Pug is to be silver inside and red outside and some hints for a good masking technique are more than welcome.
/Joel
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Posted by SeaBee on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 1:55 AM
Joel, I also run into this a lot. Mostly with black insides of car interiors or bikes. My preference is to paint the outside first, then hand-paint Shock [:O] the interior. It's not as (a) difficult or (b) bad as it seems, since you'll see very little of it - if you're sceptical about brushwork.

Since you have the darker colour on the outside, it makes for a bit more interesting challenge. In this case, I'd tend to paint the silver first. Then mask some of the vents (and other aero slits) from the inside and "merrily blast away" with the red. That should do it, but if not, it will be an easy fix to get rid of some red powder that might have creeped through. Also (this is just the way I do it) I tend to build up as much of the shell as possible before doing any painting. No worries about glue spills/runs, having to re-sand some parts, etc...

I also just had a look at my 206 - it is what you're doing, isn't it...? You see VERY little of the inside of the body shell, even if you turn it to all funny angles. Basically wheel-arches, etc.
Did you get sorted on those decals? It's a stunning colourscheme - when was it used? I had a look and could find no such decals, sorry. If you know where it was used, we should maybe have a look at the 206 colour - was it not maybe yellow on the car you have a pic from only and white on others? (If not, I can't believe such an error... where did you get the kit/decals?) Or was it only the one car that ran with this scheme - and only for one race?
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 2:52 AM
Hi Seabee!
It is a great livary paint scheme isn't it? I really got hooked on it when i first spotted it at mediamix. It is The Panizzi brothers ride for the privateer team Bozian IIRC wich also rallied in Acropolis and Cyprus, besides Turkey in 2003.

The 206 decal on the roof still bothers me. It's a large decal and I believe Renaissance shouldn't make that large an error. As I wrote earlier I ordered another set, from All Model (Someone told me they are from Reiji), and what I got were terrible decals (wrong yellow, wrong size on several decals) BUT a yellow roof 206.... I only have one helicopter photo of the roof and that one is from Cyprus. The decal is yellow on that pic. You tend to see a little bit of yellow behind the roof aerial on one Turkey pic but that's it. It could be white, it could be yellow... I hate this Big Smile [:D] If I KNEW the decal was yellow I would go through the problem with scanning and reprinting it (the worst thing now is that you guys know my problem and will laugh at me when I post pictures with a white decal Wink [;)] )

As of painting the interior I do as you do when it comes to bikes. I brush paint flat black on the inside of cowlings. I think I'll try airbrushing the innside of the Pug this time. As you say it is a very small fraction that is actually seen when finished.
Hopefully I do some progress to post during the weekend.
Joel
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Posted by U-96 on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 3:58 AM
SeaBee, not my first car - my second Big Smile [:D].

And the first is (because it's still only 80% done!) a Fujimi kerbside kit of a Renault Megane Coupe, so nowhere near the complexity - about 40 parts.

The really cool thing about the kit is that it builds up almost like the real car - tubular chassis, cockpit tub, engine, gearbox and suspension, with the body shell over it. Why they didn't make the rear engine cover separate I'll never know - still pondering whether to a race model or one in service.

As I've got Tamiya's new rally drivers (weird rubber figures) and the new Eduard Sabelt red straps on order (the decals are okay but the photoetch stuff looks superb), it's looking like the on-the-road option...

The Renaissance photoetch kit is also on the way, so this is going to be my first lesson in that dark art too!
On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 5:01 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by joelwideqvist

The 206 decal on the roof still bothers me.


It still does but not like it did an hour ago. Now it bothers me cause I found a pic showing Whistling [:-^] yes you're right YELLOW roof decal. So there's the answer and there's the agony of what to do about it. Now I can't use the white one and say I didn't know for sure. I'm such a modelling geek.
Ok, where do I shop for decal paper?
/Joel
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 6:02 PM
Hi everyone. I'd like to join in on this as well. My subject will be the 2001 #63 Corvette C5-R from LeMans.

Where's the main 'discussion' going to be? Here or at the SA forum?

Murray
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 7:10 PM
How is everyone progressing.

Going to build the tamiya kit of the williams fw07. In the 1980 livery. Also depending on time might finish a nissian R90V that i have started ?? times always the enemy.

Trev
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Posted by luke on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 9:18 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murray Kish

Hi everyone. I'd like to join in on this as well. My subject will be the 2001 #63 Corvette C5-R from LeMans.

Where's the main 'discussion' going to be? Here or at the SA forum?

Murray


Sign - Welcome [#welcome]

the main discussion can be anywhere you like. the guys who hang out at SA discuss there & vise versa, and you can periodically visit and scope out what they are doing. A few more drag cars and american racers.

I've just finishing doing my pre-wash to the parts. Starting it today, but have studied the instructions, and I have a few questions that I will ask soon Wink [;)].
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Posted by U-96 on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 3:15 PM
woohoo! my photoetch kit from www.grandprixmodels.com has arrived - I think it's going to add a lot to the finished model if I don't bork it (and it has some big decals [:0])

Three working days is a very good turnaround from ordering, and as a first-time customer, they also sent a very useful tip sheet on modelling, and a couple of back issues of their excellent magazine "Four Small Wheels".

On a sample of one, I hereby recommend their service and will certainly use them again!
On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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Posted by dkmacin on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 8:20 PM
Let's see if we can discuss the build here okay?
SA keeps saying I do not exsist there and won't let me on!
I bought the paint for the Scooby today, now I can go crazy!!

Don
I know it's only rock and roll, but I like it.
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Posted by nicholma on Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:26 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by U-96
[I hereby recommend their service and will certainly use them again!


I've been using them since about 1986 and would endorse their service as excellent. They may not be the cheapest but they do go the extra mile for the customer. Years ago I visited the shop and spent a wonderful afternoon with Brian Harvey, the 4 Small Wheels editor. He also gave me a "5" decal from Mansell's Williams which now takes pride of place in my memorabilia.
Kia ora, Mark "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas"
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Posted by dkmacin on Friday, June 11, 2004 5:30 AM
Three days now and I cannot get into the Scale Auto forum!
They are aware of the problem, but are moving at the speed of snails to solve it.
FSM had this problem a while ago, can't someone walk down the hall and mash the right keys to fix this?
Model Expo has 1/24 Heller Subaru WRC 2001 kits for ten bucks, Chance to try something new!!

Don
I know it's only rock and roll, but I like it.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:21 PM
is it too late to join in. I just bought the C5-r Daytona kit on ebay for 10 bucks. It probably wont arrive for another week or so though.

Casey
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Posted by luke on Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:48 PM
caseyn5 - why not - Sign - Welcome [#welcome]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:07 AM
Ok cool, cant wait for this thing to get here so I can get started.
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Posted by proosen on Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:22 AM
Count me in to, I've started a Sportswear Mecedes CLK-GTR from Tamiya. have a look at the progress so far. http://niclasproos.fotopic.net/c204914_1.html

Niclas
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Posted by dkmacin on Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:30 PM
Proosen,
I have that car too! Neat decals! Hot chicks and cool cars, it doesn't get any better!
Don
I know it's only rock and roll, but I like it.
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Posted by luke on Sunday, June 13, 2004 9:24 PM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome] proosen - nice little stash of models in ur collection - bet that keeps ya busy!

I plan to have a couple of my progress pics up soon.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 14, 2004 1:04 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by proosen

Count me in to, I've started a Sportswear Mecedes CLK-GTR from Tamiya. have a look at the progress so far. http://niclasproos.fotopic.net/c204914_1.html
Niclas


Watch that right head light, Niclas Wink [;)]
/Joel
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