Alain Prost's Renault F1 RE 30B Turbo

The best way to strip chrome off plastic is with household bleach. Soak it for a while and just keep checking until it becomes tacky and then it should all wash off.

Terry.

Because I don't think the chrome looks too much like the real thing, it is thick, and after i cut the chromed parts off the sprue there will be a little white patch where the sprue attached

I am not quite familiar with the Fujimi Ferrari, but why do you need to strip the chrome?

Fujimi makes the Villenuve Ferraris and they are either presently in production or recently out of production.. They are very nice, I have 2 of them myself I keep trying to talk myself into building.

I mostly don't want to deal with stripping the chrome plating off the wings.

corvettemike thanks for the tip. I will try that.. If not I will look for dry transfers with the same type font.

Good job! Was this an old kit? Might account for the yellowing of the decal film. Putting them in a south facing window a few days before use can help with that.

Very sharp clean build!

Wow, I just captured one of these on evil bay , super nice job, I love the re 20 and 30 turbo, ppionneers of the turbo era, next favourite Ferrari 126c, constructor if you have any wip photos could you please post. Again beautiful work.

Terry.

Thanks!

wow, i built one of those back in the 80s! (all i got left is the wheels, now on my 73 Dodge Charger.

It is a big departure from the new slim F1s. I am now trying to get some more of this type, like the JPS, an all black car with gold striping and the Villeneuve Ferrari with chrome. Thanks for viewing.

That's a very nice finish on the aluminium body.  What did you use for it? It is certainly a big change from the carbon fiber bodies of modern Formula 1 cars.

mgh, this is a 1:20 kit by Tamiya. This is one of the features of this kit. In other kits, this is not possible. In this series the top can be lifted off if the builder wants it. I opted to have it so that the details specially of the engine can be see.

I have not built any car kits yet.  Is that typical of an F-1 kit to have the body lift off like that?  Whose kit is that?

Thanks