Question regarding Tamiya "Big Scale" Ferrari 312T

Guess what? The instructions are in Japanese???? 

I found an English set of instructions at:  Photo: 04 | Ferrari 312T 1/12 album | 2whl | Fotki.com, photo and video sharing made easy.

JohnnyK

Did you use the supplied 'springs' as the cooling ducts.

 

I built mine strictly out-of-the-box, so yes.

The Lotus was a fun build. Pretty straight forward.

I've built the number Five Car. The others I have no interest in. Straight-away Build on the Lotus.

Did you use the supplied 'springs' as the cooling ducts.

JohnnyK

 

 

Scale-Master

The Ferrari is on par with the P34 as far as difficulty. But at least you don't have to deal with getting all four front wheels aligned.

 

 

 

 

Ha,ha  I gave up on trying to get the four front wheels aligned. It's not possible. Also, the brake cooling ducts make it impossible to turn the four front wheels in unison.

 

 

I got mine all aligned.  And I could pose them all turned uniformly in one direction or the other too. 

But using the steering wheel and expecting them to track properly?  Nope.

   Built it several years ago, don't recall any real glitches to hang you up. If memory serves the linkages for the steering wheel to the front end is alittle touchy...once complete it is stable and workable. Have fun.

Scale-Master

The Ferrari is on par with the P34 as far as difficulty. But at least you don't have to deal with getting all four front wheels aligned.

 

The Ferrari is on par with the P34 as far as difficulty. But at least you don't have to deal with getting all four front wheels aligned.

These are my previous 1/12 scale models. The Lotus was pretty easy. On the otherhand, the Tyrrell was a real challange.

This is the Tamiya 1/12 kit I haven't build but always wanted to so I'll be very interested in watching your progress. If it's like their other large scale F1 kits you should have a relatively good time with it without big problems. Enjoy and good luck.