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

Hey Joel, you're getting waaay ahead here! *sigh* Despite a public holiday yesterday, I did almost nothing. Still busy with the dash. I tend to do the body (building and) painting quite early, seemingly same as you. This time I am a bit sceptic about my masking techniques to get this thing painted! But I guess I might bite that bullet sooner rather than later. No funky masking masks (hehehe) included, except for the windows. To be fair, most will be easy. There's just a few curved lines running (to make it worse) over curved areas. Hiding it... with decals seemingly running on the edges... yeah right!

Oi, why did I not buy the "Gone in 60 seconds" version which has only one colour! Most likely it will be much easier than it feels now. Just really not looking forward to it at this stage...

Wow, layed down the first color on the chassis yesterday! Progress, progress....
/Joel

Heck, why not...? Seeing that a F1 weekend is almost heading towards an endurance event!

Way off topic, sorta, but does anybody know who manufactures a nice 1:24 Audi Le Mans kit? Or did I just miss it (somehow) when it came out?

QUOTE: Originally posted by nicholma QUOTE: Originally posted by luke I assume the single seater is a Le Mans car? (I assume) - should be interesting! Ah no Luke. It would have made a wonderful sight down the Mulsanne straight but its actually an F1 car

boy it would have been a sight!

Mr. S
I take it you have the decal conversion set from F1 Specialties?

Don

QUOTE: Originally posted by luke I assume the single seater is a Le Mans car? (I assume) - should be interesting!

Ah no Luke. It would have made a wonderful sight down the Mulsanne straight but its actually an F1 car

Nope, this

QUOTE: i'll be building a Tamiya Lotus 99T of '87 converted to the '86 JPS version

is F1...

Mr Snoogins, Enjoy your project - it is one in my (huuuge) to-do list as well.

to FSM mr_snoogins & yes, you can join.

I assume the single seater is a Le Mans car? (I assume) - should be interesting!

Hi Peeps!

Only just founnd this site and i singed up straight away! If it is within the rules to build single seaters i'll be building a Tamiya Lotus 99T of '87 converted to the '86 JPS version. Is that ok?

Hope to see the progress that you-all will be making!

QUOTE: Originally posted by proosen See you head on on the next IPMS-Open, I'll try to finish a bike and you finish your rallye-car and we can compete on homeground. How's that for a challenge :D]

Interesting indeed. I'll take you up on that one. Anyhow it could make me finish this piece off in a reasonable time... Had to go buy another kit to get the correct set-up, but know I'm ready to paint some shell. Yours look terrific by the way. Planning to use Future as on your yellow project or are you heading back to Modelers'?
/Joel

Yeah, right! But I thought that if I glue everything with CA they will all look the same and in that way everyone will think it's supposed to be that way See you head on on the next IPMS-Open, I'll try to finish a bike and you finish your rallye-car and we can compete on homeground. How's that for a challenge :D]

Cheers!
Niclas

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
/Joel

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.

Proosen,
I have that car too! Neat decals! Hot chicks and cool cars, it doesn't get any better!
Don

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

Ok cool, cant wait for this thing to get here so I can get started.

caseyn5 - why not -

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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 .

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

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

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 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

SeaBee, not my first car - my second .

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!

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 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 )

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

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 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?

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