Auto racing GB March 2007-2008

Have you done the Revell R10? I'm assuming it will be the same quality as other Revell's and not up to Tamiya standard. I'd love to do an R10 but also don't want to spend 100$ on just the kit.

Take your time on those decals! It's not half as bad as it looks, just don't rush it!

As for your question on Le Mans cars - Tamiya does have a couple of older cars. From memory there's the Nissan R390, Silk Cut Jaguar (XJR12?), Sauber C9 and Toyota 020. Some less available ones will be the ones I'll get as soon as I can get my hand on one - Porsche 956 and 962. But talking about modern stuff, only one available I can think of will be the Revell R10. And then of course the resin kits... 

SeaBee-Sorry to hear of your troubles. I hope it will be easy to fix.

I've got the bodies on the Porsche and Merc together enough to start painting. I plan on getting as much done as I can prior to the weekend so I can start decaling the models on the weekend. Both cars have alot of decals to place so I assume that it will take awhile to complete. So far everything is going quite well.

One question, as I seem to be getting into the joy of car building, Are there any injection molded kits of ALMS or Le Mans cars other than the revell corvette? If not what about reasonably priced resin kits? I really cant afford $75-100 dollars for model kits.

Why oh why does this happen? Built the rear wing assembly, and then proceeded to what I thought would be quite simple decalling. I am using the S27 decals, not the kit-supplied ones - much better silver lines and very nice and thin. 4 HP logo's and 4 invents beneath it. What a mission! To get all 8 of them decently lined up and spaced and straight and... well, you got the picture. I don't think there's going to be more difficult decals in this build. And having done it all, the one HP logo sagged slightly after I left it to dry.

The front wing is assembled, remebered about the Allianz decals on the endplates before the winglet over it. Dry fitted the nosecone, perfect! And Murphy's 3rd law of modeling goes something in the line of "All this changes with glue on the pieces." Suddenly with glue on , the one arm coming down all of the sudden did not fit into it's hole and had to be moved there... thus removing the paint underneat it very cleanly. Will still find a way to fix that.

I even took the MP4/2 out of it's misery and actually started working on it's instrument panel. At least that went well! Next thing there is suspension.

Cool, I kinda figured it'd be okay, just wanted to make sure. It's the team D2 year 2000 Merc. CLK. Here is where I'm at right now.

and some more pics of the porsche.

Right now I'm preparing the bodies for painting, hopefully I'll get some paint done this weekend

DTM Merc... 4 wheels, raced a bit... heck yeah sure it qualifies! Just finished one a couple of months ago myself (D2 version). Did a Oriiginal Teile one when they came out, was unfortunately ruined in a house move. Which one are you doing? I did a see-through Porsche also a while ago. Yet somehow I don't even see it on my display place any more. I fear my sister-in-law's kids were here a while ago.

Progress will be a bit slow for the next couple of days, major project going in at work over the weekend. But did the interior of the bodyshell of the FW24, as well as starting on the decalling and steering wheel. These modern F1 cars' steering wheels... Sorry, had to get that out of the system! I've seen some superb ones over the years, mine won't be one.

Thanks for the info Seabee. And I appreciate the comments GulfstreamV, you're doing a great job on the F1 car.F1Champ that Ferarri looks awesome. I'm finished working on the chassis and now I'm ready to start work on the body. BTW I'm also working on my Mercedes CLK DTM, would it be okay to add this to the group build. It's about one step behind the Porsche. 

Hey all!, SeaBee Thanks for the tip on the rear wing. Lol it does take a bit of fiddling with that stack of spoilers NucMedTech excellent work on the Porsche. F1champ looks great!   I'm progressing slow but forward. The decals were almost a total loss from decal#1 (mostly my fault) so I decided to make up a livery. Not the PEPSI Zanardi SeaBee but a what if test car, not to mention I don't like green race cars.    Check it out!      

Alright here's the finished product.

 

Now that you've seen it I'll get into my list of problems with the finished product. First off I had to rush the end because I'm moving apartments in about a week so I wanted to get it finished up rather than transport it in progress so that detracted a bit from the finished product. My second issue is the fact that I started with a 12$ Revell kit that I had previously assembled 3-4 years ago so the fitament isn't quite that nice and because of the rushed deadline I didn't get to clean up some of the pieces (headlight lenses/side mirrors) as well as I would have liked. The paint isn't as clean as I would have liked and the body still doesn't fit complete to the underbody of the car (the same as it didn't the first time I built it).

 

As long as I don't look too close to it I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Definitely looks the way I wanted it to and the fenders came out great after lots (felt like forever) of work on them. This was my first model that I have done that had any scratch building on it so I'd like to think it's a good start, but then again we are our own worst critics. 

NucMedTech - I tend to use laquers for the body. Almost exclusively Tamiya rattlecans and Zero paints (auto laquers available from Hiroboy). Where needed, other laquers such as Finishers, etc. to get a good match. But since I found the Zero stuff, I converted to that - really excellent stuff!

For the rest (engine, etc) I use whatever I can lay my hands on! Acrylics, enamels, you name it, mostly Tamiya. The odd bit of Alclad here and there. Nothing you won't be familiar with.

Hope it helps! 

hey guys   i been away for a long time    finally got started on my #3  Dale.  i was very clumpsy doing it since i was been doing aircraft mostly.   will post up some pictures once the engine is done. 

btw  looking great cars you got there!  keep it up smiles.

What will Dale Jr's. new car look like next year?  Will he be in the #5 car or something different.  I understand it is goodbye to the red bud #8.

Quick question, since I'm used to builing flat coat models (tanks, airplanes and such), as I am getting closer to painting the body is there a recommended type of paint? Not brand but enamel, acrylic or lacquer? Thanks for the info.

Okay, not much progress but here are some pics.

 

Ollie, I can't see any probs with that. The more the merrier!

As for my progress... it got a bit of a knock when I did something really stuuupid, nothing to do with modeling! Yes, my idiocity extends even further... Took a bit of a tumble on a MTB ride and my body was quite sore and stiff after that. What I did not realise was that it was not only because of the fall, but also a start of some flu... and went out riding the next day to get rid of the stiffness. It was raining, which did not help... So I ended up quite ill for most of last week. Better now, hoping to be on the bike tomorrow again... The FW24's engine is mostly done, I added the exhausts yesterday evening.

I will think about the next step, because I'll definately want to start decalling the body and so on. Allready started some of the detail work on the front wing (building and painting, not decalling) . So maybe I'll traverse the instructions yet again and do some decalling and wings as well as the steering wheel (which I suspect will be quite a mission to get halfway right, so I'd rather start on that now and not be rushed to finished it) between the rest.

MP4/2 is standing there looking sad. I did the interior semigloss black and some paint touch-ups. As Murphy would have it, my final wet coat did cause some minor issues... no other layer will attract some particles as the last one!

Hey guys,

I've been away for awhile (infamous model slump), but I do have some progress on my Porsche. I'll get some progress pics up this weekend.

Is it possible to enter a model in this group build and another? I whant to build a rally car and enter it in this one and the 'once we where warriors'

Ah, the 191, what a lovely kit! Somebody, can't rrecall who, said a while ago that it was the last pretty F1 car made - with all the aero junk hanging off them nowadays, I'd agree with that sentiments.

Looks like you made a good start. Just beware of the rear wing. From what I can remember (built it years ago - Zanardi's Pepsi version just to be different!) it's the one slightly tricky thing in this kit. Take your time on that...

The work I've seen so far is outstanding everyone! I'm definatly a back marker on this GB (well, all the gb's I joined ) I changed my kit choice to a Tamiya Jordan 191. The RA272 has alot of detail exsposed and I didn't think I was ready for all that. I got this kit for $10 on sale and figured I'd practice on it first. Here's a WIP pic of where I'm at with it.       These cars are alot of work! And I'm really slow at builing them.

It's actually red flocking(I think that's the term). Just put some elmers all over the seat and dumped it on there. Went to the LHS today and bought more primer which I was running out of with all the body mods and should have it completely done/primed by monday so I can finally start putting down some Italian red on it.

 

Here it is drying so far.

 

F1Champ - that is looking great! Lotsa CF on that one - usually makes me go old before my time!   How'd you get that texture on the seat? Or is it just an photo effect? It does look super.

I didn't think the McLaren had a motorcycle engine in it :)

 

Here's the interior of the Enzo GT1, still working and working on the body work.

 

 

Anybody home...?

Here's what it looks like at this stage with mosth the painting out the way and decalling about to start (for some)> The MP4/2 is going to get another layer of clear, hopefully that won't be the screw-it-all-up layer. Had some issues with the red having masked it badly at the rear, showing you the worst side...

 

The parts not recognisable to 4-wheel-only guys are the LCR Honda RC211V I'm also doing (Casey Stoner's MotoGP bike of last year).

Yeah, okay, did not turn out a total mess, but there was some places that could've been better. Masking was never my favourite! No major probs and even the cockpit survived the ordeal...

Soooo... the colour for this weekend was blue. To be exact, TS51. But before that, a whooole lot of masking. Then to add insult to onjury, there were some water droplets on the FW24's front section causing runs (nearly with me as well!) as soon as I sprayed the paint. Ah well, some more work to clean that up, but was happy after yesterday eve's final coat.

So this morning was the time to take off the masking. Front masking looked succesfull enough at first inspection. Yet to remove the masking for the cockpit. Then started removing the masking over the engine cover. I did not get far before I saw some blue mist having gotten in, but by then it was time to ride to work. Will inspect further tonight and post some pics. It may be a sad sight if I look at the weird place the mist got in allready...

 Thanks F1

Thanks F1champ.

bobbaily wrote:

Very nice work being posted.  Which brings me to a question.  I'm normally a WW II airplane guy so all my work has been with MM acrylic flats & weathering.  I've painted the Willys with MM acrylic gloss black and have some surface imperfections.  I'm thinking that I need to let the paint dry at least two days and then wet sand with some very fine sandpaper, or possibly use toothpaste (did that on a candy apple red car a few years ago and it worked fine). I'm also thinking that another coat/sand may be necessary after the inital wet sand.  Any thoughts?

 

I usually wait a few days before trying to wetsand any final coats and then attack it with a microfiber cloth and some tamiya polishing compound. Toothpaste should do the same thing, just go at it lightly since it's easier to polish paint off than it is to put it back on haha. If it doesn't come out the way you want just put another nice coat of paint on it and wet sand it again. 

williamsfw28 wrote:

F1 looks like your moving right along...  Looks good.   By the way do you have any pics of the F2001 engine.....side view??

My F2001 reference pics are on a different computer, I'll try and post those tomorrow. 

Very nice work being posted.  Which brings me to a question.  I'm normally a WW II airplane guy so all my work has been with MM acrylic flats & weathering.  I've painted the Willys with MM acrylic gloss black and have some surface imperfections.  I'm thinking that I need to let the paint dry at least two days and then wet sand with some very fine sandpaper, or possibly use toothpaste (did that on a candy apple red car a few years ago and it worked fine). I'm also thinking that another coat/sand may be necessary after the inital wet sand.  Any thoughts?