Sauber C30 Part 2

Radiators are copies of the Ferrari F10 and reworked to fit the Sauber shape.

There are a lack of reference pictures available so I'll be doing the best I can from the pictures of the other cars.

The resin ended up having a lot of bubbles in it so I used Tamiya Polyester Putty to fill in the holes and clean up the piece. These will be primed and painted black before the CF decals are put on.

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Ferrari F10 Part 1

2010 Ferrari F10

Manufacturer: Fujimi

Information: Plastic
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon / Finishers
Aftermarket Parts: Carbon Fiber Decal / Photo Etched Details

Photos:Flickr Photo Set
This kit has a lot of filling needed to remove the seems as you build the nose and various other body parts.

Tamiya 2 part Polyester Putty was used to fill the seems with Tamiya white primer followed by Pure White and Italian Red.

Carbon Fiber decal was added to the floorboard and is currently in process to be finished.

This will be covered in the the semi gloss clearcoat with a layer of smoke added to darken the carbon color.

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Sauber C30 Part 1

2011 Sauber C30

Manufacturer: Fujimi

Information: Plastic
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon / Finishers
Aftermarket Parts: Resin Copy of F10 Engine / Carbon Fiber Decal

Photos:Flickr Photo Set
This kit was started by making a copy of the Ferrari F10 Engine.The rest of the internal parts will be made from scratch.

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1975 M23 Part 3

Clear was polished and buffed out before the body was glued together using both 5 minute epoxy and CA in a few places.

The engine had to be glued in place at the same time making this a tricky step but everything turned out looking pretty good.

I had to repaint the rear wing after a problem with my masking pulled off part of the white paint. I'll shoot that with clear and finish up the kit this week before turning my attention back to the Eagle.

Progress has been made on the late season F60 as well and I should be able to finish that within the next few weeks as well. Its nice to see some progress on the builds again!

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1975 M23 Part 2

I used PPG clear on this kit and it turned out great.

After a light wetsanding the decals were put on.

There are several major issues with these old and somewhat lower quality decals.

You can see how the drivers right decals have wrinkled up and I'm going to pull that layer off with some tape and see how it looks.

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1/12 Gurney Eagle Conversion

1967 Eagle / Gurney - Weslake V12

Manufacturer: Tamiya - 1/12 Honda RA 273

Information: Plastic
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon / Finishers
Aftermarket Parts: Putty...lots of putty

Photos:Flickr Photo Set

Good progress made so far. Plastic added to the front nose and lots of putty to even out the nose cone.

Vents cut out on the front half of the nose cone were a bit of a pain to do but not as bad as trying to build up the body around the driver. Not sure how I'm going to do the engine yet as I continue to hunt for a 1/12 built Matra kit. I just hate the idea of buying a new Matra kit to just pick the engine out! More putty work to do around the driver as well as some body work around the engine. I'm also not sure on the color of blue so if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

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1975 M23 Part 1

1975 Mclaren M23

Manufacturer: Iritani

Information: Plastic / Resin / White Metal
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon / Finishers
Aftermarket Parts: None

Photos: Flickr Photo Set

Thanks to the great community on F1M I was able to purchase this kit from a member on the forum.

I decided to build it after the Tamiya announcement to release the M23 after a long time waiting for all F1 model builders. This kit will be built box stock as Emerson Fittipaldis championship winning car.

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Ferrari F60 Italian GP Version Part 2

I have opened the rear cowling and applied Carbon Fiber decals to the transmission.

Brass was used to create the lower cowling around the rear suspension.

I'm going to build this curb side because of the modifications.

Next will be the newly created cameras on the nosecone.

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Ferrari F60 Italian GP Version

Ferrari F60

Manufacturer: Tamiya

Information: Plastic
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon
Aftermarket Parts: Scratch building parts.

I'm going to modify the early version F60 into the late season Italian GP version.

This is going to include new exhaust outlets, Modified front and rear wings, and modified cameras on the front nose. The trick for the quick turn around is the Tamiya Light Cured Putty...I love this stuff.

Other than the modified parts it will be built with no extra details.

Carbon Fiber will be sprayed on using mesh and I'll use the kit seatbelt kit.

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Ferrari F60 Part 3

Here are some pictures of the completed kit.

I decided to build the Singapore raced version.

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Tamiya 1:20 Wolf WR1

Wolf WR1

Manufacturer: Tamiya

Information: Plastic
Paint: Tamiya lacquer / Tamiya acrylics / Krylon
Aftermarket Parts: None - Photo etched details / MFH Rivets

Photos: Flickr Photo Set

I was looking for this kit for a while now and found it for dirt cheap at a local store in town.

The kit was built with only minor additions as another build to just complete and improve my out of box building.

The kit is a standard Tamiya kit with nice details considering how old the original kit came out and the updated decals by Cartograph provide a very nice out of box kit.

The big test on this kit was to use lead foil for the belts and the result was very impressive.

Its easy to form and much better to work with over ribbon or cloth.

Its 98% complete with only mirrors and a few minor details to finish it off.

Enjoy.

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Ferrari F92A

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