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So this just popped up in another group. Tamiya have a little surprise in store for release later this year. Tamiya surprise I for one am both equally happy and massively annoyed. Happy because the amg gt3 was an amazingly well thought out kit and builds like a dream so the quality should be right up there and also s27 will no doubt bring out a range of upgrades to do certain races and I am annoyed because I jumped the gun thinking tamiya was fully out the game when it came to f1 and went ahead and bought both the 1/12 and 1/20 kits of the same car from mfh. From recent history I guess this will be out around the mid to late second quarter of the year so some nice summer builds will be up. Shaun

Very very nice sabrejet. One of the kits I really really want to be owning by the end of 18'. Shaun

Thanks for the kind words guys. So I thought when I started this I would smash through to painting really quickly but family, work and a stinking cold have got in the way so here is the progression up until now. I made my mind up about the front hatch. Out came the scriber and I made a hole. The actual hatch part will have some extra material added around the edge as a 1 mm gap in this scale would equate to an inch gap each side in real scale. Just to see how much will be shown once done Also as you have probably seen in the previous pictures I needed to add some epoxy putty as I filed down one side too much. Also i have now added one thin strip of plastic to the hatch piece and maybe leave it as is now just with the paint and decals closing the gap up more. More soon Shaun

Thanks for the kind words. I have to agree with you guys these style of cars are not for every body but I'd rather this than a prius any day of the week 😂😂 Shaun

Great finish. Also the pics with the black background are very well taken. Shaun

More muiras lol January is the month of the muira in the old Italian car calender. Great work Ian love the blue. Shaun

Great finish Neil it's always nice seeing these cars in a classic colour. Shaun

Fantastic skills. Love the gulf tanker. Shaun

From what I've seen so far it is very hard to disagree with you Steve. I love the fact they include the clear body parts aswell as the white plastic body parts it really opens up the build options. Shaun

A couple of buys this week. Ive had my eye on the first purchase for a while, kind of hoping they'd drop in price but they haven't. The Aoshima pagani huayra. Then second I joined the club and bought a couple of tamiya Mercedes amg gt3s. Might see if I can mate a revell amg gts to the gt3 and make an amg gtr and then maybe add the revell V8 biturbo to the tamiya gt3.. Shaun

I've been pondering what to make my first build of 2018 and this is something that's been near the top of the pile since I bought it not to long ago. As seem obligatory these days the box shot. A brief look into the a kit that I've made in the past with relatively good result. This was completed in January of 2016/5 I think so the experience has improved since then I hope. From the above kit I am now pretty aware of the areas that need a little more care and also areas where I myself can improve. So for this current attempt at this model I managed to pick the kit up rather cheaply from eBay as it had no decals but as it was the same kit as the finished fina car above I still have the majority of the decals left with only the rear gtr one and 1 other missing. Right so then it was the mindset of I have this kit now what to do with it? Test car? Another race version to go with the fina car and soon the be made gulf version? I couldn't make my mind up, then as I was half way through the Liberty Walk Nissan GT-R I came across a set of carbon decals that cover the whole exterior in a carbon wrap. So that the plan. A full carbon McLaren f1 gtr, possibly with the yellow and pink decals on aswell but I won't make that call until the body is finished. The set includes 4 sheets of pre printed templates to cut of that from what I can see covers most of the car in carbon, there are a few bits not on the sheets(or maybe I just haven't found them yet) but these bits will be easy to make myself with the leftover parts of sheet. Now on to the plastic. The shell is as nicely moulded as it was the first time with no really bad bits to clean up. I need to decide if I should just glue the rear parts on for the engine cover or maybe detail the engine bay a little. And then finally for the first update I need to decide whether or not to cut out the front hatch to show the details underneath that incuded in the kit. I guess if I do the rear it would be silly not to do the front and vice versa. Also in this picture you will notice that I have started to clean up the few mould lines that are on the body and filled the small dips with ca glue ready to be sanded off very soon. I think body work wise this kit will move pretty quick as it is only going a gloss black after primer with then the whole raft of decals to put on. More soon Shaun

Right so after a bit of an extended break this is kind of back on the table. So starting off with the bad. The oil coolers, or what ever Ferrari used them for, for some reason had bubbled even though they have never been near any souce of heat. So I cut them off and will have a sort of Austria spec floor now. I could heat them and flatten them out again but honestly as I don't know what caused the bubble in the first place I don't want to risk it happening again after I've painted and got decals on. Obviously after taking them off the floor required quite a bit of clean up. It didn't take too long so I'm not to worried. I'm not sure if I had said before but I wasn't happy with the finish on the wheels so into ipa they went and out come the filler to fix the bits I wasn't 100% happy with. The gearbox area was one of the bits I was originally going to take a short cut with as it wasn't going to be seen much but this just bugged me so again I have filled the gaps and soon will get some more primer on. The little horned s-duct part had the gaps filled also. The nose has also had it main aero bit added and gaps filled it's now ready for primer. And finally on the prep side of things there was always a little dip on the part of the body where the shark fin meets the engine cover from top to bottom. I feel this may have been caused by me being too hard while sanding but it fixed now so I can happily move on. So now the nose cone has been sprayed with primer again. There are a couple a very small bits I'm not 100% happy with but it's mainly just for in the primer that I can sand out. The main body has been sprayed in primer again also. As you will see the lower front suspension arms have been glued on also, this was because when I tried them out testing the gap was huge so I got it closed as much as I could but ultimately I would not be happy with even a 1mm gap that shouldn't be there so glued them on and filled the gap. The biggest part to change is the floor pan. The whole bit has now been primed, flatted back and sprayed with Halfords gloss black. Now I just need to get the carbon on and it's done. More soon Shaun

Made a couple of great deals with a Facebook buddy this week. Model factory hiro Ferrari f10 Aus gp. Finally I can make the f10 with the proper barcode decal. And model factory hiro Ferrari f2008 version a. The Brazil massa car will be done. Just need to pick up some intermediate tyres for it. Shaun

Thanks for the kind words guys. Shaun

Right so this is 1 half of my twin build GT-R thread. Normally I'd post them both together but the LB version came together so much faster, mainly due to the paint finish. My opinions of the kit are very high, it just fell together most of the way, the only tricky bit was basically at the start of the build when adding the wide body kit. There are no alignment holes or marks so you have to be pretty precise before gluing, that being said it wasn't too hard compared with other wide bodykit models. One major plus are the window masks as for the first time the kit supplied window masks didn't leak any paint under them. Also it was a very nice touch to have 2 piece rims where the whole centre section is separate from the outer rim Now for some tech specs. Paints used were: Halfords primer for all parts Zero paints LB zero fighter grey Zero paint gulf orange. Tamiya flat clear. Various shades of alclad. Bits added: VR38DETT engine from the Aoshima r35 pure model. Various extra decals from aventador LB sheet. So now on to the final result. This is the picture I left on the build thread but I actually quite like it so it's being added to this thread also. And finally LB's message that could change so much as we enter a new year. Thanks for looking and to all those who did and hopefully continue to contribute the the build thread. Have a great end to this year and start to the next. Shaun

Right so it's that time for the LB GT-R. It's done, finished, completed and any other word to use for it. Honestly this kit was a pleasure to build some parts were a little tricky but as a whole it was a great kit from Aoshima and I would highly recommend it to all of you, plus I may just get my self another one to do something really unique or maybe just wait for the version 2 to come out or just get both. Here a quick picture of the base I forgot to add in yesterday also. I think it's very fitting for the car and it's history. And also now as 1 car is done I will be putting up a thread for it in the ready for inspection section of the forum later today, so here is also a quick peek at the finished article. Also now I can fully concentrate on the standard car and get them together again in the not to distant future as it mainly the clear coating that is holding that car up. More soon Shaun

Thank you roger I maybe would go as far as that but that's only because I can hide the bad parts lol but it does always help when the kit is as good as it was to put together. Shaun

So it's that time of the build where I am basically at the end, for the LB car anyway, and looking forward to the next one. The progress from the last few days. The little side vents have been painting in gulf orange and flat clear. Same with the mirrors. The front splitter has been glued on. I have to admit I was going to paint the side intakes gulf orange also but forgot to do it. So a nice layer of carbon decal has been added instead. After the clear coat sealing the carbon was dry I went ahead a glued on the side vents. The rear diffuser has had carbon decal added to it. Not much of it will be seen once one the car but it is a nice touch. Now just to add the mirrors, exhaust tips and wipers and a few little final touches and I should be able to call this done. Shaun

Just incase people haven't realised yet. The issue we were having recently with ot being able to imbed the flickr app copy code has been fixed so those of us using android or iOS no longer have to go to the website and use the bb code. Shaun

Thanks for the comments guys. And Ian the rising sun was actually included in the kit decals, well 2 sets 1 light and 1 dark so very soon I will have another LB project on my desk (after a couple of f1 builds I have planned for the new year) Also just a side note while I am talking about rising suns. I have made up a japan themed base for the kit which it will be displayed with when done. Shaun

Cool colour for a gtr, waiting to see how this will look soon hopefully. Shaun

Nice subject and love the choice of final colour. Not very often you see a blue miura, most of the time it's either yellow or orange, so it's good to see some individuality. And the wheels do look the mutts nuts. Shaun

Can I made in on the the whole mfh vs revell debate. Personally the 1/12 Or 1/24 kits from mfh will always have a market, like wise with profil ones. The big thing though is profil made there's available alot sooner than anyone else so just with having that headstart they had the market all to themselves. The same that has been said about revell here could also have been said about mfh when they made the gt in 24th scale a while back but for me mfh have been clever and made a big version and small version so have hit 2 markets with 1 kit as there are some who won't want to make the small kit no matter who makes it and some who will always buy the smaller mfh kit just out of brand loyalty or snubbing the so called subpar efforts of other brands, take the laferrari made by both tamiya and revell and most would say spend a little more and get the tamiya one because of revells past and brand alliance to tamiya. On to revell and I feel they know they are never going to have the accuracy of the "bigger" brands but they are trying to hit the younger or first time maker market with a very good subject as no beginner wants to spend 150-250 on a kit they don't have the experience for or something they may not finish so a little £20-25 is the perfect starting place for this category of modeller. Plus us more experienced guys who want this car and can improve on revells attempt this will also be a perfect price point just incase we mess up or just plain can't be bothered to finish if it doesn't go to plan. I don't think mfh or profil24s sales will be hit by this as the resin market is such a specialist market to begin with Shaun

Finally I can update this build with pictures. So staring off I have made a start at painting all the smaller bits of the car that will be needed when I get near completion. So the rear diffuser which I'm in 2 minds about using as it not full width. The front splitter has been painted and carbon decal added. There are a few little bits where the decals got torn or bubbled but thankfully all in areas that will be under the main shell. The interior is now done minus the 2 speakers behind the rear seats. It was at this point I found I couldn't post pictures so got a little annoyed and just carried on with the build without taking any until I found a way to post. So the window part was stuck into the shell and the shell stuck on the floor pan. On testing the shell out on the floor pan I noticed the wheels rubbed massively so have to bend the suspension parts by around 1mm and make a few little 1mm shims to go in the upper suspension mount so the car didn't just sit straight back down where it once was. And now just to show the amount the rear wheels would stick out on a standard body car. More soon Shaun

From what I've been hearing no it's not. Plus the gt version of the gt is quite different in sizes of parts so a straight copy from the snap kit isnt really viable. I have seen one guy make the gt car from the snap kit and it was quite a lot of work to make it look right. Shaun