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1975 Monza 1975 Watkins Glen Malc.

I agree to the point where I only look at restoration pictures if nothing else is available, here is the gearbox and engine at the International Trophy 1975 1975 Monaco engine - note the appearance of mysterious E47/48! and at 1975 Sweden 1975 Zandvoort 1975 Silverstone I will be interested to see how you tackle the fiberglass intake shroud and brake ducts, I have seen some builds where they have copied the kit parts in translucent yellow resin which worked really well. M.

Interlagos Kyalami Long Beach If you are not going for a specific race, I will post up some 1975 pics you may find useful too. Due to the reasons above of difficulty in finding detailed pics, I would take a pragmatic approach and use the detail you want from the photos you can find!

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Hi Ron, That's a difficult question! Ferrari were/are notoriously protective of their cars and photos with the body off are rare, allow me to quote Andy Mathews thoughts as a starter:- The Tamiya’s 312T kit is a mixed box of parts that, if built from the box, won’t represent any car raced by Ferrari during the 1975 season. The kit largely represents a preseason development mule. One frequently asked question is about the “phantom” tank (parts E47 & E48) that rarely shows up in all but a few photos. You stating that Tamiya inaccurately reproduced the right side oil tank and radiator was both an accurate and great observation. When the 312T competed during the 1975 season, the large “phantom” tank did exist but was relocated to the lower right side of the rear bulkhead mounted just forward of the oil tank. To do this, the large oil tank and radiator assembly had to be modified. The modifications basically included a slightly reshaped oil reservoir with new mounting brackets. These changes created the needed space to mount what appears to be the biggest oil filter in the world. From 75 through 80, Ferrari’s wet lines and hard lines remained fundamentally the same. However, the shapes, size and locations of the various hardware that accepts many of these lines changed considerably over that 6-year period. From a modelers perspective, the attraction to building and detailing the whole T series of cars is that - once you have figured out how to successfully loop one car, the evolutionary differences between each chassis become even more subtle and immediately identifiable thereby making each car easier to complete. I will try to post some photos from early '76 Edit to say There is a view that the rear tyres are too small, I have an after market set from a Japanese garage company in which the tyres are some 5mm bigger in diameter and 7mm wider. M

Hi Ron, great work. Dave is right, no front roll hoop for 1975, it was fitted for the first round of 1976 The 312T was only used for the first three rounds of 1976, Brazil, S. Africa and Long Beach, but the 312T and 312T2 are difficult to tell apart without the bodywork and in close ups. Ron, if you post up the pictures you are not sure about, we can help to identify them? Are you modelling Clays car for a specific race? Malc.

You just have to know where to look ;-) I guess the model body is fiberglass? M.

Wow, great find. How has it been made (what of?) How were the original logos made? More photos please! Malc.

Thanks, you are doing a great job here, I think you may have this task for life!!! A long time ago, before the internet was a thing, the IPMS issued a pamphlet called 'Shops That Sell Models', it was titled as such because a lot of shops sell models alongside other stuff. I may still have a copy somewhere. Malc.

Great thread! Another one for Brum Tornado books and hobbies (ex Ian Allan) 68-70 Dalton Street, Birmingham B4 7LX and Penn Models 134 Moss Grove Kingswinford West Midlands DY6 9ES Also Cosford Museum shop always have a few kits for sale. @binbrook87 - Would be good if you could update the first post to include all the subsequent additions so there is one up to date list? Malc.

Hi Mechanic, A detailed 3 view with dimensions appears in Flight magazine 26 April 1928 page 281. These magazines were available here:- https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/flight-magazine-archive Sadly they have been taken down temporarily............. M.

Nice, one of my favourite aircraft. Made my own rubber power flying model from the Aeromodeller 3 views. There is a good book about Art Chesters racing planes called 'The Art Chester Story' by Caler and Underwood, comes up on the bay quite often. Malc.

Great finish, I like the offset stand, it adds to the illusion of flight. Great job, thanks for sharing and looking forward to following the Macchi (and Curtiss!) M.

Fantastic, it looks wonderful! M.

This is superb, I'm not sure I could bring myself to cut up the wonderful Vector resin engine though! Looking forward to seeing it complete - even though I will miss your updates! (onward with the Curtiss?) Malc.

Wow, holy grail. Can you share it? Does RP have any more unseen S4 info? M.

This is fantastic, its nice to see a conversion of the Airfix Bentley, thanks for showing it, looking forward to your next project! M.

Followed this from the beginning, its superb. I keep re-reading the beginning about making the engine cowling and fairings - amazing! Malc.

What fantastic images, thanks for posting! Malc.

Hi Badder, I had the same problem, I am running windows 10 and was using Chrome as my browser. The solution is to use MS Edge that comes with win10. Once I changed to Edge all the websites I could not access and the invisible imgur pictures all appeared again. I went through all the same frustrations/checks as you did, - resetting my router, different DNS addy, re-install win10 etc etc nothing worked. Malc.

Hooray!! Niice work, glad you are able to get back on them. Those jigs are a work of art in themselves. Malc.

This looks fantastic, its one of my favorite threads, There is some bloke also doing a Short Crusader - I wish he would restart that also! LOL. Malc.

Nice 126! Over at F1M, a couple of the guys put together a 'spotters guide' (free download PDF) of the 126C2 and it race by race changes, should answer all your questions! http://bit.ly/1oxy29H Malc.

Limester, they look fantastic, I'm in for a set of those when your happy with them! When you get to the bonnet hinge, I was thinking of one of these:- http://www.phoenixmodeldevelopments.com/acatalog/The_Phoenix_Miniature_Hinge_Range.html#aA54 Ref: H100N - second down RH column.