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  1. Small update. The windscreen is supplied with window masks for the inside and the outside to make spraying easier, and it is better to glue on the wipers now and the kill switches. The instructions say to fit the windscreen from the outside. This is actually physically impossible due to the width of the scuttle panel *and* the kit has so very clearly been engineered to enable the windscreen to slip in easily from the inside, I'm amazed the instruction writers and illustrators could get this wrong. Having been an assembly instructions illustrator for a decent part of my early career (sadly not model kits) - instructions are a lot easier than say - matched metal tooling for the kit itself. And yet here we are, Nunu and also Belkits both fail here somewhat in what should be the easiest part. The glue area is quite small however and the tolerances of the kit are so tight as to require some clamping. With the glass I feel perhaps the tolerances are *too* perfect.
  2. Sprayed the base in Tamiya Light Sand On with more PVA and the scenery material. I'll add a few tufts of this to break up the starkness of the beige. Completed car and stage. I'll likely won't get to the cleaner RFI photos until next weekend.
  3. The instructions would have everything underneath except the hubs, brakes and struts black. Seems a bit boring to me so I made the chassis silver. And here are the brakes and struts. The red is done with a magic marker. Completed chassis. The tyres are great - the moulding seam line is on the shoulder rather than right down the middle, which is just so much better. Testing out how these things go together in order to see that classis Super Touring stance. The instructions would have you put the wheels on last which is entirely wrong, they'd never fit past the arches.
  4. This will be very useful down the line, I've screenshotted both the image and the explanation of what is undercoating each red. I've tried colours before on white, grey, pink and black to make variations but it never occurred to me to put them over Gun Metal. And those two shades in particular look very nice indeed. And I have a can of Pure Metallic Red just waiting for a car... What I don't have are any more plastic spoons as the damn things are hard to find in the UK shops now, I'll have to order some online.
  5. Very tidy build and great colour choice. An Italian classic.
  6. Very nice, clean and tidy build. I will have to get this kit at some point. Aside from the wheel size which the explanation has already covered . That Tamiya Pure Metallic Red is a very very good match for Mazda Soul Red. I know this is Tamiya's intention for this colour anyway, and they have nailed it.
  7. It's another reason I've used card instead of what was supplied - it's happy to take superglue with no reaction beyond the one I want - sticking. This kit does come with mounting brackets just like the real thing for both front and rear flaps, giving a decent enough contact area. It's another nice detail in a kit which has a lot of details even if a lack of overall finesse.
  8. I'm assuming there's some kind of hole under the shallow roof vent, so electrical tape can make the appearance of that for me. This is how much play there is in the steering system - both wheels are still connected by the steering rack, despite how it looks. The front steering and suspension is the weakest part of the entire kit, both literally and figuratively. Some very nice rubber-plastic material is provided for the mud flaps, but although it's flexible it won't stay bent, and I want my mudflaps in a more action pose. So I use red card instead. The kit makes no mention of a third mid-car mudflap ahead of the rear wheels but all the photos of the real car imply strongly that there is one. I have more than enough card to go around. What I found interesting here is that once the mudflaps were attached, it visually instantly gave justification for the car's very high ride height - and I began to like that aspect of it a whole lot more. With the mudflaps the car looks much more like something built to tackle a rough environment. Meanwhile... here's why I was keen to keep the driver/codriver and the "action" mudflaps - I'm going to build a small stage scene for the car to sit within. This'll be the first time I've ever attempted some kind of reproduction of the natural world modelling, but I figure sand and rock is an easy place to begin. To add some kind of 3 dimensions to the ground, I've added some cardboard. The PVC glue is acting here as both glue and sculpting material. I am just making this up as I go along at this point. Meanwhile, the car gets some light weathering along the sides - grubby and dusty which clings to the bodywork easily as I sprayed the lower 1/4 of the car much earlier with matt varnish. I'm not going for a heavy weather - more like a km or two into the stage only. Here's the completed car (except for it's aerial) , but more WIP will come yet on the stage diorama. So many things are added here - wipers, PE bonnet and boot pins, two PE clamps to help hold the real life windscreen in place (I presume), electrical cut off switch which is moulded in two tiny parts - one for the red bit and one for the silver. Also added are the yellow tow hooks, a bit of alu foil round the back for the exhaust / bodywork protection and a host of other things to complete it.
  9. Nice. I think "Turbo" is the most 1980s word ever.
  10. Finally with heads. I've hand-drawn the Marlboro logos on the helmet fronts, didn't have any decals this small. There's a little nub of plastic on the inside of the rollcage - the kind of thing that looks like it's meant to be cut off, and the supplied PE hook for the seatbelt fits perfectly onto it. Dashboard added and the interior is complete. The body is quite an awkward fit over the chassis, but here it is. I've gone with the "from the spares box" tyres in the end, as once it was all together the Hasegawa tyres looked much too large, just like the on Hasegawa Legacy I built last year. It does not surprise me. For many reasons I'll detail in my later RFI Pros/cons review, I consider this not a very good kit. There are more things to do yet - mirror, PE, roof inlet, sump guard, mudflaps, wipers, weathering and so on - feels endless. More WIP to come yet.
  11. Very very nice, clean and great colour.
  12. I'm glad to know it arrived and is useful, it took a long time in the post!
  13. The beginnings of the driver and co-driver. Note the symmetrical race suits, orange on the outside for both. Nice. I've had to guess at the colour of the boots, could not find a reference. With added seatbelts from paper, superglued in place and the Sabelt decals are just cut from the sheet and also superglued in place. Moya installed into the car. As usual for figures, minus head to begin with. There's a slot in the rear bulkhead which is a nice touch and the paper belt slips into it nicely. The other left is left hanging in the air for now, as it'll be attached to the vertical in the rollcage later, something noted earlier in the build by @keefr22 Carlos Sainz installed in the car. I've chosen this arm configuration to make sure at least one of the hand can actually touch the wheel correctly - even with Tamiya drivers in Tamiya cars getting both hands on the wheel can be tricky. Rollcage installed. On of it's pathetically small joining points at the top came apart and so I'm holding it back in place with this tape in the hope it might re-stick where it should be. Not really seen once the car is assembled however so not the end of the world if it can't. The front lights and grille are in, and I've added too piece of reinforcement to make sure they stay there. Not much glueable area on this part and overall in terms of how you can paint and assemble this, I find it lacking. A hollow grille with mesh would have been preferable. Especially with that thin red line inside the chrome (on the outside not shown yet). Some of the many many other parts that need to be attached to the body. Spanish flag tore a little, managed to rescue it mostly into place. Kevlar is Hasegawa self-adhesive.
  14. This looks really nice, looking forward to the RFI photos.
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