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Please find below, images of my completed 1/20 Fujimi Ferrari 126C2, started Boxing Day. It started out a simple OOB but then I decided on leads & fuel pipes and continued with electrical wiring, trunking, paneling, hose, bends and driver. I can safely say I have thoroughly enjoyed building this kit. Hope you enjoy, for anybody interested my WIP is still reasonably current (I tried linking tread with no luck). Thanks for Looking. I would like to give my thanks to all the encouraging comments on the WIP and a special thanks to Phil B and Malc2 for sharing their knowledge of such a great car. Regards John

First posting for a while, what with work commitments and the Star Wars bug at the end of last year. I would like to apologies straight away, whenever I could, I have flitted through various posts and really should have posted some comments on some truly extraordinary builds, the attention to detail and skill involved on your builds is exceptional. My son bought this for me for Christmas, now that he has left school and got a job as an apprentice Spark, it's his first real gift from his earning so means quite a bit to me, although I come from a plumbing family where electricians were looked on as 'plumbers who were dropped on their heads at an early age', but that's another issue altogether. I have progressed quite far with this already, just haven't had the time to post, so I'm hoping my posts will come through quite quickly. I'm not a huge Gilles Villeneuve or Ferrari fan to be honest but the 126c2 has always caught my eye for whatever reason, the double rear wing at Long Beach, the feud beginning at Imola and resulting in GV's untimely demise, a Harvey Postlewaite design or just because I love the ground effects era of the early 80's, anyway I opted for the Imola version as I do like these cars without the front wing. I have three 1/32 scale versions from the master modeller George Turner who produced an exceptional resin kit for slot car market so a lot of the research for this had already been carried out. The final reason for choosing this kit is that my wife bought me the MHF Ferrari 312 T4 which is a monster of a build and I wanted to use this as a tester as I'm still not sure whether to polish the white metal of just paint it. This is my first Fujimi kit and have not complaints, it may be me but it doesn't have the feel as a Tamiya, this may be and there are a quite a few small fiddly parts. I started preparing the floor and chassis with the general sanding and filling. I wanted to add spark leads and fuel pipes to the engine block and had to add injector nozzles using polystyrene dowel and fuse wire, this and a resin driver are the only aftermarket additions I have made to this kit, I was thinking of the photo etch package but thought better of it. Primed, and coated the tub without thinking about the join line and added an extinguisher and oxygen bottle to the base out of some poly tube and filler, I can think of better things to do on a Friday evening when the wife's out but I ended up making these which will not be seen if the driver goes in, I also added some cable trunking from strips of 2mm poly sheet and hollowed out the ends for some wiring. The tub had to be sanded down and filled after to remove the join. More will follow very shortly. Regards John