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Are they Carbon this early? I guess I could ask the internet, but I'm lazy.

Good Lord isn't that the truth. I can't count how many times I have posted or sent a photo to then discover all the horrors I had not noticed. Digital photography is brutal.

The body, all the seams filled as I feel in this scale a race prepped car, with taped panels would appear seamless. So now it's on to sanding it all smooth and a coat of primer. The upper rear suspension arms tuck into the body, as seen here. Tamiya intended this rear cover to be removable to show off the detail they included. Building it as I am, it would be impossible to get the body to sit down over the suspension. So I reengineered it. First I glued a piece of Evergreen rod into the lower part of the transmission case. This was inserted into a predrilled hole, that lined up with the one seen in the photo above. I cut roughly half of the transmission cover off, as the tightest fitting, and least accessible attachments were on that side. I Then relived the remaining contacts to allow the part to line up using the Evergreen peg. Now the upper suspension can be installed with the body. No fuss. None of this will be visible. This generation of F1 car had very tightly packaged body panels. Nothing like the current cars, of course, but enough that seeing inside is pretty difficult.

Castrol colors are a winner too. Love the group C jags in that Scheme, if we may steal that term from the airplane guys... Wait. I am one of them too!

Cars! Not the big 12 scale job's DocRob is building, but big enough. McLaren, and the yet to be threaded 240Z.

And the body all glued together. Most of it anyway.

More carbon work. The brake ducts. A little scratch building here too, boxing in the front ducts.

Cockpit, ready to install. Tamiya seatbelts. The photo etch is great, the belt's, kinda not. But the Finisher's set I got from Japan was bad also. So not much choice. The Tamiya belts were way too shiny so I had to knock them down some with flat. Better now, In the future I will be trying something else. I snapped off all the switches so the carbon decals would be easier to apply. Then scratch built new ones. During test fitting I found that you can clearly see into the nose of the car. And that there's nothing there. So I scratchh built a quick peddle box and peddles. Including the extra "Brake steer" fourth peddle this car was famous for.

Carbon decals. Scale Motorsport brand. Very high quality decals, thin strong and pretty flexible. But there is a limit, and once you cross that they are destroyed. Unfortunately I can't lay off messing with them so I have had to go back and re-do...

Cockpit opened up the hole in the seat for the anti-submarine belts. And widened the sides so they would reach the body, sealing it up visually.

Mentioned it in one of DocRob's threads, but now it's official. Building it curbside, with all the panel lines filled. These would have been tapped for racing and I'm not convinced you would even see them in this scale, tape or not. This means re-engineering the kit a little to allow it to be assembled that way.

I think you past "may" quite a while ago. Lmao.

I can't (won't) answer for Docrob but for me these are the best I've tried. https://www.hlj.com/non-slip-stainless-steel-tweezers-with-round-tip-goose-neck-type-mne217-h I liked them so much I ordered a set of the straight tip as well. The little laser cut grips really work. And they feel nice in my hand.

Those drones don't look suspiciously like V-1's at all. I wonder where we got that idea?

I have several methods of achieving silver, or natural metal. it takes more work than camo, but it's easily within my capabilities. I just don't like it as a color. And I seriously doubt Meteors of that era were natural metal so it should be a breeze. But it's just boring to look at. Plenty of silver here. No scuffs on my arse... 🤣

I like the Meteor, especially with the bubble canopy. But I want a WW2 version, because the interwar paint schemes are just as dull as watching all that silver dry...

I feel your pain... And I just pre-ordered the Tamiya 1/35.

No. I am a fan of Benetton in general, so I like all their cars. But this is the "flame" car B 186 Idk what Europeans called this, if anything other than 186, but here it's always referred to as the flame car because of the colored brush strokes. Which maybe looked like flames to someone? I don't see it, but "brush stroke" car sounds a little too suspect to have caught on. Powered by a development of the same mighty BMW engine as the BT-50, but without the Gorden Murrey chassis.

Heh, Thought you didn't like Turbo cars? I do. The Benetton Flame car is my Fav, but this one is up there too.

Great minds think alike, evidently. I am doing mine as a BRE tribute car. Street legal with all the required parts, but using the paint scheme as a jumping off point. I have that decal sheet. Problem is at the moment I can't decide if I want it left or right hand drive. Which affects some of the detail. And I am probably going to use a darker blue. That's all theory right now. To model the race car the interior would have to be modified quite a bit. Bt the exterior changes seem to be minimal. Growing up my neighbors knew Pete Brock, and their son had a Datsun 510, which was BRE's other famous race car. So he had an original BRE front spoiler on it.

Cars. Car show coming up that I have not been too before , so I need something to enter. Shows are no fun if you don't enter. 1/24 Tamiya 240Z street sport. Beautiful kit. Really outstanding. 1/20 Tamiya McLaren MP 4/13. Not quite as nice as the Z, but it's at least 25 years it's senior. And the aftermath of the Kangaroo, to lazy to clean bench until it really becomes an issue... And another one of the pesky 109's sneaking into everything. They are as bad as cats, really.

You picked a fine kit to return with. Welcome back.

More than a little, I would say... They have boxed it three times already.

Thanks guys 👍

Imagine, as a plane guy, walking into that field... And what three more or less intact 109's would be worth today.