The Legend - Lotus 72D - Tamiya 1/12

[FullArmor]

10 hours ago, DocRob said:

Thanks FA, it also shows how small these cars actually are. Lots of technic build tightly around the driver.

Cheers Rob

Yes. But I wouldn't want to be in the car when the collision happens. Driver safety was not the main concern then.

[DocRob]

I started to prepare the engine and transmission for painting. Assembly is straight forward, albeit there´s a lot of clean up necessary. The exhausts are always a bit complicated to assemble, therefore, I decided to finish this task before painting. I glued the exhaust pipes with a tiny bit of glue into the silver four in one piece and then fiddled the other ends of the pipes into their holes in the engine block, before the glue cured. Fixed wit a strip of adhesive tape, I added more glue to the four in one piece and let dry.



Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

Engine and gearbox are halfway done. I used the MFH air funnel and distributor set, which is a big advantage against the kit plastic parts, specially the aluminum funnels. I also used black tubing from the spare box, the Tamiya material is too thick. I now own a silver pencil, but pictures show, that the Ford branding wasn´t silver with the 72d. All paints are from the Tamiya LP range and the screwheads were picked out with markers.
The gearbox was painted with Zero Paints texturized color for Hewland gearboxes.







Cheers Rob

[BlrwestSiR]

The engine looks really good there Rob. The finish on the gearbox is particularly convincing. Too bad Zero paints aren't available in Canada. 

[DocRob]

11 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

The engine looks really good there Rob. The finish on the gearbox is particularly convincing. Too bad Zero paints aren't available in Canada. 

Thank you Carl, it´s sad to hear, there is no way to get Zero paints to Canada. I really like the texturized paint. Sprayed with a 0,4 mm nozzle and a bit higher air pressure, it gives a convincing finish, at least for 1/12 parts. I didn´t use it for my 1/20 builds lately, it would have looked out of scale.

Cheers Rob

[KevinM]

Looking good Rob and yes it looks like cast Al!

[DocRob]

2 hours ago, KevinM said:

Looking good Rob and yes it looks like cast Al!

Thanks Kevin, I used the texturized color only for the gearbox, for the engine housing, I found it too coarse.

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

Today, I finished the engine and connected all the tubing. The yellow clear fuel lines were part of the MFH set, the black ignition cables were from the spare box, because the Tamiya supplied ones looked way too thick and out of scale. The MFH set fits the Tamiya plastic without the need for tweaking, great.





Cheers Rob

[Martinnfb]

Beautiful work Rob. This is going to sound silly, however it just hit me, while looking at your model. This engine was naturally aspirated , no boost. For some reason I would expect turbocharger.

[DocRob]

14 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

Beautiful work Rob. This is going to sound silly, however it just hit me, while looking at your model. This engine was naturally aspirated , no boost. For some reason I would expect turbocharger.

Thank you Martin, no turbo chargers on work here, just pure 450 air breathing horses. The turbo era came later in F1. I have a MFH kit of the most powerful F1 car ever, the Brabham BT52. It had only four cylinders and 1,5 liter displacement, but could generate up to 1400 horses in qualifying setup. Not easy to ride, as you can imagine with the enormous turbo boost hitting, when revving up. But this was later in the 80´s, when the turbo boom was rolling.

Cheers Rob