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Post by ianw on Sept 12, 2015 8:03:37 GMT
I may be stating the obvious to experienced modellers but I was searching for a good anodised blue finish and found to my surprise the Tamiya Metallic Blue is spot on! I compared it to an authentic Williams FW14 wheel nut and it's an exact match. All I need now is a good anodised red finish.
I used Tamiya Clear Red and Clear Blue to get this effect many years ago when I built some Tamiya 1/12 F1 cars. You could also try the Clear Yellow or Clear Orange to try and get a brass effect. I would suggest you could try Humbrol MetalCote Polished Steel or Polished Aluminium, allow to dry , buff up to get a shine and follow it with a fine mist coat of the Tamiya Clear colour of choice.
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Post by ianw on Aug 16, 2015 15:59:28 GMT
1/25 'Fun and Games in the 'Kitty-Litter'A tribute to the Orange Army of Weekend Warriors, without whom the world of motorsport could not function. It uses a Revell 1/25 Petronas Sauber C22 F1 car picked up in a charity shop for £4. The kit had been started, some suspension parts having been painted in rather thick coats of enamel paints and the clear parts - vestigal windsceen and rear light - where missing. It depicts the car in a gravel trap, the rather irate driver complaining to the Incident Officer that he was nerfed off and two other marshals attending with fire extinguishers 'just in case'. The decision to depict the car in the gravel trap resulted from efforts to strip the old paint off, which appeared to have weakened some of the small locating pins in the suspension uprights, etc. so it was clear that it might prove tricky to depict the car in a more normal pose. This was compounded by the fact that I damaged some of the decals during application, particularly those on the right side-pod - hence the prominent 'tyre rub' mark to cover the damage. The figures where scratch built, mainly utilising body parts created from mouldings taken from assorted 1/25 driver figures from kits in the stash.
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Post by ianw on Aug 16, 2015 15:30:01 GMT
My take on this very early Tamiya F1 kit, which has effectivly been a WIP, or more precisly a UFO (Unfinished Object), for at least 25 years. I think I started this in the late 80's, almost completed it and then moved work location, which involved 2-3 hrs commuting each day, so didn't have any time left for model making. Eventually became fed-up with the commuting and moved house and the kit somehow didn't get unpacked until a few years ago and hs been lurking on the Pending shelf until this year when I decided to finish this one off, as it only needed a little bit of work.... The only things needing doing being to paint the driver figure, add a few minor bits and pieces and apply the decals. Unfortunately, with the kit being about 40 years old, being one of the very early Tamiya imports into the UK, the decals proved to be very fragile. I eventually managed to find a technique for saving at least some of the decals. As a result I could not use the driver name decals as they broke up beyond repair, so decided to depict it running a test session with Jackie Stewart driving the car. This actually fits better with the information I have been able to research on the web, as it appears that Stewart never raced the Matra V12 engined car, he preferred the Cosworth DFV version. As some parts of the car are now quite fragile, mainly the suspension links/joints that were originally designed to work as in the original, I decided to add it to a base to try and prevent further damage, trying to depict the car in a classic 1960's 4-wheel drift mode. This final shot is an attempt to replicate the 'Suicidal Photographer' shot that often appeared on the front cover of the Motor Sport magazine in the 1960's
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Post by ianw on Aug 15, 2015 18:06:45 GMT
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Post by ianw on Aug 12, 2015 15:38:47 GMT
I built one of these back in the 1980's. It's a bit of a long ago but I seem to recall it was a reasonably nice kit to assemble, although I do remember that painting of the detail was somewhat time-consuming, but the results can be well worth it if you stick with it. This thread on ATF shows a couple of completed builds and might give you some idea of what can be done. There was also a nice example displayed at this years Bolton Show.
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Post by ianw on Aug 7, 2015 8:58:40 GMT
Hi all. I'm Ian and I have just signed up to this site, having joined IPMS earlier this year. I am a retired software engineer who has been building plastic kits on and off since the late 1950's. Like most young kit builders I originally started with 1/72 scale aircraft from Frog and Airfix. In my 20's I mainly built motorsport related kits, particularly those from the Tamiya range, although production was somewhat spasmodic owing to work commitments and the fact I spent 30-50 days a year marshalling at motor racing circuits around the UK. I returned to the hobby about 5 years ago after taking early retirement, and since then have been posting on the ATF forum and now the new AMSIG forum, though I do not confine my builds to just Airfix kits. Since my return I have become increasingly interested in the creation of bases and dioramas on which to display the finished kit, and have been displaying some of my efforts on the AMSIG stand at various model shows in NW England for the last 2-3 years. I now build a broader range of subjects, sometimes the choice of kit resulting from an idea for a diorama, though more often I find an interesting kit and the build grows from that. Many of my recent builds have started from an older kit found in a local charity shop. Ian
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