Jaguar XJR-9LM. 1/24 Tamiya scale model kit.
As I decided to open the doors, then I need to fix them somehow to the body. Therefore I need to make the hinges.
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Ebbro McLaren-Honda MP4-30. Early season 2015. Fernando Alonso.
This time I'm going to build 1/20 scale Formula 1 car from Ebbro. This is a McLaren-Honda MP4-30 from Malaysian GP 2015 driven by Fernando Alonso. This car is famous due to the mem which appeared on the radio when Alonso was complaining about the engine performance (GP2 Engine, GP2!) . Since I very appreciate the talent of Alonso as a race car driver, I decided to build this car. Another reason is that I wanted to challenge myself in 1/20 scale that I've never built before. This scale doesn't allow any excuses in the building process and moreover the formula models are fully exposed which makes the build even more complicated. Every detail should be worked out properly. So let's get started. This blog post won't be splitted, I will post WIP from the beginning to the end. Unfortunately I don't have photos from all building steps but I will touch the most important. Let's do a quick review of the kit. The kit contains four sprues, body, pre-painted tyres, th...
Tamiya Fiat 500F 1/24. Part 2 - Suspension
This post will be very short describing the manufacturing of the springs. Looking at the springs from the kit I had no doubts that they must go out. I'd better to scratch something by my own. They will be anyway better than the default ones. I started to research how the real suspension of classic Fiat 500F looks like. It is quite simple actually. Arm, shock and spring. The arms from the kit are good and look similar to the prototype. So I will use them. But shocks and springs I'll have to make. For making the spring I took a metal wire about 0.5 mm thick and twisted it with the diameter about 3 mm. For stock I cut a piece from 0.8 mm thick clip. For shock I used 1.1 mm brass tube. And as a base I used my laser cutter (or laser engraver) machine and 0.15 mm stainless steel sheet. Here you cansee all the produced parts Here the final assembled result in comprison with the default parts and test fitment to the body and arms. Finally I painted them semi-gloss b...