1/12 Matra MS11
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:17 am
Next up: the Tamiya 1/12 Matra MS11!
Great kit, but it's from the late sixties so we cannot expect the same level of detail and crispness we have gotten used to from Tamiya's later models. My first impression is that the engine (and everything around it) actually looks very nice, tires are very good, surface detail is ok.
The main problem with the kit, as for as I'm concerned, is the interior: all the driver's legroom is taken by a battery compartment from the days that Tamiya also made motorized versions of her kits. So there are no pedals (and no master cylinders) and the main structure just isn't right.
So my main challenge is to fix that: race cars need pedals
I will also try to improve the simplified gearstick assembly. For me this is all very exciting because I have never done anything like this before 
so let's see how it all ends...
Great kit, but it's from the late sixties so we cannot expect the same level of detail and crispness we have gotten used to from Tamiya's later models. My first impression is that the engine (and everything around it) actually looks very nice, tires are very good, surface detail is ok.
The main problem with the kit, as for as I'm concerned, is the interior: all the driver's legroom is taken by a battery compartment from the days that Tamiya also made motorized versions of her kits. So there are no pedals (and no master cylinders) and the main structure just isn't right.
So my main challenge is to fix that: race cars need pedals
I will also try to improve the simplified gearstick assembly. For me this is all very exciting because I have never done anything like this before so let's see how it all ends...
