WILLIAMS FW09 Dallas winner KAWAI+some more...
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:40 pm
OK! Ill try again to start and finish a WIP. Since a fellow member is considering it, I have decided to do it too. If he decides to take the plunge too, he’ll probably end up overtaking me. So it’s a good thing to start already.
I always had a soft spot for the FW09. It’s ugly as hell, but there lays its charm. When you decide you like it (and imagine me in 1984, with a couple of years of F1 experience), that means YOU DIG F1.
And that was the second F1 I tried on scratch. I remember myself, looking at the S.African GP GPI issue I had just bought, watching Piola’s drawings, and reading between lines the shape of an FW07 under all those lines and angles.
I took a Tamiya one (as if there wer another!!), chopped the fuel cell cover, the sidepods so I could bring radiators backwards, added some walls to the chassisand an upper structure, built a new fuel cell, and I made, with plaster (BTW a FANTASTIC product I wish they still made, called Plastibo) the nose, the straight and flat body section, around the remains of the 07 bodywork.
I had the cheekiness of making a V6 from a cossie, and a really nice rear wing I still keep.
I keep some pic of the car, gotta try to find it. Unfortunately, I scrapped the car as I was short of FW07s. Had I an FW09 alternative? Nope. Similarly I trashed a really nice Ty 012 I made. Sigh…
Meanwhile, as you all know, the infamous Kawai/Blue tank FW09 has appeared (long ago).
It’s a recurrent theme of concersation, good, bad, usable… I have seen some nice builds, but no WIP. So here we go.
I had a soft spot for the Brazil unit. It finished second with Keke (and at last, he was not disqualified!!), and had that yellow nose and windshield.
I still remember the GPI one-liner: “…Rosberg’s Williams, that now has a yellow nose and a water tank”.
Nevertheless I’ll go for the Dallas version. It’s a winner, and it keeps the long straight sidepods, and the “saudia” on them.
OK, then the plan is as follows:
Basicly my recipe for this one would be:
-Honda engine from a Williams FW11.
-rear train from an FW07
-Heavily modified chassis
-A Keke figure dressed in yellow!!!
-Modified front suspension with FW07 uprights
-8 spoke resin wheels (I think I can help there too)
And the body, slimmed nose, some plastering on the base of windshield (smoother in 1984), taller cockpit sides, new and repositioned front wings.
Looks like a lot, but it's all easy I'd say
Soon, pics with the stuff I’ll use
Thanks for looking and pointing at whatever you see worth mentioning, guys!
BR
James
I always had a soft spot for the FW09. It’s ugly as hell, but there lays its charm. When you decide you like it (and imagine me in 1984, with a couple of years of F1 experience), that means YOU DIG F1.
And that was the second F1 I tried on scratch. I remember myself, looking at the S.African GP GPI issue I had just bought, watching Piola’s drawings, and reading between lines the shape of an FW07 under all those lines and angles.
I took a Tamiya one (as if there wer another!!), chopped the fuel cell cover, the sidepods so I could bring radiators backwards, added some walls to the chassisand an upper structure, built a new fuel cell, and I made, with plaster (BTW a FANTASTIC product I wish they still made, called Plastibo) the nose, the straight and flat body section, around the remains of the 07 bodywork.
I had the cheekiness of making a V6 from a cossie, and a really nice rear wing I still keep.
I keep some pic of the car, gotta try to find it. Unfortunately, I scrapped the car as I was short of FW07s. Had I an FW09 alternative? Nope. Similarly I trashed a really nice Ty 012 I made. Sigh…
Meanwhile, as you all know, the infamous Kawai/Blue tank FW09 has appeared (long ago).
It’s a recurrent theme of concersation, good, bad, usable… I have seen some nice builds, but no WIP. So here we go.
I had a soft spot for the Brazil unit. It finished second with Keke (and at last, he was not disqualified!!), and had that yellow nose and windshield.
I still remember the GPI one-liner: “…Rosberg’s Williams, that now has a yellow nose and a water tank”.
Nevertheless I’ll go for the Dallas version. It’s a winner, and it keeps the long straight sidepods, and the “saudia” on them.
OK, then the plan is as follows:
Basicly my recipe for this one would be:
-Honda engine from a Williams FW11.
-rear train from an FW07
-Heavily modified chassis
-A Keke figure dressed in yellow!!!
-Modified front suspension with FW07 uprights
-8 spoke resin wheels (I think I can help there too)
And the body, slimmed nose, some plastering on the base of windshield (smoother in 1984), taller cockpit sides, new and repositioned front wings.
Looks like a lot, but it's all easy I'd say
Soon, pics with the stuff I’ll use
Thanks for looking and pointing at whatever you see worth mentioning, guys!
BR
James