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by **lezdep** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:27 pm

Oh, boy ! What a history of build for this one. It definitely looks like a test. I hope that was a tipping point though, spell is broken and
everything falls in place from now on. Hopefully you can overcome the curse and rebuild it into great model after this. Good luck ! Don't give up.

by **bossy122** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:16 pm

Done at last! Done at last! And this time, the rear wing did not crumble!
I somehow got the gearbox/rear wing reattached to the rest of the car and then realized i'd missed a part! Part C22 (sorry, i'm not a mechanic) and the top two supports broke off whole. I couldn't get the entire piece to tuck in under the rear brake ducts, so I had to cut the whole into thirds and reapply them piece by piece. What fun! But I got them all on without dropping the thing again...ah, the small victories in life!
So here it is, Patrick Depallier's P34 from the '76 Japanese GP ( Saturday version :wink:

). Not quite as cool looking as Jody's, but it looks better than being in the box I threw ( not really) it in after the original fell to pieces! Now I can display it with my other 2 Depallier P34's.

by **bossy122** » Mon May 20, 2019 10:29 pm

Here we are 10 years later and the car got a tyre change.

by **indygp2001** » Wed May 22, 2019 3:33 pm

Bossy, if you ever find a way to solve the "Pigeon Toe" problem with the 4 wheels up front on the 1/12 scale P34, please let us all know what you did to rectify it! - Mine looks like two beginner skiiers going down the slopes for the first time nailed together...hehe! its ugly! (My car)...
Thanx for sharing, Kirk

by **bossy122** » Wed May 22, 2019 4:05 pm

indygp2001 wrote:Bossy, if you ever find a way to solve the "Pigeon Toe" problem with the 4 wheels up front on the 1/12 scale P34, please let us all know what you did to rectify it! - Mine looks like two beginner skiiers going down the slopes for the first time nailed together...hehe! its ugly! (My car)...
Thanx for sharing, Kirk

I got the pigeon toes on that one as well....those early Tamiya kits.

by **billgtp** » Thu May 23, 2019 9:21 am

Like the rain tires. Icons?

by **bossy122** » Thu May 23, 2019 2:04 pm

billgtp wrote:Like the rain tires. Icons?

No, as far as I could tell, Icons don't have the raised letters and I wanted ones with raised letters. Those are a set of Studio 27 aftermarkets. I paid more for those tyres than for the kit! But they do look nice, i'm very pleased.

by **Teles** » Sat May 25, 2019 8:44 pm

Great work.

by **bossy122** » Sat May 25, 2019 11:45 pm

Thanks. Apparently this was a tough build......I can't remember. Which, i'm sure, is a good thing

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