I don't remember how I decided to start it but I wanted to make a good rendition to that model. I knew that had some mistakes and inacuracies, but i didn't realized the number of modifications that needed at the begining. About it I thougt several times to abandon this building due to the hard work required.
And now, that I see light at the end of the tunnel, I think that I can show you now my progresses. I want to thank to revell the choice of a "recent" F1 car at 1/12, I would like to see more models of nowadays cars in this scale. Maybe due to the secretism around this recent cars there a lot of inacuracies in the f2002 but it's right to thank to revell people for his effort. If you leave it as a just curbside model you'll have a decent model.
When I build a 1/12 one of my goals is to show the engine and internal parts, because this scale leave you room for that and allow to show how the things go.
When I started on the model I want to have the nose open and the cowl to acces the engine that was able to be opened or detached. I researched for how to hold the parts in place and how to be easily detechable; in this way I worked installing several metal parts (specially the "lips" at the joint between the cowling and the cockpit part en the parts .see the yellow parts) and adding some neodymium magnets all over the cowling. For the front after tested a magnet solution that didn't worked I decided to use some small size springs that hold in place the nails as the real car ( if some want a better explanation just ask). I noticed that were bigs gaps between parts and will be really visible in the model, that suposed an important amount of hours to test-fail doing the border of the parts with several straps of plastics, putyy, cyano... I'm still working on this to minimize the gaps.
I reworked all the seat and surroundings, moslty scratched. When Michael had his accident I was decaling all his seat.
One thing that I thought that was the main problem of the revell's model was that there was something wrong on the internal parts, on every model I saw mounted seemed small, as if were reduced to fit the cowling. It made me think to rework all the internal parts and adjust at maximum to the cowling itself, changing its shape in some points and adapting to the engine. I want tothenk you the job that Brian Fawcett made doing the engine covers, transmission and rear arms and brakes.
His site: http://www.fawcettmodelsandpatterns.co. ... ection-set
Review here: http://www.f1m.com/forums/viewtopic.php ... 2236&hilit
Without this transkit, in my opinion is a nonsense to try to have a non curbside model. As you see on the photos all of the pieces of the kit are or modified or completly scratched, maybe is hard to see but most of the plastic parts that come in the kit are on black sprue and as you see is mostly evergreen styrene. And this is why I call this WIP InsideOut... all the internals have modified the body to adjust everything inside...
Feel free to ask whatever you want and comment whatever you want
More to come soon
Enjoy the pics...
Edgar
lots of care and attention to the detail. Will look fantastic, sure.
