Ferrari 412 T2 1:12 Museum collection

[Eagle50]

Interesting post. I never knew that Museum Collection ever did more than decals!

Cheers, Chris

[ferrarissimus]

Hallo again,
here is my next update with the rear suspension.
The layout of the kit's rear upper wishbone is uncorrect. MC's upper wishbone is made from two parts: a V- shaped front arm with it's fixing points both at the gearbox

Picture from the kit manual

and a rear straight toe-in toe-out bar connected with the cast horizontal Aluminium bar at the end of the gearbox.
( Not to be seen in the picture).
The correct layout is a single quadrangular upper wishbone with a front linkage at the gearbox front and a common rear linkage at the Aluminium bar.
This is the same layout as that of the FW 14. But the rear common end of the FW 14 is too long.

Upper wishbone of the FW 14

So I tried to reduce the wishbone and solder the rear ends, but I failed. The Tamiya metal resisted soldering and either I got a weak brittle or dry joint ( too lo heat) or the metal melted (too much heat).
Therefore I spread the kit's V- shaped front arm to the right angle and soldered it to the reduced toe-in toe-out bar.
The MC metal is easier to solder.

Original MC part

spread MC part

V-part and toe-inbar

[ferrarissimus]

I put the parts on a heat resistant solder plate

Lower wishbone, pushrod and upright are from the Tamiya kit.

The instruction Manual Shows no Information about the correct hight of the horizontal Al-bar. With my first attempt it was too high mounted and the upper wishbone had contact with the Body cowling. So I put it 3 mm downwards.

[ferrarissimus]

[racingkars]

Wonderful job. That looks like not an easy kit to me. Great work!

[Dede]

412-T2 Ferrari is just Gorgeous to me, I love it, this is going to be Superb when finished, very Impressive improvements so far.

[RE60B]

I love this kind of work, it is harder and beautifull

cédric

[ferrarissimus]

Hallo again,
here are some new pictures of the front suspension. It is complete modyfied from FW 14.

On the top the wishbone from the kit. Below the modified Tamiya

[RE60B]

i wear my sun glasses fff...

[Eagle50]

... That looks like not an easy kit to me. Great work!

Looks like pain-staking work to me. Wow! Hats off!

Cheers, Chris