FINISHED: Tamiya Honda RA 273 1/12 ...some details

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:11 am

finally after 5 months another dust collector for my display cabinet.
please enjoy the photos, sorry I'm a lousy photographer or at least to lazy to read the manual

I also have a buildreport over at a german forum and if you want I can post it here and translate it for you.

daniel
-germany-

De21 · Post by **De21** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:19 am

WOW awesome work Daniel!!!

Flemming · Post by **Flemming** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:23 am

Great stuff Daniel - and your photography is great as well. I'd like to see the build report - don't need a translation

Best regards

Flemming

henk4 · Post by **henk4** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:32 am

Daniel could you make a link to the German forum?

chongman · Post by **chongman** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:34 am

I'm stunned dude, that is what F1 Modeling is all about...building models that have the same "awe factor" as the 1:1 car. Thanks for posting your craftsmanship, It gives me the motavation as I return to modeling.

pierrot · Post by **pierrot** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:41 am

Looks like straight out of the Honda museum in Japan...

Well done Daniel.

Pierre

SteveNoble · Post by **SteveNoble** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:51 am

Great looking model.The engine looks fantastic,such attention to detail.I like the seat.It looks like real leather? Did you use some covering on it? The exhausts look perfect.

jordan · Post by **jordan** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:57 am

Daniel,

GREAT ! I have seen the real car at the Goodwood FOS....and its like you have taken that car true a shrinking machine.... F A B U LO US !
LOVE IT !

Keep on building,
Alex Nahooy.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:14 am

here we go...a little build report.

the kit detail is not very good a needs a few updates but it's a very old kit.

I added some silver nuts and I had to remove the moulded in parts to assemble it before painting and still have it working

most of the body has to be assemble before painting not abig deal but you have to do some masking to apint the inside black
you can see the scratchbuild shiftgate

the kit comes without brakes only those stranges things you see in the first pic on the left. so I used some from an old kit (think it was a Tyrrell) that's not very accurate but OK enough for me

intake trumpets are museum collection and are for the Ferrari 312B
you can see that I added a lot of metal nuts and PE boltheads
the fuel connectors are 1/8 Dzus fasteners and some scrap metalrings

the usual "mesh"ing around

making my new windscreen but in the end laziness was victorious and I went for the Chevron vacuformed windows. The kitpart is usless...way to thick and large holes

a lot of masking for the cockpit inside, this picture was tkaen after everything was painted and polished but I found out that the cockpit was black right up to the edge and I had a border of around 5mm whish doesn't looked to good.

the second pic shows the finished body.
redparts are all painted, the black stripes where cut from the decal I painted the red because it was very hard to bend around the nose

I removed all bolts and here are some new ones right before installing into the body

and here they are

detail ?!?

I scratchbuzild these parts (left) because it was impossible to make the kit parts (right) look good.

I made a copy from the "cooler" behind the drivers head and attached it to the engine. I glued two together to make it thicker... the original cooler that comes in the kit is ugly and I couldn't find pictures of the real thing.

some details...nuts etc

still working ...

the UGLY glossy exhaust

the mush nicer matt exhaust

but still not accurate but nice

the complete front and rear suspension is scratchbuild from metalrod, nuts, and R.B. motion rodends

good views of the front and rear susupension, it's all metal except for very view kitparts

wheels where stuffed to make them sit tighter on the rims
rims are painted with Alclad..don't remember the color but it's NOT gold
I added valve stems
and six metal boldtheads to every wheel
...the rims have a very prominent moldline whish is a nightmare to remove...but you will see when building your own Honda

the brakes plus a little detail

my turned rearshocks

dahs and steering wheel, lot's of nuts added
I turned the dials and all the buttons on my lathe the dial glasses look a little strange but only visible with a macrolens

and that's it

daniel
-germany-

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:17 am

YES I used MF Hiro leather on the seats but it was very hard to get it to sit in the edges. In the end I used 5min epoxy and glued it to the seats. I also tried to cover the steering wheels without succes

daniel
-germany-