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Old 02-16-2012, 04:38 AM   #15
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Re: MFH 1/20 March 711/02 - Ronnie Peterson - 1971 Monaco GP

For Raul: if you need any pics for your kits, please feel free to contact me.


The seat-belts.

I don't like to seem a "teacher" but I've seen a lot of wips all over the world with some mistakes as to the seat-belts of 1970s F1 car.

So I'd use this wip to show a scheme of them and how usually realise them:


As you can see, there are two long belts which arrive from the shoulders, two from the front which end with a "O" and two from the sides which have another little one over: all of them are attached to the chassis.

Inside the kit there is all we need to make the seat-belts: a paper with three measures of tissue, p/e for the buckles, a white metal part for the central device and decals.

Here the tissue:


With the smaller we can make the two little belts on the central one:


and the two belts with the "O" at the ends:


these belts could be put in place:



With the larger tissue we can make the central larger belts.
With a new cutter I cut a "V" at one end to facilitate the passage through the buckle:


Up-right there is the buckle for the left belt; down-right the buckle for the right belt with the device which has to be painted metalic blue.

Here the two larger belts:


Over them we can put the two smaller made before:


These belts have to be put in the middle of the seat and they are attached to the chassis.
In this case that attachment is covered by the seat itself, so it's sufficient to cut the belt at 45°:

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