Anyone started their Revell Audi R10 yet ?

This kit seems to have dropped into a modelling black hole. Now it's out in Europe, there is absolute silence about it from the European builders and the eager Americans (as I believe it is due out in the US in September ?!).

I'm just about to begin mine and was wondering if anyone has already started their builds. Some immediate needs have been found (modifying and plumbing the cooling radiators to the engine for a start) and I was hoping for some luminaries to offer other tips.

Any one ?

Just started mine. Working on the interior . Will post pics soon. Lots of plumbing to do but the basics are there. I now have a mill and lathe so I guess I'll learn a lot on this build. Need to fabricate particulate filters also. Going to learn resin casting for those. Good luck with your build.

I have started mine. Not done a fantastic job so far but im not that good anyway and the kit is cheap ;)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10009.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10008.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10006.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10003.jpg

That looks pretty good to me. The only thing I would have done differently would probably be the shade of silver and I would have painted the gray areas as I think it is supposed to be a darker gunmetal type color. I have two on order and I hope someone does this years LeMans winner. I also have the SMS kit which is simply fantastic, but the Revell kit will look good too with some attention. I don't think LMM will do the 2007 winner since Revell has this kit out.
Nic

Lathafummi, that's a nice finish you've got. Which Halfords paint did you use ? I did some testing on Tamiya's Silver Leaf and Mica Silver, which were too dark, so I've decided to go with Revell's silver (90) as it's a very close match and automotive paint flecks looked too big.

Scalecentral, I'm going to try and do the 2006 ALMS champion as most of the decals were the same as on the Le Mans winner. With some home brewing, the ALMS specific decals shouldn't be a problem. The same should be the same for the 2007 Le Mans winner. You may want to check again and save yourself some work as the dark grey decals do look fairly accurate.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/DSC_0339.jpg

AudiS6, how much plumbing are you doing ? I've got some good pictures of the engine and the number of wires I can see.... well, I'll leave them to a more skilled builder :grinno:

Lot's of plumbing but I gave up counting how much wiring there is :)

Lathafummi, that's a nice finish you've got. Which Halfords paint did you use ? I did some testing on Tamiya's Silver Leaf and Mica Silver, which were too dark, so I've decided to go with Revell's silver (90) as it's a very close match and automotive paint flecks looked too big
It Audi siver, just by luck I had it lying around. And its one of those wierd resizing affects the flecks dont look that bad in real light.

Lathafummi, that's a nice finish you've got. Which Halfords paint did you use ? I did some testing on Tamiya's Silver Leaf and Mica Silver, which were too dark, so I've decided to go with Revell's silver (90) as it's a very close match and automotive paint flecks looked too big.

Scalecentral, I'm going to try and do the 2006 ALMS champion as most of the decals were the same as on the Le Mans winner. With some home brewing, the ALMS specific decals shouldn't be a problem. The same should be the same for the 2007 Le Mans winner. You may want to check again and save yourself some work as the dark grey decals do look fairly accurate.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/DSC_0339.jpg

AudiS6, how much plumbing are you doing ? I've got some good pictures of the engine and the number of wires I can see.... well, I'll leave them to a more skilled builder :grinno:


One thing that shows is as I have always said... even the real things aren't always perfect. Look at the seams and the edge on the red upright. Why should one strive so hard to be perfect, lol. Btw, I see what you are saying about the gray. I will have to wait and see when mine get here.
Nic

I've got some good pictures of the engine and the number of wires I can see.... well, I'll leave them to a more skilled builder :grinno:

May you share pliiiizzzzz??? :D :naughty:

One thing that shows is as I have always said... even the real things aren't always perfect. Look at the seams and the edge on the red upright. Why should one strive so hard to be perfect, lol. Btw, I see what you are saying about the gray. I will have to wait and see when mine get here.
Nic

And this was the show car !!! But I agree about perfection. I have a great pic of the upper front suspension of Jensen Button's BAR F1 car. While everyone tries to get their CF decals in one piece, this pic shows the strut in 3 definite pieces.

I've found the IMSA and ALMS decal images for the ALMS winner so all I have to do now is create the number panels and the class number decal. Can anyone recognise the font for the numbers ?



And gionc, hope you like these (with thanks to SpeedArena and Google:icon16: )

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/046.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/038.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/024__scaled_600.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/015__scaled_600.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k249/HappyMartian/AUDIR10TDiengine.jpg

I'm waiting a transkit to do mine.Dextermodels will release a R10 test, the all black one. A little patience. I've already got the race version in 1/43 from minichamps, so I'll do the test version ;)

Where did you guys find you Audi kits? I live in the US and everywhere I look they are saying September before it will be available.:disappoin



Thanks,
Mark

Mark,

Revell Germany released the kit in Europe in July and Revell USA is releasing the kit in September. I believe all the respondents in this thread so far are in Europe (I'm in the UK) so unless you wish to import one from over the pond or are prepared to pay some big bucks for a resin kit, I'm afraid patience is your only other option :frown:



Andy

I have started mine. Not done a fantastic job so far but im not that good anyway and the kit is cheap

You shouldn't pull down your work.What you have done so far looks really good.You have achieved a very nice even finish with the silver which can be a real pain sometimes.The decals also look very neat.:)

the UK. Great service and great price! 30.00 to my house in WA

Thanks for the replies on where to get the kit.



Mark

Someone brought their WIP R10 to the ACME meeting yesterday and the rear cowl was so warped he had to glue it to the body.

hopefully his is just a fluke

If you have, would you post some pictures please. I have been studying engine pictures so that I can get the detail correct, and what I have seen is that it is one big mess of wires.......:screwy:

I got two this past weekend. They are very good kits. My only complaints are the wheels, simplified rear suspension, and the many sink marks on the chassis pan. Overall though, it is worth the price compared to the resin items. Dexter has already released their PE. S27's should be by the end of the month. Hopefully we will start seeing some WIP's pop up on it. BTW, my rear deck fits perfect. There's no warpage to the kit at all.
Nic

Andy,
I'm new to this site and just wanted to say thanks for the reference pics you posted. The R-10 is a future project once they release the kit here in the states. I've been monitoring this site for the past few weeks and your guys work is excellent!!!! Thanks for the motivation!! I love building road racing kits and haven't found other builders around here with much interest. Everyone here just builds NASCAR. Hope you don't mind if i hang around here with you guys!!!
Thanks
Scott
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

Hey guys,
new to this website and just wanted to say fantastic work you guys do. I can't believe i finally found a road racing modeling website. Most everyone around here in the states builds NASCAR and just doesn't seem to be too much interest in road racing. Thanks for posting the R-10 pics as this will be a future project once they release the kits here. Hope you don't mind me hanging out here with you guys!

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
Scott

I started mine this past week. The kit is pretty good I thought. Only a few complaints. The rear engine cowl WAS warped, but not that bad, all i did to fix it was heat up the mid section and bend it upwards. Decals (Altough the CF decals included are kinda useless) and molding (ecspecially the body) all seemed above the average Revell kit. Tires can look good with some modifying. I'll post it when compleated.

Looks good. I look forward to getting one of these soon.

hopefully his is just a fluke

Nope, mine's warped too.

Not irreparably warped, tho. Hot water will do the trick.

On the whole it seems it will be enjoyably. Nice rims and tired for once.

Hey,

First post here :D

i just got Revells R10 today :P

anyway i noticed there are decals for the grey top surfaces of the car.
I was wondering what Tamiya aerosol colour would be best for it? i don't fancy putting decals over those vents... :uhoh:

oh and sorry for the epic bumpage here :iceslolan

I just got mine as well. It looks like one of the XF acrylic grays might have to do, maybe medium or light gray. I haven't had a chance to find out. Not sure what TS color that would be. I just ordered the Studio 27 PE from Stradasports. I was going to get the Dexter PE set as well, but it looks a little trickier and I can't really afford it. It has some things the Studio 27 set doesn't have, such as mesh and louvers, but on the Dexter set they want you to apply the PE side louvers on the car piece by piece! That sounds like a nightmare. Apparently Dexter are coming out with a full 2007 R10 trans kit with decals and resin parts. Maybe I will get that, but once I have everything I may start a WIP on here.

http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/spray.htm

i'm thinking TS-42 light gun metal?..

only if its gloss though...

anyone painted theres? what colour did you use?

:nono:Nice job, actually excellent, The only thing I would of done is airbrushed with Aluminum and not metalic silver. to many spec's for the scale..I recently joined this site and will post pics as soon as I learn how. I purchased the Dexter decals with the photoetch parts and taking pics of the build as I go along, Your work inspires me, keep up the nice work.. :cool:


I have started mine. Not done a fantastic job so far but im not that good anyway and the kit is cheap ;)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10009.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10008.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10006.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/Lathafummi/Model%20Cars/Audi%20R10/AudiR10003.jpg

Yup

I agree about Nascar, Boring - Can't see the excitement in a constant left turn..The models are done beautifully and do admire the Modeling but, the sport ?? F1 and road racing is where its at.. best of luck on your builds, hope you still enter the site..these are as far as 2007


Andy,
I'm new to this site and just wanted to say thanks for the reference pics you posted. The R-10 is a future project once they release the kit here in the states. I've been monitoring this site for the past few weeks and your guys work is excellent!!!! Thanks for the motivation!! I love building road racing kits and haven't found other builders around here with much interest. Everyone here just builds NASCAR. Hope you don't mind if i hang around here with you guys!!!
Thanks
Scott
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

Hello to everyone. This is my first post here as I'm extremely new to this, having just built my first ever kit! I'm about to start on my R10 kit and would really like to do a decent job on it and have been rather inspired by the work that the OP has done.

I have a question about the painting the body work which I'm hoping you can help with. How do you cope with a body that has different coloured sections, e.g. the red sections at the top and the dark grey sections? Do you spray the whole thing in silver fiirst (and compound and wax), then use masking tape and paint the red / grey sections? Can you paint in red over the top of the silver? And if not, how do you paint in such a way that the line between the silver and red sections is crisp?

I've been puzzling over that one :-) Any help would be much appreciated!

Im sure you'll find more than enough info in these post:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=766017&highlight=Audi+R10

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=881070&highlight=Audi+R10

Can you paint in red over the top of the silver?

Should be no problem at all. Silver over red instead might be much more difficult.
Spend some money on Tamiya`s masking tape, if you want to have a nice result.

Thank you both, much appreciated. By the way, is normal masking tape that you might use for painting walls good enough?

No, definitely not! The paint will flow under tapes like those and you will risk stripping off paint while removing it.

I take this one and i´m quite sure, it´s the same as Tamiya tape:

http://www.inhop.de/product_info.php?products_id=242

If any R10 owners out there dont know, Dexter finally released their 2007 update. Includes the correct aero for the R10, as well as the Sebring decals. Got mine today, the test version, very nice.

http://www.dextermodels.com/1200/24/24014-1200.jpg