I've been reading and watching this forum for a while now and it's helped enormously with my builds. I'm still below par compared to most on here but hopefully some constructive critisism will help me along
Apologies to the guy who's just done an F2001 by the way but I happened to have already started it when your thread came up. You did the 2002 livery anyway so mine will at least be different. I'm actually half way through when you join me. It's gone alright so far. The major problem was the nose cone. Tamiya moulded it in two halves so I spent a long time with the milliput smoothing it out, came out well though
Decided this would be Schumacher's car from the Japanese GP so the raised part halfway up the nose had to be sanded off (unfortunately I only realised this wasn't present at the Japanese GP after I'd painted it...at least it was before I put the Marlboro on though!). The other problem was the silver block behind the air intake. In the kit it's far too far back from the air intake, it should be right up against it. So I've taken it off and have made a new one from styrene. It's not finished yet though. I plan on doing the pipes around the silver block so it had to be moved. Other than the standard kit I've used some insulation tape to recreate the heat sheild ont he floor of the engine bay and the inside of the engine cover. Also got myself a brake set from hiroboy but haven't got around to doing those yet. Also I haven't used any CF decals on here as I'm not confident enough with the microsol yet. Perhaps on my next build I will
So here are the pictures so far. Apologies for the long intro but I had to explain what I've done. Cheers!
This was actually the first time I used microsol!
Here is the real picture from a similar angle. Apologies if I'm not meant to be posting this, it's from gurneyflap
Notice where I've sanded down the raised part
Insulation tape
Steering wheel took me a while
A picture of the instructions showing the construction of the nose. The small piece in between the wing supports actually sat too low so a lot of milliput and sanding was needed to make the gap smooth
