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Re: B.r.m. H16 - 1/20 mfh

The nosecones.

P115: no problem, built OOB, a part of reducing the inside of the nosecone to let the fitting:

On the left the green arrow shows the work already done; on the left the tickness of the original nosecone.

Here the final result:




P83: here Stewart at Spa:

as you can see, inside the nosecone there were some flaps which Hiro didn't make.

So I made a mould of the inside of the nosecone:


Then I wrote with a pencil the shape of the flaps; the nosecone in the pic is that of the P83 of Spencer at Monza:


With 0.2 mm plasticard I made the flaps:


Here a fitting test:


After painting with semigloss black and washed with dry aluminium, I glued the two parts inside the nosecone, in front of the mesh:






Here the two cars together:
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