WIP Tamiya Honda RA 273 1/12

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hello,

after i finished my last project i began with some new stuff.



I drill holes in the body because i will put real rivets in it.




First i wanted to make only every second rivet,but now i take putty and closed all between them.




You can see a part from the stuff that i want to use.

This is the first part.In real im a little bit faster than this pictures here.But i show you all till the last stage.

Second Part:


You can see that im testing different sizes of revets.
The bigger ones are 1mm and the smaller are 0,75mm rivets.
I decieded to use the 1mm rivets.The honda has bigger ones than the Ferrari i build at last.



Part three:

What a work with this little rivets!






Now they are all primed and ready to color with TS-7.

Part four:

All the bodywork is now painted with Tamiya TS-7.




Tommorow i will paint it with Top-Coat and after that i apply the decals.


Thats enough for now.I must do a lot of work with the little parts inside.


Update:




Just added some cable to the breakefluidcans.





Now in place with the little cover to open.




A little overview of the hole work i done so far.
Not so much,but it will be more and more.

Hello,

after big problems with the Tamiya Decals and Mr.Mark Softer....i put everything in a Dowanol Bath. :twisted: :twisted:

Now i spray all again and at the moment it all dry out.
I will make the red stripes and the red sun with masking tape and Tamiya Spray.

While the color is drying i made some little parts.



You see the rims with my color creation.The Modellbooklet only says Tamiya Smoke.I deceided to use Gold with some layers of smoke to make it darker.
On my pics the rims look way darker than all colors i have at home.



Here is the oilcooler with scratch build parts.



I tested to make some weldinglines.But im not quite happy with it.
I used CA glue with Glassbubbles but i think the lines are to thick?

The smaler tank has weldinglines who are made with Tamiya X.16 + Glassbubbles.
They are also not the perfect lines i wish.



Finally the finished absorbers.


Some new pics.































The red parts are made with Tamiya TS and the black stripes are decals.
The scratchbuilding takes a lot of time,but its worth,i think.
The chassis is now finished,need some time to dry.
I will work now with the engine and there are still some scratch parts to build.


Just another scratch part.

Its a heatprotection between the exhaust and the fuellines.




Here is maybee one of the last parts.

The rear brakes.Tamiya did not made full brakes.They only made the parts that can be seen from inside when the rimes are on the car.
I just made my own brakes.


They dont really look like the original honda ones,but for me they are good enough.

Here it goes......


If made a little step forward.
I began to put the stuff together.



A closer shot from the watertank with selfmade weldinglines.




In the back i put the rear wheel suspension with a little change to the brakes.
I put some details to the poor tamiyabrake.



The shift lever was also changed.I put a 6 course in it.



Thats all for now.More coming soon.

Hi,

the frontsuspension is almost finished.Only the wire has to be made.





and her is the engine.
Cablework and stuff must be made,but im working on it. :mrgreen:







Just made the exaustsystem with the ceramic heatprotection.


Update:







I put the engine in the chassis and the exhaust was only lay on it without glue.




Just put the gearboxcooler with oiltank on it.Made some wires and cables.




You can see from the back the heatprotection for the fuellines.




Just finished with the gaswire(it is called in english so?).






But now i have really start with the rivets. :? :?


Hi,
i put the white rivets on the place.



The loosing rivets are counted,allready primed,and tommorow painted with red and black.




Thats all for the moment!
The build started at the 17.Februar 2010 till today.

I will show new pics when there is a new step.

Thanks for watching and comments are welcome.

Christian

[KevHw]

Wow what fantastic progress. Those rivets really add soemthing extra to the look of it. Nice work.

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hi,

now its done!
The waterpipes are allready finished.That gaves me the most headdache,but at last ist simple.
I made a conection scratchpart and look at originalpics.






The next are the breaklines and the missing rivets.


Thanks for looking!

[countach79]

Well then, someones been a busy boy!!

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hello,

here are the last wip pictures.
Next ones will be in the gallery.







Now i must only make a few parts.The window for the driver and some finish paint and some weathering.
More in the gallery.

Thanks for watching!

Christian

[Capri-Schorsch]

Here are now the final pics.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...tthread&f=1253

Thanks!