Jordan 191

[da_ashman]

Simply amazing engineering!!! This has gone beyond modeling. Incredible!!

[gionc]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

Fantastico!!!!!!!!!

Nens speaks ITA!!!!!! Looks like I must agree

[Entau]

unbelieveable!!...extremely detail

[idgeek]

damn nice...

[Womper_1]

OMG i am definitely at the other end of the modelling scale to this but has been amazing to read through this build and see what could be done with some time, patience and allot of skill.

AMAZING work!!!!

[Joel_W]

jaykay, I've held off commenting until I read through the entire thread to date. Your work is not only outstanding, but built to a higher level then most of us mere mortals can even dream of. Looking forward to finally seeing the competed model, if one can just call what you've created a model. It's more like a masterpiece.

[uberwurx]

That is a crazy looking model dude, awesome work now put it on Youtube????
uberwurx.com

[Robi J]

Superlative Jay, superlative...

Robi

[Mikezibit]

Originally Posted by Robi J

Superlative Jay, superlative...

Robi

dito, its incredible, hope we see us in Frankfurt



Mike

[The Sheene Machine]

Sensational detail...

[wingary]

Wonderful job. Wait for your next project.

[modlman17]

This is an amazing builld! I really enjoy that it is the Jordan and not another Ferrari, McLaren or Williams Honda. No offense to the builders of those teams, it's just nice to see a different team represented with such a superb build!

Rob

[John18d]

Jay - your work and attention to detail is unbelievable for 1/20 scale - I have this kit to build but have no hope of replicating a fraction of the work and skill you have put into this build - truly amazing - John

[CifeNet]

What else can I say!?

I am serious! What else can I really say here??

Anyone???

[jaykay640]

Hi everyone

It’s been quite a while again since my last update. I had other things to do lately ( “real life“ :-) so progress was very slow once more. Anyway…I have something new to show finally.

I’ll start with the last “biggie” in the engine bay, the induction system. Originally, when I started this build I just wanted to put an “air filter” on the Tamiya piece, to cover up the rudimentary intake trumpets etc. In hindsight I should have stuck to that plan :-)
But when I finally got there I thought that after all the other silly details I had done up to that point, it would be odd to not do the induction system. I ended up building it four times…
Initially I started by modifying the Tamiya kit part. That worked nicely, until I tried to fit some scratch made trumpets in the tray and came to realize that the part was way to narrow to fit the trumpets plus the injection system inside.
So, after toying around with measurements I made a completely new tray and cover from 0,25mm styrene sheet and other materials, painted and decaled it and so on. Everything was fine until I tried to fit the almost finished and assembled part under the cowling…..you guessed right… it didn’t fit anymore :-(
Somehow at some point I had gotten the measurements wrong and it was now too wide. I still can’t explain why. It was only about 1mm too wide but that was a crucial one and there was no way to just cut out a slice or something to make it fit.
So on I went for No.3. I built it like the second version but a bit smaller and with some improvements ( I thought ). It worked o.k. but a couple of things just didn’t look as good as on the previous one. This went on until the final assembly of all the little pieces when I decided that it just wasn’t good enough and to start all over again.
This ( fourth ) time I took extra care to build everything precise and clean and that’s what I’m gonna show you :-)

I made the parts from a mix of Renshape and styrene sheet, plus 0,1mm strip metal for the frame on the tray that holds the lid with the air filter, and turned aluminium bits for the bottom of each “trumpet” to represent the throttle slides.





The parts were then individually primed, sanded, painted, CF-decaled, cleared, sanded and polished. In the next picture the trumpets have already received their aluminium bottoms and been installed in the tray.





After that I installed the injection system made from metal tubes and rods, turned aluminium bits, wires and R.B.motion A/N-fittings.





The proportions are not exactly as on the original. I had to make my version of the induction a bit short so the spacing between the trumpets wouldn’t look too wrong. I still don’t know if the Tamiya engine is too long, or the cowling too narrow or if it’s really just a matter of material thicknesses being too big in scale.

Anyway, with that sub assembly ready I could mount it on top of the engine and get on with cables and stuff around it. In the next picture you can already see some additional parts on the right hand side of the tray.





Then I could mount the ignition system ( at least I think that’s what these parts are ). There’s an electronic unit with two cylinders on top of it which are connected to the distributors by cables. These have to be the ignition coils I guess. In the next picture you see the parts I built from styrene, renshape and etched bits in front of the Tamiya kit part prior to painting.





And next up two more pictures of the finished parts in their place on the engine.









That’s it for the moment. There will be more cables and hoses in the next update :-)