1/20 Fujimi Williams FW14B

[ace91]

Hi guys,

After completing McLaren MP 4/6, I started building this kit as it has been waiting for me to build for a few weeks.



Here are the photos of the engine. Took me a while to make this.







The exhaust & attached the exhaust to the engine.







At least those parts fit like a glove. Whew...

That will be it for the time being.

Adrian

[ace91]

Hi guys,

Here are the updates on my latest project.

Here are the photos after attaching the engine & attaching the rear suspension.







This took me a few days to get the alignment right for the masking.

Stage 1 : I primed them all then I sprayed with white. As the shop didn't have anymore TS-26 in stock, thus I have to use alternative. After that I sprayed the monocoque with TS-34.





Stage 2 : I have to make sure the alignment for the yellow on the rear cowl must be inline with the monocoque. That took me a while to have the right alignment for the yellow part on the rear cowl. After that I painted the rear cowl with TS-34. The masking tape provided from the kit is not bad. Should have shown the photo before I painted the rear cowl with TS-34





Final stage : I removed the previous masking from stage 2 to replace them with the new ones. Once I managed to get the alignment correct, then it is ready to paint.



Here is the output after going through these stages. I have to clean up a little bleeding on the rear cowl.





I thought of trying to place the monocoque together then later on put on the harness & the steering wheel inside after the paint work but unfortunately when I tried to test fit, I wasn't able to do so. This is because since the monocoque is divided into 2 pieces, I thought of placing them together & take out the dividing line with the putty but looks like I couldn't as I wouldn't be able to put the steering console & the harness inside after I attach the monocoque

Will continue my work from there on.

Adrian

[stevenoble]

Nice work so far, paintwork looks good. It's some tricky masking for the 3 colours, but well worth it..

[ace91]

Hi guys,

Thanks, Steve, for your comments.

This took me a few days to get be where it is now. For the side pods, I have to do a little bit of work on the monocoque that is drilling the hole a little bigger so that they can slot in to the side of the monocoque.

Also, it took me a while to get the brake discs to be attached to the suspension. Nevertheless, here are the photos of the work.











Now only left to do the work on the nose cone, front wing, rear wing & the tyres before finishing the kit with decal work.

Adrian

[ace91]

Hi guys,

Here are photos of the completed kit. At least the parts for this kit fits like a glove. The camel logo I used is F'artefice. The size is quite right for the parts.















Now waiting for the 1/12 kit of FW14B to arrive at my place. I'm thinking of making the FW16, any issues in fittings of parts?

Adrian

[stevenoble]

Looks great, very nice work and quick build too. Which blue did you use for the body parts..?? I think the FW16 is ok for fit, just some of the decals are a bit too big...

[John18d]

This came out really quick Adrian
looks like you did a great job
as I said before your skills are getting better than ever.
good job on the masking, painting and decaling
John

[John18d]

Adrian - do they have 3M products where you live?
3M makes a flexible plastic tape called "fine line" that is blue and comes in 3mm and 6mm widths - I use it for my tape line where the paint will end and then I cover the rest in painting masking tape and paper.
I can PM you a link if you do not know about it
The tape makes for a very clean line so there is no bleed through of the paint under the tape like you get with your masking tape
John

[ace91]

Originally Posted by stevenoble

Looks great, very nice work and quick build too. Which blue did you use for the body parts..?? I think the FW16 is ok for fit, just some of the decals are a bit too big...

Thanks Steve & John,

The blue is used is TS-44. I've looked up about the drawbacks & issues on the FW16, it's true that there's been comments that the Segafredo logo at the side of the monocoque is too big along with the stripes which are a little wide.

Just now I had a thought about making Ferrari 248F1 & I had tried to look up on the drawbacks & issues about the kit but to no avail. Any problems on the kit as well? How about Ferrari F92A as I'm thinking of building it after making the 1/12 version of FW14B?

John : My place has 3M tape but kind of hard to get them these days.

Thanks again.

Adrian