Kitreview: Renault Alpine A110 Gr.4 Transkit Wide Body from Scale Production

[sportracer02]

Hi,

since years the Renault Alpine A110 from Tamiya is available. Some time ago they offered the Monte Carlo-version of the kit. It is a nice little racer, but these days the wide body transkit for the Tamiya kit from www.scaleproduction.de will be available. The appearence of the Alpine changes dramatically, it looks much more powerful now.

Here are some pics:

These is the contents of the transkit


coming with resin parts (new wide body, 2 bumpers for 2 versions, wheel-inserts), alu rings for the wheels and fire extinguisher, rubber tires, etched seatbelt hardware and fabric seatbelts, hood fasteners, alu velocity stacks, decals for 2 versions, etc.

The car can be build in 2 ways (fotos from a friend, who started both kits) :

the yellow ´75 Tour de Corse version with the smaller bumber



and the ´74 Tour de Corse version with the huge bumber




... the unpainted body (with fine crisp details)



... the alu velocity stacks:



... the unpainted wheel




It is hard to decide: yellow, blue or both??

[gionc]

No dubt Micha: both!

[sportracer02]

Hi,

here are some photos of the 2 completed models

[aeroace]

umm....is there any trick about painting front light to black? i think it must be a diffculty part.....,

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by aeroace

umm....is there any trick about painting front light to black? i think it must be a diffculty part.....,

Hi,

no trick, the black ring is a separate part in the Tamiya kit

[aeroace]

umm....which i said is the seat of the lightpod....youknow....in photos...they are not separated from the body, and the black rings around the clear light covers

[sportracer02]

Hi,

there is no trick, you use a paintbrush or a marker

[heroblast]

wow.
fantastic work.

[billypee]

I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say that I prefer the yellow car.

BillyPee

[7th_skyline]

I'm definitely a bigger fan of the yellow, however both look absolutely excellent.
The widebody shape really does define the A110.

Do you have Reinhard Klein's excellent book Rally Cars?
Page 199 has a very nice photo of Jean-Luc Therier sideways in the Italian hills on the way 3rd in San Remo 1975, in what looks to be a sister car to the yellow one (same yellow livery, registration only one number different). Anyway its one of my favourite rally photos ever.

[klutz_100]

Micha,

I hate it when you do a review - I immediately feel the need to go out and buy the kit!

I like the yellow livery but I also like the large bumper on the Gitanes version. Would it be sacrilage to combine the two?

Very nice review BTW and congratulations to your friend!

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Micha,
I hate it when you do a review

Hi Steven,

yes, you are right, I also have the impression that some people in this forum hate me for my reviews, but not the way YOU hate me . (But that´s life, for some guys it seems to be hard to face facts )

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Very nice review BTW and congratulations to your friend!

I´m sure he will read this and will be proud .



@ 7th_skyline : No, I don´t possess the "Rally Cars" book, but I guess I´ll have to look for it in the next time. Thanks for the hint.