1/12 Ligier JS11

[seanrgb]

Just finished the build ..and first of all many thanks to Steve at SnC for supplying the kit . The kit itself is the Heller 1/12 kit of the Ligier Gitanes JS11 , I decided to do the 1979 Monaco GP Version driven by Jaques Laffite , I built this OOB and the main bodywork was painted in Revell Aqua paints which was a mixture of 9 parts 52( Blue) and 1 part 54 (Night Blue) , but as you'll see in the photo's it looks a light French blue , even though the car is a dark blue .
I had a few mishaps with the decals , first of all they didn't fit at all well and I made a big cock up by painting the drivers tub white then applied the decal which then meant the rest of the decals went onto blue paintwork ..so you'll notice a slight variation of the white
Overall not a bad kit just fiddly .
I gave the car a slight weathering

[Shunter]

Very nice work, i love this car, love the 80's F1. Great job.

[DerXL]

Great to see an older F1 car here.
Car is looking good. Don't really notice any of the problems you mentioned.

Otherwise, Heller kits seem to be a b*tch anyway, so kudo's to you for bringing this to a great end !

I noticed some minor wrinkles on the rear wing end plate. Is the whole rear wing end plate a decal? I'd thought that the blue would have been painted.

[seanrgb]

Originally Posted by DerXL

Great to see an older F1 car here.
Car is looking good. Don't really notice any of the problems you mentioned.

Otherwise, Heller kits seem to be a b*tch anyway, so kudo's to you for bringing this to a great end !

I noticed some minor wrinkles on the rear wing end plate. Is the whole rear wing end plate a decal? I'd thought that the blue would have been painted.

Cheers
There where a lot of decals on this kit and have to say they were pretty awful .. they refused no matter what I did to go on ..plus I made a major cock up on the main white ones that go onto the body work ( You know whats coming ) , the 2 decals went onto the drivers tub had to go onto the silver side pods , so I had this great idea to paint that white then apply the decals ..so far so good then I placed the main white decals onto the blue body work (Yep you guessed it ) the white decals now had a blue tint and didn't match up
as for the side pod decals and the rear wing decals they were one big decal , that didn't fit
Really I should of just painted the white trim , and chopped up those decals after painting all the white on the bodywork ..So If I do another one of these kits thats what I'll do next time round ..trouble now is I have a car that looks stunning at 20 foot away ..but it goes all pear shape when you get up close and personal