Italari 1/12 Renault RE20 Turbo

[Mark1]

Looking very nice.

[Tim Marlow]

Excellent stuff. That is really starting to look the part. Really nice work Ken.

[minitnkr]

A beauty for sure.

[Guest]

So did some work on the turbos and exhausts and added another decal (these big decals are a real pita I think I in the future I may cut big decals into smaller ones.

I'm really peed off I've got to take the rear suspension all off as I've forgotten to add the air cooling ducts to the disks, gthey were a pain in the first place.

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[Guest]

More work on the turbos and added the forgotten brake cooling ducts.

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[Guest]

Well the turbos are installed (what a pita) loads more plumbing to add, and of course (I'm really dreading this) the headrers. Added a couple more decals to the fuselage soon be able to add the pontoons permanently.

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[Guest]

Added those headers (if I had hair I wouldn't have now) they needed loads of heating and bending to get anywhere near fitting.

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[minitnkr]

Amazing how advanced packaging gets so much in so little space generating so much power. Some great modeling here.

[Tim Marlow]

Really great work. You’ll be able to build a real one after this!

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
I missed this but just had a most enjoyable catch up. Superb detail and you're making an excellent job of this. That gloss yellow is stunning and the decals make it really eyecatching. Engine is great.
Jim

[Guest]

Thanks guys

[Guest]

I didn't realise the pontoons on these cars floated (they are mounted on a leaf spring of some sort, at least that's what it looks like to me)

[Guest]

Hi all nearing the end, it says on the box removable covers to show detail, well it took me near on 2 hrs to get those side skirts to look anything like good fitting. I can imagine the conversation oh let me show you all the detail, by the time I got the skirts off they would have lost the will to live so the skirts will be staying on (shame after all the work that went into the turbos)
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[minitnkr]

You can almost hear the pop of the waste gates.

[Guest]

Work progresses on the RE20, on the last leg now. Bit peed of with the instructions re the seat belts if you follow the instructions your seat belts will go round the seat nearly twice so now I need to alter them and they were a pita the first time.

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