Certainly your new roll age is far more fit for purpose. Pedals are also so much better.
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Moving on to the engine bay, I opened up the end of the air intake which was solid....
I then went ahead and added some HT leads from copper wire with fine aluminium tube for the fittings. I also added a bit of detail to the oil filler cap...
And I added a rudimentary coil onto the bulkhead so I had something to attach the main HT lead to....
The ends of the tailpipes were also drilled out a little and I thinned down the fan blades in an attempt to make them look a little more in scale...
Thanks for looking in...
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Nice detailing. Good to see you back at this ?Comment
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Nice work Nick.SteveComment
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So the next area for attention was the door cards. As they come these are pretty poor.....
The filled holes are where the rubbery roll cage was meant to attach. After looking for some online images, I progressed to this...
The mouldings towards the top of the door card are meant to be pull straps to shut the doors. I inserted a couple of loops of copper wire and fixed some bits of photo etch to attempt a more realistic look and used scrap sprue to make a better arm rest and a knob for the window handle.
Then it was time to get on with some painting, after which the engine was installed.....
The exhaust downpipes were also on the 'rubber' sprue. They were glued in place on the cylinder head before the engine was installed, then after installation they were manipulated onto their respective attachment points on the silencer and then painted once in their final positions.
The bottom half all built up....
The 'rubber' seats just had a bit of grey dry-brushing to make them less monotone. I bought some scale checker-plate after seeing this on a real example and it looks kind of ok here. The rear bulkhead/radiator mount needed modifying as there is no provision for the air intake to poke through it on the kit item. I spent a very long time trying to work out something for the seatbelts, but no pictures I found had either similar seats or roll cage. In the end and after a couple of abortive attempts I'm going with no seatbelts!
Now its onto the body. Thanks as always for looking in.
Nick
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Well, that didn't go too badly. I do like the Zero paints. This was clear coated with X22 before I applied the decals, which went on very nicely although the stripes will need trimming in a couple of places..
I'll put the next update in the completed section once its all assembled. Thanks for looking in.
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Looking great Nick!Comment
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