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Tamiya 1/20 scale. It was meant to be a straight out of the box build but the decals are old and starting to be yellow so new decals from Indycals was ordered.
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| But I didn't like the massive plastic grid in front of the radiators. In fact, when I looked at the instructions I thought that they were a set of radiators as well. I will try to replace them with a net or similar but it means that the bottom of the radiators might be little visible but they are blank on the kit. |
| My first thought was just to inscribe a pattern but then I decided to experiment a little. A mould was made of the radiator. |
| The mould was filled with Tamiya putty |
| and the radiator was pressed in to the wet putty. |
| A little soft in the details perhaps but they will be inside the side pods with a limited view to them. |
| I had plans of a straight out of the box build including the driver As I was going to fix the moulded net I decided to make a few more changes. |
| I built some boxes in the cockpit and added a tube to the steering. |
| I also added a piece to the middle of a bulkhead. |
| The driver is the standard Tamiya issue that didn't fit to well, so I decided to skip it and made some simple pedals in the cockpit instead. |
| I think they will be visible enough to justify the extra work. |
| One new net in place. As I suspected the work on the bottom of the radiators was unnecessary. It isn't visible, but I like this net better. |
| I wasn't going to add any cables or fuel lines as they will be invisible when the body has been glued in place. But I had bought some thread I was hoping to use as fuel lines on a later build, so I thought that it was better to test it here where it doesn't matter if things go wrong. But as it turned out everything went fine. At least I have the picture to remind me when this car is finished. |
| Time to close it up and add decals. |
| As I said earlier I will be using decals from Indycals. But it looks very clean this way. |
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Michaels decals are great. Look good, are thin and works very well. Looking at pictures I noticed that I choose the wrong driver for this kit. It is Alan Jones car that was moulded. When I looked at pictures of Regga's car from the British GP I reacted on the roll bar being to high in the kit. But then I saw that on Alan's car it was higher just as in the kit. So now is the question: Cut down the roll bar or just leave it? Right now, it irritates me and as I build curb side the cut will never be visible so I don't have to make the cut looking good. Well I think I know the answer to the question already. |
| Roll bar has been cut down. Time to get back to the decals. |
| I have added seatbelts. I bought the seat belt set from Tamiya but wasn't happy with the paper belts, so I bought a roll of blue satin ribbon. |
| It was 3 mm wide but that was little to wide so I put on a thin layer of white glue on the backside of the ribbon, so it wouldn't tear when cutting it. I think it look much better than the paper belts. |
The Williams FW07 is ready. So here are some pics of it. |
| The reason for me to build it is that it reminds me of a Lotus 79. |
| How can an almost out of the box build generate so many pictures? |
| Stockholm December 24, 2013 |  |
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