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| I bought A Heller 1/43 scale Camel-Lotus 99T when I was trying to find some wheels for a project. It turned out that the wheels were too small, so I decided to build the kit instead. I thought that the decals were missing the camels so when I tried to confirm this I saw that there were a conversion kit for a 1/20 scale kit of the same car. That set backdated it to a black and gold JPS Lotus 98T. Now I started to look for information about the Lotus 98T so that I could build both the Black 98T and the yellow 99T. I then realized that there were an early and a late version of the 99T so now I was building three cars. I only wanted some wheels!!!!!!!!!! |
The black 98T is the one that needed most work. Besides the new front and rear wings, I had to remould the part of the body that covers the engine. It also built a transparent windscreen. It isn't much visible since it is painted in black smoke, but if one look very closely one can see a JPS decal shining through from behind the window. I also had to make new decals for this car. Sadly, I made them gold instead of the correct "biscuit" colour.
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The yellow 99T with the Camel text is how it looked in the early part of the season 1988. I converted the front and rear wings and removed a plate on the side of the body. I also made new decals for this car.
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The yellow car with the Lotus markings is a 99T built out of the box. All I did was to print the Camels that was missing in the set. This is how it looked for the late part of the season in 1988.
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| Stockholm November 24, 2012 |  |
Updated March 1, 2019 |
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