This is the first one for 2011. Finished on friday. I bought this kit from Modellissimo, which is in Riccione, Italy. There were no any American cars, so I took this one. It's Tamiya's kit, it's very great quality, and fun to build; every part fits nicely to other.
I started from the body... It needed a little of putty, and I used Green Putty for that work. Some sanding, and it looked ok. I did no other modifications or other special things for the body. I just primered it with Maston's primer, and there were no mistakes, so it was time for let the body dry for a long time, before the real paint.
Engine is painted with Semigloss black, and valve covers... Oh yeah, there is only a valve cover! It's painted aluminium and weathered a little. Basic engine. It was time to make spark plug wires to it. The distributor was missing from the engine. Well, I made one from plastictube and somekind of metallic tube... It was just a little too high so I made another one. That was better. I also drilled holes for the plug wires, to valve cover. Better, and those wires were very easy to install. I put little rust to engine and weathered with black wash. I drilled the injector tubes open...
Interior is quite simple. I painted the seats with semigloss black, and the place, where people sit, is mattblack. Seatbelts are made from Scale Dreams' Aftermarket material, with ModelCarGarage belt buckles. SABELT textes are pieces of paper, I just glued them to place. My seatbelt material was dark blue, but I wanted to paint them red. So I just took red paint after I had glued the belts to place and painted them. I drilled holes for the steering wheel too.
Chassis is built with box parts, there are no any special things with it. Just tried to built it clean as possible, I mean that I tried to make it look realistic, little rust there is looking good, I think...
Body is painted with spray gun. The paint is Humbroll Enamel MET 52. It wasn't an easy task to paint it, but I made it... Decals went very well, I used of course Micro Sol and Micro Set with them. I also glued windows to the body in this point, which seemed to be a mistake, little later. So, the body was really awfull to get fit with the chassis. All of the windows flied off the body, when I was trying to get it fit. Anyhow, now it fits... Nothing special with the final assembly... It feels good now, when I got the first car of the year finished.
Here are the pictures, all of the project shots can be found from here.http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/rr225/nigot58/Renault%20Alpine/
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Renault Alpine A110 Monte Carlo Rally 1971
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