Scale : 1/43 Start: 05 May
2019 Finish: 15 August 2019
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Original
Models: DeAgostini
A diorama depicting a scene in
3rd Günaydin Rally of Turkey; of which the first was held in 1972.
In
those years, only domestic made cars were racing and great struggles
were taking place between the Tofas and Renault teams.
I wanted to make a diorama to remember this nostalgic race.
The
models initially.
05 May 2019: I split
the models. The dismantling of the glasses took some delicate effort.
30 May 2019:
I
bought the wheels and tires of the Murat-124 from Gemini Model Cars. I
bent the ends of the axle for steered appearance.
I revised the axle holes for positioning the car as swayed and
counter-steered.
01 June 2019:
I glued the axles in place with
CA glue.
I put the body on the base and
made a visual check.
Same
approach with the Renault-12. The rear wheelwell was too shallow for
sway position, so I shaved off some plastic to provide a space.
I
gave an angle to axle tips and glued in the base.
I put the body on the base and
made a visual check.
03 June 2019:
I
passed on to the figures I got from Denizen Miniatures. Though they
were 1/43 scale, they did not fit in the cars. So I cut the feet and
shaved some metal at the sitting areas.
I glued the arms of the
Murat-124 driver in place with epoxy glue.
04 June 2019:
The
right arm of the Renault-12 driver did not match with the steering
position. So I cut the arm and the hand, drilled the hand at the wrist
and put a wire bent to proper shape. I glued this in place with epoxy
glue.
05 June 2019:
I
finished the figures and put them in place for a visual check. I made
the arm of the Renault-12 driver by filling around the wire with
polyester putty.
I made the roll-cage of the
Renault-12 by soldering 0.8 mm dia. wire.
06 June 2019:
I made the roll-cage of the
Murat-124 in the same way.
08 June 2019:
I began making the diorama base.
I glued two 4 mm thick plywood sheets.
I made the road and partial
landscape from 10 mm thick foamboard. I painted white with
wood paint as primer.
I
made the cobblestone road texture on the computer and printed it on a
piece of paper napkin. Before that, I had tried with ordinary paper but
even with flat clear coat, local reflections did not disappear. I
printed with laser printer, inkjets will not work with napkin.
09 June 2019:
I painted the white of the
Renault-12.
I shifted to painting the
stripes of the Murat-124. Started with the yellow.
Then I painted the green
stripes. The masking job was tough.
10 June 2019:
I glued the road texture on the
foam board and painted the exteriors brown.
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