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TAMIYA
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24048
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Modified
Extras
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Started:
09 January 2006
Finished:
25 January 2006
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09 January
2006:
I sanded the
molding marks first, that were especially at the top of the fenders and
the front corner.
11 January
2006:
The kit's distributor
pins were too tiny to drill any holes for cables, so I manufactured a
new
distributor by drilling 5 holes with 0.5 mm diameters at the tip of a
3.2
mm styrene rod.
I cut the rod,
inserted a 1 mm dia. stem at the back and painted the distributor.
I prepared the
cables by painting a piece of 0.3 mm dia. aluminium wire to flat
yellow.
I preferred enamel paint since it resists handling abrasion better than
acrylic paints.
I cut the wires
to proper lengths and glued all 5 to the distributor by CA glue.
Then
I put the distributor in the block,
bent the wires to their proper places (correct firing order) and glued
them with CA glue. I imitated the spark plug boots with paint. I had
drilled
a hole at the coil's tip, and it received the intermediate cable. The
engine
is now ready for mounting in the subframe.
14 January
2006:
I began detailing
the dashboard. After applying the light grey to the inside, I applied
Bare
Metal Foil to the gauge panel.
Then
I painted the sunk parts with
flat black, and repeated the process for the other panels of the
dashboard.
The
dashboard finished and decals applied.
To
give more realistic looks, I drilled
the spokes of the steering wheel.
Like
the steering wheel, I drilled
the holes on the sump guard too.
15 January
2006:
I gave a white
primer to the body and applied BMF for the script at the rear before
paint.
18 January
2006:
I painted the
body with Gunze-3 Red and scraped off the paint on the scripts after
each
layer of paint.
I
covered the floor panel with red
flocking and added mats from black PVC sheet.
19 January
2006:
Surprisingly,
the radiator hose was too short to cover the distance from the radiator
to the thermostat. So I adapted another hose part from my parts box.
I finished the
engine compartment. I added heater and vacuum hoses, the brake and
clutch
pipes. I used black telephone wire for the hoses and 0.3 mm aluminum
wire
for the brake etc. pipes.
I
assembled the inside. Here are two
views before the roll cage is installed.
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