Post by smbrm on May 13, 2013 14:41:27 GMT -5
Just thought I would share a completed project, my first in 4 years:
So what is this model all about? I like to build concept racing cars as well as replicas.
In addition to modeling, I also participate in Online League Sim Racing so I wanted to do a model to commemorate some of the skins I have used in Rfactor by modeling an F1 "customer car" - F2007.
Just for fun! Or so I thought!
More complicated to assemble than usual, due to all of the aero elements and still be able to properly finish the paint. Very tight tolerances made accomodating paint thickness and added surface texture a bit of a nightmare. Turned out there was less than 0.13mm between the outside of the painted cold air-box and the inside of the painted engine cover! I had wanted to add some texture to the inside of the engine cover to mimic the rough side of CF, but with what I wanted to use there was a clearance issue! Lots of time spent making adjustments so it would all fit together, especially the engine cover and the engine body sides.
It was supposed to be a photoech practice exercise and includes selected parts from the Studio 27 upgrade kit: Gurney flap, vortex generators, shift paddles, body fasteners, radiator grills, & seat belt hardware. So no super detailing or wiring and plumbing of the engine other than some exhaust pipe weathering and some brass rod for the front engine mounting bolts. I used different colours of paint for different kinds of CF.
When it was finished something seemed missing when I put it on a ScaleMotorsports mirror stand? There was no plank! So I machined one from balsa wood to as near scale thickness as the material would stand. Balsa worked great as I could then press photectch pieces into the surface to be flush as in 1:1. A little dark paint to stain the bevelled edges and some future for sheen and I had a jabroc plank.
The driver figure was from the Fujimi pit crew kit and the hans device has been massaged to make it fit and look more prototypical.
Most of the decals are ALPS custom with a few from the kit. I also crafted some FIA tyre bar code stickers with unique numbers for each tyre and added the tyre "guy" stencil graffiti to the outside side walls.
Automotive laquer and Krylon were used. Florescent was flat and has been clear coated, but not rubbed out, which worked very well. Aero shapes were too complicated for that risk!
More pictures available at
members.shaw.ca/millersbrm/speeddetails.html
after you click on enter select >Open wheel models and then click >F1 Cars.
Hope this is of interest.
cheers
Stephen
So what is this model all about? I like to build concept racing cars as well as replicas.
In addition to modeling, I also participate in Online League Sim Racing so I wanted to do a model to commemorate some of the skins I have used in Rfactor by modeling an F1 "customer car" - F2007.
Just for fun! Or so I thought!
More complicated to assemble than usual, due to all of the aero elements and still be able to properly finish the paint. Very tight tolerances made accomodating paint thickness and added surface texture a bit of a nightmare. Turned out there was less than 0.13mm between the outside of the painted cold air-box and the inside of the painted engine cover! I had wanted to add some texture to the inside of the engine cover to mimic the rough side of CF, but with what I wanted to use there was a clearance issue! Lots of time spent making adjustments so it would all fit together, especially the engine cover and the engine body sides.
It was supposed to be a photoech practice exercise and includes selected parts from the Studio 27 upgrade kit: Gurney flap, vortex generators, shift paddles, body fasteners, radiator grills, & seat belt hardware. So no super detailing or wiring and plumbing of the engine other than some exhaust pipe weathering and some brass rod for the front engine mounting bolts. I used different colours of paint for different kinds of CF.
When it was finished something seemed missing when I put it on a ScaleMotorsports mirror stand? There was no plank! So I machined one from balsa wood to as near scale thickness as the material would stand. Balsa worked great as I could then press photectch pieces into the surface to be flush as in 1:1. A little dark paint to stain the bevelled edges and some future for sheen and I had a jabroc plank.
The driver figure was from the Fujimi pit crew kit and the hans device has been massaged to make it fit and look more prototypical.
Most of the decals are ALPS custom with a few from the kit. I also crafted some FIA tyre bar code stickers with unique numbers for each tyre and added the tyre "guy" stencil graffiti to the outside side walls.
Automotive laquer and Krylon were used. Florescent was flat and has been clear coated, but not rubbed out, which worked very well. Aero shapes were too complicated for that risk!
More pictures available at
members.shaw.ca/millersbrm/speeddetails.html
after you click on enter select >Open wheel models and then click >F1 Cars.
Hope this is of interest.
cheers
Stephen
