Post by Orso on Oct 28, 2013 22:40:41 GMT -5
The Hasegawa Lotus don't pose any real problems except that one can only build Ronnie Peterson's car from it. If one want Mario's car one should get the Tamiya kit. It is the front wing end plates that I am talking about. They have different shapes. The air outlets in the left side pod was changed from the German GP and forward. The Hasegawa kit has the late outlet while the Tamiya kit has both types.
I swapped the end plates from the two cars as I was going to build Mario's car from the Austrian GP. The Tamiya end plates had to be modified little and I have bought Tabu design decals for both cars so when I also had to swap the decals for the end plates it was no problem since they are the same colour.
I had bought the accessory set from Hasegawa for this kit but I didn't use much of the etch parts. I didn't see any reason adding something that wouldn't be seen when I can't glue these invisible parts with my ordinary glue. Super glue is crap and epoxy glue is messy.
But I used the seat belt. It makes a difference in the final result even though it isn't the most enjoyable thing to build. The etched radiator parts and the metal mesh for the air trumpets was also used. The Tabu decals are very nice to work with but the instructions wasn't to impressive. Without photos it would have been impossible to get it right.
