Post by pje on Jul 7, 2015 15:38:21 GMT -5
I know we all think of Patrick as our resident Ferrarista, but yours truly is a bit of a Tifosi too. In 1959 my Mother handed me her latest Fuller Brush catalog. Interspersed with the catalog was an article by Denise MccLuggage about a young American driver named Phil Hill and photos of the most beautiful red cars I had ever seen. I was hooked. I wasn’t long after that that I bought my first issue of Road & Track then we got ABC as our third television channel (yes kids, in those days we only had three channels!) and there On Wide World of Sports was Phil flying around the streets of Monaco and down the Mulsanne straight at the 24 hours of Le Mans. I had been planning on building one of his cars, but recently my plans to build another Ferrari were rekindled.
You might remember that one of my favorite F1 cars is the 1982 Ferrari 126C2. I learned how to post photos on this thread:
mb2501.proboards.com/thread/6184/1982-ferrari-126c2
I’ve now built two 126C2’s now. The 1/24th scale Protar and years ago the beautiful Bosica 1/43rd scale kit. With the introduction of the 1/12th scale MFH Ferrari kits, I’ve now got the kind of additional information I need to get going on this project.
www.modelfactoryhiro.com/new/archives/13279
As Stu will attest to, I research the hell out of my builds, probably to my detriment as I don’t get much finished, but I do have fun and I guess ultimately that’s the point of the hobby. I’ve finally got enough information to help me add the kind of detail I want for one of my 1/20th scale Fujimi kits. This build will replicate the car that Gilles Villeneuve won the pole for the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix.
I got interested in the Brazilian GP car long ago when I realized that it was the only other race besides Imola where Gilles ran the car without the front wing. What stands out to me about the way the car appeared at Brazil as compared to Imola, and I’m only talking about Gilles, was first the graphics that featured the white stripe just below the cockpit and that was not used after Long Beach. Also the extended front brake ducts that were not used at Imola. Lastly the exhaust trumpets. Where in all other races that I’ve checked into, the exhaust extentions are just the bottom half of a pipe, in Brazil the car featured complete trumpets. Since I’m building the car in pre-race form it will not have the NACA duct on the nose. I really like that smooth look and the No. 27 sits on the nose nice and straight. This is chassis 057.
My research on the 126C2 started quite early. Had a friend going to the Long Beach GP with a paddock pass and he shot some detail photos for me of Gille’s backup car. According to the Ferrari 126C2 spotter’s Guide this car that I have to photos of (chassis 058) was Gill’es car in the race. He then raced it next at Imola and then was destroyed in Villeneuve’s tragic accident at Zolder.
I also wrote the Factory for help in 1982 and got a very nice note back from the designer, Dr. Harvey Postlewaite which is now one of my prized positions.
And now onto the model. I’m using the Fujimi kit as a starting point, but I’m also using the MFH transkit, a Studio 27 detail set, an Accustion photo etch set and other parts that I’ll talk about as I go along.
Here’s a comparison between the Fujimi body in red and the MFH body in white resin. The main reason for using the MFH body is that they narrowed the nose (which I’ll try to narrow further) and the under fairings for the front suspension. They are much more prototypical that what Fujimi supplies. Also, you can see the black plastic chassis that comes with the Fujimi kit and the white metal chassis that comes with the MFH transkit.
Paul Erlendson
You might remember that one of my favorite F1 cars is the 1982 Ferrari 126C2. I learned how to post photos on this thread:
mb2501.proboards.com/thread/6184/1982-ferrari-126c2
I’ve now built two 126C2’s now. The 1/24th scale Protar and years ago the beautiful Bosica 1/43rd scale kit. With the introduction of the 1/12th scale MFH Ferrari kits, I’ve now got the kind of additional information I need to get going on this project.
www.modelfactoryhiro.com/new/archives/13279
As Stu will attest to, I research the hell out of my builds, probably to my detriment as I don’t get much finished, but I do have fun and I guess ultimately that’s the point of the hobby. I’ve finally got enough information to help me add the kind of detail I want for one of my 1/20th scale Fujimi kits. This build will replicate the car that Gilles Villeneuve won the pole for the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix.
I got interested in the Brazilian GP car long ago when I realized that it was the only other race besides Imola where Gilles ran the car without the front wing. What stands out to me about the way the car appeared at Brazil as compared to Imola, and I’m only talking about Gilles, was first the graphics that featured the white stripe just below the cockpit and that was not used after Long Beach. Also the extended front brake ducts that were not used at Imola. Lastly the exhaust trumpets. Where in all other races that I’ve checked into, the exhaust extentions are just the bottom half of a pipe, in Brazil the car featured complete trumpets. Since I’m building the car in pre-race form it will not have the NACA duct on the nose. I really like that smooth look and the No. 27 sits on the nose nice and straight. This is chassis 057.
My research on the 126C2 started quite early. Had a friend going to the Long Beach GP with a paddock pass and he shot some detail photos for me of Gille’s backup car. According to the Ferrari 126C2 spotter’s Guide this car that I have to photos of (chassis 058) was Gill’es car in the race. He then raced it next at Imola and then was destroyed in Villeneuve’s tragic accident at Zolder.
I also wrote the Factory for help in 1982 and got a very nice note back from the designer, Dr. Harvey Postlewaite which is now one of my prized positions.
And now onto the model. I’m using the Fujimi kit as a starting point, but I’m also using the MFH transkit, a Studio 27 detail set, an Accustion photo etch set and other parts that I’ll talk about as I go along.
Here’s a comparison between the Fujimi body in red and the MFH body in white resin. The main reason for using the MFH body is that they narrowed the nose (which I’ll try to narrow further) and the under fairings for the front suspension. They are much more prototypical that what Fujimi supplies. Also, you can see the black plastic chassis that comes with the Fujimi kit and the white metal chassis that comes with the MFH transkit.
Paul Erlendson
Please keep posting.
Should I start worrying? 
