1930 Bugatti 35B, Monaco GP winner
Jun 18, 2016 17:15:00 GMT -5
indy, racerbrown, and 1 more like this
Post by indycals on Jun 18, 2016 17:15:00 GMT -5
Picked up the Monogram 1/24 scale kit and I have to say, for a kit made in 1966, I am BLOWN AWAY by it. It is nice, detailed and accurate! It is a good kit by today's standards, much less 50 years ago. Monogram really took no design shortcuts on this. Kit is designed so that it can be displayed with or without the body (but it's one or the other - you can't remove the body). It's a simple build with lots of opportunities to call out detail. It comes with a standing driver figure, hay bales and armco barrier, and leather (pleather) straps. It can be built as road or race versions.
I am painting it Tamiya TS10 French blue - no primer so that I can preserve as much of the fine detail as possible (I did test a scrap piece to make sure I wouldn't have 'issues'.) Most of the chrome I'm shooting with dull coat, a few pieces needed to be stripped as they were not chrome/shiny on he actual car. Decals are my own and I am custom tailoring them for the Monogram kit. Decals were originally done for the Revival 1/20 kit but they proved to me too SMALL for the 1/24 Monogram kit!
I was asked if I would do any update parts for this kit and I said no, but I came across one exception. When Rene Dreyfus won the 1930 Monaco GP as a privateer, he added an extra fuel tank in the PASSENGER SEAT, so that he could go the distance without pitting. Much like Ray Harroun at Indy in 1911, he chose a slow-but-steady strategy to win. So I will be doing a fuel tank for that car (although it raced with a tarp over it, there is a post-race photo out there that clearly shows the fuel tank)
I expect my start to finish time on this will be less than a week.
Test fitting parts
Engine detail
I am painting it Tamiya TS10 French blue - no primer so that I can preserve as much of the fine detail as possible (I did test a scrap piece to make sure I wouldn't have 'issues'.) Most of the chrome I'm shooting with dull coat, a few pieces needed to be stripped as they were not chrome/shiny on he actual car. Decals are my own and I am custom tailoring them for the Monogram kit. Decals were originally done for the Revival 1/20 kit but they proved to me too SMALL for the 1/24 Monogram kit!
I was asked if I would do any update parts for this kit and I said no, but I came across one exception. When Rene Dreyfus won the 1930 Monaco GP as a privateer, he added an extra fuel tank in the PASSENGER SEAT, so that he could go the distance without pitting. Much like Ray Harroun at Indy in 1911, he chose a slow-but-steady strategy to win. So I will be doing a fuel tank for that car (although it raced with a tarp over it, there is a post-race photo out there that clearly shows the fuel tank)
I expect my start to finish time on this will be less than a week.
Test fitting parts
Engine detail
