Braun Tyrrell Honda 020 F1

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Heres a car I finished about a month ago..1/20 Tamiya kit, had fun building it and was a smooth out of the box build.
Ron

[racerbrown]

nice detailed work! thanks for sharing.
duane

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Nice job, Ron!! I love all the Tamiya 1/20 cars, and you did well on this one. Thanks for the pics.
Tom T.

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Very well done Ron. I built the Nakajima car as well and it was a fun build.

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Good job with those kit decals. Some of them can be a pain. ;D

G

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Thanks for the comments on this build....Duke...your build is very nicely done as well, I wish I had seen it before I built mine, I couldnt find any reference material on this car at all...just using the instructions and a few pics on the box art helped me along the way, looking at yours it looks like we're both right or both wrong! LOL..thanks again for the feedback on it
Ron

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Nicely done! I gotta build that one soon.

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This is another old thread I am digging up, as I am just now getting back into the swing of things. This is a great place to share a story here............. If you looked/or were following my 86 Pace car build back in 2010, you will see a gap between the last week of April and then me continuing on around first week of October. I told you then that I had a few things happen within my family and I would fill you in one day..well one day has arrived. The first week of May, I believe the very 1st weekend of May, we had a hellacious rain storm here that Friday night. I live on 4 acres with my wife and 3 kids and my parents own the 9 acres beside us. My home is on a lower piece of property yet if you were here right now, you could or wouldnt believe this story as you could not fathom how water can rise 20 feet from the river thats a half mile behind us and you could not understand how it could do it in 30 mins. As you are already putting together..my house flooded that day and we literally had 45 mins to stack up on pool table coffee table counters, couches and beds all we could. Our house was filled 23 inches with water. Most all a total lost. We had insurance, thank the Lord, but it was a tough road back... I can now sit and think back and talk about it and it not really hurt me,as things are much better...we totally renavated our (at the time) 5 year old house, now its 8 years old but we upgraded and added some of our own money to do things we wish we had done when we first built it. SO thats a plus...BUT, we lost alot, and we saved alot. The reason I post this here.......... I remember walking into our house on a Sunday after the water had gone down and we could get in to our home. I remember the mud and the "fishy" smell from the river water that covered our carpet and all our belongings that werent up high.....as I scaned from right to left, I noticed this F1 car in its glass case on the lower shelf of our entertainment center and it was full of mud. I remember the insurance guy came out that next day, Monday and took pics and had a cleaning/demolition crew come out to get on it before mold and mildew set it.... Anyways the house is great,we are just fine 3 years later..and it looks like nothing ever happen here yet when I see pics like this on forums I am taken back to the flood and the handful of models I lost to it. Since then I have finished a couple of models, but when hundreds of dollars of supplies and things get lost...as you all know you dont just go out and buy all that in one days, you accumalate it over builds and builds.....thats why its been so long me getting back at the hobby and to the level I once was. Well thanks for reading this.....I really hate I lost this car! But THANK YOU, for allowing the pics to be here!

Ron

[Calvin]

I'm sorry to hear that happen.
Thats one thing I always worry about is loosing everything I love....I dont have to worry about floods in my location but FIRE is a big risk were I'm at with all the big tall evergreens that lite up so easily.

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Thank you. Its a bitter sweet story, at the time so much bad was coming from it, but in the end it really ended up more positive than negetive. I understand the fire scare too, my wife is from Colorado where forrest fires can be the norm. We live here in Tennessee, of course that mighty Mississippii river doesnt play, and since our little river behind us feeds into it, you can only imagine how quickly it can happen. If you remember Nashville went under that very same day.....it was a mess in Tennessee as a state that weekend.

[racerbrown]

Wow what a tough deal!
I'm glad to see you've made such a bad ordeal into a positive one.
Duane