lotus 79 rebaque / martini -02

a little update... I painted the rims of both cars and masked them before painting the tire logos. Finally I airbrushed the logos using a stencil I had from the ferrari 126C2. It was quite difficult because the sides of the tires are rounded. Anyway, the result is not perfect but acceptable.
I also built the seat belts. I always use an old tamiya's driver figure to measure the length of the cloth. The harness are from the fantastic set of KA models and the cloth material is from an old perfect parts seat belt set.
Finally I could start the work on the engines. The first part I built is the gearbox and rear suspension. I hand-painted the springs instead replacing them with metal spring because they will be not very visible once the cars will be finished. I ordered some hobby design's metal hose joints at spotmodel so I hope I will be able to finish the engines next week.

More updates  soon.... thanks to all!

lotus79 rebaque -01

I also started the lotus 79 rebaque's version! As I did with the lotus 79 martini, I started cutting all the pieces from the sprue and prepared them to prime and paint.

 I painted the body pieces with rebaque's brown form zero paints. I like this color! Nest step will be sand the pieces and airbrush a first clear coat before apply the decals to prevent the silvering.

 I also started the work on the wheels. The first step was to sand the surface to delete the shine and to give to them a "used" look.

lotus79 martini -01

Finally I could start the work on the two lotus 79!  As always, the first steps are quite boring but necessary! 

I cut all the pieces form the sprue and separate by colors before painting them.

I also cut the body parts.

 Finally all parts are ready to prime and paint......

I primed all parts with tamiya's white primer and I airbrushed the colors. I also masked the inner parts and painted them with flat black

 I couldn't wait to make a little fitting test!

hobby design - F2003GA detail set

Today I received the hobby design's 1/20 Ferrari F2003GA detail set. As all of their products it's a great set! I can't wait to use it it soon building the F2003 from Fujimi!

F2007- 09

F2007 is finished!

Finally I didn't use the 2K clearcoat as I'm still waiting for a new airbrush. So I clearcoated the car using TS-13 from Tamiya.

The next builds will be two lotus 79 (martini & rebaque versions).

F60-07

The F60 is finished!

Honestly, I finished it some weeks ago but I didn't find any time to take some pictures....

It's curious to see how naked it seems compared to the F2007. Anyway, I enjoyed very much building this car and, as always in tamiya kits, the fitting is near to be perfect!

Now it's time to finish the F2007 and start thinking in the two lotus 79.....

F2007- 08

The decal job is finished!

Now I'm working on the brakes and I'm waiting to have some nice weather to airbrush the clear coat....

I really love the livery of this car!

clearcoat

Finally I received the clearcoat 2K pack from Hiroboy.

It will be the first time I use this kind of clear in my models.

F2007- 07

I started to apply the CF decals. I also masked the body to paint a mist coat of flat black to the places where the CF decals are applied to tone down the grey color.

The flat black is painted over the CF decals on the inner faces of the rear wing plates. I really like how they look.
I also glued all the body parts before start the decal job. The fit of the parts is better than I thought.....
And finally I started the decal job and glued the front wing parts. Hope to finish it soon......

new lamp

christmas is always a good time to have nice gifts!

this time I got a new lamp!

now I don't have any excuses to work on little pieces!