Tameo 1:43 Ferrari 156/85

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Dinoboy said:

Great work!

Cheers!

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Front suspension pull-rods and wing inserts fitted, and the driver’s medical air pipe. There can’t be much more to do; things keep appearing out of the box that I’d forgotten about...





Vac-formed windscreen fitted with PVA. Finished the roll hoop, but I’m not very happy with it - the Italian stripes along the bottom are printed too short, and lengthening them with spare decal didn’t really work. I’ll strip it and start again. Might try polishing the metal rather than painting it next time.









Steering rack outer joints fitted (slightly out of scale I think, but I’ll let it go this time), and track rods installed.





The roll hoop looks better polished than painted. Fitted the decals the best I could, and added the fire extinguisher hook loop. Also fitted the rear jack bracket, and made some covers for the diffuser stay holes.












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robemcdonald said:

I’d be happy with that at 1/20. You continue to amaze me.

Thanks very much!

To be honest it is a pretty incredible kit for 1:43 - and it's not even one of the more highly detailed ones. I think HenryK's are the higher end versions. Night and day better than the last ones I built in the '80's.

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Wheel fitting. Going to leave it a few hours for the Araldite to set. If it’s wrong this time I’ll go back to making paper ships...









I thought this plate was to take the self-weight of the model off the suspension arms, but they are actually very strong and easily up to the job. I think it’s intended to be used only if you’re screwing the model to a base. I might use it just to locate the car on its base, to stop it accidentally getting knocked off:

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Thanks Henry. Last time, luckily, there was no glue - it was just a test fit to get the suspension right. It was so far out though, I think the wheel hub was sitting on the wrong part of its stepped hub.

This time I’ve corrected the suspension and put Araldite Rapid on the hubs. It gives about 5 minutes working time, so I was able to check (as best I could) before putting the setting blocks in place.

Fingers crossed!

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It seems to have worked OK, although the spacer plate needs thinning a bit.



I’m going to add some body fasteners using 0.4 mm Top Studio rivet heads. I’ve toned them down with a matt coat; they looked a bit bling at this scale:

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The body fasteners are right on the limit for being over-sized in terms of thickness. The real ones were quite prominent though, so I’ll leave them on. Only PVA’d in place so no harm done either way:

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henryk001 said:

Yes i bow to your skills and level of detail added to your model. Tried putting bowing smilies on but it doesnt work for some reason?

Thanks Henry - no additional detail apart from the foil mirrors substituting silver decals, black decal strip at the back of the diffuser, and the rivets. The rivets were spare (I hope they're spare!) from the MP4/6.

Still waiting for the replacement decals from Tameo, then I can say I've started and finished a model this year (the same model that is!).

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The spare decal sheets arrived today. Good job I bought two - first stripe, again, cracked, and didn’t really work out:



So the fourth attempt was OK. No idea what went wrong:



Fitted them without much issue:



So just needs a wax polish, and it’s done:



Enjoyed that! Thanks for watching!

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henryk001 said:

Bravo, Bravo.
Very nice indeed. Any chance of a few 360 shots, like a walk around?

Thanks!

Yes, I’ll have to take some finished pictures when the weather is right.

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Thanks very much all - yes, I'll show my work colleauges the finished model. I'll post some pictures here in a minute.

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So here are the finished pics. They seem to have become a bit blotchy during upload, but there we go.

































Thanks for looking!

ETA this is one with my old 1985 HiFi models version. I think there's been an improvement in both kits and building over the past 35 years?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th August 14:18

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allegerita said:

Truly amazing.

I like the craftmanship and the fact that the detail at that scale is so high.

You, and Henry at equal measure have set a very high standard!

Thanks, yes these must be the benchmark kits at this scale, I can't think how Tameo could improve them significantly.

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henryk001 said:

Amazing workmanship there and looks really stunning against the polished background. I hope this build hasn't affected your eyesight
to compromise your other projects. I have noticed having a bit of eyestrain myself if i spend more than 2 hours without a break

Thanks Henry, much appreciated. I've given up, and use magnifying glasses for small stuff now. It's near point getting too far away that makes close-up stuff impossible these days. In some ways it's better becasue it shows up even more detail than with my younger, un-compensated vision.

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72twink said:

Well you have Luca’s approval, you can’t get better than that ........ very nice!

Thanks! Didn’t notice that - long story, but Facebook can be pretty amazing...

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Thanks guys - I think I might treat myself to the Tameo Ferrari 312 T4 for Christmas. It’s got a bit more chassis and engine detail.