SMTS 1/43 STP Andretti Hawk 1964 Lotus 64 |
The chassis |
The chrome plated parts in the is kit are brittle and have already broken in several places already |
The fir of the suspension parts take time and need some fiddling around but again the brittle nature of the parts do not help much. The shocks look terrible so I replace them with some simple wire wrapped items |
Here is the body after some cleanup. The side pods have been glued on |
The front fenders come in white metal and later I found them on the PE sheet. However I think the white metal ones were easier to put on |
#ear 3/4 view showing. Several mounting holes for vents and side wings have been filled in as I will be modifying those items and do not need the mounting holes |
The engine insert which required little cleanup |
Close up of the filled holes. Filled with CA glue |
The body on the chassis |
The large wing behind the driver's head was a nice white metal item. It looks like later on they included a PE sheet with the wing end plates so I replaced them |
Another view |
Now this is one of the side winglets in white metal. Not bad looking except for the large mounting rob below |
The kit came with PE endplates so I scratchbuilt new wings and left the white metal parts in case the new winglets did not work |
Another view |
Both winglets and a piece of the coke can I used to make teh main body of the winglet |
Yay all done and it looks fairly good. The decal went on very well. I drilled through the body for the mirrors and replaced the kit parts with brass rod for strength. I then punched some round discs from aluminum sheet for the mirror faces |
The new winglets look better. The 2 scoops on the sides of the body had the leading edge thinned for a more scale appearance. |
A nice build |
This was build for a friend and they are always supposed to be out of the box but for some reason I can not do that. Small modifications add quite a bit to the finished model. |
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