Here are some teaser pics... More will be taken in coming days and prepare for Modelersite.com building diary.









Enjoys!!!

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

The J199 is very close to finish line now... So much time was spent on CF-ing undertray, cleaning up suspension arms and of course, CF-ing suspension arms too... Dealing with rough white metal is pain.

Now the car is waiting for camera, couple of antennas and an emergency switch...





Overall, the building process is quite painful, I have to say.. This is due to my own mistakes and the bad fit and rough parts of the kit... The worst is that you will find the bad fit as you move closer to the finish line and that was not caught during the initial test-fit stage... I would switch back to build plastic F1 next time for sure..

Enjoys!!

Found a few great Japanese F1 modeling gallery!!

Yoshi Cars

Rollout Models Blog

Formula Gallery

Just got back from vacation and get back to modeling abit.

I put together the rear and front wing. Dealing with white metal is paint. Epoxy glue is the only choice for me. The clear winglet plate on the front end plate is pain to attach. I ended up using white glue to attach it. It is not solid and I am prepared to glue it again if it falls off.....

Same problem for the windshield... I wonder if I should just skip the windshield..

Well well finally, polishing done.. I am pleased with the result so far.



The bad thing was that I dropped the front wing end plate on the countertop and paint chipped off.. I have to redo the front wing end plate again and use S27 J199 decal to replace the 'Pearl' decal.



Next thing will be CF-ing undertray, driver seat, suspension arms etc etc... See if I can finish it by Christmas...