Tyrell P34

Nice artwork! 

What’s inside 

Moulds look crisp but I was later to find out looks can be deceiving. 

 

Seam lines? What seam lines! Thank goodness for my SMS ceramic scraper! Gunna need it! 

 

 

Typical Tamiya chrome. Very thin. 

 

 

 

I use a glass sander for remaining sprue nubs. 

 

 

 

 

Very useful tools. My most used tool is the ceramic scraper from SMS. It won’t leap frog and gouge the plastic like a metal blade will. Best $14 I ever spent! 

Body parts 

 

 

 

Side pod radiators before being upgraded. 

Plastic bolt heads removed with a chisel. 

 

One done 

 

 

 

A few details never hurt. 

 

Now which do I choose? 

I give thought to where to put the ignition cables. Sure you could just replicate the original, and that is difficult enough but I like to make it not just visible but pleasing to the eye. Original cables were black and ran along the tappet covers. Practical but not pretty. I ended up going with the blue and having them fan into the tappet covers like curling rib bones.  

 

This is where I came to grief. The injector stands were just so thin and brittle I actually broke a couple and parked the project until I could find another kit at a reasonable price. 

 

 

I found a set of decal seatbelts squireled away and they just happened to be blue. Spanjaard told me about setting them onto tin foil so … Thanks Spanjaard! 

 

 

 

 

SMS 2k clear. 

 

 

Ready to restart this project! 

Found a cheap kit so on with the show! 

 

I went with brown fuel lines as they were more visible than clear lines. The bright green tubes let me avoid trying to drill out the injector stands. 

Crazy modeller pe zip ties for the ignition wires. 

The exhaust I found difficult to line up and never did so successfully. 

 

 

If you look carefully you can see the exhaust does not line up. 

 

All done!