Tyrrell P34 Progress

Chaz Gordon
Nice work, It till amazes me the quality of these Tamiya 1970's kits. Those moulds were made in the days before CAD and CNC milling machines!

Kerry COX
RossJ. My compliments mate. All the detailing you have added is a real credit to your obvious skills. Old kit or new, it is always the modeller that brings out the best in a kit. I can almost smell the burned oil. 🙂 🙂 🙂 👍

Munkyslut
Ahh man this is awesome!

Ross James
Believe it or not this is all built OOB with no extra detailing so far other than a dot of paint on some of the bolt/rivet heads. That's just how good these big Tamiya kits are!

Munkyslut
Yeah the mid 70's Ferrari & JPS Lotus 1/12 Tamiya kits I have in the stash look incredibly good.
I built a few 1/6 Tamiya bikes & 1/10 & 1/12 Tamiya R/C cars nearly 40 years ago & the detail & quality was stunning back then.
I'm chasing a couple of these P34's on eBay right now!

Ross James
If you have the original 70s issue then I recommend you check the condition of the decals, and consider buying new sets if you can. The ones in mine are pretty past it - the small ones are OK (although very reluctant to leave the backing paper, needs a good 5-10 minute soak rather than 30 secs) but the yellow stripes in the pics just wrinkled and wouldn't go down flat, ended up ditching them and painting the stripes instead. I'm worried about the larger decals such as the numbers and the Elf/Goodyear logos, not sure what I'm going to do if they're past it 🙁

Chaz Gordon
I'm planning to get the First National decal set from the following year. The Blue & White livery looks fantastic on the P34

Munkyslut
That's looking very very nice! This is gonna be a good build 👍

Chaz Gordon
The detail level on these TAmiya kits is just out of this world, Mix in some patience and great modelling skills and you end up with something very special. I'm budgeting about a year each to complete my Stash of Tamiya 1/12, If I take any more time, I'll be retired by the time I get them done.

Weekend Hobbyist
Wow! OOB?!

Ross James
Yeah all OOB, but with some new decals from Indycals, the original ones were too old and wrinkly to use in the end. 40+ years had taken its toll on them I suppose!

Stéphane Jayet
beautiful!! I built one few weeks back but the front wheels were not perfectly aligned. Did you get the same issue ?

Ross James
Yes they are out a bit, the suspension was all a bit fragile though given the age of the plastic, broke a couple of pieces slightly so didn't want to risk forcing anything more.

Rui S
Beautifull, Nice memories 👍

Mike Pociuk
That is just some great work there. My all-time favorite race car. I have the original 1977 plus have just picked up the 2022 version. The 1977 is about half done, have all ready picked up the new decals, the wife threw the original ones out way back in the day. We'll see if I can get motivated enough to restart the 1977 before going on to the new one.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. I have one in the stash and if mine comes out half as good as yours, I will be happy.

Jv
Very nice clean build