Ford Escort RS1800 Mk.II [Italeri 1:24]
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- 1:24
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- Завершені
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- June 10, 2020
- Завершені:
- July 9, 2020
My starting kit is an Italeri Mk-II Ford Escort RS1800 from the 1979 Monte Carlo entry, in 1/24 scale.
Although the original kit is a full-spec rally car, I have built it as an homage to our family car - an ex-police Mk-II Escort - into which my Dad dropped a tuned 1600cc (I'm not sure if it was a Twin Cam or not), added larger wheels/tyres and finished it off with 2x Cibie foglamps and 2x Wipac spotlights. And an airhorn.
Before it was put up for sale, the police resprayed the doors, bonnet and boot lid the same colour as the rest of the car, -which I have tried to match - hence the really weird shade of blue.
The kit's bodywork was quite well moulded, with only a few imperfections, mainly on the window frames and seems. The tyres, on the other hand, were atrocious. Each of the 4 tyres supplied had holes, gouges, or were so unevenly set that they were no longer round, or evenly rimmed. The wheels are very reasonable copies of Minilites, beloved by competitors and enthusiasts alike.
I tried a silver/chrome backing to the extra lights, but they didn't look right, so they have been resprayed gloss white. I kept the rally seats and harnesses; I'm sure Dad would have competed in this car - as he did in our other cars - if he'd had the opportunity. The pins fixing the extra lights to the front quarter bumpers are ridiculously small - 1mmx.5mm - and I found it impossible to set them using the pins alone.
I'm not sure why, but the pedals are located all the way forward in the cockpit, much too far away for a driver to be able to use them (it may be that I placed them in the wrong position). The fire extinguisher and the spare are a nice touch.
The roll cage came in 5 separate parts, each of which was supposed to be fixed using a tiny nodule in a tiny, tiny hole. I barely managed to assemble it, once, and only once. Even after I drilled a small channel into the plastic and inserted a tiny brass shaft, I never managed to fit it into the car.
I eventually fashioned a new roll-cage using thin plastic tubing and surgical tape. Once it was sized it was primed, then sprayed orange/red and, finally, I created some cautionary decals (in French).
While remaining fixed at the rear of the cockpit, the front of the roll-cage can be lifted and repositioned, allowing it to be fitted flush against the glass canopy. The use of surgical tape allows each section to be moved/rotated relative to the others.
For the bodyshell, I added both decals from the original kit, and decals designed in Adobe Illustrator. These decals are printed on special A4 paper which is then varnished (I have found Humbrol Clear Cote works best) before being cut out and applied in the usual manner.
At this point, the front of the car body was still riding a little high. To lower the front I cut about 3mm from the front suspension struts. A small cutout was made in the exhaust manifold, and a channel cut into the bottom of the engine block to accommodate the lower ride height. To keep the roll-bar attached to the wheels, I used a hot blade to flatten the plastic pins.
The beauty shots were taken against a backdrop of two white canvases, placed at 90 degrees to each other.
The delicate nature and fittings of the wing mirrors, spotlights and front spoiler mean that they have not been permanently attached using glue - as this kit is being posted overseas I didn't think they would survive the journey. Instead, I have packed them separately so my Dad can fix them upon its arrival.
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Thank you. It was my first really successful paint job that I was proud of. I have more completed galleries/projects to upload that I haven't gotten around to yet, despite my best intentions.
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I'm very impressed by your work on the 1:12 bikes. I've only made one so far (Suzuki GSX400FX), and it was very different to a car, especially with things like hoses and the oh-so-tiny mirror-stalks.
I've been trying to find a model of the Honda CBR600F but, despite it being one of the most popular GP bikes ever made, it seems to be a gap in the model market.
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ah thank you i do my best, but there are many improvements to be made, getting better each build i think. your gsx looks good too, it seems they've all passed that one by 🙁 and my jc22 nsr 🙁 we should petition tamiya to make them
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I really wanted a model of my first bike - a Honda CB125T - but again, that was never made. Honda don't even make a twin-cylinder 125 anymore, while the CBR600 has been replaced by the CBR500 & CBR650 🙁
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Ah, the RD - catching riders unawares from 6000rpm onwards. Was the twin a 2 or 4-stroke?
My CB125T2 was an I2 4-stroke with twin exhausts. Has anyone made the FS1E (in purple)?
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yeah a 2t twin of course, you'll like
this link
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That's a wee beastie - much of it hand-built/modified, from what I can see in the picture. I've never had or ridden a Yamaha, so I can't comment.
My bike looked like this, in all its pre-restriction torque glory - although the blue is darker in real life than these photos:
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They were even advertised with a rev limit of 12,000.
Now you can't find a good one on the road that isn't a full restoration, and I've seen those for sale at £5k, or - worse still - price on request. The internet is full of photos of them, but they never seem to be of bikes that actually exist now. Mine was written off in a collision, and I assume that most of the others were as well. ,
I know my little 125 Keeway has fuel injection, combined braking with disc brakes all-round, electric starter, etc., all the mod cons. But I do still miss my CB. That Honda replaced it with the anaemic 125 Superdream is an insult (although the 404 and CBR600F made up for it).
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prices have gone mad in the last few years, exactly the reason i'm gonna hang on to my nsr