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I remember when the Tyrrell 009 was presented that the papers said that it was a copy of the Lotus 79. When finally, the Lotus was release as a kit I also wanted a Tyrell. My plan was to convert the Hasegawa Lotus, so I bought Tyrrell decals from Studio 27 for the build.
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| As things turned out I bought the resin kit of the Tyrrell instead and converted the Hasegawa Lotus to the prototype Lotus 79/1. I didn't like the Candy sponsored car to much, so I bought the early season version with the Tyrrell logos on the sides. I would have preferred the version from Argentine and Brazil GP's, before they started to add stuff to the body that made the car uglier, but I decided to build it straight out of the box to practice on how to build multimedia kits. But then I noticed the boxing above the radiators looked to be almost twice the height of the real ones, so I decided to fix this. |
| Now that I had to do some conversion on the kit I decided to backdate it to the early races. I rebuilt the ugly rear of the side pods. I also sanded down the top of the front part of the side pod to get a slope that look more like pictures of the real car. Well it is obvious that I have large problems building something out of the box. I always manage to find a version that can't be built from the kits. |
| I was dry fitting the front wing and noticed that it didn't come out straight. I tried to find out where to file to get it right when I saw that the entire nose was bent to the right. I don't think it is possible to fix but I will cut the nose of and try to decrease the bend, so the wing looks straight. It looks worse in real life than on picture. Well I never liked resin or enjoy working with multimedia kits and this doesn't help. Give up and give in? No way. |
| I started the nose job by make a cut on the left side as far back as possible. As it turned out this was all that was needed. When I glued it together again the nose wing was straight. I am glad that I didn't have to remove it completely. The cockpit is a little bare, so I added the driver that I couldn't get to fit in the Williams here instead. |
| The main parts are glued together with front suspension dry fitted. It is different than building a plastic kit, but things are going better than I had expected. Lots of drilling to get the screws in or the small location pegs to fit. |
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Work has been done on the rear of the side pods. I took a couple of tries but now I feel I am a large step closer to finish it. |
I made them from 0,12 mm brass. Looking at pictures of the Tyrrell I think that they should be present on later versions of the car as well. So here is a template for them.I will have the wrong type of front wing end plates. The ones in the kit seems to have been used by Jarier in South Africa, USA and Spain only. So, I made new ones of brass. |
| I started to modify the helmet. |
| There is a hatch behind the left radiators that is missing on the kit. Of course, I forgot to make it before painting, so I had to scribe one afterwards. I could have played it safe and just let it be, but I knew that it would bother me later, so I took a chance. In the end the I didn't ruin the paint. |
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I built an exhaust protection. One thing that had me worried turned out not being a large problem after all: Getting all four wheels to touch the ground. |
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But the driver got his head and the decals are in place. It was a good thing that I originally planned to convert a Lotus 79 into this car, so I had bought the Studio 27 decals. Now I needed smaller tyre decals for the front wings and they were on that sheet. |
| So, I finished my first multimedia kit. It didn't turn out in a complete disaster but as usual I had to build a version not available. |
| The experience didn't scare me off multi media-models. In fact, I will start on another soon. |
| Stockholm December 29, 2013 |  |
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