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An
excellent kit Reader Colin Nash recently built the Tameo model pictured above - ref TMK292 (and in colour on what's new page 1) and offers his comments......  "I finished this some
weeks ago and thought someone else might offer FSW a photo - but as
they haven't! I am not sure about the colour, although looking at
the photos one can determine at least a dozen shades of yellow. (Ford
Signal was the only one I could find with that feel of citrus). You'll
also maybe notice one of the turned aerials - which I lost - has been
replaced with wire. Here are the notes I made during construction.........
Drill 0.75 on top
of airbox - not 1.00mm - 1mm would split the top of the airbox....
The final assembly
diagram is ambiguous on two counts........(1) It shows blue paint
number adjacent to rear upper wing elements, which should of course
not be painted blue. You obviously need them yellow to show up the
word Telefonica when the decals are applied. (2) It shows the small
fairing on the barge boards to be black - they are not. The decal placement
diagram contains a mistake. It shows the Fondmetal decals on the front
suspension as being white for Mazzacane (car 21), when photos of the
car show that his car should have red ones. Now for some construction
hints - I should strongly advise constructing parts 65 & 66 and sticking
them to the nose of the car before painting. A sharp blade easily
removes paint from the tiny wire extension on the top - that's easier
to do than describe! I had no trouble
with the delicate 3 point barge board supports. I stuck 77 & 78 to
the base plate before painting and 75 & 79 to the rear of the barge
boards - again before painting. Check the angle of 75 & 79 to the
rear of the barge boards - again before painting. Check the angle
of 75 & 79 during your dry run. Remove paint from the ends of the
supports where they join the body when final assembly takes place.
Colin Nash, Helmdon, England Our thanks to
Colin for passing on his findings. We welcome similar comments and
photos from fellow readers and will always try to find the space to
publish them. |
More
1:24th......I build exclusively
in 1:24th scale, and have purchased decals and trans-kits in the past,
which I would like to give build reports on. Big TK14 -ESSO Toyota
Celica ST205: Excellent decals, wheels very good, roll cage undersized,
large ancillaries fair and small size ancillaries crude. Instructions
reasonable but decal placement guide useless with no colour detail
guide. Meri Martini Escort Cosworth: - Excellent decals and good wheels
with colour decal placement guide. CB Com Bastos Escort: - good all
round but decals not opaque enough and missing some small items. By the way, regarding
the 1:43rd pre-painted D+W Escort group 2 kit reviewed some time ago,
my sources say that these cars were painted Ford 'Midnight' blue,
a very dark shade which is often mistaken for black, when viewed in
some light. This was the colour used on all of the D+W sponsored Fords
of this era. 'Mampe' cars were black. History has not done justice
to these Escorts, which during the late seventies were to be seen
racing in the European Touring Car Championship - being the scourge
of the 3.5 Litre 24 valve BMW 635 CSi - and winning the 1980 Nurburgring
6 hours outright, if memory serves me correctly. In fact, the various
Gr.2 Zakspeed Escorts were always the best of the class. The BDA was
quite an engine. Now - can I again
bring to your attention the criminal lack of a good book or books
on the history of touring car racing, which has had regular involvement
by drivers such as Hans Stuck, Bernd Schneider, Jackie Stewart, Jacques
Laffitte and Klaus Ludwig to name but a few. I get annoyed and frustrated
by yet another book on what Mika Hakkinen has for breakfast, or whether
Michael Schumacher would have been better than Aryton Senna. What
difference does it make? Let's be brutally honest here, since the
demise of the turbo era, F1 ranks alongside cricket and lawn bowls
as the best cure for insomnia, most of the time. And what is the most
successful form of motorsport on your screens today? - the BTCC, which
would not exist except for the exploits of the Andy Rouses, Robb Gravetts
and Gordon Spices of yesteryear. Books on their exploits? Not a single
one. And not forgetting of course the Ford Capris, Rover Vitesses,
Lotus Cortinas etc. Yet little or nothing exists in print. While I am ranting
on, can you twist the arms of all those kit manufacturers that you
deal with to consider resin kits of the classics, in 1/24th. Cars
such as those above, plus the E30 BMW M3, Volvo 240T, Ford Escort
MK 1, BMW 528i and many others never before available. My collection
is exclusively in this scale, which is an increasingly popular size.
John Culley, Dublin, Ireland |
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Tyre
decalling again!! |
Being an admirer
and purchaser of Tameo kits I read with interest Harm Kruitof's article
in the 05-2001 issue of FSW. Whilst I can understand his comments
about the minute detail supplied particularly with the Superkits I
find this adds to the challenge and that returning to a "standard"
kit can sometimes be disappointing. I have recently used the local
watch/clock repairer to order tweezers, at £12.00 a time that seem
able to pick up dust! (his hobby is restoring Mini's for exhibition
- now there is a labour of love). Again I have mixed
feelings about pre-painted kits. The Tameo Ferrari 312T kit took me
six attempts to achieve the required results on the lift-off bodywork
(at masking I am not good but can recommend the use of self-adhesive
book covering film as it's adhesive qualities are very kind to fresh
paintwork), but again this is part of the challenge. I have yet to
purchase a kit that does not require some fitting of the bodywork
(including Top Queens Mercedes W153) and if the parts had been pre-painted
touching-up and matching the paint would have been a near impossible
task. I do not believe that the majority of model makers would wish
for "Lego" type kits that produce models of little more interest than
the freely available die-cast ones. Finally do not despair
about wearing optical assistance. I have worn spectacles from the
age of six and as I am about to add the fifty-eighth notch to my belt
and still feel well able to continue at 1:43rd scale with the assistance
of good lighting, a bench-mounted illuminated magnifying glass and
no interruptions from the telephone, mobile or otherwise! Peter Dring, Ripley, England Cobra 427 wanted May I wish GPM good
luck in getting the new web site up and running. You do a great job.
Please send a request to John Simons for a 427 Cobra roadster kit
to complete the main Cobra story. Eddie Alvarez, email John says that the 427 is scheduled 'some time' in the future. |