Post by sylphide on Aug 4, 2022 19:27:33 GMT -8
Coming back from a hiatus from the hobby. Bought this kit not really researching what was inside and as soon as I opened i could make the car box stock, and therefore totally wrong, or try to learn some new things.....I went with the new things.
My goal for this build is to simply just do my best to modify this into the real car thats on the box, not gonna do anything on the interior. Starting off there are no photos of the car apart from whats on the box that I could find. It raced twice in 91 but the instructions call for it to be modified to how it was at the second race which isnt even in the broadcast. Supposedly this car got crashed at some point during the second race but I couldnt find it.
The kit is just a straight up R89 kit and the R90VP has a whole bunch of differences that I have to try and make. First was to cut out the rest of the headlight box, rear wheel covers and slice off the molded in diveplanes.
Real car had vents cut out on the sides of the rear bodywork so I went ahead and added those. I went through about 4 versions of trying to make the vents and then ripping them out until I stumbled upon the little method I did and it worked perfectly and was much easier than all the other ways I had been trying. Will definitely being using this method for future builds.
The main roadblock I'd hit so far in this build was how to make new glass covers for the lights since obviously the kit ones are useless. First I filled the headlight bucket with petroleum jelly so the putty wouldnt actually stick and then sanded my mold to the shape I wanted with the idea in mind that I would just heat over some hothwheel plastic covers and form them over my mold. Well after the 5th try I decided the hotwheels plastic was just too thick then someone gave me the idea and i went and found a water bottle, the ones that have the super thin plastic and I then cut the shape out of that. It was much more manageable even if it didnt have the nice smooth surface the hotwheels plastic did.
Next up I needed to make some new diveplanes. I had done this for my 956 however I wasnt happy with how I did them so I thought I'd try a new way. Once I got the first attempt on they looked like crap so I broke them off and thought for awhile on a new better way and this is what I came up with. I have some tiny .020 plastic and metal wire to use so I drilled a hole on the side to use as a pin/pivot and then also glued the metal wire to the backside so i could bend it into shape and stay there. When I test fit them they were just perfectly flush to the body and were easy to fine adjust and glue into place, I was a very happy man. These are much more firmly attached then my 956 diveplanes which would break off if someone walked by.
Other stuff I added was the extra fin on the side radiator outlets and made new wing endplates as the ones in the kit dont match the photos. I did a bunch of other body fitment grinding and sanding to make sure everything lines up like it supposed to be. I think I've pretty much wrapped up most of the bodywork, soon it'll be time to paint and this thing will come together quick as there isnt too many parts to this kit.
My goal for this build is to simply just do my best to modify this into the real car thats on the box, not gonna do anything on the interior. Starting off there are no photos of the car apart from whats on the box that I could find. It raced twice in 91 but the instructions call for it to be modified to how it was at the second race which isnt even in the broadcast. Supposedly this car got crashed at some point during the second race but I couldnt find it.
The kit is just a straight up R89 kit and the R90VP has a whole bunch of differences that I have to try and make. First was to cut out the rest of the headlight box, rear wheel covers and slice off the molded in diveplanes.
Real car had vents cut out on the sides of the rear bodywork so I went ahead and added those. I went through about 4 versions of trying to make the vents and then ripping them out until I stumbled upon the little method I did and it worked perfectly and was much easier than all the other ways I had been trying. Will definitely being using this method for future builds.
The main roadblock I'd hit so far in this build was how to make new glass covers for the lights since obviously the kit ones are useless. First I filled the headlight bucket with petroleum jelly so the putty wouldnt actually stick and then sanded my mold to the shape I wanted with the idea in mind that I would just heat over some hothwheel plastic covers and form them over my mold. Well after the 5th try I decided the hotwheels plastic was just too thick then someone gave me the idea and i went and found a water bottle, the ones that have the super thin plastic and I then cut the shape out of that. It was much more manageable even if it didnt have the nice smooth surface the hotwheels plastic did.
Next up I needed to make some new diveplanes. I had done this for my 956 however I wasnt happy with how I did them so I thought I'd try a new way. Once I got the first attempt on they looked like crap so I broke them off and thought for awhile on a new better way and this is what I came up with. I have some tiny .020 plastic and metal wire to use so I drilled a hole on the side to use as a pin/pivot and then also glued the metal wire to the backside so i could bend it into shape and stay there. When I test fit them they were just perfectly flush to the body and were easy to fine adjust and glue into place, I was a very happy man. These are much more firmly attached then my 956 diveplanes which would break off if someone walked by.
Other stuff I added was the extra fin on the side radiator outlets and made new wing endplates as the ones in the kit dont match the photos. I did a bunch of other body fitment grinding and sanding to make sure everything lines up like it supposed to be. I think I've pretty much wrapped up most of the bodywork, soon it'll be time to paint and this thing will come together quick as there isnt too many parts to this kit.