Post by pnance26 on May 11, 2020 17:43:47 GMT -8
I think it's fair to open this thread because I got out the instruction booklet for the 312T2.
First, Chris Smith is going to the M23 driven by James Hunt in 1976. I'm staying with my Ferrari them and building the car that almost took Nikin Lauda's life.
The rules forebade the high airbox intakes so prevalent the year before but allowed the teams to race them in the first few months while modifications were made. As a result of that change, McLaren came up with a short air intake to both sides of the driver's head around the head rest. Ferrari put naca ducts on the front of the main body work to funnel air to the radiators and engine. Hunt and Ferrari were trading victories and humiliations as the new bodies were a bit of a handful.
If you don't know the story, the rear suspension in Niki's car failed at high speed at the Nurburing on August 1, 1976. Niki nearly burned to death but was rescued by other drivers. He raced again only 40 days later. Ron Howard's movie "Rush" is a great retelling of the Hunt/Lauda friendship/rivalry. It is a good racing movie.
A builder in the Dallas area by the name of Dennis Koleber recreated Niki's crashed 312T2 and did a great job. He builds for a living and is very well known. Check out his site... www.denniskoleber.com/hand-built-models/.
I will be using the Protar 1/12th Ferrari 312T2 kit that was produced sometime in the 1970s. The booklet is just numbers and arrows. Typical Protar kit with tons of screws and the like. The booklet is about 2/3rds size of a Tamiya booklet so I will be reproducing it so I can read the numbers and the arrows! My tired old eyes can't really follow it when it is this small.
Want to know how this kit is? Some of the "decorations" are actually "dry transfers" or as we would call them, stickers!
Well, it won't be long now!
First, Chris Smith is going to the M23 driven by James Hunt in 1976. I'm staying with my Ferrari them and building the car that almost took Nikin Lauda's life.
The rules forebade the high airbox intakes so prevalent the year before but allowed the teams to race them in the first few months while modifications were made. As a result of that change, McLaren came up with a short air intake to both sides of the driver's head around the head rest. Ferrari put naca ducts on the front of the main body work to funnel air to the radiators and engine. Hunt and Ferrari were trading victories and humiliations as the new bodies were a bit of a handful.
If you don't know the story, the rear suspension in Niki's car failed at high speed at the Nurburing on August 1, 1976. Niki nearly burned to death but was rescued by other drivers. He raced again only 40 days later. Ron Howard's movie "Rush" is a great retelling of the Hunt/Lauda friendship/rivalry. It is a good racing movie.
A builder in the Dallas area by the name of Dennis Koleber recreated Niki's crashed 312T2 and did a great job. He builds for a living and is very well known. Check out his site... www.denniskoleber.com/hand-built-models/.
I will be using the Protar 1/12th Ferrari 312T2 kit that was produced sometime in the 1970s. The booklet is just numbers and arrows. Typical Protar kit with tons of screws and the like. The booklet is about 2/3rds size of a Tamiya booklet so I will be reproducing it so I can read the numbers and the arrows! My tired old eyes can't really follow it when it is this small.
Want to know how this kit is? Some of the "decorations" are actually "dry transfers" or as we would call them, stickers!
Well, it won't be long now!