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This has already had a small mention in my retirements build thread but anyway.
At the end of August I bought three Arii model kits from their Owners Club range, a Porsche 911S, Honda S600 and ...
![Tire Ice racing Vehicle Car Wheel]()
The intention being to build a car from racing in my clubs scratchbuilt saloons class. The kit it's self is quite basic, much like the original Airfix saloon car kits, and is based on the road going car with a addition of a rear spoiler, a pair of flared front wheel arches and a different front with the oil cooler. Other than the front moulding the rest of the body is a one piece moulding.
The basic body was soon built up with the front glued in and are wheel arch flares added, I decided not to fit the rear wing at this stage as I thought it would make painting easier. A few coats of primer later..
![Land vehicle Wheel Car Vehicle Toy]()
After a quick look on line I decided to stick with the enclosed decals and so painted the body white, I used Zero paints Racing White or Ivory which is the same as Tamiya TS7 and the colour used by Honda for the F1 cars in the 60's.
![Wheel Vehicle Tire Hood Car]()
A couple of coats of gloss clearcoat and it was time to apply the decals. With the help of some Micro Sol and Micro St they all went on fine apart from the roof decals, my fault , a bit to much decal treatment and a finger nail. Then, when the weather improved a dust coat and two wet coats of Zero paints gloss clearcoat.
I was going to use a vac formed interior but I don't have any that are long enough so I glued the dash panel in place and cut the rear parcel shelf from the interior moulding and glued that in place and then used a smaller vac formed interior glued between them. You can also see the little decal nick ...
![Car Vehicle White Hood Blue]()
The only detail painting I have done is the front grill and oil cool.
![Land vehicle Vehicle Car Hood Automotive lighting]()
and the rear lights with Tamiya transparent red
![Automotive lighting Hood Blue Vehicle Toy]()
Not gluing the rear spiller in place before painting may have been a mistake as there is not attachment point for in on the body so when I get around to it I think I will have to look a drilling the spoiler and body and use some small pins or first off and it will be off.
Next the chassis build
At the end of August I bought three Arii model kits from their Owners Club range, a Porsche 911S, Honda S600 and ...
The intention being to build a car from racing in my clubs scratchbuilt saloons class. The kit it's self is quite basic, much like the original Airfix saloon car kits, and is based on the road going car with a addition of a rear spoiler, a pair of flared front wheel arches and a different front with the oil cooler. Other than the front moulding the rest of the body is a one piece moulding.
The basic body was soon built up with the front glued in and are wheel arch flares added, I decided not to fit the rear wing at this stage as I thought it would make painting easier. A few coats of primer later..
After a quick look on line I decided to stick with the enclosed decals and so painted the body white, I used Zero paints Racing White or Ivory which is the same as Tamiya TS7 and the colour used by Honda for the F1 cars in the 60's.
A couple of coats of gloss clearcoat and it was time to apply the decals. With the help of some Micro Sol and Micro St they all went on fine apart from the roof decals, my fault , a bit to much decal treatment and a finger nail. Then, when the weather improved a dust coat and two wet coats of Zero paints gloss clearcoat.
I was going to use a vac formed interior but I don't have any that are long enough so I glued the dash panel in place and cut the rear parcel shelf from the interior moulding and glued that in place and then used a smaller vac formed interior glued between them. You can also see the little decal nick ...
The only detail painting I have done is the front grill and oil cool.
and the rear lights with Tamiya transparent red
Not gluing the rear spiller in place before painting may have been a mistake as there is not attachment point for in on the body so when I get around to it I think I will have to look a drilling the spoiler and body and use some small pins or first off and it will be off.
Next the chassis build
