discussion Jakko’s Tyrrell P34, Tamiya 1/20

[Guest]

Thanks for the info

I’m not happy with Mr. Scheckter’s overals:

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After the blue was dry, I drybrushed it with white and then added a medium blue wash, but it just looks bad. More like stonewashed jeans than racing overalls, IMHO I then remembered I have some Army Painter Blue Tone, so I’ll repaint him light blue and try again with that for shading instead.

The car itself is now just about done:

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All it needs is its dashboard, steering wheel, driver, and cowling, in that order.

 

[Jim R]

That's looking great Jakko. Very eyecatching and colourful compared to your usual choices. I see what you mean about the overalls colour. Even if it is right it does look wrong.

 

[Peter Gillson]

One of my all-time favorite F1 cars - great model.

Peter

 

[Guest]

Here’s the driver, now completed:

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The belts are the stickers and etched parts Tamiya provides for when you don’t fit a driver into the seat. I cut the eyes off the ends of the shackles that normally go into the central part, so I could glue the remaining part against the locking device in the middle.

A bit of a gaff with the seat belts, though: on the left, I confused the waist belt with the short part of the shoulder belt, so the buckle on the left is far too low. But because I had already glued the waist belt down, there was no way to correct this. Tough luck

The orange helmet decals didn’t want to go on that well, and I ended up with the one on the right sitting too low, so there was not enough room for the name JODY under it. I should have started with that decal and only then added the orange, but hey, you live and learn.

And with that, all I had to do was stick him in the car and this model is finished as well!

 

[scottie3158]

Figure has turned our well.

 

[Guest]

To be honest, I took the easy way out. I was kind of intending to paint him properly, but in the end went for the wash-and-drybrush technique because it’s faster, and I just don’t like painting figures much …