Build Video: Honda F1
Finally, here’s the fourth (and final) video about building the big 1/12 scale Tamiya kit of the 1966 Honda RA273 Formula One car.
model kit requiring some form of assembly
Finally, here’s the fourth (and final) video about building the big 1/12 scale Tamiya kit of the 1966 Honda RA273 Formula One car.
Tamiya’s big 1:12 scale Grand Prix models are impressive pieces. This Honda RA273 was the company’s first foray into F1 at that scale, and my second ever 1:12 scale build. This is the full build log.
Body colour, decals and clear have been applied to all the panels to represent Richie Ginther’s #12 version from 1966. Also, the wheels have been done and parts are starting to be assembled into the monocoque.
I feel like a traitor – months after Salvinos JR Models released the Shane van Gisbergen Chicago race winner, there were still none in my local hobby stores – so I spent my money overseas.
This is the full build video of the late Buddy Baker’s 1980 Daytona 500 winning Oldsmobile 442, built from a Salvinos JR Models 1/25 scale …
Here’s the FULL Build Diary for Buddy Baker’s Daytona 500 winning “Gray Ghost”, a 1/25 scale kit from Salvinos JR Models to which I’ve made a number of changes to improve the reality.
Several years ago, I posted the build of this model across two videos. The videos were terrible, but the model wasn’t too bad, so I’ve done this re-take!
Ever wondered what’s inside the elusive 1:8 scale Ferrari 643 kit by Rosso Corporation?
Sometimes it’s better to paint the livery on a model car instead of using the kit’s decals. This vid shows an example of using the …
This is how I built Tamiya’s 1:24 scale plastic kit of the 1989 Sauber Mercedes C9. I built it as the Le Mans winner and used various techniques to dirty the car up, plus add damage, to represent its condition at the end of the 24-hour race.
Salvinos JR will soon be producing kits of modern Indycars! The American company confirmed its first two models will be from the 2023 Indy 500 – the winner Josef Newgarden plus 7th placed Takuma Sato.
Salvinos JR Models has confirmed it will produce Shane van Gisbergen’s Chicago race winning Camaro.
First time with race grime! Here’s how I built Tamiya’s 1989 Le Mans winner as it finished the 24-hour race, complete with bug smears, rubber debris, brake dust – and damage!
Here’s a video of the progress on a new build I recently started, plus what’s inside the box of an out-of-production kit I’ve just added to the stash.
I interviewed a friend recently who has commenced a massive special project – to build a rally car model from each year across a 40-year span of competition.
This is the second (and final) part in the Build Series on the Salvinos JR model kit of Richard Petty’s 1979 Daytona 500 winning Oldsmobile …
This is the first part (of two) on how to build the Salvinos JR kit of Richard Petty’s 1979 Daytona 500 winning Oldsmobile. It’s basically the Build Diary that was posted last month, but in video format.
I’d been wanting to build a Salvinos JR stock car kit for some time. Here’s the full build in words and pictures of creating Richard Petty’s Daytona 500 winning Oldsmobile.
This build is of a long-out-of-production (and I believe now quite rare) kit from Rosso Corporation of the 1991 Ferrari 643 V12 Formula 1 car.