No longer got the blues

We'll I've done a ton of work again over the past few days. I'm almost done spray painting the kit. I got some different blue paint and it looks like a match to the real car.

Here you can see the monocoque and cowling masked


Painted blue


With the masking off, this came out real nice


Here is my disaster of a seat. I'm going to have to note to myself to spend more time and effort detailing the cockpit. I'll give myself some slack, as I didn't know how difficult my previous seat belt cloth would be to work worth. In any event, I had hoped the seat would look better.


I finished applying cf to the front wing end plates and diffusers


Cleaned up the cowling a bit and started assembling it. Here I've glued in a piece of the sidepod


Sideview of cowling


Total: 144h

seat belt drama

Here is a few shots of the cockpit so far






After grinding the molded in seat belts off of the seat and painting the seat flat black, I'm ready to put some seat belts in. I've got this scale motorsport kit. It includes adhesive backed cloth material that needs to be colored and cut, as well as photoetched parts. I've got a blue permanent magic marker to color the belt material.


To be honest, I'm not happy with the results. The belt material is very difficult to work with. It was essentially impossible to color the material evenly with the marker, and even more difficult to prevent the cloth from fraying. I think I'm going to scratch the belts and go for the photoetched parts included in the Studio 27 photoetch kit.


Total time: 135h