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The first off road formula 1

Canada... very nice country but really far from here...

Max

Non-existant user wrote:

Kontemax wrote:

Ehi H.P., thanks for the offer, I don't know where are you located but I'm in Italy so it will be very difficult have a meeting to try your beautiful glass bead cleaner. Nobody knows how I will need it

Max

Non-existant user wrote:

HI!... MAX too bad you weren't closer to me. I could throw that in my glass beading cabinet with the fine glass bead and clean that right up for you. I do chassis and wheels all the time right before I paint them. Makes them look almost like new and makes the paint better adhere.

HI!... Canada, so quite far away. lol

Another view of the chassis from bottom. Pictures didn't do justice, the chassis shape was realy worse than what you can see from the pictures:

Now it's time for surgery. With the help of Dr. Kildare I cut away the poor Shakey Roop from the blasted body.
As I said the resto job on the driver cockpit was absolutelly unsatisfactory. Also the protrusion was insupportable for my eyes. So driller, dremel, cutter and voilà, the driver lost his car.

And, Mr Tamiya... what did you think in 1987?

Is this a steering wheel???

Max

Kontemax wrote:

Is this a steering wheel???

Max

It's a Frisbee

More surgery on the driver Shakey Roops. The driver body has been extracted from the ruined cockpit plate.
The protrusion had been cut away from the right arm but left a big hole in it.
It will be fixed.

As you can see now the steering wheel is no more a freesby but a real steering wheel.

Now some repair on the body. The bonnet nose is so thin that the light of the sun passes trough it. This has been due the extreme sanding action I made in the past to clean it from the epoxy resin. With this so thin plastic some crack appeared on it.
I used the only real welding method to fix it. With the soldering iron I melted and welded the broken plastic parts and added somo more material where it missed off.

Here another crack on the right side of the body.

Welded.

And on top of the bonnet. Welded again.

More to come.

Max

Your pilot looks like my wife's mothers teeth

LES DENTS DE LA MERE...

Let's go on with this resto job.

Plastic surgery on the driver. The hole on the right arm of Shakey Roop had been filled, next step will be the modelling of the patch.

Also the body had new works. Adding material to the air intakes corners. They disappeared due the hard sanding.

The technic is always the same, soldering new plastic on the old one.

Also the antenna hole has been closed cause the car will be a shelf queen so no more antenna will need it.

That's all for today.

Stay tuned.

Max

Great work, inspires me to do mine. I have 1 of these guys, and 2 of the Fut FX10 off shoot kits. I Plan on restore of all, The striker dun original, 1 FX original, and the other FX painted in a FX (Fox sports) netwoork inspired design.