paddy
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I built one of these a couple of years ago here
For this reason i wasnt going to do thread this time but i think, as i plan to do something different this time if only to bounce ideas off the rest of you as most of this will be a bit experimental.
This subject has received a huge coverage on other forums and not for good reasons. Just about everything is wrong with the model. It started life as a Protar kit in the early 70's, later in morphed into a Italeri kit and lost a lot of the original Protar "Correctness" .....For example at the time Italeri produced another model i built here, the one off Fiat Mephistopheles
Rather than reproduce the Protar wheels for the Fiat 806, they just used the wheels off the Mephistopheles which were not only the wrong spoke pattern they were also the wrong width, diameter and had the wrong tyres.
So we can agree that Italeri were not really interested in correct detail... That's fine as long as we know (which i didnt on My first build of this model).
One other problem, that proved to be a "major" problem over time, was the use of dozens of screws in the original assembly as called out by Italeri. They had stuck with the screw idea that Protar had originally used but a lot of the Protar model had metal parts and or least, different parts. This meant that Italeri used self tap screws into , often, thin walled plastic that just split during assembly, or more commonly about a month later after the model was finished.... Fact is that i had to junk the model eventually because the amount of repairs it need after a few months as the structure self destructed, helped on by my use of ammo weathering products that seemed to make the plastic go brittle over time.
so here we go again. A lot of the parts are pretty rough, loads of flash and huge joining tabs to the sprues
Cleaned up[ and with alclad it looks like this
Originally this would have been held in place by 3x M1.4 self tap screws as supplied by Italeri... but i have used super glue and 3x MFH alloy hex head rivets.
Which sort of sets the tone for the way i want to go this time.
I have used a smaller version of these hex head rivets to replace the moulded blobs on the Chassis rails
to be continued.........
Fiat 806 GP FINISHED
Italeri Fiat 806 1/12 A little bit of History on the Fiat 806 It’s quite hard to find out much about this car due to car reliability, it only raced once in its first season and the 1500cc class was discontinued that year, so it never raced again and was scrapped. Of course pictures are also...
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For this reason i wasnt going to do thread this time but i think, as i plan to do something different this time if only to bounce ideas off the rest of you as most of this will be a bit experimental.
This subject has received a huge coverage on other forums and not for good reasons. Just about everything is wrong with the model. It started life as a Protar kit in the early 70's, later in morphed into a Italeri kit and lost a lot of the original Protar "Correctness" .....For example at the time Italeri produced another model i built here, the one off Fiat Mephistopheles
Beware the Mephistopheles FINISHED
Mephistopheles was a Demon from German folk law, a worker for Lucifer. Renowned for his howl. Unable to find a model of him I have settled for this, The chassis of a 1908 Fiat SB4 racing car with a 6-cylinder, 21.7 litre (21,706 cc) Fiat A.12 aeroplane engine producing 320 PS (235 kW; 316 bhp)...
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Rather than reproduce the Protar wheels for the Fiat 806, they just used the wheels off the Mephistopheles which were not only the wrong spoke pattern they were also the wrong width, diameter and had the wrong tyres.
So we can agree that Italeri were not really interested in correct detail... That's fine as long as we know (which i didnt on My first build of this model).
One other problem, that proved to be a "major" problem over time, was the use of dozens of screws in the original assembly as called out by Italeri. They had stuck with the screw idea that Protar had originally used but a lot of the Protar model had metal parts and or least, different parts. This meant that Italeri used self tap screws into , often, thin walled plastic that just split during assembly, or more commonly about a month later after the model was finished.... Fact is that i had to junk the model eventually because the amount of repairs it need after a few months as the structure self destructed, helped on by my use of ammo weathering products that seemed to make the plastic go brittle over time.
so here we go again. A lot of the parts are pretty rough, loads of flash and huge joining tabs to the sprues
Cleaned up[ and with alclad it looks like this
Originally this would have been held in place by 3x M1.4 self tap screws as supplied by Italeri... but i have used super glue and 3x MFH alloy hex head rivets.
Which sort of sets the tone for the way i want to go this time.
I have used a smaller version of these hex head rivets to replace the moulded blobs on the Chassis rails
to be continued.........
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