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So I'm finally getting around to starting my first build for the Festival of Speed - the Modeler's Minardi M198, which was raced in the 1998 Formula One World Championship by Shinji Nakano and Esteban Tuero.

The original car:

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The Kit Box:

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The Contents:

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Vince

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OK, I've finally had a bit of time to make some progress!

The body has had the front wing uprights and rear body winglets/flip-ups added, the holes for the suspension and other parts drilled out, and has been coated in white primer and sanded as smooth as possible (the smoother the undercoat, the better the final finish will be).

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The seat and parts of the diffuser have been added to the undertray. There were problems with the resin here, it not wanting to allows the primer to settle down and several areas have flaked off. you can get this occasionally with resin or metal parts, so in the end I resorted to brush-painting over the affected areas until a satisfactory coating was achieved.

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The suspension and parts of the wings have been painted tonight, so hopefully more pics to come soon!

Vince

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More progress, despite the kit fighting me all the way!

No seatbelts are provided, so I added some from a Model Factory Hiro set;

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After the white primer had been sanded down, I added the silver from the Zero Paints Telefonica Movistar Paints;

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Masked and awaiting the blue paint;

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The blue is on, and the front wint uprights have been painted black;

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Next steps are touching up the paintwork, clearcoating and then onto the decals!

Vince

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This will be one nice model Vince...

What sponsor markings does this car have? What is the gold trim in the tires, is that molded on the rubber?

Nice job on the seat belts, look forward to the progress.

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Hi Marco,

I used the Zero Paints Telefonica Movistar paints for the Honda RC211V motorbike, as they appeared to be an almost exact match. The sponsors are as shown in the first picture - I don't think Minardi had a main sponsor that year. The 'gold trim' on the tyres is actually the brass tubes the tyres sit on! The kit comes with the internal wheel details seperately, and you glue them to the tubes to create the wheels.

Vince

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So I managed to get some spare time over the last few days to get some decalling done...

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The decals were pretty terrible - really thick and didn't want to settle at all.

Pretty much ready for the final assembly stage now...

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Vince

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In all honesty, it's only the fourth resin car kit I've built (the others were the Ferrari 575 and Super Aguri cars that went onto ARC Auto, plus a Lotus from many years ago). In some ways they're easier than injection plastic kits, as the have less parts and white metal is easier to bend and flex into shape than plastic. From what I've found so far, my tips for tackling one of these kits are;

- Wash everything thoroughly before starting.

- Use a primer on all the parts.

- Dry-fit all the time - measure twice, cut once is the rule here.

- After applying the primer, I try to build up the entire car without glue before painting. It allows me to work out where everything should go, what a good paint sequence should be etc. The instructions on these kits can be very imprecise (this one consisted of photos of the completed parts rather than exploded-style drawings, and all the instructions were in Japanese).

- Take your time - these are in no way Tamiya-style 'Shake'n'Bake' kits.

- Most of all, have fun building it. Forget about how much the kit cost, just go ahead and have fun experimenting and building. I find them to be a lot more satisfying than building Tamiya F1 cars.

Be warned, however, that they can become addictive! Soon you'll be on the internet and you'll go 'What's that, a 1/20 kit of the 1990 Coloni C3B? A car which never even qualified for a race? MUST HAVE!!!'

Vince

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