Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24 ***FINISHED***
Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24
The next pair of pipes is these thinner ones that thread between the paired main exhaust pipes. The engine bay is not symmetric, so keeping track of what's what is really important, especially since the left hand one of these is made of two pieces. Don't assume that the routing on one side is just a mirror image of the other. At the turbo end, the pins locating these pipes face forwards horizontally. I decided to get them fixed at that end first. Since the pinning had worked pretty well for the other pipes, I drilled for wire pins at the rear end -- I figured that with the turbo end fixed firmly and set, the thin pipe would give enough to allow me to flex the pinned ends into place, and the pins would hold them instantly while the glue set. Thank goodness, that worked! Another 4 down...
Meanwhile....
The usual hour of masking for ten minutes spraying. These are the areas that will be black on the final car. Though the A pillars of the body are thin, the surround on the windscreen part is quite chunky -- as it is on the real thing.
Two more sets of pipes in place. The next pair are the four air intakes that come from the boxes at the sides by the firewall. I drilled out the mounting points slightly to give a little wiggle room but, amazingly, these actually press-fited into place and adjusted themselves. In the end I decided to take advantage of the serendipitous trial fit, and dropped a little super glue onto the pipe end and mountings rather than taking them off and gluing again. Then came the two fore-and aft tubes just outboard of the engine. These are the only ones that have really positive locating pins, and I'd already drilled out the holes in the turbos to fit properly (Thanks Mr Alan Sidney for a set of many sizes of tungsten carbide PCB drills which cut superbly with minimal torque on the part...) The dropped into place, and the final cross brace over the top at the back completes the plumbing!
Tricky and step by step it may have been, and the fixing points could be better engineered, but full marks to Revell's designer for getting this spaghetti junction of pipes so that it does all fit in place. And I think we can all agree that it's a pretty good attempt at the complexity of the real thing. If I was Mr Tamiya making a state of the art kit, I'd find a way of engineering the four exhaust header bundles that exit the block as one single piece that locate the turbos precisely in space around the block, and make the turbo mountings to the headers equally a lock fit which holds their orientation precisely in 3 axes.
Just a little more to do now around the engine bay -- notably the shields that will cover up most of that pipework
And finally...
...I think I'm starting to regret locking the engine cover down! Still, it's been a learning experience, however much you can see at the end!
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M
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Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24
There is certainly a lot of detail on this kit some of it seeming doomed never to be seen again. Hopefully the engine and spaghetti work will be visible.
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Nice work in the engine bay.
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Thanks, chaps. I couldn't resist a little test mock-up to find out what you WILL be able to see...
Not too bad, I reckon, especially if I make sure the windows are as transparent as possible!
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Not too bad, I reckon, especially if I make sure the windows are as transparent as possible!
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Lovely work Matt.
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That's really nice - fantastic work on that engine!
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Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24
Thanks, chaps...
The chassis is now complete, and ready to squeeze into the body:
...the body, however is not yet ready!
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The chassis is now complete, and ready to squeeze into the body:
...the body, however is not yet ready!
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Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24
The inside's inside the outside. As you can tell from the tape, there's a lot of inside to get inside... Interesting popping and clicking noises as it flexes into place, but I don't think anything critical has fallen off.
One important point: if you do as I did and fix the front bonnet into place to beef up the structure, before you glue it, tape the body shell down on a tile or glass sheet to ensure the base is completely flat. On mine, the "nose" ahead of the front wheel arches droops slightly, which makes it harder to get the front of the undertray in place. I don't know if this is a result of gluing in the bonnet panel, or just another example of the potential for warping this fragile bodyshell in the box.
Now to leave this to set very solid for a good 12 hours.
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It's blue, shiny and has wheels, I calling that done
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Noooo... THIS is done:
Because I had two kits (one bought very cheap for spares to get some tyres) I could use the two headlight covers that fitted best, by flipping one over. I also noticed that all the photos I have show the EB110 with funk split side windows. These are made from electrician's insulating tape, using a single card template flipped over to ensure that they are identical one side and the other...
Proper photos to come in the next few days.
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Because I had two kits (one bought very cheap for spares to get some tyres) I could use the two headlight covers that fitted best, by flipping one over. I also noticed that all the photos I have show the EB110 with funk split side windows. These are made from electrician's insulating tape, using a single card template flipped over to ensure that they are identical one side and the other...
Proper photos to come in the next few days.
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Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24
Nice work.
And nice to see a Bugatti in the proper colours.
And nice to see a Bugatti in the proper colours.
I wish, that I knew what was doing!
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I'm not into cars as a rule but that is beautiful!
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Lovely looking Bugatti.
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And now the beauty shots... you can finally see what colour it REALLY is:
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Re: Bugatti EB110, Revell 1/24 ***FINISHED***
Looks white and gold to me
Very nice.
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Very nice.
Nigel