Made decent progress on monocoque assembly and was able to close it last night. To get steering rod to sit at proper hight, I had to cut about 0.6mm from the middle of it. Otherwise toe out would be too much. I still have a bit of toe out, which I think is ok for F1 car. If one wants no toe out or in, about 1mm to 1.2mm would need to be cut out. Scratch made seat belts from material and spare PE sets I had. Installed pedals, brake and clutch fluid reservoirs, steering rod dashboard, gear shifter, seat and all other cockpit items as well. Will add steering wheel and seat belt labels later.
Also continued work on suspension and engine. By now all suspension items are done. Last night I've attached exhaust pipes. Another advise to future builder of this kit - assemble all items of exhaust together, if you don't want to have seams and gaps as I have between subassemblies of header and tail pipes. Event when all items are glued together it is still possible to carefully spread headers a little to push down over the front of gearbox and the tilt them to get into horizontal position.
Also continued work on suspension and engine. By now all suspension items are done. Last night I've attached exhaust pipes. Another advise to future builder of this kit - assemble all items of exhaust together, if you don't want to have seams and gaps as I have between subassemblies of header and tail pipes. Event when all items are glued together it is still possible to carefully spread headers a little to push down over the front of gearbox and the tilt them to get into horizontal position.
Excellent progress, great to see the tub and the engine together, the blue certainly stands out from the black as well....
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