Simil-R Ford Focus WRC, Ken Block Mexico 2010.

[PatW]

I've just finished the 'plethora' of Colorado decals. The kit allows one or both doors open on 'fixed' hinges. I used alloy pipe for the exhaust tailpipe and rubber tubing for the rollcage padding.

[fseva]

Is there really a car underneath? Just kidding... it looks wonderful! Quite a feat!

[PatW]

Yes Frank I think there is a car underneath although it seems to be 'lost' under all of the decals!

Yes again it was a feat and with plenty of micro-sol used! 

Edited November 14, 2015 by PatW

[slusher]

Real nice model Pat..

[花火]

nice! and the number 55 too!

[Deathgoblin]

Looks good!    I like the looks of the Simil-R kits.  How was it to build up?

[PatW]

Thanks guys to start with, secondly the build up. Well I made a mistake by spraying the body at the beginning, on saying that the body come in three parts.

That is the shell with the door cut outs, but the rear section of the front wings(fenders) is joined to the bottom of the door openings to the rear wings and the contact areas are extremely small. The first photo shows the shell out of the box (painted) and the second photo shows the bottom part of the front wings attached to the rear wings. These detached themselves, as they are very thin and flexi, at least three times so I ended up using super glue to ensure that it didn't happen again.

The next thing was I test fitted the body to the chassis, so two pins each side of the chassis to two mounting points on the bottom section of the doors! But I didn't fit it with the wheels, only to find the front and rear wheel arches not large enough for the wheels to turn, so all four wheels are touching the arches, the front arches do not allow the wheels to turn with the steering provided. Also for some unknown reason the rear track is too wide and the wheel tyre combo's stick out beyond the body. 

So lesson 1 fit the front wing sections before painting, attaching with very strong super glue or similar.                                                                     Lesson two just offer up the tyres to the arch openings and file away to clear the tyres so they can rotate at the rear and rotate and steer at the front.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lesson three test fit all side glass as I had the shave quite a bit out of the rear side window openings as the hole was too small to fit correctly. The door glass is very thin at the top as is the top of the door frame, so they may not touch or the door frame wants to be a different curved shape than the window.

Just a few probs I came across.

  

 

Edited November 11, 2015 by PatW

[Deathgoblin]

Yeah, that lower part does look like it would be fragile.  Maybe some reinforcing with strip plastic/brass/aluminum?

[PatW]

Yes Brian, that's the way it went where the wing fits near the bonnet, plasticard to the rescue. But you couldn't put too much in as there wasn't a great deal of room, and no room at the back as the chassis mounting point was there, which caused it to come away when test fitting to the chassis.