F-1 Tyrrell Six Wheeler - Tamiya

[MarcoTJ]

Fifth kit this year. 

Nice kit with lot's of PEs Out of the Box.

 

[Bainford]

Cool! Nice build of one of F1's more interesting creations. Looks great. I miss the days when thinking outside the box was not only tolerated, it was encouraged. So much free-thinking engineering going on in the 60s and 70s. I was so glad that this car won a race, thereby validating the wild six-wheeled design. 

[Dave Van]

Well done!!! This is my all time favorite F1 car. I built the 1/12 kit years ago when it came out.....and finished the 1/20 in 2019. 

[MarcoTJ]

17 minutes ago, Bainford said:

Cool! Nice build of one of F1's more interesting creations. Looks great. I miss the days when thinking outside the box was not only tolerated, it was encouraged. So much free-thinking engineering going on in the 60s and 70s. I was so glad that this car won a race, thereby validating the wild six-wheeled design. 

A really interesting car. Crazy design.

[MarcoTJ]

9 minutes ago, Dave Van said:

Well done!!! This is my all time favorite F1 car. I built the 1/12 kit years ago when it came out.....and finished the 1/20 in 2019. 

A good kit but I had to work a lot on the tires to make them smooth.

[afx]

One of my favorite F1 cars - nice work.

[Belugawrx]

Nice work on a very interesting car?

[PappyD340]

Very nice, well done!

[Monty]

On 3/29/2021 at 10:35 AM, MarcoTJ said:

A good kit but I had to work a lot on the tires to make them smooth.

I wondered about that.  Having seen any number of builders who were unable to hide the seam between the two tire halves, I purposely avoided buying Tamiya race cars.  What's the secret to fixing it?

Very nice build, btw.

Edited March 30, 2021 by Monty

[cobraman]

Great job on a wild car.

[MarcoTJ]

On 3/29/2021 at 2:34 PM, afx said:

One of my favorite F1 cars - nice work.

Thank you!

 

On 3/29/2021 at 3:05 PM, Belugawrx said:

Nice work on a very interesting car?

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2 hours ago, cobraman said:

Great job on a wild car.

Crazy design. Nowadays you would need a bigger Pit team to change tires?

[MarcoTJ]

2 hours ago, Monty said:

I wondered about that.  Having seen any number of builders who were unable to hide the seam between the two tire halves, I purposely avoided buying Tamiya race cars.  What's the secret to fixing it?

Very nice build, btw.

I put the tire on my Dremel (with a makeshift axle) and spun it over sandpaper. Not too fast to avoid excessive heating and melting the rubber.

[Dragline]

So well done. Such a groundbreaking car. I have two in the stash, gotta build at least one of em.

[papajohn97]

Great job on one of my all-time favorite race cars. I got to see six wheelers in F1 racing at Long Beach in ‘77 (the white & blue ‘B’ models with wider front track). They were pretty competitive - Depailler came in 4th! I read later that the little windows were added to allow visibility of the front tires/ brakes during cornering; Scheckter once lost one of his four front wheels and wasn’t even aware of it! (gee....handling feels a little different...!). 
Love these 1/20 classic F1 cars - please build and post some more!

[Slimguy]

Very nice build Marco.  Your photo presentations are also excellent!  Thanks for posting these.

[TonyK]

Sharp, very sharp build. And I noticed the nice work you did on the tires right away. Nice paint job too!

[1959scudetto]

Excellent build, Marco - and top photography, too !

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[AL.]

Fantastic work Marko you did a fine job on it.

It may have been a crazy design but the principle was sound..... that of reducing frontal area (drag) while still maintaining the sam contact patch of rubber with the track. It's just a shame that Goodyear couldn't afford to develop the tyres. If they had it could have changed F1 as we know it!!!!

 

 

[JohnnyK]

On 3/30/2021 at 11:32 AM, Monty said:

I wondered about that.  Having seen any number of builders who were unable to hide the seam between the two tire halves, I purposely avoided buying Tamiya race cars.  What's the secret to fixing it?

Very nice build, btw.

There is no need to remove the seam between the two halves of the tires. Actual F1 racing tires have a seam running down the middle of the tire. 

[Bill Eh?]

On 5/11/2021 at 6:36 PM, JohnnyK said:

There is no need to remove the seam between the two halves of the tires. Actual F1 racing tires have a seam running down the middle of the tire. 

That is the case with current Pirelli tires. I don't believe that a seem was that dominant on the Goodyear's run back in the mid '70s