dougwintz Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Well, this was an interesting case. This is the Tamiya kit, pretty well detailed out of the box. I wondered about the dark green exterior and the blue interior and chassis - but reference photos seemed to indicate it was just that. The kit had some clear parts for the undercarriage. I would normally just paint them, but I decided to leave the clear for a change. The biggest challenge was the decals. The kit decals were yellowed, so I sourced out a sheet from Tailormade - and they were pretty good. Whiter than the yellowed kit decals. I also bought a sheet from "some guy on eBay". Between the 3 I felt like I had something to fall back on. Neat Mercedes hood ornament in the kit too. Anyway, a fun and unusual build. Edited May 7, 2021 by dougwintz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsuperdan Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Nicely done! I've been searching for some of these Tamiya DTM kits for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalper Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Nice work... Still have to try one of these kits one day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Very nicely Done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Foxx Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 A really nice build , great detail work , well done . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy124 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) Nice build of an extremely nice kit! One small criticism, if I may, is that the front "Benz grille" should be blacked out. I built this kit when those cars were still running in the DTM, around 1995. Still have the model and, apart from the labels being ages and yellowed, I still like it. https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=789071#post789071 By the way, I saw that the both of us arranged the decals on the front hood differently. Mine has the Tabac decal above the Sonax one, yours has it the otherway round. Also the Tamiya box shows it the way you did it. So while I was thinking I did it wrong back then but never noticed it in all these years, I found images of BOTH versions on the internet. Turns out that the Roland Asch car has it the way you did it and the Bernd Schneider car (which I built) has it the way I built it. I guess this was purposely done by AMG Mercedes back then to do justice to both sponsors. Knowing Tamiya's sense of perfectionism, they probably stated this correcly for both options in the instructions aswell... Edited May 25, 2021 by Tommy124 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougwintz Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 8:11 AM, Tommy124 said: Nice build of an extremely nice kit! One small criticism, if I may, is that the front "Benz grille" should be blacked out. I built this kit when those cars were still running in the DTM, around 1995. Still have the model and, apart from the labels being ages and yellowed, I still like it. https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=789071#post789071 By the way, I saw that the both of us arranged the decals on the front hood differently. Mine has the Tabac decal above the Sonax one, yours has it the otherway round. Also the Tamiya box shows it the way you did it. So while I was thinking I did it wrong back then but never noticed it in all these years, I found images of BOTH versions on the internet. Turns out that the Roland Asch car has it the way you did it and the Bernd Schneider car (which I built) has it the way I built it. I guess this was purposely done by AMG Mercedes back then to do justice to both sponsors. Knowing Tamiya's sense of perfectionism, they probably stated this correcly for both options in the instructions aswell... Thanks for the comments. I applied a wash of Tamiya panel line accent to the grill, but I can see that solid black is more accurate. Your build looks great. I am always looking for something out of the ordinary like this kit. Very hard to find "walk around" photos of the real car, though. I also bought a couple of additional decal sheets because the kit decals were a little yellowed. So I bought from Tailormade (in Germany, by the way) and another from someone on ebay. Thanks again for the comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Chernosky Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Nice build Doug. I leave those panels on the bottom of the car clear too. Your under carriage is so nice it would be shame to hide it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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