1/24 Revell BMW Z1

[simonr]

This is a project wich I was working on in a 11 months on and off time. It was painted with Testors Boyd’s Cheezoom Teal Pearl mixed with hardware store lacquer thinner and topped with Gunze Sangyo GX Super Clear III. Some wash and airbrush weathering techniques were applied on the exhaust system.

Edited May 15, 2014 by simonr

[simonr]

Simón P. Rivera Torres

Edited May 17, 2014 by simonr

[peekay]

Very nicely done, and you don't see too many of those. Nice pics too.

[cobraman]

Nice work. I don't believe I ever saw one built up.

[Guest]

Nice.

[jaymcminn]

Hmmm, I've been thinking about getting one of these for a while. Your build really shows what can be done with this kit. Nice job!

[TheCat]

very nice... I have this same kit but have not build it yet... any fitting issues to know of?

[tuffone20]

Looks great!! Nice job!!!

[simonr]

First of all, thanks to all you guys for your kind comments. Felix, everything fits really well. The only issue I had was that I had to make a plastic spacer with evergreen plastic to be placed over the right shock absorber in order to level a tire that was about 3mm in the air. Besides that and considering this is an almost 25 years old kit, this kit fits like a modern Tamiya kit, to say at least.

Simón P. Rivera Torres

very nice... I have this same kit but have not build it yet... any fitting issues to know of?

[slusher]

Very sharp and clean build...

[ChrisR]

Very nice!

There is a 1:1 Z1 for sale in our country at the moment. There were special imports only.

[Matt Bacon]

A beautiful job, as usual Simon. I love the detail painting in the engine bay and cockpit. Did you have to build much in the engine bay, or is the detailing I can see what Revell gives you? Nice colour choice, too. A gorgeous model of a ...not so gorgeous car. I know the Z1 had some fantastic engineering, but having recently built the genuinely beautiful 507, I think BMW's design team were having an off-day when they pencilled the outline of the Z1 -- but that's just my opinion.

bestest,

M,

[TFchronos]

Cool and well done model, I've never seen one of these before.

Great job on it!

[simonr]

Thanks Matt for your comments. I also saw your 507 and it turned out really nice, almost 10 years ago I built one, too. About this Z1 ans I described it was a box stock build, so in other words and as you told, I used what Revell gave me. As you know, most of the tme, to realize this kind of detail is more dificult, because, you can't use any aftermarket items. I had to use lots of masking specially in order to get all those flat black areas and the engine bay also requires lots of carefull hand brushing. The good thing is that, like I mentioned before, it practically doesn't has any fitting issues.

A beautiful job, as usual Simon. I love the detail painting in the engine bay and cockpit. Did you have to build much in the engine bay, or is the detailing I can see what Revell gives you? Nice colour choice, too. A gorgeous model of a ...not so gorgeous car. I know the Z1 had some fantastic engineering, but having recently built the genuinely beautiful 507, I think BMW's design team were having an off-day when they pencilled the outline of the Z1 -- but that's just my opinion.

bestest,

M,

Edited May 16, 2014 by simonr

[Danno]

Excellent build, Simon!

[Jaguar man 21]

Very cool build