Tamiya 1/20 Honda RA272

Thumboy · Post by **Thumboy** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:43 am

Here are the final reveal photos of my first entry into the Rising Sun GB. Tamiya's 1/20 Honda RA272. for all the info, history and my journey through this build please check out my build thread. I have thoroughly enjoyed building this kit form Tamiya, no major problems to report and the fit was exceptional. I did add quite a lot of my own scratch built detail which included adding fuel lines in the engine bay, replaced the air funnels, front break lines, ht leads, mesh on the engine cover and adding springs to the suspension the only issue I had with the kit was the missing wing mirror lens, which was tricky to fix. hope you enjoy the photos of the Honda.

Thanks for looking

Homerlovesbeer · Post by **Homerlovesbeer** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:21 am

Beautiful work, congratulations!

rcfanuk · Post by **rcfanuk** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:27 am

Great job

Steve

rwsmith14 · Post by **rwsmith14** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:00 pm

Beautiful !

Tomtom12 · Post by **Tomtom12** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:50 pm

Great job mate looks fantastic really liked follow your thread, have brought this kit after seeing your build, keep the cars coming

rubegoldberg · Post by **rubegoldberg** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:19 pm

outstanding!

Goose · Post by **Goose** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:40 am

Nice job,

I love those old racers. the pilots from that time, were real ones with Huge balls because driving so fast as they were driving with almost no adherence they were mad!!

Love it.

Goose

eightfooticeman · Post by **eightfooticeman** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:38 pm

Andrew that looks killer, can you build me one in 1/1 scale?

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:43 pm

Well done I'm lost for words now.... BTW how did you create the name plate? Did you use the computer to design it??

Thumboy · Post by **Thumboy** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:29 pm

Homerlovesbeer wrote:Beautiful work, congratulations!

rcfanuk wrote:Great job

Steve

rwsmith14 wrote:Beautiful !

rubegoldberg wrote:outstanding!

Thanks guys

Tomtom12 wrote:Great job mate looks fantastic really liked follow your thread, have brought this kit after seeing your build, keep the cars coming

Cheers mate, thanks for following along. I don't think you will regret getting this kit, i really is very good.I just hope you have all the parts needed for the wing mirrors

Goose wrote:Nice job,

I love those old racers. the pilots from that time, were real ones with Huge balls because driving so fast as they were driving with almost no adherence they were mad!!

Love it.

Goose

Cheers Goose, they sure had to work hard. No power steering, full manual gearbox surrounded by gallons of petrol and no seat belts. Real racing

eightfooticeman wrote:Andrew that looks killer, can you build me one in 1/1 scale?

Cheers iceman, now that would be one hell of a project. It is on my bucket list to build myself a lotus 7/caterham one day

EasyEight96 wrote:Well done I'm lost for words now.... BTW how did you create the name plate? Did you use the computer to design it??

Thanks EasyEight, the name plate I put together in word and printed it out on mat photo paper, I do one for all my models

TonyCnyc · Post by **TonyCnyc** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:06 am

Sweet - beautiful job!

Thumboy · Post by **Thumboy** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:54 am

TonyCnyc wrote:Sweet - beautiful job!

Cheers bro

shortCummins · Post by **shortCummins** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:16 pm

e level of "extra" detail you've achieved is 1st class as is the presentation

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