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Update: After touch ups here and there, I sprayed in zero Clearcoat laquer. Then onto decals. Using a mixture of the Braun 020 kit decals and the Tabu design dress up decals (rothmans) TABU 20154 (thanks to best balsakits.. After research then I decided that the Hungarian Grand prix was the closest ...

Great work. I have the same kit to build at some point. Interested particularly on how you did the front suspension

Well here are more pictures of progress, I did put a clearcoat before the blue so the overspray should polish out. I have a couple of areas where the tape has lifted the paint.

Another update, I sanded, filled, sanded, filled, paint repeat, Now Im satisfied so painted in Zero paints white primer microfiller. 2000 grit wet and dry cut back between coats. Picture below shows in pure brilliant white. Its had 3 coats of this, I'm awaiting delivery of tyrrell blue, I will use c...

Another update. I have modified the rear wing end plates to make square in profile.
I sprayed some Zero paints grey filler primer. Now with a uniform colour I can see areas that need more filling and sanding, THis process will repeat a few times..

More: So I used plastc card and milliput to shape. A bit more sanding and filling in places then will prime

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Hi CK, Thank you very much for your kind offer, However I have already done this but in a different way. I printed some pictures, then scaled on the photo copier and carefully looked at photos. I have the model with a tiny bit more filling to do before primer. I will try to upload some pictures of m...

Hi all,
Well I made a start. I'll post pictures showing progress of my plastic card surgery and milliput..looks like my images are too big to load at mo, will resize

Thanks for these links and information, its rreally helpful