Another Lotus 102

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Nice work Steffen!
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Good job.
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Looks Amazing
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After almost a year without progress I am back on this project.

At first I want you to show, how the undertray looks now:
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I might try to make it smoother later.

In the last few days I was working on the frontwing. I have drilled holes into the nose and into the upper wing element to connect them with a thin brass wire which was left from a Tameo kit:
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The next task will be to change the rearwing support to move the rearwing further back. I have not decided yet how I am going to replace the support. Any suggestions are welcome!
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And at last I got S27s photoetched parts for the 102B which will be a great improvement for the front and rearwing ending plates. Many thanks to robby from Icaro hobbies for the PE parts!
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That's it for now. I hope to post the next update sooner then this one. *g*

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Wowow!! it looks very nice!!! keep them coming :)

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My progress on this model is really slow, because there are so many things I have to do appart from modeling. Anyhow, I have now finished the new rearwing support:

At first I removed the molded rivets on the old rearwing support and drilled holes with a size of 0,5 mm instead.
Then I sanded the part away which connects the gearbox with the rearwingsupport:
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In order to add the new rearwing support the old one was sanded away. I had to be very carefull to keep the connectorparts in a good shape:
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The next step was to glue the new part into position and to fix it with a little piece of plasticcard from the other side. Then I drilled new holes and added MFH rivets. Here is the result:
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Currently I am working on the seat. I have removed the molded seatbelts and have filled the resulting scratches with putty. The most difficult changes are made now. Only a few minor things are missing. I hope that I can finish the car this year. :lol:
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Post by Jacques »

Very nice progress !

I am following your build with a lot of interest as the Lotus 102 is also one of my future project.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

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Post by 43rdMichael »

Steffen,
Some excellent work there! Well done!

The rear wing supports look perfectly even and square.
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Looks pretty smooth! I always thought about modifying the rear wing support, because on the 102 it's a bit different to the 102B donor kit. Your's will be an inspiration for me :-)
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Post by Steffen_T »

Hi all! :)
In the last few days I got some more progress on my Lotus.
Last sunday I have asked for a thin styrene sheet in this thread:
http://www.f1m.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 85&start=0
I needed this thin styrene for the ending plates on the front wing.
I finally went the way JamesB (thank you James! :wink: ) suggested and bought some ice creme. :lol:

The styrene of the tray was cutted in strips and placed on a few items I needed to give the styrene the right form while heating:
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For the edge where the flat part ends I needed something to produce some pressure on the styrene while heating it with the fan:
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After a few attemps I got some strips which had this shape
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In order to continue I had to sand the original ending plates down until they became as thin as possible without the danger of breaking them:
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They were glued onto the styrene strips as you can see on this picture:
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To give the extension a bit more stability a second curved styrene piece was glued onto the first one:
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Finally the styrene was cutted into the right size and the holes for the connection to the front wing had to be redrilled.
That's it, so far:
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