haha, Thanks Malc!
Well, going a bit deeper and with a suitable keyboard, let´s go.
I´ve read "detail inexistent" and that´d be quite fair.
The brakes a re a joke, a mock up of parts that, straight from memory, have little to do wit what the BT52 used.
All looks as cast in plaster and heavily sanded both before casting (on the master) and after (on the parts).
So simply those parts are a write off, fortunately a bit of wirk can produce easily better parts.
The wheels, oooh dear...
Obviously tyres are a straight copy of Protar´s 126C2 ones. That would not be so terrible if they were "a good copy", even an improvement on them but seemingly they were passed thru mud or "tempura" before making the molds. And yes they have the raised GreedYear letters.
Ah, wait!!!
the BT52 ran on MICHELINs
As they are the 126C2 ones, fronts are 15" which happened in some 1982 races, but NOT in 1983.
Rims, solid and blended with the tyres. That would be not that bad if it were not that they seem glued with mud again. They are done with thread 3D printer and you can see the thread.
So wheels are a write off too. Better fit your own ones and forget them.
Wings are a bad joke too. Specially front one, you van see the layers of plastic it is made of, then the loads of super glue. No graceful wing cross section or whatever. There´s not even a try of reproducing the flaps hinges, quite visible on the BT52. Needless to say, flaps solidly attached to the main wing.
Suspension elements have a nice idea in them. There are built in metal rod within the resin cast parts. The problem is that this will make almost impossible to make holes on the bar ends, that might allow to use some kind of hinge, that of course is not supplied. Also impossible to attach a rod that protrudes and allows glueing to the body. Not sure the quite flat holes that you see on the body will hold on.
The body is in two parts. As on a Burago or a Minichamps or Vitesse. Flat bottom with lower lips of sidepods plus a quite rudimentary cockpit, and the rest is upstairs. There´s no split between the upper body and the chassis sides. And NO panel lines.
So it´s gotta be a curbside. Impossible to carve the body or whatever. Even less with a material that, as CaprisScorch said, looks like stone.
The body itself, meh...
I have not had time to check the dimensions, but with naked eye (I´ve worked a lot on the BT52 shape) I´d say the shape is not quite achieved, there are hard edges, simplified horizontal surfaces where you´d rather have smooth curves, the quite critical fuel cell body is too simplified an unaccurate... ufff.....
Decals look nicely printed though I think they are on self adhesive paper. No problem, I have my own ones ready to print.
Ah! of course no blue red pinstripes or whatever.
The gearbox and the turbo and exhausts... well better I say nothing!!
Veredict?
I most probably will keep the main body part, will work on it, Will make a more decent flat bottom (that will make it something different to a shel breaker, I hope
) and will use my own wheels, brakes, suspensions, wings and decals.
Not sure if I´ll keep it as BT52A or will make the B, honestly.
That´s all so far boys, thanks for reading!!
BR
James
PS: I would like to underline.
no bitter feelings for having bought it.
I did know what I was buying, and suely did not plan to keep more than the main body. I considered the price according to what it was, otherwise I would not have grabbed it
I got it also as an "archaeologist" interest item, I really wanted to see one of those from short distance.
And that said, the kit was sent well protected, fast, safe and at reasonable shiping cost.
