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As I've had a bit of free time at the weekends during the recent bad weather, I made a determined effort to finish building a model kit that I'd been bought as a birthday present a couple of years ago. It had been a bit of an on and of thing (mostly off) but perseverance paid off and in the end I got this: A Tamiya 1/12th Ducati 900 Mike Hailwood replica. The basic kit isn't that expensive but the paint and display case cost twice as much again but now it's finished, it looks like money well spend. I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted to have a crack at another kit and so started to have a look around at what was available. I wanted to do something a bit bigger and having built a 1/12th F1 Ferrari about 25 years ago, I looked at what was available. In the end I went for the Tamiya 1/12th 1974 Mclaren M23 a proper F1 car, Cosworth DFV engine, plain livery, from the days when it was safer having a crash in a Cortina and your first big shunt could well have been you last. Coincidentally the M23 is a car the Mike Hailwood also drove on a number of occasions. Some more information on the kit can be found here: http://www.tamiya.co...laren/index.htm This kit was first produced in the mid 1970's but received an update in the 1990's with the addition of photo etched components to the kit. These consist of a metal sheet about 0.010" thick that is etched so that the individual pieced are trimmed out and also in places, have a reduced thickness due to surface etching. This allows much thinner components to be produced than would otherwise be possible in moulded plastic and these are used for brake discs, seat belt buckles, wing side plates and a number of other components. In total, the kit comprises some 500-600 pieces and with some keen shopping around, I was able to get a kit delivered for £78. Additionally I've spent another £50 on paints that should hopefully be useful if I build more kits. Going by the time it took to put the Ducati together, this isn't going to be a quick project but I'm in no particular rush to get it finished so I'll add photos and updates as work progresses.
