Hi Guys - Just finished the Fujimi with the Historic Racing Miniatures engine transkit. There are quite a few pics so I’ve put them on http://martsmodels.photosite.com/gt40hornby/Targa/
if anyone’s interested.
The transkit is quite good but fiddly and needs a bit of scratchbuilding to help it along. It mainly comprises: engine, carbs, fuel pumps, oil tank, and the rear e cross member (which replaces the one in the kit). The shocks are separate and support the whole rear of the car with the top arms. Drop arms and the radius arms were not in my kit although other people tell me that they had them (?). The roll bar is a piece of wire and difficult to bend - other than that it’s straight forward (!!))
‘Kitbashed’ The instructions are not too bad - one piece of A4 typed. You can either use the kit cross member, which has the shocks attached and the solid metal axle from the kit or the one in the transkit and their separate shocks and drive shafts(which is what I did). There is one b/w pic showing location of the sway bar but its virtually unusable as the quality is so bad. All the resin parts are nicely detailed and have guide holes for drilling (even the distributor).
I used various references from the web but there seems to be a wide variety of differences in the way the cars were set up so there’s has to be a bit of artistic licence here and there.
The car that it is modelled on was crashed in the race and I couldn’t find pics of it anywhere so just used the box-art .
Martin
p.s. I’ve just noticed that the carb box is crooked on the pics - it’s tin sheet and clipped in between the rocker covers - sorry about that - will have to straighten it!!!
Stunning piece of work, I always wanted one of those transkits…is it still available from someone? The car looks fantastic but there is one thing I think you should do to make it look even better. Shave of that dreadful lip on the inside of the rims, especially on the rear wheels in this case. I always do that whenever it’s present and think it’s a big improvment to get rid of that kind of train looking rims.