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Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« on: January 02, 2022, 05:01:51 AM »
Hi all time to start this Christmas present 












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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2022, 06:44:35 AM »
will be watching as I must get this kit myself as I've often eye'd off the old Porcher version in 1/10th.  Thank goodness this one is much cheaper ! :D

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2022, 04:21:39 AM »
Hi all time to start this Christmas present 












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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2022, 04:35:38 AM »
More progress 









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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2022, 04:55:55 AM »
Hi all more work on the engine, the pipework is supposed to be gunmetal (why? Surley it would be steel or ally) anyway I decided for a bit of interest I would do it copper.





Added some weathering to the engine.




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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2022, 03:23:35 AM »
More work on the Alfa.







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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2022, 12:50:37 AM »
Ha...at first glance I read this thread title as "Alfa Romeo 2300 BC" - that would have been different...
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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2022, 04:49:22 AM »
More work on this.





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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2022, 06:43:49 AM »
looking good ! :smiley:

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2022, 05:59:01 PM »
More shrink ray trick photography  :smiley:

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2022, 05:08:42 AM »
Hi all rear dampers done WAPITA

Pleased they're done but they took ages.









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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2022, 10:18:42 AM »
Intricate, but the finished product looks to be worth the effort. :smiley:
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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2022, 05:01:36 AM »
Hi all there are upgrade kits for the wheels of this kit but I honestly can see nothing wrong with the kit ones, they don't even need cleaning no flash of anything.










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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2022, 08:05:48 AM »
Lookin' Good !

That last pic makes me think - forget about the body, just complete it as an open-air run-about :D

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2022, 04:49:42 AM »
Tried some of the body panels on.




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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2022, 12:26:16 AM »
Looking good.
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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2022, 12:30:08 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2022, 04:33:43 AM »
More trials of the body fit (I really love this kit)







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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2022, 07:39:46 AM »
Sooo, you gave the shrink ray machine a tune up  :smiley:

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2022, 04:12:57 AM »
Hi all I'm really enjoying this kit, fit is great, no flash at all( I've seen some bad reviews of this kit, all I can say is they haven't built it or are not modelers)































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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2022, 05:05:14 AM »
More done to the Alfa, the underneath is finished so on to the top ( those nuts are 1.4mm the hole I drilled in them is 0.3mm) the drilling was easy threading that wire through the hole was another story. 

I'm kind of wishing I hadn't started it, on the other hand it does make quite a difference to the overall look.

The exhaust is not fixed I just wanted to see how it looked.

The radiator to bulkhead brace I made out of copper wire the thing supplied in the kit is so flimsy (the only bad bit in the whole kit.
































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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2022, 06:41:20 AM »
Beautiful !!

You might want to replace the straight bits of the brake-rods with brass - they look a bit too flimsy & may break if you're not careful picking the model up later.  Drilling out the knuckles to fit the rod is fiddly but worth it in the long run.  The old Airfix Bentley had the same problem & with the spare-wheel brace etc.

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2022, 09:01:53 AM »
Okay, I'm impressed! :smiley:
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."

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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2022, 05:23:45 AM »
Hi all first disappointing bit of the kit so far, spent 2 hrs trying to get the bonnet to fit, still not happy with it not sure what to do next to improve fit.

















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Re: Italari 1/12 Alfa Romeo 2300 8C
« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2022, 03:29:49 PM »
Straps over the bonnet! ;)
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."