Brabham Hybrid

Here’s a project I extremely enjoyed and loved how it turned out. I bought a Brabham re-re limted event release bodyset and adapted it on a F103RM chassis. This was done by the instructions who said where to make holes and cut bodyparts. In general, the front nose was cut where the suspension enters and the bodypart suspension was cut off. The body was then filed and sanded to make it fit the chassis. There is a instruction with the bodyset but still some adjustments must be made. My modifications beside the F103 conversion: The rear spoiler was attached with some carbonplate instead of alu in the instructions. The spoiler was then bolted on with 2 custom made wingmounts in plastic. The body was primed, sprayed white and clearcoated, the wing was sprayed dark blue and stickers on top. After putting on the stickers I found some reference pictures with slidely different decals so I added them: the Goodyear logo and BMW coulours on the wing and some warningstickers on the top of the body. I also saw the the frontnose has some ducktape on them so made a replica with grey vinyl. Some detail on the chassis: wheels were sprayed gloss black, black wheel nuts, wheel weights on the rims and logo and text on the tires. I wanted to do something different on the driver so I found a 1:12th seat from a static kit that fitted perfect. The seat harnass was made with PE metal parts and fabric on the belts (all from a static kit). I made some sidewalls in the interior and some metal parts for the airduct in front (PE parts). A steering wheel was placed using a steering rod to support it. The helmet was drilled out, face and inside parts removed and the holes were filled with Putty. After spraying and decalling it I added some chin strappes made from PE and fabric. So I’m very pride of this low cost project (100$ for the chassis and 68$ for the bodyset) which turned out to be one of my favorite looking cars (I always looked out for a NIB but this is much better) Hope you like it