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I finally got around to get the full kit of this great and historic car. Since this is a full kit I am building it out of sequence. I focus on the things that I change from the original kit. I used as many original pictures as well as ideas from the other fantastic building blog's here. First thing I did was to assemble and modify the front brakes. File Attachment(s): monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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The next thing I did was to modify the intercooler balancer tubes adding hose clamps and some shrink tube.
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It's a good idea to improve the basic kit, if I can give you a tip try to be careful about the accuracy of the changes
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thanks for the feedback Maurizio. Yeah, there are obviously many challenges, specially with color and scale. reference pictures from different sources show different colors, specially on carbon parts. This will be a bit of an experiment but I hope it will turn out OK. the basic model is good and the 1/8 scale is a bit more forgiving to work with compared with the usual 1/24 and 1/8 kits. I am by the way struggling (as of no clue) how to insert pictures rather than attaching them as a file. Any tips?
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Hi Monzaandre, Nice start to a great model.
As far as uploading the images goes, I find that if you can resize the files to about 150kB then upload by ticking the box in the "Post a reply" window then it should work fine.
Cheers
Malc.
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Welcome to the forum Andre and a nice start on your MP4/4 build with some good work on your brakes - well done.  
Kev 
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I try again to upload a picture embedded rather than attached. monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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close up of the Intercooler balance pipe
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I repainted the air ducts into a gray/black and drilled out the plastic screws that have been molded into the parts, replacing them with some foto etched parts. monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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I also added carbon decals for the mono, I used a champagne gold / black smoke as the base color. monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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back to some font brake/suspension pictures. I replaced the brake lines as follows: monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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the finished piece looks like this
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I know you saw it... I made a mistake on the right connector... lucky its a super small part LOL
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assembled. I removed and replaced the caliper braided hose with a more scale size one (will show that in a later picture). monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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left is the old "version", right is the more correct upgrade monzaandre attached the following image(s):
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