John Kallas on Lancia LC2

A little detailing pays off.

 

 

I just finished both of my Lancias. One is mounted on a Plafit III chassis, the other on a TSR. Both of them handle great. The bodies are from TSR. They were painted white on the inside. Then I applied Lancia decals from Tamiya/Tamtech using Micro-Set and Micro-Sol. The Micro-Sol sticks the decals on so well, it's as if they were painted on.

 

It's very hard to get one off. In order to do it, you have to sand or scrape it. (don't ask me how I know).  

 

   The chassis remains stock but I added TSR lead weight to bring the car's total weight to the minimum 150 grams per TSR rules. I also reinforced the chassis by adding the recommended bolts and nuts and a piece of steel tubing across the front axle mounts.
I made a few "improvements" to the bodies as well. I didn't care for the look of the exhaust pipes after I painted them, so I made some from styrene tubing and sheet and applied them from the inside.  

 

   On one of the cars, I painted over the headlights, as on the real car, they used white headlight covers. On the other one, I made some headlight buckets from Lexan sheet, and made a styrene rectangular headlight.  

 

Then I painted the whole assembly with Alclad chrome paint and mounted them inside of the nose section.  

 

   The interiors were also slightly modified as they come without a dashboard, and on these bodies, with so much room in the windshield, you would've seen the driver's legs just dangling in the air holding a "floating" steering wheel.  So I made a dashboard out of some .010" styrene and painted the entire assembly flat black.

 

I painted the drivers with suits to match the Martini colors and painted a few interior panels with silver aluminum paint and I added a steering column to the steering wheel. The driver has no "feet" as they would interfere with the chassis front axle.  

 

   Then I affixed the drivers on their seats with Shoo Goo. Lastly, I mounted a fire extinguisher next to each driver. Then I made an instrument panel sticker (using a paint program) and applied it to add a little more realism.

 

The cockpit was then affixed to the body with double stick tape, and I also applied some reinforcing body-mount "spiders" in case of serious crashes.

I am very pleased with the results on both of them, and with some of the minor "improvements", they almost look like "hard-body" cars.

  

 

The TSR wheel inserts were drilled, then chucked on a Dremel tool and filed until they fitted deep inside the wheels.  

 

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