Tamiya Williams FW07 / Alan Jones 1980 (1/20 scale model) 

Yeah, very nice indeed considering it's older than I am!

Thank you! A great era of F1!

Thank you!

Cheers Richard. Thanks for watching!

Thank you Darren. Yep, always trying to learn and improve :)

Thank you mate

Thank you! The only thing holding up the diorama now is my awful figure painting skills - I want to do justice to your decals :)

​@@ModelNerdhaha! I'm sure you will. It's faces which worry me the most. Much easier when doing a modern pit crew as they all wear helmets!

Thanks! Yes, I've been a fan for decades now :)

Thanks Steve!

Thanks. Yes, you can't go wrong with Murray. I love "I don't know of course, I'm not driving the car" :)

Thanks. I seem to have so many that so need to build!

Thanks - glad you liked it

Yes, I think if the parts were larger I would definitely do that, but I can just about get away with it on the small ones

Thanks!

Thank you

Yes, it really it crazy how long ago it was. In fact those years are closer to the end of WWII than they are to us now!

Thanks mate - glad you liked it. I've got a few of the driver figures but never included them. I think I'm going to in my upcoming Tyrrell P34s though (1976 and 1977 versions). Those kits also include decals for the drivers' race suits, which is nice.

Unfortunately not. Licensing issues, I believe. I recently bought the Aoshima MP4/2 only to find half the decals were missing due to licensing issues (not just the obvious tobacco ones, but Shell and Goodyear too). Rather annoying.

Thanks. I feel like I've still got a lot to learn in this area but I think the main things are to identify the subcomponents (based on common paint colours) and really take the extra time to ensure everything is filled, sanded, primed (and repeat) until it is perfect. The paint jobs on these cars show up any imperfections. The biggest step I made recently was being very disciplined with the very fine sanding of the primer coat to ensure the spray paint went on smoothly and gave a good finish. If you do it well enough you don't even need a gloss coat below your decals. On the Tyrrell P34s I'm building now it took 4 or 5 rounds of priming, sanding smooth, priming, sanding smooth until I was happy.

@@ModelNerd thank you, I appreciate the advice.

Haha - worth it though! A great age of technological development.

Thank you Mikey. Yes, this older cars are some of my favourites, with fantastic lines and really striking liveries.