Would I build this Tamiya 1/12 Honda F1 model? Die Hard Airfix modeller finds a Tamiya kit he likes 

Dude! I think I have told you before. Those were one of my favorites as a kid in the 70(s). The old formula one kits and just the race car kits in general. Just now some of those are real expensive. But I think I still have a 1/12 Porsche race car kit in the basement from my youth I can build at some point. But, build what you enjoy. This hobby needs to be fun and a stress release 😀

One thing I really like about your videos is that you don’t wiggle the part tree when showing them.

I remember building this kit when it first came out. I think i'll get another one. Thanks Harry.

Looks great Harry! Becker did good to send it to you. Thanks for sharing. 😎🇨🇦

Yes one of my fave Deep Purple songs as well as Hush ,Black night and Perfect Strangers!The interplay of Jon Lords awesome keyboards and Blackmore's tasty guitar licks make them legendary songs!

Those type of instructions with the hints and the highlighted areas where glue needs to be and a little information about the actual part on the real thing are by far the best and I don’t know if anyone does anything like that anymore,building model cars as a kid is where I learned to identity engine parts and that’s very helpful really

As always, I have enjoyed your video Harry. Many thanks.

I hope you will enjoy the Honda. I’ve not built that one (yet) but I’m meandering slowly through Tamiya’s 1/12 F1 range. People as you articulated many times can build what they like. It is a very diverse and rich hobby but these particular models do offer great detailing and upgrading opportunities if that is where you want to go. However you get a reasonable out of the box model ……with some effort. You cannot ask for much more really. Enjoy and hopefully you’ll keep us posted. Best wishes as always.

Yeah!! I built this and their Lotus F1 back in the 90s. Both enjoyable kits I wouldn't mind revisiting.

Harry, my dad built this kit one Christmas and it has it's challenges including the complex exhaust system and partly working rear suspension. Enjoy!

I do so enjoy this channel & the fun entertainment from Harry, and as a recent returning modeller I cannot express how much knowledge this channel has given me. Great tips on here have seen me enlarge my tiny AirFix collection to one that will take years to complete and after drinking a few beers and watching the " St Louis " posts on the weekend I thought it was time I gave myself a challenge, even though I barely know how to use a airbrush. When I sobered up Sunday morning I had purchased the Hobby Boss " Dora " 🥺.... oppppsssss

Now that's a good kit. Have some fun.

I hope you enjoy this Harry , this was first released in 1973 so interested on your comparison with Airfix kits of similar vintage . The most important steps with F1 car kits are to get the engine to body mounting square otherwise the rear suspension will be out alignment and also getting the exhausts sitting correctly .

"Apples" vs "Tangerines"... love it! My wish-list is currently 36 kits long, of which 4 just are "Apples" and just 6 are "Tangerines"; and my stash currently contains 3 "Apples" and 1 "Tangerine".. To me my choice of any model is all a matter of the *subject* (what subject interests me *today* ), and who does the "best" (more on that in a second) version of that particular subject. My *personal* criteria for what makes a good kit is: 1) how well it fits together (puttying and sanding are my far my most hated modelling tasks), and 2) the level of accuracy and detail available; in that order of priority. But that's just me. ;-)

Nice one Harry! Got one of these I built over a decade ago when I returned to modelling after a long break - was never happy with the decals (i didn't even know about decal setting liquids!) and the front uprights are as fragile as. I recently ordered new decals and front suspension parts for a revisit. I love Tamiya F1 cars (but I am unashamedly a Tamiya fan boy) and have a 1/12 Martini Brabham BT44B in the stash and a 1/12 Williams FW14B (also built over a decade ago) about to be restored having sourced replacement decals. Keep up the good work!

Fabulous project. Have fun uncle Harry 👍🤝☕️☕️

Love your work Harry! Glad to see you're trying an automotive subject. I have the 1/12 Tyrrell 6 wheeler. Haven't attempted it yet. Will be watching your build.

You're building Tamiya? And I'm building Airfix? Its an upside down, topsy turvy world! Looking forward to the first stage of this build....

I love building these 1/12th car kits, I build the Tamiya bikes and love them, that kit is an old tooling so not quite the shake and bake you get nowadays, that's a lovely Honda F1 car, hope you get to enjoy it

You might enjoy that one Harry. I built it a few years ago and it build up nice.

You lucky bugger Harry; what a great kit. Here in the UK John Surtees is well known to motoring enthusiasts. He's the only person ever to have been world champion on both 2 and 4 wheels.

Hi Harry, I've been building their 1/12 JPS III (Lotus 78) for on and off several months. It's needing a bit of work to get it together and there is some scope for a few bits of extra detailing so I think you'll enjoy tackling the Honda.

I have started that kit, but have have put it aside until I can work out how to get a number of the exhaust headers to connect to the engine block. It is definitely not a shake and bake kit and I think you should have fun working through some of the sections. It is one that you can add a lot of detail to, but you need really good reference pictures to help. Have fun Harry

Space Trucking by Deep Purple ! cool!

I built several Tamiya Formula 1 kits (1/20 scale) years ago (and still have a couple on the shelf) and they were challenging kits. Getting everything to fit just right was part of the satisfaction of the kits -- and they looked great too, I don't recall painting as much of a challenge compared to assembly. I might just have to pull a couple of them out and give them a go. Sub assemblies was definitely the name of the game when putting them together. They were a nice change of pace from 1/700 ships and 1/48 or 1/72 aircraft. Far more challenging than 1/35 armor (regardless of who made them)

Absolutely love those F1 cars, looks like a proper stunner! Im much like yourself Mr. Harry, I prefer kits that have a lot to them, plenty to sink me modelling teeth into so to say. Lots of parts and complex and/or intricacies = a build I love and that's more enjoyable to me lol. Love your channel mate! Easily my favorite, love your humor, slight bit a cheek and just yourself overall. G'day from the USA😎

I've built 2 F1 kits in the past when i was a fair bit younger and found them to be really enjoyable to build. Now that I'm an old fart and not a young whipper snapper and just got back into modelling I purchase two more but this time I'm going to take my time and try to do a bit more to enhance the model with photo etch and braided wire etc. I think you will like these models and i think you will have some great ideas and tips along the way.

Hope you build and video it ! Should be an interesting build.

Thanks again Harry for a wonderful presentation. I found your preamble to be hilarious, and I had a good laugh along with you. I am very interested to see how you get along, with this rolling tangerine.👍

Thanks for this video! It looks like a pretty complex kit! A classic for sure, though...I don't build cars for some reason, aside from modifying HotWheels and Matchbox cars for " Gaslands".... I recently was reminded of a quote from the late Shepherd Payne, R.I.P., when asked why he had stopped doing dioramas and modelling in general he replied "I stopped doing it when it stopped being fun" and that's a bit of wisdom every modeller should remember... Really appreciate the " now with extra waffle" ...was feeling buyer's remorse from the previous low waffle content!

Buy the aftermarket decals, yes you can put the decals in a ziplock bag and leave on a window, yes they will go white again….but… they will revert back to yellow.

Hi Harry, the force is strong with this one 😊 😊😊 these are the kits I look at, then pick up another ship , just maybe you'll change my mind Harry 😆😆😆😆 IM EXCITED ITS MYSTERY BOX For me tomorrow 😎😎😎 have a good one mate

I think your videos are really funny, interesting and entertaining :)

Bask the Cat have really improved on the drums since last time....👍🏻 That looks like a real, proper, F1 car....compared to today's contraptions! But, where's the sails, how does it move forward and the guns!? 😳😲🤨🤔

This appears to be one tamiya’s 70s kits when they were a breath of fresh air .I have built some of their F1 cars in the past and if you want to you can super detail them as quite a bit has either been missed out or oversimplified due to the moulding technology back then. These kits also aren’t like the tanks and will need some work as they didn’t fall together. The late John Surtees was a double world champion having won both moto GP and F1 titles which I think nobody else ever did.

I hope that this is going to be a Tangerine that you can enjoy, as I've been looking at the newer ones, but I think that I prefer the earlier type of car. Good luck with it and I will look forward to your videos on her. 👍👍

I built that kit for display,all those years ago I remember enjoying it immensely,but thought the suspension and steering parts were very delicate,(Iexpect to keep it in scale) and wished they had provided those parts in metal. I would enjoy it now,If only I could see the way I used to!!

Very interesting ! I hope the Becker was right and that you'll enjoy it . I woukd think the water piping is to connect a front mounted radiator to a rear mounted engine , ala the old Fiat X1/9 two seater . Looking forward to your project . However , after an Isaac Asimov allusion and music from Deep Purple's "Space Truckin" , I'm a little disappointed it's not a rocket ship. Enjoy it when you can get around to it Harry .

I have many of these 1/12 f1 kits I agree with you Harry they are the only Tamiya kits which are totally engaging the later models such as the Williams or Ferrari are even more complex.

Nice! I recently completed the Tamiya Lancaster Grand Slam. Fun build & a bit of challenge with the nacelles but still a FINE model! And for 60$ instead of 120$+ for an HK Lancaster I'm pleased🤗

Did the kit come with the soft tires?...don't mind a second look at this kit...its kinda cool

Told you some time ago that the Tamiya F1 cars are a challenge to build, and I wish you a lot of fun during the build.

Great taste in music!

Have done a few of the cheap (old) Tamiya armour kits which were OK. Fancied doing a motorbike and Tamiya is the obvious choice. Goes together well and the end result will be very good but I have to say it isn't as enjoyable as the 1/72nd Airfix Spit that I am also doing. The bike kit you can paint most of it on the sprue and then assemble it.

F1 cars certainly start the race in immaculate condition - remember that amongst other things they are an advertising platform, companies pay vast amounts to have their brands on the cars - maybe not such an issue in the 50s and 60s. Then there is performance, the engineers want to eek every ounce of speed and dirt slows a car down so they will start the race immaculately clean and polished to make the car as slippery as possible in the airstream. Was watching some of the Dutch Grand Prix qualifying races yesterday and I noticed some footage in the pit areas between attempts where the crew were cleaning and polishing the cars with the drivers still sat in them. I guess as the race progresses they will accumulate dirt. So you have two choices, an immaculately clean ‘pre race’ car or a mildly weathered ‘post race’ car.

I've build a lot of F1 cars, Lotus 72 was my first and now the Renault RE20 Turbo is under construction. Lots of painting and masking on that one. The Honda was fun to build in 1/20 scale. A real challege for you might be the Tyrell sixwheeler with the 4 wheel steering.

I'm not a big fan of Tamiya either, but their cars aren't too bad at all! Back in '76 I bought a newly-released 1/12 Tamiya Porsche 934. It was recently released as a 45th anniversary model, and still holds up VERY well, with the addition of a small amount of PE. It's not expensive either, for such a big kit. Approximately $220, and I bought one again!

I quite like the Tamiya 1/10 scale remote control off-road vehicle kits and the RC trucks, but I get the angst regarding Tamiya plastic tank kits etc - they can be like toys sometimes. I do want to give a 1/12 Tamiya motorbike kit a go someday though. Cheers Harry. 👍😁🐈‍⬛

Ooh cool! A F-1 car kit from when F-1 was interesting (and not a bit deadlier alas) than the slot car racing it is these days.* I'd forgotten Tangerine did a series of these cars a while back. Loved the look of that era since the old Airfix slot car set I had that gave you a green Lotus and a red Ferrari to race, and crash! Looking forward to the build Harry! 🏎

I have one of these in my stash!! My decals are shot to pieces though (secondhand kit) 😔 do you happen to have access to a high quality scanner and could scan the decal sheets at all?

good morning or afternoon depends on where you live ? LOL first I enjoy watching what you do and even though I have been building models since I was really really young and 67 years old and still enjoying building models , but I watched your build on the Tamiya 1/12 scale F1 Honda and I just had to go out and buy one for myself to build , but I have built other Formula One cars from Tamiya and I think their kits are absolutely awesome , you just need a little bit of patience and take your time and it's well worth it in the end but I like the challenge and the detail that Tamiya kits offer even with their aircraft models such as the F4-U Corsair and even the Mitsubishi zero are really nice builds , but I am curious to know how your car came out ? Because I cannot find the video on how you painted yours ? I know you made a suggestion instead of using the decals that you are actually going to paint the stripe on the model itself ? I know personally I try to do that on my models when I build instead of using decals I find it's a lot easier , but either way thank you so much and let me know if you have done that video on painting your F1 Honda and how came out ? Take care have a wonderful day from Charlie

Yes the 1/12th grand prix cars...I have 2 unfinished because they don't fit..they're frustrating, and are the only Tamiya kits that challenge....

Hi Harry, If you haven't built it yet, I think that, among cars, you would enjoy the 1930 4.5L Bentley 1/12 from Airfix, a beautiful engine with brass and copper piping (I added a lot of real metal parts). I don't know any paint that really looks like mirror polished brass, like a yellow chrome, if somebody knows one, I would like to know (I tried Alclad Gold, and it looks like gold paint unlike their chrome that is realistic). I have this Honda kit in the (long, delayed) process of salvation from the previous modeler. The thing about the 12th scale is that Tamiya picked models that are not really exciting to me: Porsche 910, Ford Lola, ... What about a Porsche 917, Ferrari 250 GTO, or 250 Testa Rossa, instead? The F1 are cool though. Always nice to watch your videos. Thank you, Yves.

Would be great if you could get a similar scale model of his championship winning agusta motorcycle, make a great diorama side by side ... incredible looking kit tho , look forward to the build as way above my skill level which is apple 1/72 lol

I built the 1:20 version of this model, it’s excellent! You don’t get the figure in the 1:20 kit but it builds into a really nice model (I also have the Tamiya (tangerine 😉) 1:20 Lotus from the same era). FYI the colour is actually called Honda Racing White and zero paints do a great colour matched paint (which I used for mine) paint code ZP-1101 ‘Honda F1 RA272-RA273 Racing White 60ml’

1 master cylinder for the clutch. 1 master cylinder for the front and the other for the rear. A mechanical system is used to proportion brake pedal push between the two brake cylinders.

Well, as Becks sent it to you I really did think it would be an aircraft model. I am happy to be wrong. Certainly looks a detailed build compared to your average Tamiya Tank etc. I reckon you will enjoy the detailing aspect, but I do not think it will make you a Tamiya convert. Glad you are getting settled into your new pad and Bask approves. Cheers from the U.K.

Interesting subject. One of those cars we only see in low quality b/w on tv when the spots program memorizes one of the legendary drivers of those days who has died.

I hvnt since a kid but I'd like a Tamiya toy model I can put the motor in..get Kitten going....lol ...yea Harry..I will follow this one as well..

Deep Purple🥰

Honda RA 272, Recognized it when I saw the nose cone :)

"To this day Surtees remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels"

That's an old one! First released in 1967, reissued in 1973, and reissued again in 2006 with some new parts, but not seen since then. It does look like an interesting kit with good quality. I don't build cars, but for those who do it should make a nice project.

Sayed the Mann with the Triumph Hat

Glad you found your eyeballs;) never built Tamiya cars, so that's a first for me. But I see wiring the engine would make that kit pop. But you >must< paint the figure I have to see the Harry mustache haha. I think you'll enjoy building that one.

John Surtees is the only person to be world champion on both 2 wheels and 4 ! Bloody nice bloke aswell. I recomend doing some research, maybe you could build one of his bikes aswell. P.s. was that a metric or imperial shit load ?

I play my electric loud and distorted!Empty nest and I am a widower so no one can object!

I’ve got the 1:12 Matra 11 and it’s certainly not shake&bake, so this might be right up your Brisbane alley. Try to work out the plumbing (water, fuel, oil) & wiring on these cars. You can’t

This was Tamiya's first 1/12 scale Formula 1 car and dates from 1968. It has the original styles of Tamiya instructions. They are not as good now, sadly. It's one of the very few Tamiya F1 cars I've never built. You will certainly enjoy that.

Tamiya are to expensive for me . I would like to do some of the kits. But just can't afford them. I live in the UK

Love scratch building? You'll love getting the exhausts to look like the real thing!! LOL, the way the kit is designed, it'll never happen! The entire interior of the "V" is MIA......

There is only one manufacturer of plastic kits that annoy me (I understand that every company will have an issue with fit or accuracy, blah, blah, blah), and that is Revell. Those BOXES. Open from the side, try and check the model in the shop or even and home, and then you have to go and do a physics degree and then a masters, and then a degree in engineering, to try and get the sprues back in the damn box, which has surreptitiously shrunk and changed shape. Hate them, hate them, hate them. (I now put Revell kits in the boxes of old kits, cutting the box and sticking it to the donor box.)

now there's two words I thought I would never hear in the same sentence from the lips of you Harry love and Tamiya that green thing that Jack Brabham drove to win the 1966 F1 Championship was a ummmm what was it again ooh thats right it was a Brabham BT19

John Surtees is pronounced as Sir Tease ahem… I’m looking forward to watching this kit come together

Where's the Honda Harry??????

I nearly built one, but i just don't appreciate it and whilst the complexity was nice enough to keep me interested I decided against on the basis I just wouldn't appreciate the final article. And I can't stand motorbikes so that was never a thing for me.

I never got into cars at all, way too many parts that are to fragile to support their own weight. I kinda liken a car model to a visit to the proctologist. Both are a pain in the rear!

I'm not sure I would bother with this kit. Not so much because it's Tamiya, more so that it is a car, for me, boring................

Hey Harry, the "I hate Tamiya they go together too well" shtick is getting old. Instead of constantly complaining about them just move on and build what you like. As modelers, we should celebrate brands that build quality kits, not keep whining/whinging like a child! Personally, I'm not a big Tangerine fan so, I just don't buy them. That being said, I do enjoy your videos, enjoy your enthusiasm and infectious humor but so tired of your Tamiya rants. Ok, getting off my soap box now, carry on!

Currently building the Tangerine Williams F1 car (Nigel Mansell's 'Red-5') and enjoying it so far - Done a few Tangerine F1s in the past and they do tend to turn out very nice. Most are older molds, and do need some attention - though being 'Tangerines' I've not yet come across a 'bad' one. A tip on the tyres - rotate them GENTLY on some fine sandpaper - gives the surface a dull matt 'slightly used' look. A bit like this - i.postimg.cc/L8P6mhz9/slicks2.jpg - Williams FW11 slicks