Tamiya 1/12 John Player Special Lotus 72d 1972

Mona
👍

Kyle DeHart
Looks excellent.

John Hughes
Best looking F1 car ever. Watching!

Rui S
Impressive work 👍

Ian Doody
Thanks Guys, this is my fourth 1/12 F1 car, only the second I've hand painted only using brushes.

Ian Doody
Starting to work on the tub, added the sidepods, and working on the front suspension.

Kyle DeHart
That Cosworth is a thing of beauty and the tub is looking great!!

Villiers de Vos
Lots of detail work.

Jv
Great work looks like it already won a few races

Ian Doody
Cheers guys for the nice comments, luckily cooler weather today so I've done a bit more on the Lotus 72d, added front disks and brakes, foot pedals and accelerator cable, plus made up the rear wing. Really slowly coming together.

Ian Doody
Fitted the front suspension arms, master cylinders, shock dampers, drive shafts, uprights and testing the fit with wheels and tyres.

Kyle DeHart
Look at that. She's a proper race-car now.

Ian Doody
That's it for today, finished the plumbing and the fire extinguisher, nose bracing. The fire extinguisher wire is too long, so ill shorten that a smidge tomorrow. More to come soon. Painted using Vallejo and Lifecolor acrylics, weathered with inks and acrylic washes.

Ian Doody
The hardest colour to paint is black, the second hardest colour to paint is gloss black. This being the UK in summer it's hot as shit, and bits are everywhere, so as Bob Ross says, "there are no disasters, only happy accidents" :-D
So therefore any bits in the paintwork are our famous fat blue bottle flies, dead splattered ones.

Ian Doody
Decals...... along with seat belts, my favourite part of building F1 cars ...... not. Luckily I managed to get the JPS tobacco livery before they became unbelievably hard to find. I was at one point doing this as a 73 car, but I've changed my mind and I'm doing the British GP 72 winner.

Emanuel Mesquita
VERY IMPRESSIVE JOB!

Ian Doody
First decals on, looking pretty. A mix of Tabu and Tamiya. 1/12 Tamiya JPS Lotus 72d 1972. All painted by hand using Vallejo and Lifecolor, Scale 75 acrylics, weathered with sepia ink and watered down acrylic washes. Painted in a 1970s Verlinden style, actually looks like it has dead flies on it in some places because of dust and lint in the air.

Michael Kohl
JSP Design is hard to beat - your build too.

Ian Doody
Well, that's enough for today. I have no idea if this looks good or not, I'm gold blind, I hate painting it. One wheel down. Three more to go., I guess.

Ho Ko
it looks good 🙂, impressive...

Ian Doody
Two wheels done, two to go. That's pretty much it for one or two weeks on this. Off to try and escape the heat. Back soon.

Kyle DeHart
Enjoy your time away!

Ian Doody
Wheels and tyres are almost done.

Ian Doody
Weathered seat is in... added gear shift lever. I hate seat belts, I'm putting them off. Still need to add rear deck details, fuel pump, fuel filler cap, fuel tank breather pipes, electrical wiring, engine kill pullswitch, steering wheel, intrument panel, extra radiator detail and then this bit is done. Tip for Tamiya seat belts fraying and showing white, paint the edges whatever colour the main belt is.

Stéphane Jayet
impressive work !!

Ian Doody
Finally starting to wrap up the 1/12 Tamiya JPS Lotus 72d. Adding decal pinstripes and sponsors stickers, tyre decals, still have cockpit details to do, instrument dials, wiring, engine wiring and plumbing, steering wheel and cockpit surround. The slog is almost over.

Kyle DeHart
Look forward to seeing the finished product! Have enjoyed following along. Turning out great.

Ian Doody
Instrument panel and Wheel done. Instruments and switches wiring spider, now to get it all tidied and stowed away.

Ian Doody
Not my favourite time, lining up all the pipes, locating tab and wires. Hopefully I've made it true and not on the piss. Luckily this is just a dry run to check the alignment. That's it for today though, I'll join her up tomorrow.

Ian Doody
Not a fun part, seatbelts are in. Bit more tidying up, then I can join it to the engine. 1/12 Tamiya John Player Special Lotus 72d. Painted with vallejo and Lifecolor acrylics, weathered with sepia ink and watered down acrylic washes.

Kyle DeHart
Have enjoyed following along with this Ian

Ian Doody
That's it for today, body and engine are joined now forever. Only nose decals, cockpit surround paint and decals, airbox paint and decals a bit of tidy up and then that's it I think.... ?

Villiers de Vos
Very nice.

Ian Doody
Almost at the finish line. Just a few more parts to go.

Ian Doody
1/12 Tamiya John Player Special, Lotus 72d, Ford Cosworth DFV V8, 1972, British Grand Prix winner, Emerson Fittipaldi (Bra).
FINISHED, basically, in about five months. I laid the foundations last year, but started building in March. Bought the kit in November 2013 for about £68, before the prices got silly. Got to be a couple of thousand hours work, easy. Personal project to prove I could build and paint a 1/12 Tamiya F1 kit, the way they did back then, using only brushes to paint. Job done. Had a blast.

Rui S
Great finish. Very well done All round 👍

Kyle DeHart
Fantastic Ian! I've really enjoyed following along. And what a great result!!

Greg Baker
That's beautiful!