paddy
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Italeri Fiat 806 1/12
A little bit of History on the Fiat 806
It’s quite hard to find out much about this car due to car reliability, it only raced once in its first season and the 1500cc class was discontinued that year, so it never raced again and was scrapped. Of course pictures are also very rare
Four 12 cylinder engines and one chassis were built , the engine was two straight sixes with a common crank case in a U config , overhead cams (x3) and 2 valve per pot gave 187 hp and 8500 rpm and a top speed of 150mph…not bad for 1927
Italeri Bought the Protar moulds when Protar folded and like the other cars in Italeri vintage range this is a plastic version of the Italian Protar metal original. I haven’t seen the metal version, but I am told the plastic version reflects the exact imperfections / casting lines etc of its metal Sister.
Anyway, lets push the boat out on this one
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Unfortunately there are 2 large ejector marks on top of the ??? tank above . Deciding that there is no reason for a chrome floor and i would have to strip the chrome from the tanks to clean the marks anyway i decided to strip these parts
My next step will be about what to do with the wood. I dont think it will be easy to do anything with the PE so maybe scribe the "planks" and use oils. The reason for this is its going to be hard to blend the edges of the PE to the edges of the plastic floor and if i build this with panels off you will see that edge
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