Tamiya Tyrrell P34 6-Wheeler - 1977 Argentine GP - 2022 Reissue

[GreenBar0n]

That's as far as I can take the polish.


It's ready for decals.


Could've been a better job overall, had I started with primer, then painted it. No exaggeration, that's nearly (6) cans of TS-15 Blue, from all the drips and runs I had to sand out, and repaint. So many hard and costly lessons were learned on this little scrap of ABS

The old saying is, "it takes twice as long to do it the wrong way". This took far longer than merely twice. I will always use primer on hard shells, from now on.

[GreenBar0n]

Completed the P-34. This one is too pretty and fragile to run, it's really low, very little ground clearance.

[TRX-1-3]

Top notch! Looks amazing. All that effort really paid off.

[GreenBar0n]

Thanks for the encouragement! Couldn't leave those mistakes the way I made them, had to try to keep fixing them, and would then ruin another area in the process, it was maddening.

[TRX-1-3]

Thanks for the encouragement! Couldn't leave those mistakes the way I made them, had to try to keep fixing them, and would then ruin another area in the process, it was maddening.

I couldn't quite place it, but it sounded like there was a beat/rhythm you were stop-to-stop turning the servo! Could just be random though, I guess.

[GreenBar0n]

Probably just a subconscious habit from playing guitar, everything has a pulse, rhythm, or vibration - to me.

[XLR8]

The car looks so good! I have to remind myself; that's not lexan.
A beautiful model of a legend in auto racing. I don't blame you for not running it.

[GreenBar0n]

The car looks so good! I have to remind myself; that's not lexan.
A beautiful model of a legend in auto racing. I don't blame you for not running it.

Thanks so much! Seeing the real P-34 6-wheeler for the first time, as a kid, was mind blowing. A few months back, seeing a Tamiya vintage P-34 on ebay, was also stunning, had no idea they made that, and then immediately finding out Tamiya made the 2022 reissue, and I could have a brand new one - had to do it.

It was the first hard shell body I tried, knew it was going to test me, and glad I tried my hardest. Learned a lot in the process.