Toyota Eagle Mk Iii Gtp '93

[Brendan]

Picked up two MS Hobbies Toyota kits from Mark at the NNL West. Will be doing two versions of the car. One will be the Daytona Winner #98 and the other will be the high down force car #99 that ran the circuit races.

So far the kit looks really nice. Little more flashing than I'm used to from his kits, but it should clean up easily. I'll let you know how it goes during the build. This is a car I've always wanted to build. It's one of my favorite racing teams. Here is the pictures of what's inside the kit. More updates coming soon.

Edited July 8, 2008 by Brendan

[ScaleCentral]

Can you take some close up shots of the kit? I was thinking of getting one. The one on the MS Hobbies website looks like it would need some work, but this final version looks really nice. Also, is that some tire stencils I see on the PE fret?

Thanks,

Nic

Picked up two MS Hobbies Toyota kits from Mark at the NNL West. Will be doing two versions of the car. One will be the Daytona Winner #98 and the other will be the high down force car #99 that ran the circuit races.

So far the kit looks really nice. Little more flashing than I'm used to from his kits, but it should clean up easily. I'll let you know how it goes during the build. This is a car I've always wanted to build. It's one of my favorite racing teams. Here is the pictures of what's inside the kit. More updates coming soon.

[Nick F40]

Duuuude, probably the most beautiful Toyota race car of all time, with a swoopy body and the Jaguar type spoiler/wing. I'm definitely following this build.

Edited March 3, 2008 by Nick F40

[Brendan]

Can you take some close up shots of the kit? I was thinking of getting one. The one on the MS Hobbies website looks like it would need some work, but this final version looks really nice. Also, is that some tire stencils I see on the PE fret?

Thanks,

Nic

I'll take some pictures tonight. Is there anything in particular that you want to see?

[ScaleCentral]

Looking forward to them. I'm really interested in the outside bits (overall body, wheels, transmission/wing, and the PE bits). It looks great from a distance. I have several of his 962's. BTW, are the decals Cartograf?

Thanks,

Nic

I'll take some pictures tonight. Is there anything in particular that you want to see?

[Brendan]

Here's the pictures I promised. Yes, there is a stencil in the photoetch for the tire markings. I don't think the decals are Cartograph. I believe they are from Micro Scale, though I'm not really sure.

[Brendan]

Got the first car primered. The other car is on my bench waiting to be cleaned up and primered. The Daytona car will have the exhaust out the side. And the high down force car will have the exhaust out the back. Some areas that running into issues with are that there are quite a few sink marks on the very bottom of the chassis. All of them need to be filled. Also the clear resin is a bit foggy which I'm going to attempt to buff out. But I'm not to worried about the clear resin on the high down force car as it will be filled in and puttied. An other issue of concern is the back louvers on the tail end of the car. They are not easy to clean up. Should have some paint on in the next couple of weeks. Should be an easy kit to paint since the colors are black and white.

[Ariel]

Just ordered mine. Was going to wait until NNL EAST but couldn't hold off.

[Brendan]

Just ordered mine. Was going to wait until NNL EAST but couldn't hold off.

Good to hear. Hope you like it as much as I do.

[Ariel]

Good to hear. Hope you like it as much as I do.

Brendan for some reason I think you don't have a stash of kits.

As soon as you get the kits you go to town on them. i probably have 800 kits in my

collection unbuilt you may have the same but built.

[Brendan]

Brendan for some reason I think you don't have a stash of kits.

As soon as you get the kits you go to town on them. i probably have 800 kits in my

collection unbuilt you may have the same but built.

I used to have quite a big stash of models. Probably about 200 at one point. Working at a hobby shop, I used to get all the new stuff at a discount. Then I moved to Oregon. Working out of the house I have a lot of free time. I got tired of hiking and fishing all of the time. Now I think my stash is down to maybe 20. Usually when I get a kit, it is something I want to build right off the bat and a lot of times I have two or three kits going at the same time. I don't do a lot of modifications unless I have a customer that wants some changes. But I would like to get my stash built up again at some point.

[Brendan]

Got some work done. Would have had it up sooner but lost internet connection.

Here's the pictures of the gear box. It is a two-piece unit that fits easily together. Did run into a little fit issue with the transmission fitting onto the chassis when I was dry fitting it, but it is easily fixed with removal of material from the chassis's suspension arm as shown in a picture.

Have not put on the photoetch for the brakes yet. These are a bunch of little pieces that are in the cockpit.

The rims are painted with Alclad polished aluminum. There are two exhausts. The long one is for the High downforce car and the short one is for the Daytona car. They were painted in different shades of Alclad. (Jet exhaust and Burnt metal)

Will have new posts up soon...need to do some filling in on the bottom part of the chassis.

[RatRod]

Wow!! More really cool stuff coming from your desk Brenden!!! Is there a website for MS Hobbies? Thanks.

[Brendan]

Wow!! More really cool stuff coming from your desk Brenden!!! Is there a website for MS Hobbies? Thanks.

Here's a link to MS Hobbies web site.

http://www.mshobbies.com

Thanks for the comments.

[Ariel]

I got mine in the mail yesterday. Everything looked good except for 2 things the right rear fender the very back of it

on the vent the top of it is really thin. Nothing some filler can't take care of. The other thing is the glass it seems that to make the vacumm form piece they made the buck out of wood and you can see lines in it which make it look foggy.

But besides that the kit look awesome very clean nice photo-etch even has some Photo-etch saws for the exacto knife.

Nice decals now to get some good photos of the car.

[Brendan]

Some more work done on the kit.

Tires and rims together. Used the PE stencil for the Goodyear markings. Tamiya's flat white acrylic. The lone rim was used only one time and was mainly meant for tying the car down to a transport. But it was used on one of the cars during the Daytona race. Still need to paint the center locking nuts.

The fuel fillers come as either a resin or a two-piece PE. I'm going to be using the PE. I think it just looks better. I have attached the exhaust to the transmission unit. This is going to be for the High Downforce car. I try to heat stain the exhaust but not usually too good at it. More to come.

[Brendan]

I got mine in the mail yesterday. Everything looked good except for 2 things the right rear fender the very back of it

on the vent the top of it is really thin. Nothing some filler can't take care of. The other thing is the glass it seems that to make the vacumm form piece they made the buck out of wood and you can see lines in it which make it look foggy.

But besides that the kit look awesome very clean nice photo-etch even has some Photo-etch saws for the exacto knife.

Nice decals now to get some good photos of the car.

Those are the same areas that I had problems with. I've talked to Mark about it to let him know. As for pictures, here's a site you'll really like. The first link is Mulsanne's Corner and the other is a direct link to the Toyota Eagle. Click on the pictures in the Toyota section to get more pictures.

http://www.mulsannescorner.com/

http://www.mulsannescorner.com/toymkiii.html

Here's some pictures of the backend of my cars. Pain in the butt to clean. I was actually thinking about cutting the louvers out and putting in my own.

[Ariel]

Thank You

So far everything looks good on your car like the way the wheels came out.

[Brendan]

Thank You

So far everything looks good on your car like the way the wheels came out.

No problem. Also I just now did a quick Google search of the Toyota Eagle Mk III and came up with a lot of stuff. Thank you for the comments.

[Raul_Perez]

Brendan,

That's continuing to come along really nicely!! Keep up the great work!!

[Brendan]

Some more work done. Got one of the dashboards finished. It's five pieces, including the dashboard that go together.

Here is a picture of the wing mount that attaches to the transmission. It fits very well. No modifications are needed for this.

Pictures of the low downforce wing. The kit has an interesting way of putting the end plates on. The kit gives you small pins that are used as rivets to attach it to the resin wing. Make sure when drilling pilot holes that you don't bust through the resin as I did. Ended up fixing that mistake. Just needs a light sanding and then ready for paint.

My next step is to work on the bodies and the chassis. Couple of areas I need to do some filling in on but should go quick.

[Brendan]

Got the chassis puttied up. Lot of injection marks, but easy to clean up. Also got the High downforce wing together. I need a replacement for the upper element as the resin was short shot. Just using it now for a mock up. Started work on the body last night. Should have it primered and ready for paint by late Sunday.

[Brendan]

I'm putting up these photos to help show people how the pieces are supposed to look after being bent. The instructions don't give a good idea of how they're supposed to be since there are no diagrams. The pictures here are for the front dive planes that sit from the body to the chassis.

Take your time folding since the PE is thick. They will break. It happened to me on one of them.

They give you a template made of PE to help scribe lines into the High downforce wing for the uprights to slide into to help the upper wing element. These pictures show how to attach the template to the High downforce wing for scribing. Be careful not to scribe all the way to the front of the wing. Otherwise you may need to putty some areas back in...like it happened to me.

I hope this is helpful. You can always PM me if there's any questions. Be glad to tell you the mistakes I made.

Edited March 15, 2008 by Brendan

[ScaleCentral]

Looking good. I noticed that Studio27 has theirs up now. The MS Hobbies looks a lot better. Some of the wings and edges look way too thick on the S27 kit.

Nic

[Brendan]

Looking good. I noticed that Studio27 has theirs up now. The MS Hobbies looks a lot better. Some of the wings and edges look way too thick on the S27 kit.

Nic

I just looked up the Studio 27 kits. The kits are completely wrong. They are not even the right body design for the cars they are trying to make. First problem is there is no Mk IV Eagle as a GTP. The Mk IV is a Champ car. There's only one chassis that was built for the GTP cars. And they did all their modifications off the chassis. They were all evolutions of the Mk III. That's why they never changed the designation. I can see several issues right off the bat with the Studio 27 kit. The '92 season cars had a completely different aero package than what they are showing. Also the snorkle isn't big enough. It should be fitted in a different spot on the car. The headlights are not correct. Along with the rear end. The tunnel leading off the side of the '93 car is not shaped correctly. Also they're missing louvres on the back end of the car. Both of the kits look like the front end is way too long and flat. Those are just some of issues I see with the Studio 27 kit.

I think I'll stick with the MS Hobby kit.

Thank you for letting me know about this. Good to see that Studio 27 is trying to make prototype cars.