Brabham BT3 1962, Watkins Glen – a quick build, 2nd trial
Mar 3, 2023 13:05:35 GMT -5
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Post by Taffy on Mar 3, 2023 13:05:35 GMT -5
After my first Brabham BT3, built for a proxy race in 2020, was lost on its way to it´s first racing destination I was happy to get recently another PreWing bodykit of this car, sold to me by my friend Peter Hartmann.
So I decided to build the car a 2nd time.
It had to be a quick build, because the race I no want to enter the car will be the 1rst Vintage 32 Day, which will be held on Peter´s WestWoodCircuit tomorrow and I started the build this Tuesday afternoon.
So, in a hurry, I made several wrong decisions. The first one was to choose a chassis I had never built before (a beardog-racing chassis) instead of my own completely scratchbuilt chassis.
Well, I thought it would be a faster job to build a chassis with prefabricated parts, so it would be a „soldering job“ only. Wrong, completely wrong! If you never have handled a type of chassis before, it is always better to choose a solution, which you know well!
Nevertheless, I managed to build a modified version of the beardog chassis, because I couldn´t use the upper „frame“ due to the very low body of the Brabham.
That´s what the chassis looks like:
The 2nd mistake caused by the hurry was to choose the same paint, that I had used for the first car.
I had experienced in the first build, that this paint wasn´t easy to handle. I couldn´t use it in an airbrush and the paint adhered poorly to the car´s body.
So I decided to do some chipping and to built the car in a weathered „the race is finished“-look.
If you look at the car, you can see that it must have been a very hard race...
I think for a three day´s build the result isn´t too bad, but next time I´ll start earlier!
Best regards,
Taffy
So I decided to build the car a 2nd time.
It had to be a quick build, because the race I no want to enter the car will be the 1rst Vintage 32 Day, which will be held on Peter´s WestWoodCircuit tomorrow and I started the build this Tuesday afternoon.
So, in a hurry, I made several wrong decisions. The first one was to choose a chassis I had never built before (a beardog-racing chassis) instead of my own completely scratchbuilt chassis.
Well, I thought it would be a faster job to build a chassis with prefabricated parts, so it would be a „soldering job“ only. Wrong, completely wrong! If you never have handled a type of chassis before, it is always better to choose a solution, which you know well!
Nevertheless, I managed to build a modified version of the beardog chassis, because I couldn´t use the upper „frame“ due to the very low body of the Brabham.
That´s what the chassis looks like:
The 2nd mistake caused by the hurry was to choose the same paint, that I had used for the first car.
I had experienced in the first build, that this paint wasn´t easy to handle. I couldn´t use it in an airbrush and the paint adhered poorly to the car´s body.
So I decided to do some chipping and to built the car in a weathered „the race is finished“-look.
If you look at the car, you can see that it must have been a very hard race...
I think for a three day´s build the result isn´t too bad, but next time I´ll start earlier!
Best regards,
Taffy
Taffy
