R23 Floor and cockpit detail

With the basic body shell complete work can begin on the floor tray, engine/gearbox and cockpit. As none of the bodywork is removable there is almost nothing of the engine or gearbox visible. I therefore didn't bother super detailing this area, simply painting it all black!


The floor tray was painted gloss back with light brown for the wooden plank underneath. As there are large areas of the floor tray that are visible on the completed car it was necessary to apply carbon fibre decals to the visible areas. I started by using a masking tape template to get the correct shapes then cut them out of the decal sheet.


The cf decal I have is quite light in colour and when applied to the floor pan and to the suspension arms it 'stood out' too much from the overall gloss paintwork. To blend the decals in I over sprayed them with Tamiya smoke, a semi-transparent black paint. This effect worked quite well and makes the decaled areas appear less obvious.



With the very basic floor pan completed I began work on the cockpit. There is almost no detail here in the kit and as I lack sufficient source material to detail the cockpit I stuck to just doing basic seat belts and other odd bits.


The seat belts were scalemodelworks buckles though the belts themselves were made from masking tape as the supplied ribbon material was too wide to get through the buckles!