Hi, welcome back. in this video I'm going
to be building Revell's 1/24 scale Jordan EJ 10 F1 car. the EJ-10 competed in
Formula One in the year 2000 and it was driven by heinz-harald Frentzen and
Jarno Trulli. now the car wasn't as successful as
Jordan's previous car and it only finished 15 times out of 34 starts
during 2000. like a lot of Jordan f1 cars it's got a very striking livery, in
this case it's got the bright yellow with the Buzzin Hornets nose art. as you
can see here Revell made a number of f1 kits featuring cars from the 1990s and
the early 2000s. now these kits don't have the best reputation in terms of
quality but they are the only option for a lot of these cars unless you want to
buy something much more expensive from people like studio 27 for example. so
looking inside the box it has only two sprues and surprisingly few parts,
actually unfortunately you can see that a number of these parts are broken off
in the box which is a bit annoying. so the first thing to notice is that the
entire upper part of the car is in one piece, unlike the Tamiya and the Fujimi
kits the cowl is not removable on these Revell kits.
And as you can see from the
instructions here there's no engine detail either. to be honest this isn't a
terrible thing – I don't think I've ever removed the cowling for any of my Tamiya or Fujimi kits to look inside, and to be honest being able to glue down the
cowling does mean that we get a guaranteed nice fit at least. these
sprues are well divided – the first one here is the yellow sprue which contains
all the body parts which will eventually be painted yellow, and the second sprue
contains all of the parts which will be painted semi-gloss black to represent
the carbon-fiber. Being a more modern kit – this one was released in 2000 – this kit
does feature the Buzzin Hornets decals rather than the tobacco advertising from
Benson & Hedges. this is still accurate though because
obviously in real life the car did compete with the Buzzin Hornet logos
in the races where tobacco advertising was banned. so the first thing I try to
do with Formula One cars is to put together as many of the subassemblies
as possible where all of the parts need painting the same color, and this just
makes assembly easier because then we don't have to worry about painting
the parts separately and then gluing painted parts together.
But fortunately
one of the rear suspension arms is broken when I took this out of the box
and I can't find the missing part – it's not in the screw bag and it's not in the
box either – so I'm not quite sure where that's gone. I need to replace that with
a little bit of sheet styrene or something. so this is the top section of the car
and I've given it some initial primer and you can see there's still quite a
few edges that need to be cleaned up. and then we need to give it another coat of
primer over the top as well. this is especially true if we look at this area
here where the lower nose meets the upper nose – lots of rough edges. so one
challenge I can imagine facing is that these Hornet decals come in one piece
but they need to fit around the suspension arms so I'm not quite sure
how I'm going to approach this yet.
I can't add them to the top section before
assembly because they hang over onto the lower section too but I can't put the lower
section in place until the suspension arms are in place. so another minor
challenge is these side pod panels. you can see a definite gap here where they
attach to the cowling and they can't be moved any further forward to close that
gap because of the little tab that they fit into at the top. now it would make
sense if I could put these panels on the cowling now and then I could fill and
sand the gap, especially since they're all going to be painted yellow anyway, but
unfortunately the way the panel's fit in the rear suspension arms which means that
you can't get them in place if they're already attached to the cowling. one part
that I can attach now is these side panels near the radiator intakes and
these had gaps too but these were easy to fill and sand. another slightly
strange issue that I came across was these small bits which fit at the rear
of the cowling.
If you fit them according to the instructions they look fine from
the outside but when you look on the inside they actually block the tab that
the side panels are supposed to fit into. you'll see the tab there is covered. the
solution I found for this was to rotate the parts 180 degrees and then fit the
left part on the right side and the right part on the left side. I decided not to make seatbelts on this kit but just use the kit decals instead. so it's hard to determine the precise
color of this car. it looks really different under different lighting
conditions. some images have it almost like a fluorescent yellow, the box art is
sort of somewhere in between. in the end I decided to go for a light coat of Tamiya
X 8 which is lemon yellow, which i think is close enough.
Although actually once I
put the clear coat on later it came out a little bit darker. the instructions appeared to have a
slightly strange approach in that you glue the bottom of the nose on to the
floor of the car then you put the seat on top, but actually that turns out to be
the best approach because there's some really nice guiding pins in here and it
just makes sure everything fits in the right place. and then those side panels, now they've
been painted they need to be glued onto the floor as well. and just making sure I
use tiny tiny amounts of glue so that no glue spills out onto the painted
surfaces. and in the top cowling is quite tricky of all these parts that need to
line up. I've got a suspension arms, the radiators, the nose, the side pods, so I
didn't try to film that I'm just gonna jump right now to the final step. so here
you can see it's glued together.
I think it looks ok. as expected there's some
small gaps which need addressing especially on the side but apart from
that I think it's come together fairly well. now adding the decals is one of
my favorite parts of building an f1 kit. It really transforms the kit from
something that looks very nice into a really really polished final product.
so I was really quite pleased with the quality of these decals, they went down
really well and even ones like this where they go
over holes for the exhaust for example, they have a nice cutout section in them
so there's no need to conform to really complex shapes which was a nice little
touch. one problem I did have was this v-shaped under that go here when it fits
onto the vehicle it has a gap between the adjacent black stripe. and when you
look at the instructions there's no gap there. but actually if you look at the
boxart you'll see there is in fact a gap there… there's supposed to be a gap there.
So as expected these Hornet decals on the
nose caused a little bit of a problem. it was obvious there was no way to get
them around the suspension arms easily, so what I did ultimately was I cut the
decal in two and then I made a short vertical slit
just to make sure the suspension arm could get into that little hole there.
and that seemed to work quite well. they went down well there's no obvious gaps
in the decal. so applying these inner wheel decals are my least
favorite thing in all of f1 model kits.
I can never get them to actually go into a
circle shape, they always end up like some kind of squished oval and in fact in
this case I just gave up on I threw them away because they were such a pain. the
tyre transfers are regular waterslide decals. they look ok you can see actually
on the front wheels that the radius of decal doesn't quite match the radius of
the tires, which is super annoying. all of the decals are the same but the front
tires are slightly smaller so that's why that's happened. ok and here is the
completed model. overall I'm really quite pleased with
this result. the Revell kit isn't up to the standard of Tamiya or Fujimi, as
you might expect, but a small number of parts makes for a nice easy build. it
isn't a super challenging kit provided you read ahead in the instructions and
of course these kits are the only reasonably priced options if you want a
model of these particular cars. so here are some images of the other f1 kits
which Revell have produced.
most of these are no longer produced although
actually the Benetton B 194 was recently re-released but you can find them
regularly on eBay. so as always thank you for watching. I have lots of f1 kits in
my stash so if you'd like to see one of these build in a future video please do
hit like and leave a comment below, and here is a preview of some of my future
videos..
