Renault RS10 – Jean Pierre Jabouille (Scalextric SCX) Part 2

Renault RS10 Jean piere Jabouille Turbo

Promise accomplished. Here are some more pics of the Renault RS10 driven by Jean Pierre Jabouille that I made from a Ligier Scalextric-SCX. You can observe the beautiful rear wing shape, the four exhaust pipes and the rear view mirrors, anti-roll structure and nose cone and engine cover added on putty to the bodywork. As well, on paper, the ground-effect skirts and front wing endplates.

I hope you love it as much as I do, because this is one of my favourite cars of my collection and represents a complex work and effort of rebuilding. Enjoy this turbo RS10!

Scalextric SCX Renault RS10 from a SCX Ligier JS11 Vol. 2: Skirts, Endplates, Rear wing, Engine, Rollover arc, and Rear-view mirrors.

After having sanded the putty added at cockpit cone and engine cover I showed rudely in Vol. 1, was turn to built front wing endplates, sideways skirts and as  complex as beautiful rear wing, whose endplates melt with the base and gearbox attachment from a symmetrical profile in endplates to an inverted airfoil in center drawing a U-shape from rear with a 7-shape outline, a trully masterpiece both in aerodynamics and  in art.

All these aerodynamic component are made of different paper layers pasted each other with cyanoacrilate glue, and afterward sanded to its final shape. The front endplates are pasted to the wings side, the ground-effect skirts are pasted directly on car sidepods also with cyanoacrylate and the rear wing is fixed with same screw that fixs chassis to  bodywork.

The rollover arc it’s made of credit card plastic bended under heat and fits in the original rollover structure holes. Finally the rear-view mirrors are made from two halfs of a plastic piece with one side rounded by sanding.

The toughtest challenge was to conver the Ford DFV V8 into a Renault Gordini V6 Turbo engine. The result is far from being perfect but makes a look quite similar. I had to delete one cylinder per side and rise the bodywork to the middle of cylinder heads until the sparking plugs line. So I decided to add a L-shape piece of paper to simulate the continuity of cockpit side and sidepod.

If you had worked anytime with Scalextric-SCX-Exin models you will know what I’m talking about, they always use the same 4-in-line engine air-intakes, so I cutted one of them to count 3-in-line air-intakes and then rolled over itself to simulate the manifold from the turbo, one per side; hence I had to modify base of air intakes which fitted on the engine to look like air-intakes manifolds.

I also added a pair of exhaust pipes to one original Ligier pair right over the gearbox  and the oil tank right between the engine blukhead in blue and the exhaust pipes, as the RS10 had got. I made it with a lighter gas flow controller ring and a metal circle top.

There is still one thing to add, the sparking plug wires from each plug to a common wire. They were made from a single cooper fiber from a small electric wire. You can see the final result on final Scalextric SCX Renault RS10 post that I hope you like.

Scalextric SCX Renault RS10 from a SCX Ligier JS11 Vol. 1: Cutter, putty and sandpaper

This is a project I decided to star in spring: to make a Renault Rs10, the first successful 80’s turbo F1 car.

The fact that any brand sold this amazing and beautiful car (except a truly expensive SRC model) moved me to find a similar slot car and to modify it deeply. I was pondering the SCX Williams FW07 and the SCX Ligier JS11.

I finally decided to refuse the Williams because it has the engine covered, radiator air layout ahead of its position, engine air intake too exaggerated and no ramps in sideway skirts.

Ligier JS11 was the chosen one. As you can see the first step was to remove sideway skirts, front wing endplates and some parts behind the engine bulkhead, to sharp front suspension roots, to smooth ramps edges and to add the cockpit cone and engine cover with Ceys Epoxy bar (in picture, before sanding). The rear wing was going to be completely rebuilt, using only the two main planes as you will see in next post; the same with rear view mirrors, roll structure, skirts, endplates and engine sideway covers.

One of the most beautiful challenges was to turn a V8 into a V6 Turbo, a Ford-CosworthDFV into a Renault-Gordini EF-Type. You will enjoy the result.