1/20 Studio 27 Super Aguri SA05

Gallery Article by Vince14 on Jan 11 2012

This is the Studio 27 resin kit of the Super Aguri SA05, as raced by Takuma Sato, Yuji Ide,  Franck Montagny and Sakon Yamamoto in the 2006 Formula One World Championship.  Super Aguri was very much the ‘B’ team of the full Honda F1 effort, created to provide a race seat for Sato after he was dropped by the main team in favour of Rubens Barrichello.  Sato had a best finish of 10th, in the season-ending Brazillian Grand Prix.  The second seat was taken by Yuji Ide for the first four races, until the FIA took away his ‘Superlicense’ (essential for racing in F1) for his poor driving standards. Montagny then took the seat for the next seven races, with pay-driver Yamamoto taking over for the final seven races.

 

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Studio 27 produced a number of Super Aguri F1 cars in 1/20 scale, unsurprising given the popularity of Sato in Japan.  The majority of the model is cast in resin, with white metal front/rear wings, suspension parts and details.  Etched parts and rubber tyres completes the model.  The decal sheet is nice, and the reacted well to Micro Sol/Set.

I used a number of Studio 27 carbon-fibre effect decal sheets, and ended up carbon fibre decaling almost everything!  It was the biggest challenge of the model, and in future I would consider whether it’s worth the additional time/expense to do it all again. Finally, I added a strip of wood veneer to represent the ‘plank’ on the underside of the car.

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Photos and text © by Vince Warrington