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
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