Pacific PR 01 - Formula 1 Car 1994 F1 Season (Tamiya 1/20 scale model)

Building the Pacific PR01 F1 car as driven by Bertrand Gachot during the 1994 Formula 1 season. This car is a minor conversion of the Tamiya 1/20 scale Benetton B192 kit, using Studio 27 decals. This process was made easier by the fact that the real Pacific PR01 was itself just a 1992 Benetton car with minor changes.
This car was not very successful during the 1994 season, and this model is not the best I have ever produced, but I still like the livery.
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[@calumclark1719]

Bertrand Gachot has a incredible story on a podcast with Eddie Jordan and David Couthard about a race in the Pacific where he turned right and the whole steering rack tore itself out from the chassis leaving him heading to the wall at 150mph 😂 they were held together with sticky tape and good luck so the model is more well held together than the car ever was. One thing tho I always thought Gachot was Belgin? Not French,
Fair play for marshaling good luck and great build

[@ModelNerd]

Cheers Calum. I'll have to look up that podcast! I believe Bachot raced under the Belgian flag initially, then the French flag, and later the EU flag. He's half Belgian/half French.

[@darrenj7280]

I love your F1 builds. Keep them coming.

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks, will do!

[@nickkurczewski6732]

Very cool! Thanks for having such interesting taste in F1 cars. That’s got to be one of VERY few Pacifics out there.

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks! Yes, I think you're right. I've got a few more unusual ones in the pipeline too (Minardi M01, Jaguar R2, a couple of Ligiers)

[@petestuff3257]

I’m a F1 fan, thanks for the video, from Vermont, USA.

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks!

[@AL-Mohanad-4]

I really like your style and way of explaining.......... I salute you from Iraq

[@ModelNerd]

Thank you

[@wombat_models]

Really nice. I like that you are going for the less well known versions!

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks! Yes, I like the rare and unusual ones :)

[@45degreesmodelling]

I miss 90’s F1… I love the marshall just casually stood on the track side of the barrier at 2:07 😂

[@ModelNerd]

Haha, I hadn't even noticed that until you point it out. Insane! These days the FIA are incredibly strict - we can't enter the track without permission, even if there is an obviously big accident. (That said, they also have a lot more biometric data from the driver to know his condition)

[@bucknertarsney7674]

Cool history there!

[@ModelNerd]

Thank you!

[@paulhargreaves1497]

That's a really nice job, and I really like the unusual colours. Reminds me I have a half finished B188 somewhere!

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks. Ah the B188. The first F1 car I built when I got back into modelling. Love the livery.

[@allanrichards3752]

I've followed F1 for years but Pacific is one team I had totally forgotten about. I had Oliver Gavin's, name in my mind now of Corvette racing fame. I had to Google it but he was their test driver.

[@ModelNerd]

Very easily done - especially in the says when practice and even qualifying weren't always on tv (and you'd be hard pushed to find Pacific in a race session!).

[@BrushQuill]

Very nice. A unique car to have on your shelf

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks:)

[@christosswc]

Interesting indeed.
It really hurts me that I've gone back into this hobby after decades of absence and all the nice kits from the golden F1 era are a thing of the past and very rare.
Where are all the modern kits of the Turbo cars of the mid 80s or the NA cars of the late 80s, they were beautiful and the last manual/mechanical F1 cars before the Playstation ones took over.
Where's the Leyton House, the 7Up Jordan, the Marlboro McLaren, Nigel's and Prost's Ferrari.
I guess I'll just have to wait...

[@ModelNerd]

It could be a long wait for new kits, unfortunately. There are a few new kits from companies like Ebbro (70s Tyrrells). However, the older Tamiya kits are still fairly easy to get on eBay - you might have to wait a few months to find one at a decent price, but I got all of mine from there and all at decent prices.

[@TripleS-Oz]

Another top draw F1 build. you always do amazing work and really enjoy your videos. thanks for sharing,

[@ModelNerd]

Thank you mate - much appreciated!

[@JohnSmith-sl1my]

Nice . Enjoy your weekend at the race .

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks! I will! Even if it rains, which looks likely :)

[@richardscovell6620]

Brilliant, thank you

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks Richard

[@steve1315]

Good work sir can't beat Tamiya. I went to the 95 Monaco grand prix ,you gonna be busy next week looking out for orange people and I don't mean the Max army 😂😂do hope it goes hassle free but one doubts it ,enjoy sir👍👍.

[@ModelNerd]

Thank you Steve. Yeah, we're the original orange army! Before the Max army, before the fools from last year! :)

[@MikeUSA67]

@@ModelNerd Please tell me what happened there?

[@ModelNerd]

@@MikeUSA67 Some Just Stop Oil protestors climbed a fence and ran onto the track while it was live and sat down, with the intention of gluing themselves to do. Luckily for them the race had already been red-flagged due to an accident at turn 1. Marshals dragged them off.

[@timcarson8146]

Very cool model. Where do you source your Studio 27 from? (wondering if I order them if you would get a bit of money from it?)

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks. I got them direct from the Studio 27 shop in Japan. Very efficient service they offer.

[@MikeUSA67]

Hiya MN! I think you shouldn't be too hard on yourself - this is an excellent build, and it looks great. But why didn't you just paint on the missing green stripe in the back? BTW thanks for the educational part of your video: I didn't know that the son of Jean-Paul was a racing driver - let alone in F1. And I never heard of the Pacific team, or at least I can't remember them since 1994 was a sad, sad year from the start. I can't believe almost 30 years have passed, the memorial ceremony in Brazil is still vivid in my mind

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks Mike. Yes, I could have painted the stripe but I wasn't sure of its extent (I couldn't find any overhead shots) or what the text inside said. Pacific competed in 1995 too (with a dark blue car I think), before going bust partway through the season if I remember correctly.

[@MikeUSA67]

@@ModelNerd I get you, but I still think you should have chanced it 🙂

[@BOABModels]

Great build! Some of these early '90s F1 teams were like mayflies!
Ilmor engines would go on to produce the Mercedes F1 engines.

[@ModelNerd]

Thanks! Yes, I really enjoyed that era of F1. Sure there were teams who never made it onto the Sunday afternoon grid, but it was still interesting and less....glamourous perhaps. I've a few sets of decals for conversions of other cars, though few are as obscure ad Pacific. I've a nice Jaguar set to convert the MP4/13 :)

[@BOABModels]

@@ModelNerd I'd love to make one of the Jaguar cars. I've done good reference photos of some of them from the museum where I work if needed

[@MikeUSA67]

P.S.: Do you have Senna's last car in your collection, and if so, can you show it to us? And if not... go build it!

[@ModelNerd]

I do! The FW-16 from Fujimi. I'm busy this weekend but I'll try to post an image of it early next week. It is from before my channel, one of the first models I built, so it isn't great - but I will post it.

[@BOABModels]

I built the FW16 on my channel although I built it as Hill's car.

[@MikeUSA67]

@@ModelNerd Thanks in advance and have much fun in Silverstone - please wave at the cameras so I can spot you 😁

[@organicpaul]

Never built one but looks fun!

[@ModelNerd]

Definitely! :)