AMT 1/25th Gurney's '63 Lotus-Ford 29

[Justin Porter]

Wrapped up another build this year. This time it's the reissue of the AMT 1963 Lotus-Ford 29 as driven that year in the Indy 500 by Dan Gurney. The kit was built box stock, painted Tamiya TS-7 Racing White with a selection of AK and Mr Color paints for the details. Not the best detailed or nicest kit, but I'm about 80% satisfied with the results.

 

[Rich Chernosky]

Justin you did a great job on a hard to  build kit.   Well done. 

[steveracer]

Never seen one of these built.  Damn nice job these are a bit fiddly.  I built the MPC Gurney Eagle and it was challenging.  Wondering if the original kit issue used those tires or something different...

Thank  you for sharing!

[Jim B]

Great job on the Lotus.  Well done.

[TonyK]

Agree with what the others said above.

[bbowser]

Add my admiration for a great build of a challenging kit.

[oldscool]

Looks good to me.

[papajohn97]

Very nice job Justin on thus ancient tooled 1/25 kit. This subject matter is really interesting to me (anything related to Dan G., a 60’s open wheel Lotus that’s not BRG, early rear engine Indy cars). I’ve been holding off picking up this re-issue because of the 1/25 scale. The photo with your Lotus parked next to the 1/20 Tamiya Ligier really shows how small this completed model is compared to 1/20 open wheeled race car models which I’m a big fan of. Now if Ebbro would issue a 1/20 kit of this car based on Tamiya’s Lotus 25 (like they did recently with the Lotus 33), I’d be all over it!

[Justin Porter]

12 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Very nice job Justin on thus ancient tooled 1/25 kit. This subject matter is really interesting to me (anything related to Dan G., a 60’s open wheel Lotus that’s not BRG, early rear engine Indy cars). I’ve been holding off picking up this re-issue because of the 1/25 scale. The photo with your Lotus parked next to the 1/20 Tamiya Ligier really shows how small this completed model is compared to 1/20 open wheeled race car models which I’m a big fan of. Now if Ebbro would issue a 1/20 kit of this car based on Tamiya’s Lotus 25 (like they did recently with the Lotus 33), I’d be all over it!

Honestly, the 1/25th scale of the kit is what put me off from purchasing resin upgrades that would have significantly improved the finished model or doing work to fix some of its more glaring issues like the absolutely cartoonish upper rear suspension links. We did just get in the Ebbro Lotus 33 at my shop and it really is chalk and chocolate to compare the two kits. The Ebbro even has separate rear coil springs for the rear coil overs, a very nice photoetch fret, and turned aluminum exhaust tips and velocity stacks included in the box!

And thank you to EVERYONE for your kind words on this build!

[afx]

Nice work.

[sflam123]

You did a very nice job on a very old, difficult to build kit.  Personally, I love the early 60's Indy roadsters and the mid 60's Indy rear engine cars and the few models there are of them.  A very innovative time in history.