1959scudetto

This Lola will be a great model when it is done, Gary - I'm urgently looking forward to it !

Well done, Tim - clean model and the wheels of the Fujimi 356 C are just perfect for it.

Very good looking Chevelle, Mario - awesome paint, but it seems indeed to attract dust particles.

Thanks all, Car. Pete,Patrick, Phil and Dave - unfortunately, these days are long gone, BIG money rules (as almost everywhere), and the Dakar has only kept the name (partially, at least), but has nothing to do with its origin any more.

As we are used to see from you, again you delivered a wonderful model, Anders - down to the last detail!

Great looking late 70's Coe, Ken (in your trademark colcors,too!)

Good looking classic racer, Thomas - I had no idea that they were raced in Swedish colors also (If that only were in 1/24...)

This is as nice as your other models, Mario - your eyeballing is excellent! The color seems correct to me (saw the movie back in the 70's at the cinema) - immediately Peter Fonda and Susan George come to my mind and the unhappy ending with the train after being chased by the helicopter...

Very nice, highly detailed Nova - Roy Scheider's high-revving car from a chase in the "French Connection" movie comes to my mind.

Thanks Mario - today I'm going to wet-sand at least the primer and the top coat (eventually with some polishing compound at the end) - back then I didn't even have a polishing kit. I just sprayed everything on without refining anything.

Excellent result; Michael - your efforts really pay off!

Ca. 1986 box stock build - car lacquer + clearcoat sprayed from the can, Humbrol silver for the trim. Main issues: paint with orange peel, warped hood - model is long gone, pictures from 2005 and December 2020 (before selling it):

Nice model, Dave - I had to look a second time after reading your decription above till I recognized that you added the grill shell from the later model!

Good-looking truck - the first time I see this one built!

Again a fantastic build, Mario - brings out the aggressive elegance of the original which is certainly one of the most beautiful sportscars ever. Marcello Gandini admitted he was inspired by the Ford GT40 when designing this car. (I have 2 in my stash)

Thanks Gary - it is always difficult to tell which tone of red would be the best for a specific race car: I have seen different pictures on the internet of the very same car showing several shades of red - from burgundy to almost orange - the same with cars in my books (so I painted my Filipinetti 412 P in a totally wrong color - dark red - as shown in the only reference material I had back then. I used most of the time auto laquer from the spray can, mainly Auto-K or Duplicolor (both German companies, as their cans were easily available in Austria). As this paint was bought ca. 1985 and has been used up long ago, I can't remember what its exact name was: I used it for several models; IIRC, I bought it for Italeri's 288 GTO, then used it for the 250 GTO, the F40 and the California Spider. I also sprayed the 2 Fisher 312 P Spyders which look definitely too dark with it and some more cars that I don't have any longer - these cans had a volume of 400 ml (4 times as much as a standard Tamiya can). Here is a photo of my models spray-painted with that specific red lacquer (shot with flashlight an hour ago) - the primers could have been different (light grey or tan):

Great racing Jaguar, Gary - did you scratchbuild the scoops on roof and trunk?

I envy you for attending that race in 1967 - my favorite racing cars !

Thank you Pierre - you must watch the short youtube video (Link above): the upper edge of the banked curve has no guardrail, no means of protection to prevent drivers from falling down more than 70 ft. when leaving the track. That GTO was a heavily rework of my own ca. 1987 built kit. The cast kit wheels are chromed and were simply oversprayed with Duplicolor rim silver from the can - I always do it that way when dechroming wheels is necessary and it works quite well. No aftermarket parts were used: decals from my spares - not exactly the needed size, but pretty close, the license plate was printed on ordinary paper with my laser printer (after a long search for similar fonts like the original). The leather straps on the hood were fabricated from thin steel wire and self-sticking tape.

The 1000 km Paris at the dangerous racetrack of Monthléry, one of the most important GT races of the season, took place at the end of October. In 1961, Mexican brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez won, driving a Ferrari GT 250 SWB. The following year, 8 Ferrari GTO's participated in the race, Luigi Chinetti's NART entered # 3987 GT for the Rodriguez brothers, who took again the laurels in record time, lapping every other car This was the last win for Ricardo, who died 11 days later in an accident with a Lotus on a Mexican racetrack. Here is a 45 sec. video of that race and a picture of the winning car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8teb0zuHEwE I built it using the old Italeri 250 GTO :

Well done, Rich - seems that this kit gave you some obstacles you had to overcome in getting it finished. (I have the 1/24 version from Italeri in my stash - after the troubles I had with my street F40, I think I will not cut open the engine cover.)

I'm urgently waiting for this one, Mario - one of my 3 sportscar favorites ever !

Charles, what an amazing diorama - when a picture tells a story...

Matt, this is truly one fantastic model ! The details are simply mindblowing ! No doubt that Paddy would have been pleased to see it (so from the 3 Mini-driving musketeers only Rauno Aaltonen is still alive)

Thank you Steve and Gareth for your comments - greatly appreciated.