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Thanks, Pierre. I see what you mean: Rear door lines are a bit shallow, espoecially on the left side (see the pictures of the original model on the very beginning). Right now I noticed that the drip rail (rain guard ?) above and around the side windows is totally absent. Maybe I will order some very fine Evergreen strips and try to replicate that afterwards - we will see.
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Ferrari 166 mm Le Mans winner
1959scudetto replied to TC's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Will be a great model - color tone looks perfect to me. -
Alfa 33 TT12
1959scudetto replied to Dave B's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Looks like a lot of work to prepare alone the wheels... By the way, I have the very same books in my library - good reference material as far as original racing pictures go (on the web you find more easily pics of the refurbished cars like they look today - as I have seen at the Porsche museum: cars look splendid, but there are some deviations in details to the cars as raced back in the day) -
There is a die-cast in 1/24 made by Ixo (released in newsstand series in France and Italy, also reboxed by whitebox in Germany) - it can be found in BRG, red and light blue metallic. It is called 1961 Jaguar E, but it is a 1969 series II 2+2 Coupé 4,2. I have the green one:
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3rd gen Camaro
1959scudetto replied to MarkJ's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Paint is looking good, Mark - I would leave it like that. -
Alfa Romeo 158/59
1959scudetto replied to Chris Smith's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Chris, this is absolute museum quality ! Can't wait to see the next steps. -
Tamiya Porsche RSR 934
1959scudetto replied to Peter Lombardo's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Looks much better with the lighter orange color, Peter. The other looks like it has darkened over time. The fauxpas could be: the decals on the front lights are upside down... -
Thanks, Trevor - the same here: I was also thinking of buying it or not because of its high price back then. But I'm glad I did (a month ago I saw one for sale for € 150,00 + shipping and that is a good price nowadays). Work carefully and with patience, and it will come out fine - no doubt about that!
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This is the class winning car of Consalvo Sanesi, one of 5 Alfa Romeo works cars in the 1954 race, where a new class "European touring cars" had been established. He became 15th overall, beating several more powerful American cars. Tamiya TS 69 (wooden deck brown) was a close enough match for the color: More soon !
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Finally a little progress: installation of seat belts (from the parts box), cutting new axles from 2 mm brass tube, removing the bumper horns front and rear and fabrication of a (driver's side) bug deflector. The hardest part was finding out the color of the real car and approximating this - there are almost only B/W photos available (see below) - at least 1 color pic turned up on the web (must be a still from a video) I
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1/24 Momo Porsche 935 Moby Dick
1959scudetto replied to Pierre Rivard's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Great looking Group 5 racer in this seldom seen livery, Pierre. (I saw the Martini works version at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart almost 3 weeks ago) Sometimes you need easier kits in between your difficult stratchbuilding efforts. -
IH Emeryville with Flatbed
1959scudetto replied to DRIPTROIT 71's topic in Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
Excellent working truck, Brian - with a perfectly matching flatbed trailer. Suddenly it's 1964. -
How could I miss one of my all-time favorites? Excellent model, Anders (as usual !)
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I don't know if this is a real WIP (is more or less a modification of a diecast model), but as a long-time Alfa Romeo fan, I simply had to do this . You will need 3 things: a model of the 1900 (I have 5 in grey/beige and a black one), the excellent 3D-printed wheels from Jack Modelling (Jason custom-made them for me and then offered them to the public) and the superb decals from Scale Design/Tom Tanner: The car was first released in 2010 in the "Alfa Romeo 100 years" Centennial Collection: The decals show the artwork of the late Mike Quarterman and were made by Cartograf of Italy. They are the best I've ever worked with - you see here 2 works cars and a private entry (South American competitor) for the Carrera P. (I will build all three) + supplementary decals for the corrected colors of the numbers (orange and blue) as well as Mille Miglia decals (Nuvolari 1931, Fangio 1952 and Sanesi 1956) + dashboard/instrument decals for the 2900 B lungo and several chrome decals for Carozzeria touring and the Giulietta SS. Only issue is that the colors are not always correct - there are almost no color pics of these cars available (several modelmakers goofed also on that) - so some decals will have to be modified a little. Jason's wheels are perfect as always. I will keep you posted if interested.
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1/24 Meng Mclaren MP4/4
1959scudetto replied to Rich Chernosky's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Excellent model, Rich - I don't know how I could miss that (probably a confusion of mine with your 1/12 model). Anyway, it looks as good as the bigger one. -
I had this kit and passed it on - very simplified, lacking detail in every aspect and very crude, very toylike - just look at the box picture: it says "41 pieces". That says all about it (similar to the 905 prototype).