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No problem. He has been great for the model hobby for road racing enthusiasts looking for something unusual and much less costly than the MFH resin kits out of Japan.

Great work once again Marcos. Maybe Ford is watching. If there is a kit of the 2021 Mach1 made I am sure you could improve upon the factory paint and graphics as well. ?

Just tell the store clerk they are for the grand daughters. ?

You can call Brad directly who I have known for 30 years. He’s a one man operation and his wife (who supports him 100%) and they come to EVERY MAMA meeting with him as does Norman (R&MofMD) and his wife. The last meeting was in February (thanks COVID) and Brad has spent the last two or maybe three plus decades making fantastic resin parts and kits. Not sure if Brad can keep up with emails for all us bored modelers out there wanting to build something. I know he has issues keeping up with orders for customers and for Randy’s website. His phone is 301-604-8591 (9am-5pm EST). I cannot think offhand Ever seeing the pink Cobra decals - maybe Whoopiekat will do them.

Look like a fairly simple build and the body from what I can see looks pretty accurate although I am not a II expert. I built a red Mach1 for one of the challenges and it came out pretty good (AMT or MPC I don’t remember) but I did have to poach some Mach1 decals from another kit. I think I have some mirrors somewhere I painted but forgot to glue on and the real car has 13 inch tires so the rear tires I used on mine look too large. You may want to skip the British target decals I see in your picture - I do not recall that being a special edition made by Ford. ? There was a “western” special edition that I have seen in person that was interesting and a Stallion edition Ford made to sell more cars.

Yeah - I have been buying the small bottles but as you might expect I go thru a lot of Ford blue. ? I will try the last hobby shop within 20 miles (about 10 miles from here) that sells primarily RC and train stuff but they do have car kits and a pretty decent selection of Tamiya spray paints and whatever Testors paints you can still find. I guess there’s always ordering online or I look in my pre-painted engine parts bin.

Has anyone found the Testors enamel large bottles of the Ford/GM blue? All the HL near me has is the Acrylic paint in that color.

Yes and thanks Gary. The cream colored resin, photo etch, wheels and tires, some vacuum formed windows, the decals and some cast metal parts come with the DDP kit. It reminds me of an enlarged 1/43 Tenariv kit (picture below) since there is no engine and the bottom of the “kit” chassis has zero detail. Nonetheless I am the first kid on my block to buy one ?. As I said before having “experimented” with the CMA and Thunder Valley transkits hopefully this project will at least show what is possible with some parts swapping instead of paying through the nose for a 55 year sold slot car body. ?

There are really not any viable alternatives besides some old slot cars. It’s too bad it was not designed to be easily compatible with the thousands of Fujumi GT40 kits but I can understand some people want a simplier build and everything in one box.

Any insight on a release date for the CMA one? I recall seeing those pictures last century (maybe late 1990's) so I am not holding my breath on that one anytime soon and the price will probaby be 50% higher as well. Changing gears to a much smaller scale - I did not realize they did a 1/43 Cobra kit at one time. I wonder if that was before or after the Monogram one.

$200 for a 1/12 Gulf GT40 - get them while they're hot.. This large scale version by CMR looks really tempting given that GT40 expert John Allen had positive things to say about this resin display model. I have no asociation with the seller - just found this while searching after seeing the comments on anohter site. I'd love to get one with an engine but you have to pay about three times more for the brands that include one in 1/12 scale. I doubt we will ever see a plastic kit of a MKI in 1/12 after the Trumpeter kit got ripped pretty good by reviewers.

So as if I did not have enough GT40's to build here's one I have wanted to round out the many version of the Lola inspired Ford powered race car that only saw a few converted to a roadster version. The kit is designed to be built as a curbside but what's the fun in that - right? The first thing I did was grab one of my Fujumi kits to see if the MKI chassis (not the MKII kit) would fit instead of the very generic chassis that comes with the resin kit. The good news is it looks like it will but I may have to use a combination of parts for the interior. The other unfortunate part is I'll have to cut up a Fujumi body for the donor lower sills that are part of the DDP chassis unlike a Fujumi kit. Not to worry as I have a pretty good supply of them. As this resin kit is designed like the Fujumi MKII (no engine and the back does not open) I have the same dilemma as I idid with the CMA transkit - do I add a HRM or other resin engine or not "waste" one because most of it will be hidden. So like the CMA Gulf GT40 it will probably be another parts bin engine but I laid out various parts from a Fujumi kit (some of which are the same as in the DDP kit) to get an idea of where to go with this project which at this point I am treating as an expensive transkit one off build.

Here's the direction I was going before I got sidetracked with other projects. The M2 diecast has what I assume would be the "correct" exhaust routing versus a "real" Shelby GT500. The green wheels are unique to the limited "chase " versions. Aside from the metallic blue ? I was not sure what else I would do differently but it's been a while so I and going to revisit where I was going with my build but I wanted to give those interested an idea of what comes with the resin kit (which i hope they make again) and how the chassis from the AMT kit will work but will require some mods unless one assumes the side pipes are just for show. Yours looks good so far Marko - maybe we can both get in gear and end up with two very unique tribute recreations.

Trying to replicate a car (more than one) made for a remake of a movie with the star car being loosely based on a real 67 GT500 but got Fooseified can be a challenge. I plan to use whatever engine looks and fits the best and since I already have some diecast Eleanor's I will probably not even paint it the dark metallic gray. If you build it a little different you might even get more "likes" as people try to find what you did to suit your own taste. ?

Agreed.

You did a great job. Is it an older mold (other brand)? It seems like Testor's did mostly reboxes of other US, Japanese and European models.

Another great set of wheels from Randy.

Here is the DMold on the Revell Mach1 body that I was going to covert to a 69 Boss 302 and then we know what happened. At least I can get the correct engine now.

Those Exoto 1/18 prices are nuts. I do not have a lot of them but I think the most I paid was $200. The 1/12 ones are usually "only" about $600.

I have a few pictures from the Simeone museum I will have to dig out from the NNL In. March 2019.

Very nice start to another great "fleet" of 60's racers. I'm guessing we will seeing some GT350R's at some point.

I have tuned in to a few of the races since the "break" and while viewership may have gotten a bump because not much else is on live yet, the future does not look too bright for the series. Once they go to a generic engine then personally I will care less what "brand" is on the hood. They may as well put electric cars on the track and fill the stands with robots with fake engine and crowd noise. I guess nothing stays the same but it's sad to watch the decline of something that those in charge primarily see as just a business and their strategy of trying to make everyone happy at the same time is driving away any new fans they gained in the last few decades.

I like the dark blue. I was never a fan of the baby blue version.

Very nice Mach1 that looks very stock. The 351 2v in 1972 was a let down performance wise but you are correct on the other improvements over the 69/70 models. 1971 was the pinnacle year with the Boss 351 and 429's being sadly a one year hurrah. I would like to find a 1972 HO Mach1 of which fewer were made than the 1971 Boss 351's.. My Mach1 has had several modifications including Koni Shocks and larger anti-sway bars, dual exhaust and a 4v intake, carb and headers.