Rich Chernosky

Tim...when the Ferrari 458 first appeared, it immediately caught my attention. And then seeing one in person really sealed the deal. It is one of my favorite designs. I really like your build and the yellow suits it well since that is Ferrari's racing color.

Really sharp...you did an excellent job. Didn't know Graham Hill had that much mechanical ability. Cool.

Wm, thanks for the compliments, the rivets involved a long bristle very fine brush, some very fine silver paint, and magnifiers. Even so I had to go back and use an india ink pen to touch up. The ink flowed around the detail and that helped. It was still some very long and tedious work. I guess you really want to have to do it. Nice to see you on this forum BTW.

A superb model, great attention to detail.

Dann...nice to see you back at this project. Your suspension and accessories work is superb. You treat each piece as a seperate model and it is showing. Big scale models take a ton of work but are always very impressive. Whenever I do a show its the fist thing people comment on if i take one. You will find over the years that the suspension on your kit is very stout and will stand the test of time. Mine has so far.

Gary, considering its age and when it was done, this is a darn fine model. Thanks for going the extra mile.

Dave...I ordered a bunch of stuff from Indycals a couple of months ago. He was off somewhere so my order was delayed but it only took 10 days for me to get it, and that included the decals for my Shadow too. He is usually pretty quick about sending stuff out so you should be getting yours pretty soon. Of course for me he is only a hop, skip and a jump away. I have gotten stuff from your part of the world and it just seems to take forever and that is without a world crisis going on. Good luck on your project BTW.

Dave....you are entering the "Gulf Blue zone" The choice of the color for the car often varys with whats available at the time. They may very well have used that colour at the time. Race car builders aren't as concerned with the color of the car as much as they are its performance. Sometimes sponsers have to be appeased but that's about it. They use whatever is handy and often the color can vary from race to race. So the choice of color on a model is often subjective. In my case I was trying to match an existing model because they were going to be displayed side by side. I only got close. And who knows if the model manufacturer, in this case Revell, came close to the original. Thanks for the compliment BTW. Hows that Shadow doing ??

Very Nice. Just happen to have this one on my bench right now so the tips will come in handy. Like the changes and attention to detail. Mine will be box stock except for the paint which is already done. Thanks for putting this up.

Gary...thanks for putting Scotts build on here. He really did a nice job and the explanations were an added bonus. Very cool car, now I gotta build mine.

This Tom Daniels designed kit is getting very hard to find. It was well worth saving and you did a great job.

Those Fujimi kits are great, you did a nice job on this one.

Very cool collection of cars there Dave. You did nice work on them.

OK Gary, now you have my curiosity up . Who makes the "J" car and the MK IV above it. Would luv to see these finished.

I have had these two and their donor kits for probably 20yrs now. Gramps was kind enough to PM me on his build. And between the two of you this may be just the kick in the pants to get these projects off the ground. I have an entire shelf in my display cases devoted to nothing but the Ford GT. There is still room for two more.

Thank you Alex...had a good look at your WIP. Was just curious as I thought I was the only one to do this. We are basically on the same page. It is easily 5 times the amount of work to spray and mask but in the end the results are worth it. Thank you for the reply.

Rex..thank you for the compliments and encouragement. I do have two more in the works...both resin conversions. The Revell diecast was offered right from Revell several (maybe as much as 20) years ago. It was one of two masterpiece items offered by them, the other being a 427 Cobra, which I also have. Bought them direct (not cheap either) when they were heavily advertised in one of the model magazines. Good luck in your search, they are very nice pieces to have. That Gulf blue is very difficult to match. Anything in the light,grey,blue or green segement is because our eyes are just not that sensitive to those colors.

I really enjoy your paint work. So crisp and clean. Do you mask and spray your black trim ? I have this car in my collection finished so I can really appreciate your efforts even more.

Decided to do another two for one project with these two Fujimi 1/24 Ford GT40's. |The white one represents the Ford France entry to the 1967 Targa Florio. It was painted with Tamiya TS-7 Racing white. The blue Gulf sponsered car is the 1968 Lemans entry. It is painted a custom mix blue and orange. This was done to match an existing diecast in my collection. See the picture caption for a better description of the paint. A sister car to this one won the Lemans event in 1968. Both kits had many parts in common as well as the order of assembly so it made sense to do them at the same time. Keeping the variations seperate was a little bit of a problem but in the end it saved time and got both done. Thanks for looking. I added seat bestblets robbing the PE hardware from tow other Fujimi kits. The belts are 2mm silk thread. About those seat rivets...several methods of painting them were tried and I finally wound up hand painting all of them and the touching them back up with and India ink pen. It took awhile. Both kits went together very well but the rear decks still had to be pinned on to stay in place. The graphics on this car were hand painted rather than using the kit decals. The hood roundel is actually vinyl tape cut with a compass. The strip would have shown through the decal. The black lines on the graphics are also vinyl tape cut down and applied seperately. Rear end veiw show the wider bodywork on the Gulf car. This was to cover the wider tires used at the time. The stripes showed through the white roundels. These strips had to be carefully cut and peeled away when the roundels were applied. The hood was the most tedious and the decals also had to fit down into one of the vents. It took four different colors to mix the blue and I fear I onl;y got it close enough. The orange matched up much easier. Those wheels were fun to mask and spray. Note the extra lighting need for night time racing at Lemans. The Diecast is a fairly rare 1/20 Revell. Nicely detailed with opening doors and engine cover. It also has a detailed engine and the model is mostly curbside.

Tim...decals ARE fun when they co-operate. That's when a project starts to look like a real model.

Very Nice Bruce, I like your diorama, very good job painting those figures.

Kit is by Fujimi and represents their twin cam 2000GT. It is 1/24 scale. The XX version has some upgrades to the engine and the handling plus those wonderful Recaro seats that I took a picture or before I put the body on. Colour on this beauty is Boyds Chezoom Teal Pearl and this was painted about two years ago. A little bit of polishing and some wax and it stood right out. Wheels are Alcad Jet Exhaust with some dark gold dry brushed on. Kit is curbside. See photo captions for extra details and thanks for looking. I like to take a picture of the interior before the body goes on. Seats are a decal that was sprayed flat and the interior is a custom mix of colors to match the exterior. Carpet is black flocking. Kit was painted two years ago and polished out nicely. Guess it had plenty of time to cure. This is always my favorite veiw. Metal exhaust tips came with the kit. Photo graphing the kit withe background took a few tries to get the angle and settings just right.

Followed this one to the end, Art. You did an outstanding job and the results are well worth the effort you put in.

Very nice job on this kit. I have done my fair share of Protar kits and everything is there but they can fight you to the very end. This kit looks like the 1/12 version...you didn't say in your description.