Rich Chernosky

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.

Very nice build.

Beautiful builds

That's a great little kit and you did it justice. I just painted mine and now I have the incentive to finish it once the paint cures.

The Ferrari 458 is one of my absolute favorite Ferrari's. They spyder version is exceptional. Very nice job on this one.

Color turned out great, nice job.

Nice build, David. That was a great kit and you did it justice.

Thank you Phil, that was not a feature of the kit. One of my pet peeves is non-steering wheels.

Gary....this is valuable information. It will help me a lot. The finished car is exquisite. I feel fortunate to know the original creator of this kit. Thanks for posting.

Yah...I've been kinda busy.....you should see the rest of them.

Thanks James, now I see, I may yank it back out of the case and add them. Great photo BTW

Thanks for the compliment of the highest order. These cars were painted this way to really show up on TV. Sunoco got their money's worth on this one.