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Wow, Pierre, Excellent, Excellent diorama. I haven't got the words to give it, it's due. Even more impressive than I was expecting. Just through the roof in every category of a build. All of your hard work surely paid off. You shoudl be super proud of this one. I could sit and study it all day.

Pierre, leave a link at this thread to direct us to the finished product in the under-glass forum. Really looking forward to seeing this one finished.

Great news. I'm really looking forward to seeing this one finished.

Wow Pierre, This just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer. The realism is through the roof excellent.

Thanks, Josh and Jonathan for the props. I really appreciate it.

Thanks, guys, for all the great comments. It was a sort of fun build and very educational. I forgot to mention that the hood had a very narrow tunnel built into it with a hole that matched the opening in the air cleaner to get air from the windshield to the carburetor. So basically, the hood acted as the top of the air cleaner, if you were wondering why the air cleaner, I modeled, did not have a top for it.

I swear they look just like 1:1 boxes shrunk down to 1/25th scale. Amazing.

Here are some shots of the real car at the final race at Daytona which is the one I wanted to do. Only had one small picture in color. The last one is of the car he wrecked and had to start over in one of the spare cars at Riverside at the start of the race.

I can't believe it's finally finished. More pictures are at the under glass for other road racing here, under Bobby Unser and also at Randy Ayres Showroom

Finally got this one finished. It took 333 hours to complete or 8 months, whichever way you want to look at it. It is my first totally brush painted model. I used Vallejo acrylic paint throughout the build. The 1974/75 IROC season was the first that the Camaro was used as the make for the series of 4 races. Two were at Riverside and one each at Michigan and the finale at Daytona during the 1975 Speedweeks. Unser just beat Foyt by a nose to win the race and the series championship. The Camaro was basically a stock car with unibody construction. They did not use a Banjo chassis till 1977. It had a Traco Chevy 336 cubic inch engine pumping out 440 horsepower. The engines were built within 5 horsepower up or down between them and tuned for longevity not raw power. Revs were kept at 7200. Roger Penske and Les Richter came up with the IROC series and decided after the first year using Porsches they would switch to the Camaro. 15 identical cars were built for the series with 12 actually competing and 3 kept as backups. Unser had to use a backup after crashing his car at the start of the first Riverside race. He was lucky to have escaped without any injuries. The right side of the car was caved in right to the transmission tunnel. Dave Marcis, Jim Sauter and Dick Trickle set the cars up for competition. The 1974 Camaro body was used for the 1974 through the 1980 seasons. Unser won 50,000 dollars for his championship. I learned a lot about IROC from doing this build.

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Coming together magnificently.

Finished the model yesterday. It took 333 hours or about 8 months to complete it. Probably the longest I have ever spent on one build. Hope to take the finished photos today. I am going to try to use the black mirror effect to do it. If it doesn't turn out well, I will go back to the old light gray poster board method.

Pierre, All I can say is Wow. The realism is astounding. This is going to be so cool when finished.

Thanks, Carl. Yes, those are the wheels I made. I couldn't find any minilites that looked like these in the aftermarket. Too bad P.P.P. doesn't offer them. I started on the decaling yesterday, so it shouldn't be too much longer.

As long as your model is from the seventies, it will be great. That's when the rope type window nets were used. You can borrow anything I do. it would be an honor if you did. They might have been used in the eighties too. I'm not really sure.

Just need to paint it.

I should have explained, that is a printed-out paper version of the real size of the window net, scaled down from a photo of the real net in the car I am building. The loom is an inch tall and wide, and the scale size of the net is about 3/4 of an inch tall and wide. The borders are 1/16 an inch tape I will cut out from some tan masking tape and then paint with white vallejo acrylic primer and paint. I coated the net with elmers glue to get all the threads to adhere to each other. Makes the net stiff and flat but it would fall apart when I take it out of the loom if I didn't. I was thinking about weaving it so to speak using a needle, but the loom is so small that would be impossible for me. Maybe a young guy with an enormous amount of finger dexterity could get it done.

Thats pretty neat. I had no idea all those things were available. Great job on the bench and pallets.

Wow, Pierre. I am so impressed with this diorama in progress. Did you scratch build all these items I am seeing? This is going to be awesome for sure when finished.

Awesome Torino, Pierre. Glad to see your post over here. Your work definitely needs to be shared at more forums.

I know I said no more wip pictures, but I wanted to share the finished tire/wheel assemblies and the loom I made to make the window net. I borrowed Drew Hierwaters creation from an article he wrote for Scale Auto Magazine. I added a few features to mine to stiffen it up. This rope type net was used in the seventies.

Thanks, Pierre. I thought I would be finished with the build part today, but I'm not pleased with the window net I made and will make a new jig to create another one. So hopefully tomorrow I can decal it.