Pierre Rivard

This is fun stuff guys...and somewhere in the middle of all these exchanges Gary is gonna build a car! ?

That detailing is beautiful Bob, Do you make your own oil line fittings? They look very good.

Thanks guys. I cleared the body this morning. 2 coats Tamiya acrylic brushed on with one hour gap. This body is a bit complicated for brush painting so I added more thinner and retarder to give me a few extra seconds to lay the paint to all surfaces. In the end it smoothed out good and polishing requirements will be minimal. Next steps are to do the polishing, black detailing and washes for the meshing, decals and a coat of Future.

I knew about the wheelbase thing on the R5 but it's so easy to forget. Good idea to build chassis and dry fit to body before setting on cutting fenders and adding the flares.

Beautiful replica of a beautiful F1 racer. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

Thanks Jim. Your's with end of race weathering is superb. I don't have the skills to do that well enough. I love the GT1 but I find modern race cars (post 1990...) liveries to be so elaborate that you lose the car a bit so I decided to go to the classic Pennzoil livery. A good match to the GT1 lines I think.

Wonderful project Gary. Folowing this one with great interest. The J car and GT40 mkIV are holy grail race cars for me. Short of having yet these to build it is a delight to see you show the way.

Wonderful John. You upgraded the exhaust pipes beautifully and they belong on that glorious V12. The picture of you holding the engine makes me realize how big 1/12 is (I've only done 1/24) so the detailing is not a nice to do but a must do.

Completed the basic interior and added very little: a shifter and dressing up the gauges. Also prepped and painted (primer & color coat) the body. Clear tomorrow. getting close.

REALLY GOOD!

Thank you Anton. Got the decals from Indycal

Really beautiful build, in both detailing and finishes. Bravo!

Engine and chassis both look wonderful. The detailing and finishes look very realistic.

Dedicated, resolved, resilient, committed, passionate, patient, stubborn. Yup, this is not gonna be easy man!

I started this thread exactly 2 months ago, feeling a bit guilty about buying more than building. Now with about 5000 views and 120 responses, my guilt has been completely erased. You guys are great therapists! Here's my medication for the last 2 months:

Great pictures. Much better than working off pics of restored cars I'm really tempted to start search for one of these vintage 275P kits...

You're doing great with this one David. If it was me I would chickened out and glued them shut.

Nice to see you're back Andy. Fully recovered from the acrobatics show?

And knowing Ismael is on this job for sure plenty of eye candy will be added to these 4 parts

Agree, Gary's 275P looks really good, definitely something to shoot for. I don't totally get what you are planning for the greenhouse so it will be fun to follow and learn from.

All the carbon fiber is done with decals? Don't think I could handle that. Thumbs up!

Thanks Gary. At least the Gunze is molded in white. Other options may be Heller or Revell but I think they are both molded in dark green...

Looks very very good. It's been a while since we've seen an early NASCAR build and hoping more will come.

Last little upgrade is to make the exhaust outlets a bit more realistic. I drilled out the ones molder in the rear valance and made new tips from hollowed out 3.2 mm styrene tubes. I'm not doing anything about the meshing like the top builders can do and will try to make it work with paints and washes.

Thanks Helmut. It is a primitive kit but the body is cast in a very convincing way, so with a few adds hopefully this can become a nice curbside model of a beautiful race car. The next little add is to relocate the spoiler actuator and fabricate it a bit more to scale.