Allan31

Nicely done, wish I had one in 1/24.

Excellent finish. I have the MiniExotics resin version of this and do not know what they used to start with. I will do mine as tested at LeMans. Again beautiful job, your build has inspired me...

As I said, amazing and humbling.....

Phew.... Good save. I vote for weathering as I do on my models.

Agreed, those carbs will look love-ar-ly under glass....

I had headlight issues when I did my 1/24 scale car, paint your yellow ones white and turn them into covers... Sweet job on those wheels BTW.....

Just found this, great build. I did almost the same years ago.

After leaving art school in 1980 were they taught us to "paint what you know", I desperately wanted to be the next Michael Turner. I gave it the best I could but not being able to pay the bills I had to walk away. Everything you've ever heard about "poor starving artist" is true and then some. Perhaps now being retired, I could look at the automotive art world in a different light. I think I enjoy building model race cars more than doing paintings of them. Most are done for ads and posters that I also designed. Some are commissions. I was racing my own Formula Ford at the time on a shoe string budget and would often barter artwork for race entry fees and hotel stays. I was broke but I raced.... . . Seeing these again brings back so many memories. Thanks for looking......

Thanks all. Helmut, I don't know whose kit that is. Years ago I got boxes of parts, I slowly put together bags of kits as I found the parts. The MkIV got built when I discovered the front windshield, the side and rear are sheet styrene. I'm fairly certain it is the MPC kit as it has better shapes than the IMC issue. If you look closely, you'll notice I built this on a GT40 chassis, not a correct MkIV. MkIV is not as rounded on the bottom under the doors. SShhhhh......

Beautiful job on that, excellent. I wish you would do a tutorial on how you did those wonderful wire wheels as CLEARLY... you know what you're doing.

I have the same set as Dan. And these are my leather punches. I illustrated the tutorial with the smaller, less expensive set because for headlights, you really only need one or two of the doming holes and punches. The size of the headlight is dictated by the size of the leather punch.

That's the most amazing brush work I've seen Pierre. "What ever doesn't kill you makes you...blah, blah, blah....." I had a similar reaction to a silver finish and clear but never figured out why.

Interesting build. I have that olde Pyro kit, someday it will be a Group 44 car.

I'll never be able to look at my kit the same way again.....

Thanks Daniel !!

Nice stuff Ken. I just pinched an UMi XJR5 off evilbay, I'm working on a 935 lineup myself. Welcome.

It seems this is the right place to ask this question, but I don't want to highjack Pierres thread. I want to do a series of the 250GTO with the different bodies, They will be all Lemans cars, starting with the standard body we all know and love. I want to these along with it as well. I would love to do the 250SW as well but don't know if it could/should be included or is it too much of a stretch. Whatchatink?

I have these four done already, at a minimum, these three others but there is room for more. The resins are both MiniExotics.

Great work Phil. I plan on building one of each version of GT40 someday.

Amazing job on that olde AMT. I was struck at how different the grilles are from one car to another while watching Goodwood.

Amazing. This is truly the most humbling build to me I've ever seen....

Lookin good Mark, this is my favorite part of building.

Talbot Lago....yum...

The front and rear valances took a large bit of fiddling to get right. Using the Plastruct with the metel core I built a roll cage. I can't see in the photos if there is in fact a full cage, more likely just the roll bar behind the seat but I need the practice anyway. I will wack the suspension on soon.

I'm new here but thought I would post some of my previous builds. Reworked AMT 935, 1/24 scale. Inspired by an article that appeared in MRRN, I changed the rear flares with Bondo, corrected the shape of the uprights for the rear wing, new rear wing reshaped from a ruler, vac-formed the glass areas and finished up with a Cady decal sheet and pinched what ever else i needed from other sheets. All rear plumbing done with aluminum tubing. MRRN was a terrific source for our tiny niche of modelers. I have the complete set somewhere but I've yet to find the box I packed them in.....humph......