Phildaupho

I am looking foward to the Revell of North America 599 GTO which will be less expensive, white plastic and will come in a more conventional box even though I have already completed a conversion of a 599 to GTO.

Excellent rendition of boxtop Deuce.

Fantastic job. I saw and heard this car run at the Monterey Historics a few years ago. You could hear the snowmobile fan motors for the entire lap no matter where you were standing around the circuit.

All very attractive. I sure would like to get a resin cast 35 front end.

Down right amazing. A tour de force.

One of my favorite liveries. Only those who really know their racing history would think your Corvette is anything other than an accurate replica.

I needed a quick build for a club night. I had a completed Double-T rolling chassis with engine that was built for an old project that lost its body years ago. Lately it has been on my self with an unpainted Tall-T body sitting on it. The Tall-T body is a saver so I decided for a re-do featuring a Chopped-T body done in the style of the Double-T box art. The chassis was already orange to that made the colour choice easy. It is pretty well built according to the old instruction sheet but I did make a few alterations. - The body was shaved and smoothed - Used only the back half of the red tinted windows - Dull coated the Moon discs and narrowed rear wheels - Cut front metal axle - 6-carb set up from Tall-T kit with red pin head balls in trumpets - Aluminum tubing for steering column and exhaust tips

Hopefully this looks red

Beautiful build of a great kit.

Earlier this year, the Revell of Germay website showed that a Ferrari 250 SWB was to be released later in 2012. There was speculation that this was an Italeri re-issue.The last time I checked the website, the listing was no longer there and some on-line vendors showed it as discontinued or out-of-stock. I would have definitely bought one of these kits as the SWB is one of my all time favorites.I do have the AMT kit which needs a lot to make presentable. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what happened.

Yes I see what you mean about it looking pink but the model really is red. I guess the lights I used for taking the pictures changed the shade.

I started this model in early summer of last year and had it pretty much completed when my painting area was taken over by items for a group garage sale and then I got caught up in a new project. Basically all I had left to do was the exterior paint; devise a hinging arrangement for the engine cover, final assembly and decals. This was a very interesting project as I learnt about the old MPC kit and the real car itself. The 1967 Le Mans race, which it won driven by Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt was the only race, this car ever ran. After the Le Mans victory the car went back to Ford’s facility in Detroit. There the engine was removed for dyno testing and somehow later disappeared. A replacement 427 was installed but that engine has never been started. I did not know this when I helped push it into position for a photo shoot at Monterey Dan Gurney tribute in 2010. Another thing I find intriguing is that a left side mirror is clearly visible in photos from the ’67 Le Mans, the car currently only has the drivers’ side right mirror installed and there does not appear to be any indication on the left front fender that a mirror was ever mounted there. As for the model, MPC did a pretty good job replicating the body although the proportions are a little off and the panels do not fit that well together. The rest of the model kit however was just an approximation. I tried to add as much accurate detail as I could but I did not attempt to duplicate the complex exhaust system. For final finishing I used Model Gloss Red Lacquer and Fred Cady decals. The build process was documented On the Bench at http://www.modelcars...l=&fromsearch=1 and on my Fotki at http://public.fotki....?cmd=manualsort

I like what you did with the GT-40, especially the opening doors.

Best of Show Gerry Chevalier [originator of Mini Exotics] Model started with AMT Snap Blackforce. Has scratchbuilt V12 Ardun. Interior is fully lined with wood. More photos of show at http://public.fotki....er-auto-mode-2/ Unfortunately album does not include photos of models entered by Vancouver Island modelers

This model was built in 2003 for the original driver Tommy Hamilton. It even appeared in Model Cars magazine. At some point the model had a big crash, falling from its display shelf. Fortunately it did not break. Rather it came apart. Tommy did a very good job putting it back together with only a few parts getting lost – a front disc brake,a rear shock and the radiator hose. He used some sort of glue that was very sticky but not harden so disassembly was fairly easy to undertake a restoration. This model was my first attempt at making my own decals using my first colour copier and I also had some serious issues with the kit supplied stripes. Other than replacing the missing parts and reassembly, the main part of the restoration was applying new livery decals and fixing up the stripes. It took me awhile to figure out how I was going to fix the stripes. During the original build, the first set of stripe decals completely bubbled and weremvery difficult to get off. The second set I used did not conform ton contours with decal solvent so a couple of areas that should have had stripes did not. These stripes seem to have permanently bonded to the paint. During the restoration I went through my collection of Shelby GT350 decals and could find none that were suitable. Then I remembered the story Tommy Hamilton told of getting a roll of reflective blue tape that was used on phone booths. Over the winter he used this tape to re-do the Shelby stripes. The blue sign vinyl I had was not reflective but it was metallic so I cut and appled new stripes just like Tommy did. For more photos go to http://public.fotki....n_bros_gt-350r/

More photos at http://public.fotki..../iroc-porsches/ The group I slot-car race with decided to have a racing class based on the first International Race of Champions which became known as IROC. For the first year of the championship Porsche 911 RSR’s were used and drivers for various racing series competed. The cars were painted a vast array of colors and at each event cars were assigned by a draw. For our slot-car class we used 1/24 scale Scale Auto Porsche 911 GT3 RSR kits which we got a very good price from our good friend Alan Smith at 132 Slots cars http://132slotcar.us These kits happened to be rally cars so a few modifications had to be made such as filling holes for additional headlights and for the roof vent. I was assigned the job of painting the cars of colors of the six lane Suzuka GP Circuit replica track we race on. The colors I used were Model Master Custom Lacquer Italian Red, Daytona Yellow and Green Go and Tamiya Orange, Brilliant Blue and Racing White. After another fellow did the decals, I sealed them in three fairly heavy coats of Model Master Acrylic Clear. To make marshalling the races as easy as possible and as a bit of a joke, the colors were identified on the wings. We decided to assign the name of a current racecar driver each from a different discipline to each car. The two other slot-car racers involved in this project go by the names of Slotbutton and PTfan so the white car was assigned to Jenson Button from F-1 and the blue car to Paul Tracy from Indy car. Valentino Rossi is on the yellow car, Tony Stewart is on the orange car, Tom Kristensen is on the green car and Sebastian Loeb is on the red car. Slotbutton painted each of the driver’s suits and helmets in the designs the drivers are most known for. He also did the final assembly after I did some additional body detail. For the first race with these cars fourteen slot-car racers participated with each doing three-minute heats in each of the cars. Even though the cars just barely fit on the track side by side the racing was very realistic and other than a bit of wing rub to the outside and inside lane cars, they still looked very nice after the racing was over. In the end the total number of laps for all racers were pretty close but the winner was clearly ahead of the rest. This was a fun project and I am very happy as a modeller how the cars turned out and I am also very impressed as a slot-car racer at how much fun they are to race.

Right you are about the slot-car being the 65 Galaxie but I would still like to race one of Dan's cars!! Not sure if they got completed in time but I was involved in painting 6 1/24 Scale Auto Porsches for an IROC race at the same event. I will be taking photos and will post a link under the scale racing heading. - Phil

Hi Steve - I am going to ask a friend who built a model of Dan's 66 Galaxie for the colors he used. You are obviously a slot car guy. I am going to an event this weekend that has a preliminary race using only Monogram 1960's stock cars supplied with your entry fee. I have requested Dan's 63 Galaxie. We will be racing a 6 lane replica of the Suzuka F1 circuit.

Thanks Guys for posting the photos of your Dan Gurney racecars. I like them all. I know there has not been any activity on the Dan Gurney Scale Race Car Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dangurneyscaleracecars/ since I completed the Deltawing model but there is a lot of info that was previously posted. I am hoping to complete my Ford GT MKIV before the end of March and then get started on a new Dan Gurney project.

Very attractive!!

Great job. One of my favorites which has been on my want to build list for a long time. It will be a challenge to come close to your model.

Great photos. Thanks. Great event. The creativity and skill of car modelers blows me away.

1957 METEOR RANCHERO – Rancheros were always amongst my favourite vehicles but I guess I was waiting for a new tool kit to come along and was not interested in the chopped version I occasionally saw at swap meets. Recently a friend for whom I had built a model of his Shelby GT350R a number of years ago asked me to build a model of the vehicle he used to tow his racecar with back in the day – a 1957 Meteor Ranchero. [Meteors were Canadian Fords sold at Mercury dealerships]. Who knows how long it will be before a new tool Ranchero is available so I acquired two previously started stock roof height 1/25 original 1960 tool Revell ’57 Ford Ranchero from one of my car modeller buddies. One was in pretty rough shape but the other was not too bad at all and it is always great having extra parts. All things considered I am pretty impressed with what is essentially a fifty-year-old tool. The chassis actually has separate rear leaf springs, axle/differential and driveshaft. The dull exhausts are molded in. THE BUILD - I resisted the temptation to take apart the largely assembled body, as I feared something would break, although I did manage to reattach the taillight area. - I started by smoothing the front fender tops where the join was uneven and the ridge left something to be desired. I added a new ridge of Evergreen Styrene half-round - I de-chromed some parts and was surprised to find the plastic under the chrome was clear. As a result I lost the piece that surrounds the rear window. Thankfully I had a spare. I removed the bars attached to the longitudinal bed trim. The window trim and bed trim were glued to the body for chrome foiling after painting. - Because this was going to be a Meteor, scripting was removed from the body. I also removed the door handles, which had poor definition to be replaced with separate items after painting. - The model was engineered with the pickup bed attached to the interior door panels and wheel-wells part of the chassis. I decided to attach the pickup bed and wheel-wells to the body. In addition I made the tailgate non-functioning. - The front bumper was incorrect so narrowed front bumper and gravel pan was acquired from an AMT 57 Ford as is hood ornament and engine - Narrowed Torque Thrusts from AMT 49 Ford - centers will be grey, polished rims to be added later - Headlights and taillights from AMT 57 Ford - Fender skirts fabricated from Evergreen Styrene - Meteor grill from AMT ’57 Ford with fabricated wrap-arounds - Side trim made from Evergreen Styrene - The paint scheme will be blue and white - While I have it, the GT350R requires from freshening

Gorgeous!! {Oxford dictionary definition - richly colored, sumptuous, magnificent, spendid}

From one Phil to another, you did an admirable job on one of those regrettably unloved Lindberg/Pyro kits. Oh, how I wish the Lincoln, Cord and Auburn were better kits.