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Here is a project that was well underway before the big move. Fisher resin Matra MS 670 driven to victory at the 1972 Lemans by Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill. This win made Graham Hill the only driver to ever win the Indy 500, Lemans, Monaco and become World Champion. Quite a feat. Car is painted Tamiya TS44 blue, TS26 white and Testors 1124 green with a little yellow added. Some extra details included steering wheels, seatbelts, aluminium tube exhaust , gear shift, mirror strut. Avery nice kit to work with. See captions for extra information. Thanks and comments always welcome. Nice bright sunlight takes a good picture. Background is my Watkins Glen bleachers. Car sits low and mean Rear veiw shows just enough engine and suspension But I still added some details. Decals in this kit wer an absolute joy even though they were almost 30yrs old. White stripe is vinyl tape. If you were driving at Lemans in 1972 this is not what you wanted to see in your rear view mirror. They were fast and loud and came in 1-2. I have heard a Matra V-12 at full song (in an F-1 car) It would hurt your ears at 50 yards. Best shot of the interior I could get. Not much detail but still worthy of a picture.

Been awhile since I finished something then I found this is the stash all painted and ready to go. Color is a mix of Tamiya TS26 white and TS7 Racing white. Additions are wheels and tires from the Modellers Chaparral 2D, seatbelts and poseable wheels. Rest is box stock. The is the car Jim Hall campaigned in the 1966 Can-Am and the SCCA United States Road Racing Championship. More details in the captions. Thanks for looking. Finished model on its wheels. Gold strip on tires is gold striping tape cut down and varnished in place. Tiny photo etch on wing is a spirit level for adjusting the wing angle. Business end of the car. Lots and lots of photo etch parts to apply. The model is a curbside like most Fisher kits. Side view. Jim Halls car differed slightly from Hap Sharps. Most noteable difference was the rounded tub. Note the tiny PE fasteners on the windscreen. There were 24 of them in all to apply. Stark but functional interior of the 2E. Somwhere in there is a handmade gear lever. Decals for the dash came out of the extras I have accumulated over the years, We modelers are hoarders of all kinds of stuff but sometimes it really pays off. Really liked the decals in this kit. We are going to miss Mike Quarterman who did the decals for Fisher and many others.

As per request by my good friend Gary (gramps46) Here are all the Fisher resin kits I have completed in the last 15 years. These kits are what got me started on resin kits. I had always been intimidated by resin. Seen plenty of them done but didn't think I had the skill myself. Once I did my first one there was no stopping me. Fisher kits appealed to me because of the subject matter and the price...at the time $85. I have since gone ouit of my way to aquire all the ones I like. Still in the works: Chaparral 2E, Matra MS670, Porshe 917-30, 1971 Gulg Porsche Langneck, 1958 Porsche RSK, Cunningham C4R. Below is my collection in chronological order. Comments welcome. My first resin kit completion. Chaparral 2F cone 4/28/07. Color Tamiya TS7 racing white. This build has won several awards, This one really appealed to me because of the shape of the car. I still consider it one of the most beautiful Can-Am cars ever. Car is a Ferrari 312P and the color is Tamiya TS49. Completed 9/3/08 I have been up close and personal with the real car so having a model of it was a necessity. The Sunoco Ferrari of Mark Donohue in 1971. Color was Testors 1111 blue. Lots of photo etch and detail. What really got me about this kit was the aluminum tub had the wrinkles molded in. Don't usually see this kind of detail in resin. Finished 4/28l10 The other half of my Ferrari 312P set. The berlinetta. Also done is Tamiya TS49. I left the nose winglets off because I though it ruined the lines of the car. Finished 6/25/19. Bougth this kit off Ebay from a German seller who was going to convert it to a slot car body but gave up. This kit went from Calif to Long Island NY to Germany and then back to Penna. It has a lot of miles on it. Color is Mr Color 109 Character yellow. This kit fairly flew together and turned well too. Completed 7/3/19 Probably the last car kit Fisher released. 1966/67 Ferrari 365 P2. This car was campained by NART and was nicknamed the white elephant. Not the prettiest Ferrari ever but still worthy of the collection. Color is Tamiya TS26 White with Testors 1111 blue accents. Lots of PE and other details added. Completed 8/7/19 Another Ferrari 512, rthis one a M. Color is Mr color #327, a slightly darker red but period correct. Lots of great detail on this one. Done 8/27/19 I was vbery excited to aquire this since I am a big Donohue fan. Came at a good price and had to build it right away, Very similar to the other Mclaren but this one didn't go as easy as that one. Decals were my biggest complaint. Color is a custom mix of Tamiya TS15 and TS55. Many extras were added. Done 6/27/21. Ooops got this one out of order. It was done 9/2/19. Another Ferrari 512 this one an S version. This car was raced by a Belgian team and hence the yellow color. Didja know that yellow is actually Ferrari's racing color. That is why the background of the logo is yellow. This color was custom mixed from several Tamiya yellows. It was my best guess. Last Fisher resin completed and this one was 8/8/21. It was featured on this forum at that time. D-Type Jaguar painted Tamiya TS43 BRG. Long as I have them all out of the case might as well take a picture of the whole tribe. You might notice on all the pictures the wheels steer on my Fisher kits. Since he uses the same basic layout for his wheels and tires it was a fairly easy conversion. And once you do one, the rest are easy. Hope you liked this tribute to Paul Fisher. These are great kits of great cars. This hobby will miss him.