Two Ford GT40's

[vamach1]

20 minutes ago, Bantoft said:

Hi Rich, ordered the decals 6 weeks ago but still waiting.  All mail is being fumigated. Holding off till I get them so I can open vents.

Dave B

Decals for which version and from where?  I've ordered from IndyCals and they are very fast.

[Dave B]

Hi Rex, it is the early version.  I ordered from Indycals and they were mailed 27 March.  I'm being patient as all mail is slow at the moment. I'll give Michael 8 weeks then email him.

Dave

[vamach1]

11 minutes ago, Bantoft said:

Hi Rex, it is the early version.  I ordered from Indycals and they were mailed 27 March.  I'm being patient as all mail is slow at the moment. I'll give Michael 8 weeks then email him.

Dave

Yes - Tasmania is a lot further than within the USA where mal deliveries are still pretty good.

[David G.]

Wow! Two beautiful versions of one of my all-time favorite racers. 

David G.

[Rich Chernosky]

10 hours ago, Bantoft said:

Hi Rich, ordered the decals 6 weeks ago but still waiting.  All mail is being fumigated. Holding off till I get them so I can open vents.

Dave B

Dave...I ordered a bunch of stuff from Indycals  a couple of months ago. He was off somewhere so my order was delayed but it only took 10 days for me to get it, and that included the decals for my Shadow too. He is usually pretty  quick about sending stuff out so you should be getting yours pretty soon. Of course for me he is only a hop, skip and a jump away. I have gotten stuff from your part of the world and it just seems to take forever and that is without a world crisis going on. Good luck on your project BTW. 

[williamdp]

Nice pair, Rich. Love the Ford France. And congrats on your seat rivets/grommets/whatever. I finished a GT40 a couple of months ago, my go at them was considerably less successful ?

[Rich Chernosky]

6 hours ago, williamdp said:

Nice pair, Rich. Love the Ford France. And congrats on your seat rivets/grommets/whatever. I finished a GT40 a couple of months ago, my go at them was considerably less successful ?

Wm, thanks for the compliments, the rivets involved a long bristle very fine brush, some very fine silver paint, and magnifiers. Even so I had to go back and use an india ink pen to touch up. The ink flowed around the detail and that helped. It was still some very long and tedious work. I guess you really want to have to  do it.  Nice to see you on this forum BTW. 

[1959scudetto]

Nice GT 40's, Rich - my all-time favorite sports-racer!

[afx]

Nice work.

[randyc]

yep, as others have said, time to get mine out so we have yet another variation of Gulf blue.  lol.   

[PatW]

Superb! Just the cars I see at the Classic Le Mans races.

[Venom]

Hi Rich, I enjoyed looking at the two Gt40’s. Good job on the handmade graphics and the seat grommets. The cars look real nice!

I am currently trying to replicate the ‘66 GT40 gold #5 car that took 3rd in the LeMans and noticed that the seat grommets are a real booger! I may try the pen method.

[Rich Chernosky]

20 hours ago, Venom said:

Hi Rich, I enjoyed looking at the two Gt40’s. Good job on the handmade graphics and the seat grommets. The cars look real nice!

I am currently trying to replicate the ‘66 GT40 gold #5 car that took 3rd in the LeMans and noticed that the seat grommets are a real booger! I may try the pen method.

Hi Josh...thanks for bringing this post to the front page. It got a lot of attention the first time I put it up. I use the india ink trick a lot. Get the kind that is water soluable when dry, that way you can wipe away excess anytime you want. I use it a lot for panel lines. A cheap nib pen is all you need and a steady hand. I have done the gold car and if I remember I spent a lot of time custom mixing that gold until I was happy.  I may still have the formula somewhere if you are interested.  I airbrushed mine. 

[Venom]

25 minutes ago, Rich Chernosky said:

Hi Josh...thanks for bringing this post to the front page. It got a lot of attention the first time I put it up. I use the india ink trick a lot. Get the kind that is water soluable when dry, that way you can wipe away excess anytime you want. I use it a lot for panel lines. A cheap nib pen is all you need and a steady hand. I have done the gold car and if I remember I spent a lot of time custom mixing that gold until I was happy.  I may still have the formula somewhere if you are interested.  I airbrushed mine. 

Thanks Rich! I custom mixed and airbrushed mine as well. Waterborne paint... I used gold metallic and lots of chrome yellow. Attached is a pic. Very early stages after paint and polish.

[Rich Chernosky]

2 hours ago, Venom said:

Thanks Rich! I custom mixed and airbrushed mine as well. Waterborne paint... I used gold metallic and lots of chrome yellow. Attached is a pic. Very early stages after paint and polish.

Josh....that's lookin real good. Should be a great model when done. Here is mine for comparison. It was done about 6-7yrs ago. 

[Venom]

That’s nice Rich! I would’ve done the decals on mine but they were real old and yellowed and very brittle, so I’m having to paint everything. Lot of work! I was able to find the lower door stripes on eBay so those aren’t painted. For me, the hardest part was trying to match the nose color. I think I finally nailed it. Also, in replicating mine, I’m not following all the cues of the early vintage pictures, rather I’m going by some great photos I found on the web where it shows it for the Sotheby’s Auction such as below. There are some apparent  variations on the way it currently sits as compared to 1966 and so on.

[Rich Chernosky]

Josh...oh my..that is a beauty.  I see a lot of differences between my model and this car in its current state. But race cars change over time. That is their nature. We as modelers have to decide which version we want to do. The decision is often subjective. Do we want to do a model car and build it to suit our taste or do we want a scale replica and build it to certain specifications. In my case I must have looked at 100's of photo's  (all  different)  and finally decided on a gold "I" liked.  I painted mine 4 times before I was happy.  That pin stripe around the graphics can be replicated with vinyl tape cut down thin by the way. Would be impossible to paint on. 

[Venom]

Agreed totally Rich. Most of the time I like to make my cars my own way rather than trying to duplicate a dead ringer to a historic real car. Funny thing is, that when I purchased this model my intent was to paint it up in the livery of the blue #1 car that Ken Miles drove that year, and I must have looked through at least 100 photos as well. But then at one point I saw a red one with #3 on it and loved it so much that I painted it red, but I tried some experimental clearcoat and it went on horribly so I cleaned everything down to bare plastic again and the more I saw the pics of the gold one the more I liked it the most, so that’s what I went with. So far it’s not been a disappointment, but as with most models it’s had its hurdles.