Ford Escort RS2000 Bathurst 1977

[ShawnS]

Hi guys.

This is one of the Ford Escort RS2000's that raced at Bathurst for the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000. This one was driven by Ford Rally ace Bruce Hodgson and David Morrow. They started the race from grid position 52 (out of 60) but due to mechanical issues they didn't complete the required amount of laps and were excluded from the results.

This is the C1 Models transkit for Revell's Mk2 Escort. I added Scale Production wheels with my own tyres, a roll cage and a side exhaust.  This is another one of several painting challenges that I set for myself last year. It took me quite some time to figure out the width and location of the stripes and after 47 kilometers of tape, many many weeks of painting and correcting my mistakes it was done. All of the paint is Tamiya and the decals are custom printed from my own artwork.

 

It's a great kit with a resin body and some really good 3D printed parts. It went together well but the bonnet was slightly too small for the body and it was also a bit too flat. It has great under bonnet bracing detail but since I wasn't going to have an open bonnet with engine detail I sacrificed that bracing to fix the fitment issues. There are some other issues, one of them is the fitment of the kit windows. Just like every other resin transkit body, the kit windows don't automatically fit the body so I had to cut the one piece kit window into 4 pieces and install them separately. Another issue is the 3d printed clear head lights and tail lights. As with most clear 3d printing, the parts came out with a foggy finish. I was able to sand and polish out the printer lines from the tail light lenses but that didn't fix the foggyness . The head light lenses were replaced with items from my spares box. Despite these issues I would gladly make another one.

Thanks for looking,

Cheers

ShawnS

[Mike 1017]

Very Nice

[Jim B]

Great looking escort.  Very well done.