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Post by Stewart on Jun 16, 2023 15:01:08 GMT -5
Cheers Tom, A bit special in my collection. |
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Post by Stewart on Jun 17, 2023 9:52:16 GMT -5
Jim Clark: Ford Fairlane, another project.Jim Clark was always keen to “have a go” outside of his comfort zone, witness his much vaunted efforts in the RAC Rally, so he was probably easily persuaded to drive a Holman and Moody Ford Fairlane in the American 500 stock car race at Rockingham Speedway late in 1967. He made a good showing but retired from 12th place with engine failure. Only 12 of the 44 starters were running at the end of the 500 lap race.
A few photos of his #66 car…..
My colleague alfaromeo179 and I resolved to replicate his car. A donor car was quickly found.
Somewhat surprisingly it is a two door police car, I thought they had to be four door so you could lock any culprits in the back! Suitable replacement wheels are also on the way.
Decals have been ordered from Patto’s Place.
We have kept our options open here, we can either use the one with the coloured body panels or the one with just the characters and the logos. We both favour the latter option in which case we need some paint.
EMBERGLO it is then.
This is a metallic paint which is not favoured for scale models so I made a trip to my friends at Griffitti to peruse their swatches and use their considerable experience.
Looks pretty close. More news soon I hope.
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Post by oldirish33 on Jun 17, 2023 12:18:36 GMT -5
Two door police cars in the USA were known as Interceptors, special factory models for law enforcement. Their use was from traffic enforcement on highways and high speed pursuit. If hauling offenders was needed, a patrol car was called. They were special models with plane trim in most cases but with the largest high performance engines, upgraded brakes and suspensions. They are highly sought after by collectors. Poly was an early form of metallic paint. I would suggest a base coat of silver and put the top color coats over. That's how we painted models of that era back in the day. A test paint with and without silver can give an idea if that gives a desired result. Interesting project!
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Post by alex on Jun 17, 2023 13:37:51 GMT -5
Great project!
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Post by Alfaholic on Jun 18, 2023 0:49:19 GMT -5
This will be interesting.
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Post by alex on Jun 19, 2023 0:05:38 GMT -5
If you tried to run those Interceptors could bring you back. PA was using Petty prepared Plymouth interceptors in the early/mid 1970's. They were nothing to be trifled with.
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 6:49:57 GMT -5
Quite a good start, two decals gone albeit not quite as was expected. They didn’t lift off as usual with the sellotape but continued use of the 3M “Finesse it” compound eroded the decal away assisted by judicious use of fingernails.  Time to tackle the final decal on the boot. It’s going to a bit fiddly. However I started to feel for the edge of the decal with my fingernail and it started to come away quite easily.  I will carry on with that and use a cocktail stick for the fiddly bits. |
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 7:30:52 GMT -5
Getting there.  |
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 8:53:02 GMT -5
Time to get the light off and look to paint the roof white.  A couple of coats of primer flattened back should remove any trace of the light. What to do about the bonnet strap? It’s not there for the Brands Hatch race. |
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Post by oldirish33 on Jun 19, 2023 9:50:31 GMT -5
I would be inclined to leave the bonnet strap. Not 100% correct, but looks good and short of an entire repaint, probably left as is. How easy/hard was it to get the Spark apart?
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 10:54:47 GMT -5
It’s gone.  I can use an acrylic BRG pen to touch up on the driver’s side, the other side is polishing out quite nicely. |
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 11:09:06 GMT -5
I would be inclined to leave the bonnet strap. Not 100% correct, but looks good and short of an entire repaint, probably left as is. How easy/hard was it to get the Spark apart? Just two screws to get to this.  Some paint has lifted taking off the wheel arch trim but the BRG pen should take care of that. I appreciate your advice re the roof light and bonnet strap (I can put it back on at the end of the day) but I am a bit persnickety on details. However I may well take you advice re the spotlights. |
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Post by Stewart on Jun 19, 2023 12:50:36 GMT -5
Started experimenting with the decals on the Vitesse model that I bought.  The one on the bonnet looks better, homemade numbers on clear paper on proprietary roundels. I had to cut off the extremities of the# 1 with the decal scissors to replicate the original race number. |
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Post by reeft1 on Jun 20, 2023 0:48:49 GMT -5
Looking forward to seeing the Fairline completed
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Post by Stewart on Jul 13, 2023 14:42:20 GMT -5
This could well be my favourite model of all time!   As usual Colin Chapman struggled with the authorities at Le Mans in 1962. He complied by raising the windscreen but, since the front and rear wheels had differing numbers of wheel nuts, he could not immediately meet the requirement to carry a suitable spare wheel. He had a plan to make a suitable item but ran out of time and support from the notoriously inflexible French ruler makers and the car was excluded. Chapman swore never to compete there again, and nor did he. This is an exquisite Spark model of the Lotus 23 that Jim Clark and Trevor Taylor should have raced. |
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