Lamborghini murcielago r-gt 2004

With the Ferrari F430 GT done, I have decided to keep in the GT category and build the Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT of the 2004 FIA GT Championship.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/murcielago1.jpg

I´ll use the Fujimi kit and the Scale Production transkit:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/murcielago3.jpg

The Scale Production transkit is absolutely gorgeous (it´s a shame it is out of production) and it includes everything you need to convert the street Murcielago to the R-GT car. It even includes 3 paint scheme options:

- #29 Reiter Engineering test car sponsored by SCREAM
- #24 or #26 Orange/Black paint scheme, sponsored by SCREAM
- #5 or #6 Silver/Black Krohn-Barbour car

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/murcielago4.jpg

At first, I tought about doing the carbon fiber #29 test car, but I prefer to leave that scheme for the Porsche 911 GT1, so I will build the #24 orange/black SCREAM car:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/murcielago2.jpg

This car was prepared by the Driot-Arnoux Motorsport team (DAMS) to be driven by Andrea Piccini and Jean-Denis Delétraz in the final rounds of the 2004 FIA GT Championship. The first race of the car was in Imola.

For the model, I will also use fiber carbon decals and ZERO paints.

I hope you like the project!! In a few days I will post the first part of the building process.

Love it!! Can't wait to see this one come together

Can you say amazing !!! Cant Wait !!

count me in! front row center and waiting patiently

Very nice transkit, scale production worked very well for create it.
I will follow you very closely because this kit is my next aim !!!

By the way...where did you buy it ?

Andrea Steven

i've got my popcorn...i'm ready!

Thanks for your interest!

By the way...where did you buy it ?

Andrea, I bought the transkit in www.stradasports.com 4 or 5 years ago. I think it is out of production now.

Thanks to a couple days off work, I did some work on the body.

To convert the street Murcielago in the racing version, you need to add the front bumper, gas intake, front wheel arches and lateral panels of the Scale Production transkit to the Fujimi body. In the body, you only need to cut off the wheel arches in front of the doors:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria3.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria5.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria6.jpg

You also need to make holes for the side mirrors and antenna, and cut guides for the rear wing supports. At this time, I also filled the license plate holes.
In the photo of the rear of the body, you can see the molded fans, but they will be covered with radiators:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria4.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/carroceria7.jpg

To glue the resin pieces in the body, I used Tamiya´s epoxy cement, but it takes too long to dry and the dried cement is not 100% rigid, so I´ll use another brand in the future.

The Tamiya product that I REALLY recommend is Tamiya´s light curing Putty. This stuff is just wonderful. It dries in 1 minute with sun light and 2 minutes in fluorescent light:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty1.jpg

This Putty is just excellent. In this photo I show you the application in a plastic spoon handle:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty3.jpg

Just after applying the putty, put the piece under a fluorescent light bulb:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty4.jpg

And, just like Tamiya says, the putty is fully cured in less than 2 minutes! It has a greasy residue, but it can be wiped off with laquer thinner:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty5.jpg

The dry putty has the perfect consistency. Not too hard to make it difficult to sand, and not too soft to clog the sanding paper. And the best of all...it does not shrink!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty6.jpg

Just a few secons later, the holes are perfectly filled (you can´t see it in the photo, but the putty dries with a clear amber finish):

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/putty7.jpg

After testing this putty, I am ready to throw out all the putty tubes I have. I will only keep Tamiya´s sculpting putty and this light curing putty.

Here are a couple photos of the Murcielago body with putty to fill the spaces between the resin parts and the body plastic. Next time, I will show you the body after all the sanding I need to do.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/puttybody2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/puttybody1.jpg

Thanks for watching!

I never liked the Murcielago but I will love this build of a GT conversion with another great SP transkit !! :grinyes:

Havent seen one of these in ages! Will follow closely!

I never seen one in the flesh and would kill to get one , got in the game too late so i will be watching this one from the sidelines .

My son and I both have the same exact kits you have and will be following your progress to learn any tips that will help us. Thanks for posting this and you've got a great start already.:grinyes:

HI

good start :bigthumb:

enclosed some links from other R-GT threads and the kit review

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=467093

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=668441

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=940420

http://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=217543&highlight=murcielago+r+gt#post217543

http://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=219707&highlight=murcielago+r+gt#post219707

http://www.baracca.net/html/showroom_jloc.html

Mike

Great start.
I'm anxiously waiting for your next update.

Thank you for the extensive post concerning the putty. I always wondered if and how good the light curing putty would be. Now I might consider trying that too.

As I mentioned earlier, the Tamiya light curing putty is very easy to sand, so I blended the resin parts with the Fujimi body in no time:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/lijado1.jpg

In this particular racecar, the spaces originally intended for rear side windows are used for the gas intake (right side) and air intakes (left side), so I glue the parts included in the transkit:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/lijado2.jpg

With all the sanding required to blend the resin parts to the body, is very easy to loose some lines that should appear in the body. To redraw those lines, I place Tamiya masking tape in the place where the lines should be, and I sand the area very gently. I sand a little over the tape to be sure the line will appear exactly where it should be:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/lineas1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/lineas2.jpg

And here you can see the line back in the body:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/lineas3.jpg

Now I apply Tamiya´s grey primer to the body as a guide to reveal any imperfections that should be filled and sanded:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/primergris1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/primergris2.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/primergris3.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/primergris4.jpg

Well, that´s it for the moment. Next I will do some modifications to convert the street chassis to a racecar version. Thanks for watching!

awesome!

Great progress! One of my favorite racing cars in LMS!

Wow what a beast!!! I've recently built the street version murcielago and it looks great but this... Looks absolutely awesome. I'll be watching this thread closely

Thanks for your interest and kind words!

Now that I have the body in primer, is time to define the work I have to do to convert the street chassis of the Fujimi kit to the racecar version. Here´s an image of the chassis in the modified body:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/chassisenbody1.jpg

As you can see, there´s a lot to do to obtain a good fit between the chassis and the body. The suspension arms must be modified to place the wheels in their correct position (The suspension arms are aprox. 5 mm short).
GT cars have chassis covers or "shields" to protect the chassis and obtain better aerodynamics. This shields are made of aluminum or carbon fiber.
It´s practically impossible to find underside photos of the orange SCREAM cars, but I found a photo of a crash of another lamborghini team to show you the chassis shields:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/placaschasis.jpg

At this time, I clean up the chassis and suspension parts:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/limpiezapiezas.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/chasislimpio.jpg

It is also necessary to sand off the details of the kit cockpit to use the transkit parts:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/limpiezacabina.jpg

Of course, after each cut, I check the parts fit:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/chasislimpiobody.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/sam01contact/MURCIELAGO/chasisbodygral.jpg

Next, I will begin with the engine and cockpit details...Thanks for watching!