Le Mans Contest Entry: BMW M1 "Carte de France" LM 1980 Gr.4 IMSA

[godfather23]

A small update. The body is ready for priming. All the transkit parts for the body are in place.

[bvia]

Coming along nicely!

I may end up doing this kit in the Andy Warhol livery...since you seem to be making the conversion look so effortless!

[bigfrit]

This looks very sweet, I must admit I missed this thread the first time around!

could you tell me what you did to the kidneys in the front, I wanna make one too!

Olivier

[godfather23]

Originally Posted by bigfrit

could you tell me what you did to the kidneys in the front, I wanna make one too!

Olivier

Well, when I attached the front bumper with putty to the body, it looked very silly, since the kidney on the bumper didn´t really fit onto the body. It just didn´t look leveled and very just "attached". The kidney wasn´t become "one" with the body. So I put some putty onto the kidney and leveled the Kidney with lots of sanding and shaping so that the end of the kidney and the front of the body are in one level now. I will definately decide, whether it stays like that, when I primed the body...

[godfather23]

Just wanted to introduce you to the transkit wheels, I kinda like them:


This is the wheel position in the rear


Body with wheels:


Comparison between transkit (left) and Revell Wheels:

[RallyRaider]

Progressing along very nicely. Are you going to paint the body with the rear wing attached or have you just mounted it for the photos?

[godfather23]

The rear wing will stay on the body, when I paint it. The reason is that I doubt that I will be able to glue the wing onto the body without the wing falling of or looking too attached to the body. So I used putty to make it stay on the body.

[exhaust smoke]

Coming along nicely.

I bought the Renaissance transkit also. On the instructions, it said there was an air jack or something. This was missing in mine...did yours come with this piece? If so, can you take a photo of it?

Thanks.

[godfather23]

Originally Posted by exhaust smoke

Coming along nicely.

I bought the Renaissance transkit also. On the instructions, it said there was an air jack or something. This was missing in mine...did yours come with this piece? If so, can you take a photo of it?

Thanks.

There´s a very small piece, which can only be the Air Jack, since no ohter parts are in the kit. Unfortunately, I don´t have my digicam right now, but I´ll try to scan one of the pics of the instruction and try to point out the look of the Air Jack. So watch for the pic. I may as well PM you!

[exhaust smoke]

Thanks, I look forward to your reply.

[GvEman]

that looks beautifull!

[godfather23]

Originally Posted by exhaust smoke

Coming along nicely.

I bought the Renaissance transkit also. On the instructions, it said there was an air jack or something. This was missing in mine...did yours come with this piece? If so, can you take a photo of it?

Thanks.

Okay, here we go. So I scanned one of the small pictures of the Renaissance Transkit instruction sheet. The position I circled is close to the right corner of the front windshield. To me it looks like a small metallic needle (don´t know, why it´s called air jack). This needle is included in my Transkit. It´s very small. You´re sure, you didn´t overlook the "jack"?

[proosen]

Nice project, fancy paint scheme on this one. I have the old Esci POOH Jeans car, missing the rear wing...otherwise it's still complete. Looking every bit horrible as it's about 20 years since I built it using nothing much than what came in the box, brushpaint, tube glue and lack of all things that comes in handy today That "needle" I think is the attachment point for the compressed air hose to raise the inboard airjacks at pit stops. Kind of stupid to call it an air jack, sure it belongs to the system but why not call things by the right terms?

Niclas

[godfather23]

So, here we have a little update. The engine bay is almost finished, I just will add some wires and repaint some parts.
The body is painted and waits for the decals, I´ll post pics of that later.
Here are the pics of the engine:







Comments welcome!

[hueb_s]

I made spark plug wiring by drilling small holes into all 6 ends of the distibutor. Then glued small wire and used 3 parts of some bigger heat shrink sleeve (don't know it's the right word?) to imitate the bundling of the wires I recognised on pictures...