New F1 kit?

[ArchangelGTR]

Obviously goes to show that if you really put your mind to it combined with skills and a bit of artistry, anything is possible.

It's not the most accurate, but it is the most reasonable copy to date.

Those men have skills, coachbuilding the old fashion way - by hand. "A" for craftsmanship. Now we'll just have wait and see how well it's executed as a finished product.

[carbuilder2002]

Having worked for many years as a Prototype Builder/Modeler I can assure you it is quite possible to scare up a model so long as the model is acurate to begin with, granted the referemce points will need to be as close together as is practical but 54mm grid (equating to 3mm on an 1:18 scale model) would enable what has been producet to be readily achievable wich some care and effort. In fact when I was considering doing likewise I was contemplating 1mm slices of a UT model giving an 18mm grid.

[F1 monster]

Good point. I guess it is possible without the original molds. But wouldn't you need some fairly advanced 3d scanning equipment, or would some jig that magnifies the movements of a pen over an irregular surface in a grid pattern work well enough?

[carbuilder2002]

Methods I have used to enlarge a prototype scale model are to cut it into slices, depending on the equipment available you can dogitise the profiles or as you say use a pantograph stylus and very fine point pen, the aim is to reduce any distortion. You then get sheets of polustyrene or better still a specialist blocking foam in the thickness equivalent to your slices, these are then cutt o the same profiles as the model slices and stuck together.
Granted there is always some distortion as the profiles do not have a tapered face but if you work on the biggest side of the slice when you smooth the form off you should get something within probably 5mm total deviation of the actual theoretical size.
Have I prompted a landslide of F1 replicas here?

[Peloton25]

I hesitate resurrecting this thread, but the project is continuing on and there are some updates via YouTube.

Looks like he has a real problem with understeer in the first few clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_oGQP516A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWVEP0qocM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkjFEL6iEI

Finished body:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCB4hKIkRg

Now with paint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THw3pA3UIug

You've got to give the guy at least a B+ for effort. Lots of details are 'off' but overall he's gotten pretty close which is impressive considering the conditions he is working in aren't what I'd refer to as a 'state of the art' facility.

>8^)
ER

[Sami Aaltonen]

Well....... what we can se about this.....
My personal opinion....................

[basman007]

I kinda like the way they did the Countaches. Almost like comedy cars

[Peloton25]

They painted one of these orange now.



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>8^)
ER

[Sami Aaltonen]

I just can not understand why someone would buy this..."thing".
Look at those wheels example....look at that detailing.....