Dome Zero RL / Le Mans '79

Hi all,

this is my Dome Zero RL #6, he drove in 24h race of Le Mans 1979.
The car did the race not finished, after 5 or 6 hours it had a technical defect - therefore I have it not strongly weathered.

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl1j8dji.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl1j8dji.jpg)

The kit is from Fujimi and had some shortcomings. I changed some things, so I added the orange indicators and the rainlight, built a new blue light on the roof, added a front shield (the transparent part) and towing eye.
I had to scratch build the holders for rearview mirror, rebuilt the driver seat, added the round openings for the ignition cut-off (over the fuel caps) and built a ignition cut-off switch in this.
Then I rebuilt the rearlights, and added bonnet pins, seat belts and make the frontlight covers.

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl2prdbc.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl2prdbc.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl4l5d05.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl4l5d05.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl6ameyl.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl6ameyl.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl8mwcal.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl8mwcal.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl9rac24.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl9rac24.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl11y9d11.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl11y9d11.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl12ziem0.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl12ziem0.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl131ne86.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl131ne86.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl141ec4e.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl141ec4e.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/domezerorl15wxe64.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=domezerorl15wxe64.jpg)

I had begun to build a few years ago. I used the first time, clear lacquer Gunze 'Mr. Super Clear'. Initially saw the still very good, but after a while formed cracks. I tried to fill them with paint and sanding down.
But it did no good, they kept coming to the fore. Then the kit disappeared for a long time in the box. After a few years I have him then (rather listless) gradually completed.

Sorry for my english.

Jens

Hi Jens!
It looks great!:smile:
Best regards Ralf

Yours look really nice. I am doing the decals on mine now. Is this the curbside version?

Wow a Fujimi!...I had never seen one of this...Excellent performance on this one!

I am building this kit now and I also started a couple of years ago :)

I must admit, you did a great job and improved the car a lot. Looks like a winner to me :)

Do you have any closups of what the kill switches look like? I drilled out the holes but I am not sure what they look like. reference pics on this car are hard to find.

Hi,

thanx for all your comments.

Yours look really nice. I am doing the decals on mine now. Is this the curbside version?
No, it's enthusiast kit.

Do you have any closups of what the kill switches look like? I drilled out the holes but I am not sure what they look like. reference pics on this car are hard to find.

That's right, for this car are very hard to find pictures. When I started in 2007 or 2008 with the construction, I have not found anything except the pictures from the dome.co.ltd website.

Detailed photographs or images from the engine bay I have not found.

So I decided to build the car with closed hood.

I was surprised at the arrangement of the coolers and their covers in the kit, It doesn't make sense for me. I did not want to build and added details something out of fantasy and then eventually detect that it is completely wrong.

I then largely based on the photos on the kit box. On the big cover picture, the kill switch can be seen to some extent.

I have this built in this way:
http://www.abload.de/img/cut-off9futh.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=cut-off9futh.jpg)

Regards, Jens

Sweet build.

Hi Jens

Really nice!! The big blue light on the roof looks funny, but I know, it was the positionlight for the team at night.

Rgards Sascha

You really did a superb job.
Impressive design: I admit I often seen the car but I never paid the deserved attention. Thinking it was a '79 entry and thinking at contemporary Renault and 936s... well the design is amazing....
I must purchase one, but I guess it would be a challenge uh? Start to be rare....

Thanx for comments.

Yes, the design is really impressive. When I first saw him, I thought, what an ugly car, that you buy not. I later discovered it again on Ebay, nobody wanted to have - I then took him for a song. I could still not find it beautiful, but very interesting.

From the variety of contemporary race cars it was particularly striking - the most others had smooth, round shapes.

Also remarkable was the length, here is a comparison with the Porsche 936/77.

http://www.abload.de/img/vergleich-180075ugf.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=vergleich-180075ugf.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/img/vergleich-2800lxu1h.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=vergleich-2800lxu1h.jpg)

Regards, Jens

wow. nice to see a car like this in model form. makes you wonder if it was a transformer in disguise with those angles.

Incredible job. The car looks so ahead of its time for 79'. Really cool looking.