Progress' Ford GT40 N°9 68 Le Mans

Hya All,

Here is my current project, about 75% done.

Some pictures to show the current status, hope to finish it next week :smokin: .

Comment welcome.

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Nice detail in the cockpit. The body color match perfectly to the real car. Did you mix it yourself??

Nice detail in the cockpit. The body color match perfectly to the real car. Did you mix it yourself??

Hi Nismo,

No i was lucky to find this color on spray in the Marabu Do It Blue Pastel Spray.

These spray are hard to use :banghead: , the flow is fast, but it's the exact match :bigthumb: .

I can recommend it to everyone searching the Gulf Color, i'll use it on my next 917k N°20 Inspired from the 'Le Mans' movie.

Looks hot man! The 917 "movie" car is a great next project.

Very clean build so far levincer.
Engine and interior look real good.
Can’t wait to see it finished. :)

Love it man. Is that the version with the Cartograf decals? If not be careful with the translucent white of the number roundels, double it up with some white decal. But you probably know about that from your Salzburg 917K.
How did you do the seat rivets?

beautiful!!:)

Looks awsome! I haven't touched mine because of the color problem. I saw this car in person when I was a kid. It was on display at Watkins Glen at the 6hr race a month after it had won at Lemans. The Ford GT is the car that got me hooked on Sports/racecars. OOPs I meant to say I saw the 69 car(number 6)

Looks to be a very cool projct, keep us posted on the progress!!!!!!!!!

Excellent looking results so far! Keep posting pics of it.

Looks awsome! I haven't touched mine because of the color problem. I saw this car in person when I was a kid. It was on display at Watkins Glen at the 6hr race a month after it had won at Lemans. The Ford GT is the car that got me hooked on Sports/racecars. OOPs I meant to say I saw the 69 car(number 6)

What is the problem with the colour 935K3? DO you mean sourcing an accurate shade of "Gulf Blue"?

Actually the '68 and '69 LM winning cars were the same chassis, P1075 IIRC. It was a blessed "lucky car" and won just about everything it entered!

Love it man. Is that the version with the Cartograf decals? If not be careful with the translucent white of the number roundels, double it up with some white decal. But you probably know about that from your Salzburg 917K.
How did you do the seat rivets?

Hi Phil,

I don't know if the decals are from cartograf but they seems really fragile and i'm not sure they can support MicroSet and MicroSol ... as the nose seems tricky i'm not very confident. I didn't have any white decals spare for the roundels i'll have to buy some.

For the seat rivets i use a toothpick cut, put some silver on it and take a lot of patience. It could be more regular but it's long long ...

Thanks for your advice Phil.

What is the problem with the colour 935K3? DO you mean sourcing an accurate shade of "Gulf Blue"?

Actually the '68 and '69 LM winning cars were the same chassis, P1075 IIRC. It was a blessed "lucky car" and won just about everything it entered!

With all the paint brands I like to use none have the correct color. I will probably mix up Krylon White and True Blue to the correct shade and airbrush it, but I would rather not have to mix it.

Great Build, levincer, love the detail in the cockpit. Did you get the pe parts for the kit?

Amazing look, be careful with those decals, especially up front!

Look's awesome! I love the look's of the Old GT-40's.

Great Build, levincer, love the detail in the cockpit. Did you get the pe parts for the kit?

Amazing look, be careful with those decals, especially up front!

Hi Godfather,

Nope i didn't used any pe on this kit.

Thoses decals are really paint in the ass, too too fragile i messed up the set to do the number 9 :banghead: so i'll do the number 11 :smokin: .

It's a shame from fujimi 'cause their kit are great but those decals are so thin :disappoin

I work in parallele on my Italian Red Porsche GT2 to distress myself.

Thoses decals are really paint in the ass, too too fragile i messed up the set to do the number 9 :banghead: so i'll do the number 11 :smokin: .


I´m kinda glad, I had the Studio27 for my "hippie". Otherwise it would be impossible to do the decal work. Don´t worry, the car will look great eventually. It´s just sad that you can´t do the number set, you wanted initially, don´t let it get to you!

Hi All,

Here are 3 new (not good quality) of my GT40 '68 n°11 in progress. I was not really lucky on this model i hope to finish it soon.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/166636gt40-6-med.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/166636gt40-7-med.jpg
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Hope to have it done this week.

Looking better with every update :) The orange arrow is not something you see on a GT40 regularly. And it certainly would be easier to do than matching the orange paint on the nose of the winning car. Is that a PE part for the rear louver, S27?

P.S. you are building too quick, slow down you make the rest of us look slow :)

[QUOTE=RallyRaider]Looking better with every update :) The orange arrow is not something you see on a GT40 regularly. And it certainly would be easier to do than matching the orange paint on the nose of the winning car. Is that a PE part for the rear louver, S27?
QUOTE]

Tanx Phil, yes finally this paint scheme could be great, and matching this orange for the nose could be very very tricky.

The louver is not PE, i'm not using any pe on that one it's just the louver paint in chrome.

See no need to be disappointed. Looks just great, I especially love that decal work. There is nothing classier than the gulf wyer racing look. It will be another great model finished by you!

Nice build, I plan to buy me one of those GT40's i really like this car very much, the best product America ever made, with a great build of your's.
Well done.
Regards,

Love the car the GT-40 is one of my fave cars...

sjelic- do you have a Ducati?

Very beautiful. It's really nice to see all the vintage racers showing up on the board, perhaps it will inspire some more (I have an Accurate Miniatures McLaren M8B awaiting my attention... I think I'm about ready to tackle it). This build is fantastic, the colors are spot on, can't wait to see it done!

Which McLaren M8 do you have to build Willimo? I'm going to build one soon too. The Kovaleski/Adamowicz orange, white and black liveried version. Just for practice before doing a proper job on a Bruce or Denny works machine.

Very beautiful. It's really nice to see all the vintage racers showing up on the board, perhaps it will inspire some more (I have an Accurate Miniatures McLaren M8B awaiting my attention... I think I'm about ready to tackle it). This build is fantastic, the colors are spot on, can't wait to see it done!

Hi Willimo,

It's done m8, here the thread :
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=223457

I love this vintage racers too, i'll do some 917k soon and some street too like the Miura, the Jota ...

Finished already? Great! Better head on over to the finished thread and quit OTing on this done and dusted progress one.

the best product America ever made

whoa....
since when did america make this car?
the history books have a lot to say about this matter....
it's more british than american. :evillol:

umm Im thinking you are talking about the GT-40 wich woped ferraris ass in LeMans four years runing in the mid 60's how could you not know this car. thay had an unlimited amount of money and the only stipulation was that it had to win. this was started when Ferrari refused to be sold to ford and ford got mad.

Besides the talking of whop-assing or something. This body is so life like. The color is close to the real one.

my point is that it is not american....

The GT-40 not american? are you kidding? its a ford, wich is american yes the first 2 evolutions were designed in europe but the engines were built and instaled in the us andthen sent back for racing. now the last two evolutions were made 100% in the US.

GT-40's are American almost as much as apple pie and fireworks on the 4th. Little bit of Euro in them due to the bodies being built in England the first (MK 1's) around a Lola designed by Eric Broadley.

The engines are all Ford. And like it was posted earlier the car was built just to show Ferrari that Ford was not to be messed with.

let's see, bodies built in england based on the lola.
design and development in slough managed by john wyer (formerly of aston martin).
from what i gather, at this point, the only real american part of the car was the engine.
there was problems with the original v8 and car hence the unsucessful attempt at le mans in '64.
this was why the cars were than shipped to the u.s for shelby to play with resulting in the mk2 which all failed to finish in '65.
it wasn't until '66 that the car took the 1,2,3 at le mans and another win the following year with the mk4, at which point ford quit the le mans.
following this, wyer (in britain) carried on tinkering with the car and resulted in the development of the road version of the car as well as the final two wins accredited to the gt40.
i should point out that the wyer gulf gt40's although having about half the engine capacity of the shelby 7 litres, it posted practicallt the same times.
AND
when most people talk about the gt40, there are often refering to the gulf gt40s which were developed after ford quit the program (and wyer bought up the assets)

as american as apple pie?
not as much as you think....

hell, if the engine being ford makes it american then what country does the chrysler ME four twelve come from?

let's see, bodies built in england based on the lola.
design and development in slough managed by john wyer (formerly of aston martin).
from what i gather, at this point, the only real american part of the car was the engine.
there was problems with the original v8 and car hence the unsucessful attempt at le mans in '64.
this was why the cars were than shipped to the u.s for shelby to play with resulting in the mk2 which all failed to finish in '65.
it wasn't until '66 that the car took the 1,2,3 at le mans and another win the following year with the mk4, at which point ford quit the le mans.
following this, wyer (in britain) carried on tinkering with the car and resulted in the development of the road version of the car as well as the final two wins accredited to the gt40.
i should point out that the wyer gulf gt40's although having about half the engine capacity of the shelby 7 litres, it posted practicallt the same times.
AND
when most people talk about the gt40, there are often refering to the gulf gt40s which were developed after ford quit the program (and wyer bought up the assets)

as american as apple pie?
not as much as you think....

hell, if the engine being ford makes it american then what country does the chrysler ME four twelve come from?

You forgot to mention Holman-Moody's connection, but you're spot on with the rest of it...;-)>

Bill

Very nice looking Ford. I really am liking the paint job and the wheels are awesome. Keep up the great work.

J. Barry

sorry about the 2 threads but u could see it finished in this thread :

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=223457

Tanx for your comments.