In progress : ambitious Le Mans project!

A few days ago, I decided to build all the Belgian 2003 Le Mans entries as 1/43 models. I'm gonna build all 6 of them at the same time, that should save me some building time and most of all I can keep on working without having to wait for stuff to dry.

Which cars am I talking of ?

In LMP :

4 - Riley & Scott MK IIIC : (with Marc Goossens)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/04real_01.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/04_01.jpg


12 - Panoz LMP01 : (with David Saelens)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/12real_01.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/12_01.jpg


20 - Lister Storm LMP : (with Vincent Vosse)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/20real_01.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/20_01.jpg

In GT(S) :

61 - Pagani Zonda GR : (with Anthony Kumpen)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61real_02.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_01.jpg

75 - Porsche 911 GT3-RS : (with Michel Neugarten)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75real_02.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_01.jpg

84 - Porsche 911 GT3 RS : (with Vanina Ickx)

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/84real_03.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/84_01.jpg

I'll keep you posted :)

PS : all models are 1/43 Provence Moulage!!

Damn i hope you have lots of fun with them all.

This will be quite an ambitious project!! I look forward to seeing the updates!!:sunglasse

This should be good... I'll be keeping an eye on this thread! BTW - if you want a better set of wheels for the Panoz, Renaissannce do a set that are way better than the PM ones. I did last the 2002 car and they made a big difference.

ambitious, wow... cant wait to see more.. and talk about the ching ching, but it's going to be a good time building all of them, a nice investment towards a great collection.. keep us posted..

I just bought the PM Pagani Zonda roadster street car kit, you are making me want to start it!

I just bought the PM Pagani Zonda roadster street car kit, you are making me want to start it!

Sorry to hijack this thread allready, but I just ordered the roadster and coupe! Gotta wait a few weeks for delivery tho, and then I'm building them for someone else. Any chance of some pics of the kit to wet my appitite?

Where did you buy those kits?

Here : http://www.grandprixmodels.com/

Sorry to hijack this thread allready, but I just ordered the roadster and coupe! Gotta wait a few weeks for delivery tho, and then I'm building them for someone else. Any chance of some pics of the kit to wet my appitite?

I'll post a thread later.

:iagree: I've used them for years, and always had great service from them They also publish Four Small Wheels 10 times a year which is well worth checking out if your into non-mainstream kits.

What a great undertaking.
There's a lot of 1/43 builds showing up lately. It's great to see a nice variety starting to appear.
I look forward to watching these progress. :)

Neat stuff!

Sweet !

Wonderfull !!!!

In the same time of you, i am building all the BBR 360 Modenna from 2000 to 2003 of team JMB-RACING .

Will keep an eye open on your progress !!!
I like the paganini zonda, and as it will race in LM 2004 with FORCE-ONE RACING team...i will probably do one ;-)

What a great project! Beautiful cars, all of them. I have often thought of doing the same with the 55' Lemans cars.

Very very good, as usual, please keep us updated.

wow when you get done are you gonna build the front straight of le mans too?

Ok, I took the first step (or should I say the first 6 steps?)...

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/group_01.jpg

Tanx again sennake for showing these nice progress pics.

We all know here that this hobby is pretty expensive but doing Six models @ a time, your wife should be angry :cwm27:

Tanx again sennake for showing these nice progress pics.

We all know here that this hobby is pretty expensive but doing Six models @ a time, your wife should be angry :cwm27:

You know, actually she is glad when I'm building off my stock of over 700 yet to build kits... Especially when I'm building 6 kits at the same time :)

wow when you get done are you gonna build the front straight of le mans too?

I already did the winning Bentley (see my gallery pics)...

A full Le Mans production line. :)
This will definitively be a very interesting and joyful thread to follow.

You know, actually she is glad when I'm building off my stock of over 700 yet to build kits... Especially when I'm building 6 kits at the same time :)


700 :eek2: euh what else to say

i've got 5 and in my appartment it allready a big mess so 700 ... respect m8. :thumbsup:

Looks something like this (part of it) :

http://www.sennake.be/inventaris/inv_09.jpg

Phew !!!

Thats a lot of modeling & i just love those Porsches.............

Later, Mike :naughty:

Looks something like this (part of it) :


http://www.misteryracing.com/sennake/inventaris/inv_12.jpg
My wife says that she will never complain about my 90 kits again!!

Anyway great thread - look forward to future progress.

Awesome to see all those being built at once Guy, the bodyshells look great together like that.
OMG I see a Texaco Marlboro McLaren M23 in that pic, you are a lucky man! You wouldn't happen to have my other "Holy Grail" kit, the Protar 1/12 McLaren MP4/2C would you?

Can’t take my eyes of those rare 1/12 Tamiya F1 cars …. :bloated:

Awesome to see all those being built at once Guy, the bodyshells look great together like that.
OMG I see a Texaco Marlboro McLaren M23 in that pic, you are a lucky man! You wouldn't happen to have my other "Holy Grail" kit, the Protar 1/12 McLaren MP4/2C would you?

Unfortunately not, but I do have the Texaco Marlboro McLaren twice, does that count? Lol.

Unfortunately not, but I do have the Texaco Marlboro McLaren twice, does that count? Lol.

My word, that is ideal! Care to slip one in the post to Australia :lol:

Now comes the hardest part (to me anyway) :

leaving the half-dry models alone at least another 24 hours before handling them. I think I'll start putting decals on the Pagani tomorrow evening... The Panoz still needs to be masked off in order to spraypaint the black parts on the car... The other car livery's come as decals.

http://users.pandora.be/sennake/group_02.jpg

Great progress on all the beauties, and a very very impressive collection of kits, rare and discontinued glory.. very luck guy you are.. keep up the good work..:)

I think I'll start putting decals on the Pagani tomorrow evening...
Change of plans : since the Pagani needed at least 2 extra layers of gloss varnish (metallic paint does need that) and the Porsches were ready to start with, I decided to put decals on the nr 75 Porsche...

So I did, and I also constructed the wheels. Pretty slow-going, after 2 days this is where I'm standing :

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_02.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_03.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_04.jpg

Looking good... but did you meen to post the same pic 3 times?

Love the wheels, are they the PM ones from the kit? I usually find their wheels not so good but those look real nice.

Looking good... but did you meen to post the same pic 3 times?

Love the wheels, are they the PM ones from the kit? I usually find their wheels not so good but those look real nice.

My mistake... I corrected it now.

That are the wheels that come with the kit yes... They look pretty realistic I think.

Nice going, you are building at a great rate!
Are those wheel spokes PE? I agree lotus_man they look amazing. Will you clear coat over the decals or is that not possible given the scale?

Nice going, you are building at a great rate!
Are those wheel spokes PE? I agree lotus_man they look amazing. Will you clear coat over the decals or is that not possible given the scale?

I will polish them. I don't ever clear coat any racecar. That is my policy. The real cars also have a clear paintjob with less clear sponsorstickers over it. I try to stay as close to reality as possible. I must admit that this policy comes in handy when I'm too chicken to clearcoat decals I don't know or how they will react...

But this issue has been discussed in the past on other occasions, so I'll stop argumenting now.

Also don't forget that you are watching pics of a 1/43 scale model : the actual model is less than half the size of the picture, so mistakes are a lot less visuable in reality...

Also don't forget that you are watching pics of a 1/43 scale model : the actual model is less than half the size of the picture, so mistakes are a lot less visuable in reality...

I'm well aware of that Guy, as I said on lotus_man's MP4/8 thread, makes the results even more amazing.

IMPRESSIVE job on the less-than-stellar way PM do their wheels.

I noticed that it appears they are still not giving brake calipers and also have the usual treaded tires...I thought they had stopped doing both...

Bill

The brake calipsers are there, but I didn't put the wheels in their correct position (it's just a dry fit). If you look closely you will see the disks and calipsers. I'll post an enlargement of a wheel pic someday.

The first of the 6 Le Mans cars is ready. I present you : the finished Porsche nr 75!

Enjoy...

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_05.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_06.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_07.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_08.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_09.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/75_10.jpg

Very nice Sennake, your thread are always inspiration for me, can't wait for the others :eek2:

One down!...

Great job. The wheels on the Porsche are very convincing, that's just photoetch?

One down!...

Great job. The wheels on the Porsche are very convincing, that's just photoetch?

You bet!

Next patient : the Pagani Zonda. I have been working at the model for about a day now. This is the result. The decals are not dry yet at the moment this pic was taken, so don't be afraid : the orange-peel-effect will disappear in a few hours...
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_02.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_03.jpg

That's an endurence buid for a lemans project !! Those models looks very nice and clean.

where did you say you got all these kits? i think its pretty nice and definately time consuming. lol...

My internet-connection has been down for a week, but I haven't ! Want proof ?
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_04.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_05.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_06.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_07.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_08.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_09.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_10.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_11.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_12.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_13.jpg
http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/61_14.jpg

Im surprised I have missed this thread. Amazing job so far!

I agree!! Your work in 1/43rd scale is astounding!!

Man, your decal technique is great!!! Please share your technique, please!!! The seat belts look very nice, what material did you made them out of???

I am building the same kit, but I mess up on the decals for the following areas:
1) CF bumper, :banghead:
2) Three silver line at the back of the car, :banghead: :banghead: and
3) Left Long narrow piece from window to the back. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I end up stripped the paint job and order a set of decal replacement!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

very cool guy, love all the detail you re cramming in the cockpit, looks very convincing.

Olivier

The seat belts look very nice, what material did you made them out of???


Wine bottle lead foil :)

Thanks for your info, Sennake! Please keep us posted!

OMG!!! sick!

lol, ya ur totally sick. AMAZING carbon work

In the meantime the Pagani is finished, and you can see the finished pics here : http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=237835

Next patient : the Riley&Scott. I have been working at the model for a few hours now. This is the result.

By now it is clear that I won't make it before my Le Mans-deadline, but what the hell. I continue.

http://www.sennake.be/belg_lemans_2003/04_02.jpg