Le Mans Contest Entry: 1968 Ford GT40 Mk I

Here is this week's update, not a great deal to report as usual. Just made some engine and suspension mounts at the rear and the deep frames for inside the side windows. They're not that accurate but will fill things out hopefully.

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This thing is taking it's time getting built. :p

Just one more time for understanding, what you´re doing: Are you making all of those white parts yourself? If so, you gotta be joking, when you say that you didn´t make too much progress!

Some of the white parts are from the HRM resin engine kit, but asside form that, yeah quite a bit of styrene work.

Very Nice!

Open up the doors aswell, you know you want to ;)

Cheers

Farrokh

Open up the doors aswell, you know you want to ;)

Don't tempt me Farrokh, I'd never get it finished. :D

your threads are an inspiration to me everytime, very clear to understand, crazy scratchbuilding, and the cars always come out perfect, keep us posted.

your threads are an inspiration to me
Me too.............greatness !!!

Mike :smile:

Hinged the back end. All I need to do now is rescribe the door handles, build up the inner structure of the engine cover and fix up a few intakes, then I'll finally be ready to start painting...

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Awesome work man. Can't wait to see it under paint, should look wicked. Keep up the great work !

Mick Sz.

superb scratchbuilding! can't wait to see more on this.
stevenski

awesome, how much more time do you have to get it finished?

simply beautiful - great project and even greater work on it.

Excellent! Nice clean work, gonna be a winner. You should definitely open the doors on it too.

The guys at gt40s.com were a big help on my GT40 Roadster Ch#111. If you don't already know of them.

Back into things this weekend. :) Mainly working on the inside of the engine cover, one of the trickiest things I've ever done on a model! Basically I wanted the entire rear structure to be one part that can be painted separately then dropped in. As is stands now the structure clips in and holds its position without glue. Still lots of gaps to fill and I need to figure out a way of building the ducts from the side intakes to the rear brakes.

Making everything fit resulted in some compromises compared to the real car, but GT40s were dynamic race cars changing spec all the time - so that will be my excuse. :icon16:

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Simply stunning ! Go man go !!

Mick Sz.

Great work, keep it up, and keep us updated.

Amazing work dude! Keep it upp, I realy hope you get it done before the dead line!!

Man, I hope you finish this by deadline! Terrible injustice if you didn't get it done. Awesome styre styling going on. I would like more detail on how you made those rear hinges? If you've got time to answer that is!! :)

Holy crap that's stunning. This is one of my most favorite builds here and you don't disappoint.

Thanks guys. I should've got motivated a lot earlier to meet the deadline, left it a bit late now. Anyway I'm one of the judges so not eligible for the main categories.

SF - the hinge is made from a brass tube with a smaller brass rod inserted through the middle. The tube is super glued inside the rear lip of the cover. The ends of the rod fit into two more small tubes on the back of the chassis. I've had to cut up and modify things to make it work. In general I'm not following Fujimi's instructions much building this thing!

Phil you don't need excuses with something like this. I hope I will dare to do something like this soon (let's say in 50 years :D)

Body work is now primed. :) Still a few rough edges to clean up. In this pic you can just see the rescribed door handles as well as the extensions on the three NACA ducts on the nose. Also the panel lines were scribed deeper and the window/light surrounds sharpened up. I was a bit worried how the full width radiator exit would look but it came out fine. Next some white primer followed by Tamiya Chrome Yellow.

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Get some paint on it! Woohoo, can't wait.

Looking great Phil!
primed cars always looked nice to me. :-)

Rear suspension and radiator work.

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Bodywork sprayed chrome yellow, although it looks like lemon yellow here.

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Looking great! Just can't wait to see it finished!

Man, forget about contests and deadlines, do it for us! The world needs this model! heheheheheheheh

Stunning!

Looks sweet!

Keep going man!!!!!!

Great work Phil!!!

Keep the excelent work up man!!!
One of the best car modellers ive ever seen!
CANT WAIT to see the finished product!

Excelent work, so clean, you always amaze me with that. Great!

As I said, when you released that you´ll build this one, I like that color. The chassis looks sharp and I wish, you´d show more detail pics!

Thanks for the encouragement guys. Here are a few more progress pictures of the engine and inside the rear hatch.

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wow, this is incredible. i was gonna post some pics of my 67' 330 P4 LM but forget about it. this is a huge inspiration as i am building two LM kits right now and im actually enjoying it. thank you for this great build! Keep It Up!

Thanks freakmech, you should definitely post some pics of your 330 P4.
Here is another pic, this time of the front end coming together. In order to get this model finished in time I'm going to have live with a few things that turned out less than ideal and forget about a some detailing ideas I intended to incorporate. Will have to save them for the next one. :) Next thing on the adgenda are the decals.

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Are those brake ducts made out of straws?

so clean man real nice cleanest job ive seen engine looks awesome.

Are those brake ducts made out of straws?

No. They're made from wire wraped around styrene rod, then covered with BMF and painted. I gave them coat of smoke that left a glossy finish that I don't like, normally I'd finish with a flat coat but I'm in a hurry. :)

No. They're made from wire wraped around styrene rod, then covered with BMF and painted. I gave them coat of smoke that left a glossy finish that I don't like, normally I'd finish with a flat coat but I'm in a hurry. :)

There is some amazing building going on in your workshop! You know you can add some flat base to the smoke and cut a corner or two if you wan't a flat apperance of the final product? I'm sure you know about that, You just forgot in the heat!
Again, nice build of a good looking car. I'm looking forward to see the car when it's ready, the only drawback then is that I can't look forward to anohter update :disappoin Well, I guess in time there will be more to follow from your little workshop and I'll have to keep glueing back my jaws! Damn AF and all amazing build, I'm getting a hard time eating any solid foods these days :grinyes:

Best regards!
Niclas

Thanks Niclas, I actually have a jar of smoke enamel that has flat base already added but chose to ignore it! :screwy: I was just in a hurry to get it all assembled and the regular glossy acrylic was closer so... :lol: I might try and brush paint some flat clear on later. I'm not really doing this thing justice - I just hand painted the windscreen surround. :eek:

I just love this build!
It's so great to watch it coming together and I've learnt so much - the bad news is that I got to buy the kit now ;)
stevenski

i think we have a contest winner. even though im not a judge i think you're up at the top

WOW~~ can't wait to see the finished car~~

I'm actually a judge Straight six, so can't enter the two main categories. Besides have you seen some of the other entries?! :eek: Some absolutely stunning stuff happening, this may not even be the best GT40 in the comp! :)

Anyway the decals are now on, I'm kicking myself because I slightly misaligned the number decal on the nose - not enough time to fix it (great having an excuse like that! :)). The colour just keeps getting lighter and lighter too, what initially looked like a fairly orangish shade now looks stark yellow with the decals and trim painted.

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Interior and front end basically finished, just need to work on the rear end and exterior...

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I'm actually a judge Straight six, so can't enter the two main categories. Besides have you seen some of the other entries?! :eek: Some absolutely stunning stuff happening, this may not even be the best GT40 in the comp! :)


Hmmm!?
Yupp, I've seen some of the other builds, but that doesn't matter. I still think this is a nice build from you and it's coming along just fine. Isn't it strange that you always can find a flaw in you're own work that no one else can see if you don't point it out!?

Niclas

Well, speaking for myself I am stunned with this build!
The whole thing just inspires be to want to get better than I am!
I LOVE IT - the original and your represenation of it.
stevenski

Wow, it's looking so great!

I love it. One of the best old car in a great kit.

just for fun, how much it cost with all the goodies ? (resin engine, kit and other)

Dangerous to start figuring out how much things cost!
For starters we have the Fujimi kit itself, HRM regin engine, S27 PE set, Speedline decals. Then there is a bunch of other bits and pieces like seatbelt hardware, connectors, rivets, styrene sheet and rod, BMF, mesh hose, the list goes on... :lol:

Phil, save your nerves, don't start counting the costs! :)

You really put it into high gear, didn't you? To say it's impressive is to say nothing at all, the model leaves me speechless, and it's not even finished yet. I presume you've already clearcoated and polished it?

You´re a liar. The build looks marvelous! I wish I only had your complaints in my builds. The interior and chassis look stunnig. Make sure, you enter that GT40. And don´t you worry about other builds, you know that you can keep their level of perfection, darn it! :biggrin:

Great work Phil, I will repeat my self, but that hits me like hammer every time, it is sooooo clean, unbelivable.

stop discouraging me dammit, my entry is finally coming together and your ruining it for me :lol: :lol: :lol: looks great phil, your a maniac. its your level of detail that inspires/ prevents all my builds. keep it up!

The colour just keeps getting lighter and lighter too, what initially looked like a fairly orangish shade now looks stark yellow with the decals and trim painted.

Well if that's not the way the real GT40 was, then it definately should have been that way because it looks badass.

Thanks guys! Barring disasters this coming together quite quickly now...

Alex - No, one of many corners I've cut is skipping the clear coat. Not really that necessary because the decals are all solid blocks. Means there isn't any carrier film to hide as I was able to cut it all off before applying the decals. Cars of this era weren't usually finished in a high gloss anyway, the model is probably too shiny already!

The part I'm dreading is soon aproaching. Namely fitting the body to the chassis with the interior door trim and windows all requiring a very precise fit. :eek:

The part I'm dreading is soon aproaching. Namely fitting the body to the chassis with the interior door trim and windows all requiring a very precise fit. :eek:

thats funny because i did a test fit of the 330 last night after finishing the front chassis and realized there doesnt seem to be room for the windscreen between the dash and body :uhoh: well itll fit one way or another :evillol: *chad pulls out hammer*

Took some quick snaps of the almost finished body and chassis before they are mated together. Kind of a shame to cover up the chassis with all it's detail. It was raining when I took these pictures, which explains the water droplets on the rear window.

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That yellow on the black with blue looks sooooo good.