IMSA Camel GT Corvette

Hello everybody
After a long time this one is finally finished.
This Corvette was built and raced by Rick Hay during the 1976 IMSA Gt Camel Series.
The Kit is in 1/43 + white metal from the now gone company AMR (Andre Marie Ruf).
I was lucky to pick up one of the last for the normal price.
Modifications I have done:
-Replace the whitemetal rollcage by one soldered together with brass rods (but not much to see on the finished car).
-Replace the A-Pillars with brass rods filed to squares. They were in white metal and so very fragile and of course I broke them very soon. The brass rods are much stronger and made the handling of the body much easier.
One issue were the decals which were slightly opaque and the darker yellow ones tend to react with the clear (Finishers Autoclear). But after sanding and polishing it's OK.
Now the pictures. I hope you like it, critics and comments are welcome.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/800/corvette1sw9.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4090/corvette5js8.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7494/corvette2dl5.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/389/corvette7pk0.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3637/corvette4gh9.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4418/corvette3ya3.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6301/corvette6if0.jpg

Nice work!

Beautiful car, very nicely done !!

Robi :)

Excellent work for such a small scale. This really turned out great.

I think this little gem gives the name widebody a face.
Talk about a largre a**
Great looking car and build.


Niclas

Wow!!! I was looking at that firstpicture and thanking God that I have never taken on a metal build because of your reasons. then I looked at the finished product and that is beautiful!!! Wonderful job! :iceslolan

what a nice car, very good job, love those rims.. look realistic !!

Beautiful!! I believe I remember having an H.O. scale slot car by Aurora that had that same livery! Terrific work!!:sunglasse

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3637/corvette4gh9.jpg


This model came out great.

I love ths picture: you know the car is wearing a body kit but you can pretty much tell what's underneath - sort of like lingerie
:naughty:

Thanks for the kind comments everybody!
By the way Rick Hay was a member of the Greenwood team before he started his own company. And so the look of his cars was quite similarly to the famous Greenwood (Lemans) Corvettes.