Steve McQueen's "Le Mans" Porsche 917K

[Decs0105]

amazing build, super work your're doing here Phil!

[Ant Phillips]

Between following this and Sean's build, guess what I've gone and bought

[voyageur]

Superb detailing! I really like where this is going. I will watch the movie tonight...

[RallyRaider]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Painted the Gulf Blue, not sure about it, looks a bit too rich to my eyes, guess it depends on the surroundings. Hopefully it will tone down relative to the bright orange.

[gionc]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

I don't understand what you mean by "spare weel's wall".

Once a time sorry for my English: I meant the tyre's side wall or the shoulder like we call here: it seems extremely low, like some contemporary extreme cars: but I said I'm not expert on that superb car.

Superb paintjob and masking, yep, the colortone seems a bit "sature" for the pics we're used to see from Gulf stuff.

[RallyRaider]

Okay Gio, I understand now. The spare tyre on the 917K was only there to satisfy the rules, a low profile "space saver" of sorts. It was never intended to be fitted and would never have worked if anyone had tried.

[RallyRaider]

Colour perception is a funny thing. Now the orange has been painted the Gulf Blue appears much more acceptable. Or it may just be the internal lighting?



On removing the making tape I found the body has cracked again behind the drivers door opening, it can just be seen in this photo on the engine cover hinge point. Bugger!

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

Colour perception is a funny thing. Now the orange has been painted the Gulf Blue appears much more acceptable. Or it may just be the internal lighting?



On removing the making tape I found the body has cracked again behind the drivers door opening, it can just be seen in this photo on the engine cover hinge point. Bugger!

It's probably due to your lighting. The colour looks spot on to me in the second batch of pictures and I've crawled all over the car.

Out of interest (and you probably don't want to know this now) the McQueen car had the front spaceframe extensively adapted under the front cover so that they could mount a heavy 35mm Arri film camera for interior and race footage. I'm sure there's some web piccies of it somewhere.

[cinqster]

You've probably found it already as it's on the Gunnar website:

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by cinqster

You've probably found it already as it's on the Gunnar website:

Doh, just been through the thread porperly and realised you've done the chassis mods already - excellent stuff!

[willimo]

This build is amazing! All the hinges and everything are just amazing! I had the hardest time making "hinges" for the doors on my 787B, and they didn't work or even look worth a damn. I am in complete awe!

[agamo]

STUNNING!!

It looks great!!, what a shame that crack on the body, I hope you can fix it.
I can’t wait to see the work on the interiors and engine!

[ketje]

Mmm that's quit a build. I will follow this one

[RallyRaider]

Thanks guys.

cinqster: You are a lucky man to have crawled all over the real car! I was aware of the mods for the cameras but I chose to leave it as normal. I recall reading there is still some controversy over whether that car is the actual number 20 or one of the other camera cars. Porsche had a tendancy to move chassis identification plates around.

willimo: the "hinges" are not intended to be really functional, just allow positioning open or closed. Since the breakage it looks like the door won't even be that!

[360spider]

Man, that is some serious work. Excellent build. I like how clean all your styrene work is - looks like you just assembling already pre-made parts.