Lotus 72D,Entex 1/8

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hello,
today i want to start my latest wip.



The Entex Lotus 72D.



This picture shows the version which i want to build.
Its the john player special cup at brands hatch at the end of the 1972 season.
The car started with the number one on the hood,because Emerson is the the new worldchampion 1972!
The entex kit shows some special items,that only come to show at the end of the 1972 season.
Lotus put a movable rearwing on the car,something like Red Bull is doing with their frontwing today.But that was nearly 40 years before!



The rubber tyers are very soft,so i decided to make some out of resin.Here is a comparison with a tamiya 1/12 scale car.In front are the massive rubbers from entex.



After some days,here are the results.
I also want to make a version of the early lotus 72.In this case i need some tyres with profil.Now i have a mould to start this after the end of the jps car.



Here are the actual parts.The car was started,but i cut them of and started new.



This is a part i dont know what is behind.
Its right and left from the tube.
It looks like a service cover,but what is behind them?
Can someone help me with this?



The cockpit cowling is wrong in the kit.The lotus cowling is a one part piece from clear acrylic glass and only the part at top is not painted.
This will be one of the next steps.To make my own vaccum thermoforming box.But later more...

I hope you enjoy this wip.Make a lot comments,please!

Kind Regards
Christian

[gpz900ra7]

I hope that your bench has enough space for this HUGE kit, .

Always liked the old JPS LOTUS cars, so this will be a thread worth watching.




gpz900ra7.

[robrex]

I'll be watching the updates. It should be awesome!

[Capri-Schorsch]

Little step forward.

I made the service holes for the fuelbags on the left and right side of the tube.
I found one pic from the real car.Its not the jps car,but a lotus 72.
The services hole show the rear cover,with the throttle linkage to the engine.



I drilled some holes into the plastc,which is really some 2,5mm thick,and made them a little thinner.
After that,i glued a thin sheet of alu behind,and drilled the inner diameter out.A few holes for the screws and finish!




The chassis need a lot of sanding work,because the guy who started the kit was using a lot,really a lot,of glue.
Especially at the parts who can be seen!

Kind Regards
Christian

[Capri-Schorsch]

..another small step forward.

The original cockpit was looking like that.




..at least of some pics i have.

Entex made the direction from the fire extinguisher wrong,and too long is he also.
I also made some changes to the seat,cut a part of,and the chassis behind the gear level was also slightly changed.
There must be added another few sheet to it.

The next pics shows on the left the original entex,and on the right my changed version.



I also have changed the cushion bags in the foot space.They are wrong on my pics.

Kind Regards
Christian

[flhansen]

Originally Posted by Capri-Schorsch

Little step forward.

I made the service holes for the fuelbags on the left and right side of the tube.
I found one pic from the real car.Its not the jps car,but a lotus 72.
The services hole show the rear cover,with the throttle linkage to the engine.



Kind Regards
Christian

Hi

It is not the throttle linkage. It is the gear linkage. The throttle is activated with a simple cable connected to the top of the engine between the intakes.

Flemming

[vassa]

This is a nice big one ,lets see what you do with it Christian. If its anything like your others it'll be fantastic

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hi,
just made a few changes in the cockpit area.
The gear lever was scratch made.The kit doesent have a fuel filler,so i made it scratch.
Some changes to the seat,but not ready yet.The seat become a layer real leather from MFH.





The service cover had become some stuff behind.I made both fuel tanks with some fittings in front.Its not much,but now you can see something behind the covers.



Kind Regards
Christian

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hi,
just 2 pics,but i dont have new stuff to show.
Here are the actual step.



And here are the reason that i dont come any step further.



I got a lot of resin stuff to do,but for now i´m ready with this and can go on modeling.
Christian

[lovegt40]

great work and impressive model.
It reminds to me when I had to paint 2 of theme, with a scratchbuild conversion to obtain Rindt Car in gold leaf livery

[Capri-Schorsch]

Thanks for sharing the pics of your conversion.

I have two questions.
How did you manage to make the tires with the structure?Or did you take the slicks from the box?

Did you change the cockpit cowling at rindts car?
At the real car the used a one piece cowling instead the two part cowling from the box.

Thanks!

Nothing new from me.The only one is the cockpit with selfmade rivets inside.




Christian

[lovegt40]

ah christian, I only fixed that part of the models. Just primer and paint for body.
It was done by italian engeneer from this website:
http://www.collezioneingrao.com/

think he also sells the Tk for rindt car, but beware cause prices are stellar.

Really dunno how he fixed the wheels.

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hi,
its time to bring an new update here.



The cockpit is just ready for do some cable work and stuff like that.



Inside i try to do something new.I used woodglue and a toothpick to make some rivets on parts where i can dont drill holes.
It looks a bit non-uniform,but i think its ok.
I also aged the seat a bit with tamiya oil stain.



Today i made the clearcoat,which must dry some days before i´m save of fingerprints on it.



The rest of the bodywork will become his color in a few days.

Thats it for today.
Thanks for watching!
Christian

[sky1911]

hi christian,

i think having the rivets not uniform and not perfectly in line actually adds to the realism of the build. having spent a lot of hours looking through references of old race cars of the 60s and 70s i am under the impression that most of them were "slapped" together, sometimes rather crude, other times, well a bit more thoroughly. in any case, i have done a few hires textures for old formula cars (for the game gpl) and i actually make a point of trying to get a certain bit of randomness into the rivets, going slightly this way, slightly that way so they are NOT perfectly alligned as you would get on today's computer engineered cars. back then the holes were drilled by people with hand tools, not robots running computer scripts

the car, or should i say cars , is coming along nicely. and being a lotus fan for some time now, i saw one or two of these kits on ebay a few weeks (or months) ago. now i guess i know who got them hehe. anyway, in the 2nd and 3rd picture, the inside of the air intake looks "interesting". was that part of the kit (fibreglassed like that?)

[Capri-Schorsch]

Hi,

im almost done with the paint job.
The decals are from wim from bestbalsa,and they are really great.
First i thought they are crap,because the carrier foil was grey instead of clear.But after the first coats of clearcoat it all went good.
Puhh!

The only bad thing is,that my clarcoat makes the gold color a bit crisspy.But now im proud of this 3d effect. :mrgreen:



Next step will be the details on the dashboard.There are no instruments on the decalsheet,so i use the ones from an other lotus 72 decalsheet and print them on my homeprinter.



I gave a big "thank you" the a german user at the"Wettringer Forum",
He made me an fantastic lotus identification plate.
It looks really awesome.

Thats all for now.

Bye
Christian

@sky1911:Thanks for your answer.The rivets where indeed not so correct like on the new computer cars.Between the races there are a lot of work for the mechanics,even when a car was not crashed.I dont think they give a hell for the right sizes of rivets.
I bought these two kits at ebay us,in the middle of march this year.I dont know is these are the ones you were watching?