Dome Zero RL / Le Mans '79

[Jenner]

Hi all,

this is my Dome Zero RL #6, he drove in 24h race of Le Mans 1979.
The car did the race not finished, after 5 or 6 hours it had a technical defect - therefore I have it not strongly weathered.



The kit is from Fujimi and had some shortcomings. I changed some things, so I added the orange indicators and the rainlight, built a new blue light on the roof, added a front shield (the transparent part) and towing eye.
I had to scratch build the holders for rearview mirror, rebuilt the driver seat, added the round openings for the ignition cut-off (over the fuel caps) and built a ignition cut-off switch in this.
Then I rebuilt the rearlights, and added bonnet pins, seat belts and make the frontlight covers.





















I had begun to build a few years ago. I used the first time, clear lacquer Gunze 'Mr. Super Clear'. Initially saw the still very good, but after a while formed cracks. I tried to fill them with paint and sanding down.
But it did no good, they kept coming to the fore. Then the kit disappeared for a long time in the box. After a few years I have him then (rather listless) gradually completed.

Sorry for my english.

Jens

[DTM Fan]

Hi Jens!
It looks great!
Best regards Ralf

[935k3]

Yours look really nice. I am doing the decals on mine now. Is this the curbside version?

[Porsnatic]

Wow a Fujimi!...I had never seen one of this...Excellent performance on this one!

[ridefast]

I am building this kit now and I also started a couple of years ago

I must admit, you did a great job and improved the car a lot. Looks like a winner to me

[935k3]

Do you have any closups of what the kill switches look like? I drilled out the holes but I am not sure what they look like. reference pics on this car are hard to find.

[Jenner]

Hi,

thanx for all your comments.

Originally Posted by 935k3

Yours look really nice. I am doing the decals on mine now. Is this the curbside version?

No, it's enthusiast kit.

Originally Posted by 935k3

Do you have any closups of what the kill switches look like? I drilled out the holes but I am not sure what they look like. reference pics on this car are hard to find.

That's right, for this car are very hard to find pictures. When I started in 2007 or 2008 with the construction, I have not found anything except the pictures from the dome.co.ltd website.

Detailed photographs or images from the engine bay I have not found.

So I decided to build the car with closed hood.

I was surprised at the arrangement of the coolers and their covers in the kit, It doesn't make sense for me. I did not want to build and added details something out of fantasy and then eventually detect that it is completely wrong.

I then largely based on the photos on the kit box. On the big cover picture, the kill switch can be seen to some extent.

I have this built in this way:


Regards, Jens

[MidMazar]

Sweet build.

[dieteufel]

Hi Jens

Really nice!! The big blue light on the roof looks funny, but I know, it was the positionlight for the team at night.

Rgards Sascha

[gionc]

You really did a superb job.
Impressive design: I admit I often seen the car but I never paid the deserved attention. Thinking it was a '79 entry and thinking at contemporary Renault and 936s... well the design is amazing....
I must purchase one, but I guess it would be a challenge uh? Start to be rare....

[Jenner]

Thanx for comments.

Yes, the design is really impressive. When I first saw him, I thought, what an ugly car, that you buy not. I later discovered it again on Ebay, nobody wanted to have - I then took him for a song. I could still not find it beautiful, but very interesting.

From the variety of contemporary race cars it was particularly striking - the most others had smooth, round shapes.

Also remarkable was the length, here is a comparison with the Porsche 936/77.





Regards, Jens

[nugundam93]

wow. nice to see a car like this in model form. makes you wonder if it was a transformer in disguise with those angles.

[bikouros]

Incredible job. The car looks so ahead of its time for 79'. Really cool looking.