Thank you Mr GMr.Grumpy wrote:looks great! really impressed with the work you did on the front with the air intakes. that's not an easy modification and it looks excellent.
Yes doing it in such scale is realy hard and a proof of patience! Glad to see you like it
Thank you too Joachim, seen your brilliant work on your build and it is stunning!jaykay wrote:Very nice work! I like this car a lot too. Shame the regs favoured the open top versions and so that's what we got for years. ( O.k....leaving out the Bentleys
Now look what we have. Roofs again, but with the big honkin' fins and holes in the fenders the prototypes are not a sight to behold. Just look at the 2017 Porsche 919. There's a football stadium missing its lights!
One hint for your roll-out version, if you don't mind: the surfaces in the valleys between greenhouse and fenders are still rough where you cut away the little intakes. That needs more sanding or it will show.
I thought I was fine on my build of the LeMans version but with the silver paint the mistakes really popped out. Still bugs me! The black/bare CF bodywork should be more forgiving though
Truly it is a shame that only this car turned out and AUDI went on with the open cars, i only like the 99 open versions, cause they are not a mix of Flaps, wings and openings. I build 2 of the open ones of 99, the Sebring car and the Le Mans car, here some pics of them...
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Did the 2000 car too, not my best build if you look at the colour! but that was the point i lost interest in it caused by the look of the cars.
About the imperfection on the inducts i removed, your poiting right. On this picture there is only a light coat of primer on it to check the surface, i finaly gave it a heavy coat of primer at least and sanded this area again. Hopefully i get rid of it, cause it is not easy to reach this section for sanding it!
I´m pretty happy that this will get no silver, cause your absolutely right that this colour showed each and every tiny imperfection in the surface, and in this scale it could destroy the overall look of the model easy! Did not see much on your build, but i know that you see the points cause you build it. Same to me, sometimes boring when you look at the model and know that there are a few things that didn`t work out like you planed it.
But as you said, the CF black will hide a few things and i plan to paint it flat finaly, that will soke some imperfections too.
The Bentleys i guess came up cause VW wanted to do some promotion on this brand i think, but i loved them cause they showed the way AUDI should have gone! I did all of the Bentley`s, all from Provence Moulage, but have one Renaissance left with open doors. Maybe one day....
Many thanks Jordan! I appriciate your commendIndy1977TX wrote:Amazing work and in such a small scale. Keep it up, looking forward to the next update.
Jordan