These are just a few of the images from taking the chassis to the studio for a good long immersed photographic study of my model. Just the chassis for right now, the rest in other shoot sessions.
For this build, I'd like to thank Top Studio for the full detail set, Paul at Thunder Valley for white metal radiators, exhaust, PE, and lot's more incredible little things, .....Acu Stion photo etch, Mac's anodized wheels, Model Factory Hiro for the "T" 80s replacement tires, Museum collection for decals, RB Motion for countless anodized red and blue fittings (nothing looks like anodized aluminum like anodized aluminum), undertray rigging and nuts, bolts, rod ends, and so much more, Model factory Hiro for the "redbook" (InDetail), again Paul at Thunder Valley for an amazing disc of reference images, the clearview "squarebook" and Gravity paints for colors and polishes. And there is no way I could complete this list with out a special thank you to Nikon for supplying the world's absolute best cameras and lenses to bring these images to you. (Nikon D850).
There are actually two of these Sixers! I build every Wednesday night with my great friend, Jim Petersen, and this has been our project build for the last three years of Wed. nights. We have built seven models side by side in pretty much every Wednesday night of the last 29 years ! The Williams took us twelve years....You can imagine the friendship and modeling camradery.... We make every decision and executed move together, and never get ahead of each other. We live an hour apart, and switch off going to each other's buildrooms each week, so one of us drives two hours total for our seven hour build sessions. In the last several years, in the name of building more models (we're both in our sixties, so the stash is beckoning to get more done....you can see my logic...), we assign ourselves "homework" to achieve before the next Wed. evening session. We end up ultimately with team cars that are absolutely identical in every way, to the rivet. Wednesday nights for the last 29 years wouldn't have been at all as much fun if not for Jim ! Long may we run...
So, there will be a shoot with both cars as well...
This is also the "masking-tape-painted-black-to-represent-the-early-rough-wrinkly-Carbon-used-on-the-early-nineties-cars", that I posted here awhile back. It looks much better in the flesh, but the photographs at least give you a teaser of what the process yields. Before everyone reminds me that years down the road the tape will come up, ...the issue was deliberated on quite extensively, to the point of using old tape, years old, because it sticks too "much" for masking, but played right into our longevity scheming and the edges were then sealed with liquid cement to avoid that very problem. We love it ! I don't expect to be around when that tape finds it's way loose.....
Mac's wheels were pretty glossy for a racecar, so we dulled them down and scraped the edges, exposing some aluminum edge as a wheel would appear after multiple tire changes throughout each season and air valves and wheel weights were added. The Model factory Hiro tires which were used without doing anything to them at all, except pulling back the intensity of the white lettering with gray pastels to achieve a scale contrast.
All of the aftermarket add ons were such a boost to the build, simply amazing, all of 'em !
Thanks for taking a look...
Cheers,
Steve Mohlenkamp
