Just caught up with this Joel.
Nice choice of Ferrari. My fellow countryman Chris Amon drove these for Ferrari in 67 having switched from your favourite Ford GT40.
Great work on the cockpit! looking forward to the rest of this.

cheers
Michael

Joel, I am amazed by the speed you converted from an aircraft modeler to a genuine auto modeler. My last Stuka isn't quite a disaster but flew couple of times really low .
I take the risk of sounding redundant, but there it is: you keep amazing us with the high class workmanship! Just great work on that cockpit.

Gabriel

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Just caught up with this Joel.
Nice choice of Ferrari. My fellow countryman Chris Amon drove these for Ferrari in 67 having switched from your favourite Ford GT40.
Great work on the cockpit! looking forward to the rest of this.

cheers
Michael

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Michael,

Chris Amon certainly was one great driver, and will always be remembered by me as the led Ferrari driver in 1967, my favorite year in racing. I had the privilege of seeing them race at Watkins Glen that Oct 1967. I'll never forget it.

New Zealand for a small country has turned out some amazing and outstanding international road racing drivers: Amon, McLaren, Hulme, and currently the Indy Car Champion once again Scott Dixon. And just a short Row to Australia, and the home of Sir Jack Brabham and his son.

Tough decision deciding who is all time #1. I'm going with Bruce McLaren, as he's on my all time top 5 list:


Gurney, McLaren, Clark, Andretti, & Stewart. You will notice that the likes of Senna, Prost, Foyt aren't on my list.


Joel

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Just caught up with this Joel.
Nice choice of Ferrari. My fellow countryman Chris Amon drove these for Ferrari in 67 having switched from your favourite Ford GT40.
Great work on the cockpit! looking forward to the rest of this.

cheers
Michael

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Michael,

Chris Amon certainly was one great driver, and will always be remembered by me as the led Ferrari driver in 1967, my favorite year in racing. I had the privilege of seeing them race at Watkins Glen that Oct 1967. I'll never forget it.

New Zealand for a small country has turned out some amazing and outstanding international road racing drivers: Amon, McLaren, Hulme, and currently the Indy Car Champion once again Scott Dixon. And just a short Row to Australia, and the home of Sir Jack Brabham and his son.

Tough decision deciding who is all time #1. I'm going with Bruce McLaren, as he's on my all time top 5 list:


Gurney, McLaren, Clark, Andretti, & Stewart. You will notice that the likes of Senna, Prost, Foyt aren't on my list.


Joel

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A top five list! That can cause a few debates. I am a big fan of Mario, because he was the first F1 driver I followed, and that was before I knew about the rest of his career. But in general I am with you in that I like the earlier drivers because they were prepared to drive anything. Racing was what it was all about. McLaren will always be special because of what he designed, built and drove. I don't think we will see that again.

cheers
Michael

Hi Joel!

progress shots look good and man, those wheel/tyres look like shots out of an auto shop-just like the real thing

Joel, great progress and thanks for pointing out the missing engine and where to source a replacement.
Plenty of time before I'll get to mine so I can wait until they get an engine back in stock, also noticed they do a Maserati 450S so I now have two things to order from them when the time comes.

As mentioned by Russell those wheels look great.

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Joel, great progress and thanks for pointing out the missing engine and where to source a replacement.
Plenty of time before I'll get to mine so I can wait until they get an engine back in stock, also noticed they do a Maserati 450S so I now have two things to order from them when the time comes.

As mentioned by Russell those wheels look great.

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Luciano,
Thanks for stopping by, it's always much appreciated. I'm going to be getting the Ford GT40 289 ci engine when I get to that build.

Can't wait to see what you do with the Maserati 450S. Cars are starting to get as expensive as a full blown 1/32 aircraft build. Just look at what Terri is putting into her P-51D.

Joel

Beautiful work so far Joel. The decals are perfectly blended in. Looking forward to more.

Joel, you are a source of inspiration! The build comes together perfectly (not that I was expecting else from you )

And you are answering one of the questions I put on another thread and I've got no answer. The tires on my Mack DM600 look way to glossy, albeit it's being built (yes, I'm still struggling with that build and meanwhile I knocked down the exhaust stack too, just for fun!) as a Showtruck. Now I know! Thanks, ol' friend!

Gabriel

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Joel, great progress and thanks for pointing out the missing engine and where to source a replacement.
Plenty of time before I'll get to mine so I can wait until they get an engine back in stock, also noticed they do a Maserati 450S so I now have two things to order from them when the time comes.

As mentioned by Russell those wheels look great.

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Luciano,
Thanks for stopping by, it's always much appreciated. I'm going to be getting the Ford GT40 289 ci engine when I get to that build.

Can't wait to see what you do with the Maserati 450S. Cars are starting to get as expensive as a full blown 1/32 aircraft build. Just look at what Terri is putting into her P-51D.

Joel

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Joel, totally know what you mean.
When it comes to Italian cars my first love is Maserati followed by Alfa Romeo (although most of my purchases so far have been Ferrari) however when it comes to kits they are poorly catered for in injection moulded form. I do have an old Airfix Maserati Bora and I've been searching for their Merak and Boomerang, not up to modern kit standards but when they are the only game in town you go with what you can get. I can see several resin / multimedia kits in the future.

Looks amazing with colour and decals on Joel

Very nice and detailed depiction of the painting / decaling process, Joel! I use the same "trick" for white and gray plastics and it works a threat. Usually I darken the white primer with gray primer or I add gloss black to gray primer to avoid the color match and make the spray pattern visible.
About the red color primer: I have understood that the factories (and a few modelers) use yellow tones (sand, cream) as base for red - supposedly it make it pop out better. I am wiling to experiment and I bought in purpose a cheap Tamiya Miata just to verify the theory. I also have in stock a sand color Rust-oleum which will play the primer role.
I am in full process of developing my own "decal printing technology" - I just ordered a laser printer and few varieties of decal paper to try it out. I grew tired of trying to find Romanian aircraft decals! I'll keep you posted of how well (or how disappointing) my experiment it's going to be!

Very nice finish off the a/b!
Cheers!
Gabriel

I'm more then impressed that you're moving into the custom decal printing realm of the hobby. I believe that Michael from IndyCal doesn't always make his own drawings, but scans in the kit decals, then makes size, color corrections, and corrects any registration issues. A lot of work, but the results are far superior to the kit decals. Will be closely following your progress as you report your efforts. How about starting a thread so that we can follow your progress?

Joel

Not a bad job for an old guy - even if it "ain't got wings with red circles on 'em "-
I guess red paint with white circles will have to do !

Keep at it my friend- it keeps my modeling fires burning a bit .

Richard