Post by richardh on Aug 4, 2017 13:23:26 GMT -5
Cooper T79 (John Love)
The little car that almost did...
With great intentions of getting my build done early it is now panic stations. With Canada Post being as slow as they are I should have mailed this off about a month ago. Started this build last Sunday with the view that two coats of paint will use up at least 6-7 days of drying time out of my 16 days I have left to get this posted off to reach Stewart before August 25th. Good way not to procrastinate over silly details!
I am trying the imgbb.com picture hosting site so hopefully this will work. Some photos of the build so far.
Modified PoliCar chassis
Metal front added to PoliCar running gear. Front axle will mount in the wood body.
Folding the metal tabs over to hold the wires was an afterthought and works quite well. Usually my leads are all over the place! Amazing what can be done in a panic situation.
Original Car raced in the 1967 South African Grand Prix
Cooper T79 Body
With limited photographs of this car I have done my best to create a proper scale model of the car that John Love drove at Kyalami. I want to create a dirty / oil stained car like the photos show - look at the mirrors and the brown debris on his helmet. Still have to figure out how to do this and whether I have the courage to slop over my new paintwork when that is all done.
Parts are built in sections and glued up.
Block body before shaping. Note the inside of the nose is shaped to serve as a guide to sand down to.
Wheelbase check.
Pre-painting assembly.
Suspension parts I have modified the wishbones from the PoliCar - the exhausts are made of ordinary electrical wiring and the springs are made from the wire that comes out of twist ties and wrapped around welding rods. The springs were a tough assignment as I had no clue how to make these for days and it is amazing what you think of when the thought of losing all those precious points for not having springs where visible. Fortunately it appears from the photos the the front springs seem to be inside the bodywork. I thank the Cooper designer for that!
Here you can see the reserve fuel tank that he added to the car for the race, exhausts and those pesky springs.
Details
Horribly crude compared to the high standards of this forum but there it is! With some primer and a good paint layer over the exhausts all the holes etc should disappear. Spring detail as described above.
Thanks for viewing,
Richard Hewitt
For the record the imgbb.com hosting seems to work quite well - easy to copy image address and paste into the insert image box. With the 16MB limit I am trying to keep the images small.
The little car that almost did...
With great intentions of getting my build done early it is now panic stations. With Canada Post being as slow as they are I should have mailed this off about a month ago. Started this build last Sunday with the view that two coats of paint will use up at least 6-7 days of drying time out of my 16 days I have left to get this posted off to reach Stewart before August 25th. Good way not to procrastinate over silly details!
I am trying the imgbb.com picture hosting site so hopefully this will work. Some photos of the build so far.
Modified PoliCar chassis
Metal front added to PoliCar running gear. Front axle will mount in the wood body.
Folding the metal tabs over to hold the wires was an afterthought and works quite well. Usually my leads are all over the place! Amazing what can be done in a panic situation.
Original Car raced in the 1967 South African Grand Prix
Cooper T79 Body
With limited photographs of this car I have done my best to create a proper scale model of the car that John Love drove at Kyalami. I want to create a dirty / oil stained car like the photos show - look at the mirrors and the brown debris on his helmet. Still have to figure out how to do this and whether I have the courage to slop over my new paintwork when that is all done.
Parts are built in sections and glued up.
Block body before shaping. Note the inside of the nose is shaped to serve as a guide to sand down to.
Wheelbase check.
Pre-painting assembly.
Suspension parts I have modified the wishbones from the PoliCar - the exhausts are made of ordinary electrical wiring and the springs are made from the wire that comes out of twist ties and wrapped around welding rods. The springs were a tough assignment as I had no clue how to make these for days and it is amazing what you think of when the thought of losing all those precious points for not having springs where visible. Fortunately it appears from the photos the the front springs seem to be inside the bodywork. I thank the Cooper designer for that!
Here you can see the reserve fuel tank that he added to the car for the race, exhausts and those pesky springs.
Details
Horribly crude compared to the high standards of this forum but there it is! With some primer and a good paint layer over the exhausts all the holes etc should disappear. Spring detail as described above.
Thanks for viewing,
Richard Hewitt
For the record the imgbb.com hosting seems to work quite well - easy to copy image address and paste into the insert image box. With the 16MB limit I am trying to keep the images small.
