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Post by old23 on May 1, 2016 17:33:38 GMT -5
Please post your construction progress here. Thanks.
I am building a 1963 Scirocco as driven by Ian Burgess in the German GP for the GP1.5 Class and a Maserati 250F as driven by Prince Bira in the 1954 French GP for the GP2.5 class.
Stewart
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Post by slo on May 1, 2016 18:04:11 GMT -5
GP 1.5 Dan Gurney #22 Brabham bt7 1964 French GP
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Post by slo on May 1, 2016 20:22:40 GMT -5
I have a couple questions on Dan BT7.... Can anyone tell me if it run with the 13" or 15" Wheels? From the Photos Ive seen it looks to have run with the 13" on the rear but maybe 15" on the front. Jack ran the #20 car at the same meet and it looks to have run the 13" front and rear. His front wheels look different to Dan's fronts. Always a bit tricky to tell the difference from photos. Also I have read account primotipo.com/tag/brabham-bt7-climax/ of Dan's Bt7 (F1-1-63) being 2" longer in the wheelbase and accounts of it being longer in the cockpit to accommodate the tall Dan Gurney. Not that Im chasing any extra guide lead length or anything... its just that I wouldnt like to see Mr. Gurney sitting too far out of the cockpit you see.... Would appreciate if anyone could shed some light on these.... Stu
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Post by old23 on May 1, 2016 21:53:33 GMT -5
I've never read that but I'll try to research it.
Stewart
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Post by slo on May 2, 2016 3:41:51 GMT -5
Thank you Stewart, I stumbled across this site a week ago. Up until then I have read that the F1-1-63 BT7 was built with an extended cockpit but not heard of the extended wheelbase for Mr. Gurney. All other reference to specifications on the Brabhams wheelbase from BT3 to BT11 were 91" so until it can be verified otherwise will assume wheelbase of Dans car was just the same as the other Brabhams.
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Post by Terry Newsome on May 4, 2016 4:25:32 GMT -5
I will be very interested to see how you model the exhausts Stu,
For me I find this aspect with this model the most problematical(difficult), I've already got a BT7 75% finished and the exhausts are very clunky and in my eyes quite ugly.
So any pics will be appreciated
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Post by slo on May 4, 2016 14:24:05 GMT -5
I will be very interested to see how you model the exhausts Stu, For me I find this aspect with this model the most problematical(difficult), I've already got a BT7 75% finished and the exhausts are very clunky and in my eyes quite ugly. So any pics will be appreciated Hi Terry here's a bit of a pic of the sort of thing I will use for the BT7 tailpipes, hope you get the idea. There is no room between the top of the crown and the bottom of the exhausts to do the same as was done with the BT19. Incidentally, I did do another set of those and have some pictures but the second lot of finishing pictures were still in my phone when it went through the wash.Subsequently they were lost when the phone was reformatted after the phone was fixed....lost everything! It was a new phone on a new contract... Anyways, I use a lathe to make them but did do a couple of these using the tapered forming bit in a drill( not for the turned bits) and held the 3/32 aluminium tube in a drill chuck just to see if it could be done. It can. Allow some offcut for the tube as the chuck will deform it. Tail pipes on the car in the pick are attach to the original resin exhausts that Stubbo cast. The forming bit was shaped using a belt sander then sanded spinning in a drill using 1500 grit. It needs to be smooth and used with grease because it does have a tendency to grab. Its pushed 'drilled' into the end of the tube to stretch the tube.
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Post by Terry Newsome on May 4, 2016 16:25:33 GMT -5
Thanks Stu,
you make it sound so easy!
Still, even though I possess 2 hands of thumbs I'll have a go to see if I can replicate your fine work,with all this sort of thing getting started and fiddling can produce acceptable results.
Many thanks again,
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Post by datto on May 4, 2016 19:04:23 GMT -5
I'll be working on the John Surtees N.A.R.T. Ferrari 158. Just kicking tires at this point
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Post by old23 on May 5, 2016 8:42:21 GMT -5
Good choice. I've loved that blue and white livery since the 60's when it adorned my Monogram version of that Ferrari. Which 158 shell will you be using?
Stewart
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Post by datto on May 5, 2016 11:12:37 GMT -5
I got the Penelope Pitlane shell in the other day. Looks better in person than it does on the Pendle's site.
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Post by EM on May 19, 2016 8:11:46 GMT -5
]I've used ferrules from cheap paintbrushes found in a craft shop (idea from Russell Sheldon many years ago). EM
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Post by Chris Wright on May 19, 2016 11:03:53 GMT -5
That's a great build you have there EM, a true masterpiece!
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Post by EM on May 29, 2016 11:05:11 GMT -5
Thanks, Chris. At the moment it is in one of my plastic "build trays" (rescued oriental take-out containers), all in pieces and awaiting a rebuild and restoration)
EM
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Post by datto on Jun 5, 2016 13:15:01 GMT -5
While I'm fiddling with chassis designs, I've turned some attention to the Penelope Pitlane Ferrari 158. This shell needs q bit more attention than the George Turner shells I've come to like so much. First, there's the big, square open space on the underside of the nose. I got that filled in with a piece of black ABS, and filed it to shape. Then some primer/filler to see what we have for a surface, and some filling with red spot putty I then sanded the filler back. I noticed while working on the shell that it flexed quite a bit at the thin portion where the front suspension emerges from the body, so I reinforced it with some glass cloth and super-glue Hoping to get some white primer on the shell today. Update White primer Rivet decals, white topcoat, and some alclad on the body shell. The rivets might be a bit oversize, but then again, it's hard to find shallow impression with a rivet-head in the middle decals So a 'cheat' to suggest, rather than denote.
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