1968 BRM P126

John - is your reference to the great Pedro Rodriguez? If it is then yes he'll probably be the driver rather than Attwood - still not decided yet.

Maltese - The masters for the Classic shells were produced by the talented and innovative Charlie Fitzpatrick who has been involved in rail and slot racing for about 50 years and still producing these shells to this day. He is the talent which makes it possible for us to build these slightly different cars. The master is used to produce a female mould and then resin can either be "sloshed" round to form a shell or glass fibre and resin can be laid up inside. Here's a link to my efforts at resin casting
http://www.ssrcworld.com/david_lawson/davi...orris-minor.htm

Terry - I envy you spectating at the Tasman series - there were some great tracks, I had the pleasure of meeting Jack Brabham a couple of weeks ago at Brands Hatch.

Steve - you can cut the driver out without problems. Just work very slowly with the Dremel as the material is quite soft.

Was - As Phil has said you can get the Classic bodies at ABSlot and also at SCD
http://www.scdparma.fsnet.co.uk/
You normally only have to wait a few days for delivery.
Classic and Betta still sell direct to the public but you have to write and telephone and send cheques by post so you're probably better using the websites.

David

John - I used Halfords Ford Pine Green which isn't a match to the BRM's I've seen in the flesh but it's fairly close.

Russell - Thanks for the superb drawing. You'll not worry about the minor details of mirrors when you see the liberties I've taken with accuracy on this car! I'm sort of building the 1968 Belgian GP car where Pedro almost won but for almost running out of fuel, for total accuracy I should have widened the nose and blanked the radiator extractor ducts and also widened the cockpit/windscreen intake vent and added small fins on the nose. I have done none of this and to further stray from accuracy I've put the drivers name decal on it from 1969, purely because it was too nice not to use. Sometimes you just have to build a car the way you want it to look rather than getting bogged down with the detail - that's my excuse anyway.

Got my stuff from Maxi Models today so I can get on and finish it now.

David

I managed to get into the model room today and I've finished the BRM.

Here are a couple of pictures of the actual car in 1968.


This is Richard Attwood at Monaco - second place.


Here Pedro Rodriguez follows Bruce McLaren at Spa on his way to second place.

And here are pictures of the slot car. I haven't actually completely finished it as I still need to fit the body mounting post and the mirrors!! - Russell.





David

I trimmed the MRRC guide down a little to fit, fitted the body mounting post and the BRM has taken to the track for it's first run at Earls Hall Park and the motor popped out on the third lap...that's good old BRM for you. It's the first of my 60s F1's to have a mechanical glitch and it is the first of my chassis to rely on the motor being attached to the chassis rails, I reverted to my "belt and braces" approach and added the small mounts at either end of the motor and it seems ok now.

You will see in the photo that the car has tyre wear to front and rears just to prove I avoided the accidental tripod as patented by John and me. The car goes very well and is definitely my quickest F1 to date. The photo also shows it is now finished with the small windscreen deflector fitted.



The last shameless self promotion photo of the track in this thread showing the pits with the BRM.



I spent some time last night cleaning up the Classic Brabham BT26 and Matra MS11 V12 bodies as I continue in my quest to build an example of each car on the 1968 F1 grid, now Mr Fitzpatrick didn't make a Cooper-BRM so that will be a bit more complicated....

David