huge project !! thanks for sharing !

 

Holy cow what. A concept!

 

Wow! Were did you get all that stuff? 😲

Nice project👍

 

Great project, i did something similar with my 6 car project in terms of the schedule of what needs modifying. This is just on a much larger scale.
Looking forward to see the progress.
Andi

 

Massive labour of love,great anticipation to see the finished results, looking back from now to 1980,is like looking back from 1980 to the pre war Donnington races, yikes.

 

Some part sof the project have already been shown

Team Lotus '79-'82

Tyrrell '79-'82

Brabham '79-'82

Williams '79-'82

 

So... First of all... Storage

Storage comprises a set of coloured drawers £25 on special from Morrisons. Separation for the cars is made from foam board and yields space for 12 cars per drawer in two layers of 6, plus some room for small spare parts.

Where multiple drivers drove a car I have indicated the one modelled with italics. Choice of one driver over another is simply personal choice.

Cars

Ferrari 312T5 - Unfinished

Slot version likely to be based on SRC 312T4 or 3D printed. Static versions 3D printed

Decals Home Made

1. Scheckter

2. Villeneuve

Tyrrell 010

MRRC Williams FW07

Decals Home Made

3. Jarier

4. Daly

43. Thackwell

Brabham BT49

MRRC BT49 - Static Version 3D printed with removable cowl

Decals Home Made

5. Piquet

6. Zunino/Rebaque

McLaren M29

MRRC Lotus 79 - 3D printed Side Pods and Tail, BT49 Roll Over Bar, Static Model 3D printed with removable cowl

Decals Home Made

7. Watson

8. Prost/South

ATS D4

MRRC Lotus 79 Body with FW07 Roll Over, Front Suspension Fairing Remodelled with Miliput

Decals Home Made

9. Surer

10. Lammers/Ertl

Lotus 81

MRRC Lotus 79 - 3D printed Rear Wing, Reprofiled Front Suspension fairing and sidepods with milliput - Static model 3D printed with removable cowl

Decals Home made, using an aluminium tape underlay to give shiny silver areas

11. Andretti

12. De Angelis

43. Mansell

Ensign MN180

MRRC BT49 with rear body removed and Scalextric M23 Engine put on, Nose and front suspension Fairings reshaped with milliput, side pods reshaped with 3D printed parts, roll over from FW07

Decals Home Made

14. RegazzonI/Needell/Lammers

41. Lees

Renault RE20 - Unfinished

SRC Renault RS10

Decals Home Made

15. Jabouille

16. Arnoux

Shadow DN12

MRRC BT49 - nose, roll over area and front suspension reshaped with milliput, side pods and brake ducts 3D printed

Decals Home Made

17. Lees/Johansson

18. Kennedy

Fittipaldi F7

MRRC FW07 - Roll over from Lotus 79, suspension fairing reshaped

Decals Home Made

20. Fittipaldi

21. Rosberg

Alfa Romeo 179

MRRC BT49 - Nose, front wings, front suspension fairing, roll over reshaped with milliput, sidepods 3D printed

Decals Home Made

22. Depailler/Brambilla/de Cesaris

23. Gacomelli

Ligier JS11/15 - Unfinished

EXIN JS11

25. Pironi

26. Laffite

Williams FW07

MRRC Williams FW07

Decals Home Made

27. Jones

28. Reutemann

Arrows A3

MRRC BT49 - Nose and suspension fairings reshaped with milliput, roll over from FW07

Decals Home Made

29. Patrese

30. Mass/Winkelhock

Osella FA1

MRRC BT49 - nose and suspension fairings reshaped with milliput

Decals Home Made

31. Cheever

Brands Hatch Racing

MRRC FW07

Decals Home Made

43. Desire Wilson

RAM MacDonald

MRRC FW07

Decals Home Made

50. Keegan

51. Lees/Cogan

I have to admit I always felt Geoff Lees never really got the chance his talent deserved.. hence so many Lees variants. Also I couldnt resist a Winkelhock version... no offence meant to Mass.

In summary, a very talented field

Ultimately:

14 World Championships between 8 Drivers

Prost ('85,'86,'89,'93)

Piquet ('81,'83,'87)

Fittipaldi ('72,'74)

Andretti ('78)

Scheckter ('79)

Jones ('80)

Rosberg ('82)

Mansell ('92)

Race WIns

51: Prost

31: Mansell

23: Piquet

14: Fittipaldi
12: Andretti, Reutemann, Jones
10: Scheckter

7: Arnoux
6: Villeneuve, Laffite, Patrese
5: Regazzoni, Watson, Rosberg

3: Pironi
2: Depailler, de Angelis, Jabouille

 

And on Track

 

What a great line up of F1 cars, I dread to think how long you have spent working on them.

I am intrigued by the Essex Lotus with the bodywork off in the pit road, is that a static car or a slot car?

David

 

Hi David

It's taken a while, it took me a while to get to grips with milliput, it seemed to take forever to file and kept clogging teh files.

I am not sure which year I will do next, I have a decent start on 81 and 82 so it will probably be one of them, 82 most likely. I expect '79 to be afterwards.. and.. we'll see about '78.

The Lotus in the pits is a static model. It was a 3D model of a Lotus 79 I found, then I reshaped the bodywork in an FE Meshing program we use for work and similarly took a 3D model of a Ligier Tail and morphed that to a more appropriate shape for the lotus.

I am working on some more static models.

The intention is also to heat and deform a couple for incidents around th track. I'll print some figures for drivers climbing out or looking forlorn.

Also going to work on more figures to fill out the pitlane to try to recapture some of the overcrowded nature of the pit lane in the 80s

Cheers

 

what a great job!

how did you do for the decals?

the changes you made to the models are magnificent

buona giornata

Giuseppe

 

Flat out awesomeness! It just looks fantastic. What a dream, to have a full grid like that, on a scenic track. The naked cars in the pit garage are a nice touch.

 

what a great job!

how did you do for the decals?

the changes you made to the models are magnificent

buona giornata

Giuseppe

Hi

Thank you

The decals i just did it the way most here do. I bought clear decal paper for light backgrounds and decals without white and i bought white decal paper for dar backgrounds and decals with white.

One has to be careful cutting out the decals on white paper to minimise teh white showing at the edges but paint can be used at the edges to hide the white.

Then its a case of getting good images of the cars or if one is lucky, finding the decor somewhere, perhaps in papercraft versions of the cars.

Stampa400 is an excellent site for papercraft F1 models.

The milliput i had difficulty with and i am still trying to figure a better way to work with it. Often i attached some plasticard as a guide and fitted the milliput to that before removing the plasticard and covering with a layer of superglue.

 

Wonderful project in it's scale of ambition. B) Every models is a gem!

I'm the real world: Did the customer Williams cars receive assistance from Frank & co. or was it simply a case of, "You've got your cars, now get on with it!" ? :O

 

Wonderful project in it's scale of ambition.

Every models is a gem!

I'm the real world: Did the customer Williams cars receive assistance from Frank & co. or was it simply a case of, "You've got your cars, now get on with it!" ?

From what i've read, many of the customer FW07s were for Aurora use.

I think they even ran under different rules? Without skirts? My understanding was that Desire Wilson's car was set up correctly for the test day at Brands in '80, on which she set times more than good enough to make the grid, but that the car then went off to be used for Aurora (de Villota?) and when it came back it had Aurora settings instead of F1 and they didn't get it sorted in time to qualify, although ultimately it was raced by Keegan in the Grand Prix, with a livery that combined his and her sponsorship. She was certainly good enough to have qualified.

It seems that they were probably left to get on with it... perhaps apart from a spares service or something like that.

 

Yeah well, what you've saying seems believable. A real lack of joined up thinking never helped anybody...