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Post by Patrick on May 10, 2013 8:17:31 GMT -8
Here's some...first a F1...  next a F2...  a F3...  now an Indy car...  now for something a bit different, a Caretera Turista from Sud America...  How 'bout a board racing Model T...  Oh, and a F5000 car...I made this over 20 years ago!  Gotta love any type of racing car!!! Patrick |
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Post by harveythedog on May 10, 2013 9:12:27 GMT -8
Great stuff Patrick! I love it! You take the fenders off a Model T and call it Open Wheel! ;D I guess you are right!
Stu
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Post by Patrick on May 10, 2013 11:46:37 GMT -8
Stu,
Those boys were brave drivers/riding mechanics back in those days! I now have a Fronty Ford engine to do one up right.
Patrick
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Post by dustymojave on Jul 30, 2013 14:15:46 GMT -8
A Frontenac Ford engine came in the AMT 1927 T Fire truck kit released in the early 70s.
I like the Sam Posey/Autodynamics 68 Eagle F5000. The tires look as if they are from Heller, the wheels from Bill Jorgensen, and the wing from an IMC Chaparral 2E. I watched the car race at Riverside.
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Post by Patrick on Jul 30, 2013 19:16:13 GMT -8
;)Actually, the tires are Heller, but the car is Tony A to Z's car. The wing was from a Heller Lotus 49, the wheels are MPC's Eagle kit, and I saw the car race at NorCal's SPIR back then. I did the car back in the late 70's because it was an easy conversion of the MPC kit. I still have some of the original model parts and am building a new version using MFH tires and IndyCals decals. Michael of IndyCals has some excellent products and all should check them out if you don't know about them. His F5000 Eagle decals are great.
Patrick
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Post by Art on Jul 30, 2013 20:02:53 GMT -8
Patrick,
I missed this earlier, but, man, I love them all! I love your work!
-Art
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Post by neckcheese on Jul 31, 2013 2:53:53 GMT -8
Nice cars, Patrick :-)
its good to see some older F1's etc - love the F5000 :-) actually I have the Indycals decals for it.
Niels, DK
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Post by dustymojave on Aug 2, 2013 9:22:26 GMT -8
;)Actually, the tires are Heller, but the car is Tony A to Z's car. The wing was from a Heller Lotus 49, the wheels are MPC's Eagle kit, and I saw the car race at NorCal's SPIR back then. Patrick Derrr... Funny that I thought of Tony Adamowicz when I saw the picture and for some reason typed Sam Posey...(as the pistol cocks and points at my temple...) Oh well! The Eagle kit was much better done than the Lotus 56 Turbine that was released by MPC at the same time. I always felt the Lotus had been mastered by the same artist who did the AMT 63 Lotus 29-Ford Indy car and the Eagle by someone else. The too-narrow, too straight sided windscreen on the pair of Lotuses was one of the 1st things which suggested that. I also felt that same person did the IMC Ford GTs. The engine and gearbox were virtually identical between the Lotus 29 and the Ford GT. The suspension components and even the monocoque tubs shared strong similarities too. I always loved the MPC Eagle kit and built several when they 1st came out. Now only one of my originals is together in one place and it's in pieces in a bag waiting to be rebuilt. In 69 I rebuilt one which had gotten damaged when a friend dropped it. I built it with some ideas I had for design of formula cars. It had crash pods on the sides between the front and rear wheels, and a tunnel between the pod and the flattened side of the tub. The tunnel floor panel was curved like an airfoil and the top was more flat with a flare in front of the rear tire. This later came to be known as ground effects. The broken nose was replaced with one rather like a "sports car nose" as used by Tyrell and March in the early 70s, but this had air openings in the sides in front of the ground effect tunnels and also had a ground effect floor. Then it had a wing on the back. As a Tech Inspector I was seeing a lot of wing failures on formula cars at the time and went for a narrower, but longer airfoil section rear wing, mounted low off the rear tub diaphragm and the back of the gearbox. I had a concept in mind for that wing to be activated by the shift linkage and brakes, so that it would level out as the speed increased, but would get a steeper attack angle at lower speed and under braking. Probably WAY too much net downforce and drag, but the model was intended to note my ideas in one place. I painted the model metallic silver-blue with a white stripe which started as a point in the center above the radiator opening in the nose. When it was mocked-up, but not yet re-painted, I walked past the BRE pit at Riverside one weekend and saw my dad holding the model and showing the underside to a very interested Pete Brock. I went over to see what was going on, as my dad normally didn't get near touching my models and I had no idea he had brought it. Dad also had the drawings I had done in preparation of building the model and some others which were for a Can Am car with some similar ideas. Pete gave me some big compliments on both the model and the drawings and offered to write a reference letter to the Art Center. I was nowhere near able to afford to attend that school and wanted to study the aerodynamics and mechanical engineering aspects of designing and building race cars more than the artistic side, so I chose to not pursue Pete's offer. I probably should have pursued it more actively. In fact< I never pursued those race car design issues either, but most all of them turned up on full scale race cars. The sports car nose appeared on formula cars in the early 70s, the ground effects in the late 70s, the crash impact pods came with the ground effects tunnels in the early 80s, the rear wing shape and mounting in the early 70s. Only the active wing system did not show up on full scale racers as all active aerodynamics were banned by FIA and SCCA shortly after I built the model. I don't claim to have "invented" these features, and them to have been "stolen" from me. Although perhaps I had the ideas 1st. I never patented any of them. I feel that others came to such ideas independently and put them into use. It was nice to see my ideas validated though. I wish I could show you guys that model, but it got smashed in the 1971 earthquake. I feel kinda self-conscious writing this, as though I see myself boasting, but I always think of that model when I see an MPC Eagle. |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 2, 2013 17:13:32 GMT -8
Hey, Dusty,
No need to feel that way. I 'm sure we all have had projects that we were proud of; I know I had some that don't exist anymore and I know that they were good. Sometimes that's why I remake some models because my Ex "did them in". The McRae F5000 car is my example.
Patrick
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