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Post by robmarsh on Dec 8, 2017 16:37:58 GMT
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Post by René on Dec 8, 2017 18:47:50 GMT
Wonderful model Rob of one of my favourite prototypes! Fantastic detail again and your modelling skills are really excellent.
See and hear this car (the Redman/Merzario car) in action!
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Post by Jamie on Dec 10, 2017 10:50:09 GMT
Hi all Thought you might enjoy these pics of my latest model I have just completed.     Wonderful model Rob, the detail of these blows me away. Kudos to you Sir! |
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Post by Carl on Dec 10, 2017 23:29:11 GMT
Rob,
Your model is amazingly detailed and stunningly beautiful. Wow!
-Carl
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Post by Carl on Dec 10, 2017 23:45:35 GMT
Wonderful model Rob of one of my favourite prototypes! Fantastic detail again and your modelling skills are really excellent. See and hear this car (the Redman/Merzario car) in action! Rene, Great film and awesome sounds from the 312 PB! I know that track, Willow Springs, very well, having attended a 3-day Jim Russell course in prehistoric times. Many years later I learned that the great Ken Miles had designed the course, which is wonderful to drive and located along the far northern hills of the Antelope Valley, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles, near the (very) small town of Rosamond. Most of the shots in the video feature the tight right-hand Turn 4 at the track's highest point and the downhill approach to Turn 5, where I got the FF Merlyn's tail out momentarily under braking. I was less impressive when spinning out in Turn 1.  Just 20 miles east of Rosamond is Edwards Air Force Base, where the sound barrier in level flight (not in severe dive) was first broken in 1947 by the great Chuck Yeager, one of the original "Right Stuff" test pilots.  |
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Post by robmarsh on Dec 11, 2017 10:11:47 GMT
Thanks Rene for the video, finally got to look at it-lovely. Thanks Carl for the details on the track plus your anecdotes re the sound barrier. Always good to read. Aeroplanes are my next love after cars.
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Post by charleselan on Dec 11, 2017 11:49:58 GMT
Rob,
I just love your model of this truly gorgeous race car, beautifully executed and a very high degree of modelling skills that are massively impressive. Keep them coming as you yourself say.
René,
That is a marvellous clip and the very sound of that wonderful flat 12 Ferrari motor is like tearing calico, a sound one can never tire of hearing. That is one very lucky man who owns and drives that car, Oh! to have the funds to be in such a position,
Carl,
A brilliant post full of information and atmospheric feel that almost makes you appear to be at the venue itself. Ken Miles was an absolute star and a wonderfully eccentric individual in some ways, but one hell of a driver who should have won Le Mans with Denny Hulme in 1966.
JC
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Post by René on Dec 11, 2017 22:57:48 GMT
Great post Carl and fantastic to read you have actually raced on this track. The circuit look wonderful with a natural flow, unlike many of the new 'Tilke dromes'. 'Glamorous Glennis' looks cool.  The people who live in this area are obviously used to some noise at times! |
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Post by Carl on Dec 14, 2017 20:02:17 GMT
John Charles,
Willow Springs is a fantastic road course designed, as you wrote, by "one hell of a driver" who was shortchanged by his own team at LeMans.
Rene,
Grandiose Hermann Tilke would have immediately returned to his motel (no luxury hotels in Rosamond) to call Bernie and explain that it's impossible to have a race track at this location!!!
Rob,
With your knowledge of aeroplanes, you may be the one to convince Adrian Newey that establishing a practical balance between lift and downforce is good for the sport.
Cheers, Carl
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 19:37:02 GMT
Beautiful Rob, a stunner. What is the scale?
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Post by robmarsh on Dec 17, 2017 6:32:34 GMT
Thanks Lucio and to all the rest of you for your very supportive comments. It is 1/24 Lucio.
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Post by Jamie on Dec 17, 2017 8:03:36 GMT
I was looking at some early seventies sportscar stuff on YT last night and came across this footage of a working 312PB model again.....watched this many times and I'm sure we're all familiar with it but its such an incredible achievement........
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 10:16:01 GMT
Thanks Lucio and to all the rest of you for your very supportive comments. It is 1/24 Lucio. Impressive detailing for a 1/24, Rob. |
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Post by robmarsh on Apr 13, 2018 14:56:32 GMT
Started work on a 1/12 scale 312PB from the 1972 Monza race.
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Post by René on Apr 13, 2018 15:05:56 GMT
Started work on a 1/12 scale 312PB from the 1972 Monza race. Oh wow, very cool Rob. At 1/12, it will be very detailed I assume. Looking forward to your project!  Here's some inspiration. |
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