Lotus 72C Ford - GP Great Britain 1970

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February 16, 2013
As I would like to present my Lotus with a driver figure on modeling shows and contests, I started to airbrush the Jochen Rindt face.
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February 16, 2013
I am not a figurine specialist of course, but I found a great tutorial on the internet to spray a face in 3 basic steps, with an immediate result.
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February 16, 2013
The face and hands are now ready, I will start to paint the racesuit next.
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February 24, 2013
The driver figure has been detail painted and the shadows have been added.
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February 24, 2013
Next the sponsor decals have been applied.
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February 24, 2013
After setting the decals, they received a flat coat because they were too glossy.
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February 24, 2013
It's hard to show the subtle shadows on the racesuit taking pictures, in reality it looks a lot better.
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February 24, 2013
I missed a driver's helmet. I don't have a sixties model at hand, so I scratched one starting from an eighties helmet (left). I also scratched a vizor (not finished yet). To be continued.
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February 25, 2013
I finished scratching the vizor with a piece of old celluloid and some punched aluminium rivets. Only the chin straps are still missing.
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February 25, 2013
Next the helmet and the vizor were spraypainted in metallic dark green and white, after which the were glued together. The artificial light doesn't do the helmet justice, I'll take more pictures outside later on.
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February 26, 2013
Today I used the natural light to take some more pictures.
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February 26, 2013
Even in daylight the helmet seems to be black...
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But it's definately metallic dark green.
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Comentarios

13 September 2012, 16:48

Tim Vereecke
Amazing work Guy! congrats

13 September 2012, 16:49

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Wow!!Where is the motor sound ???

13 September 2012, 17:02

Steve Wilson
Nice one Guy!!!8)

13 September 2012, 17:05

Frank Krause
Wow, that's a winner! Congratulations!

13 September 2012, 17:23

Guy Golsteyn
This project wasn't finished yet; the car was ready but the driver figure was still missing. So I restarted this project.

16 February 2013, 10:45

Guy Golsteyn
Rindt's driver figure is now pretty much ready.

24 February 2013, 12:13

Tim Vereecke
top! awesome result! 👍

24 February 2013, 12:31

Frank Krause
Yeah, that's Jochen! Nice job, Guy! 👍

24 February 2013, 12:45

Roland Roth
An amazing job on the figure, Guy - I like Jochen already now!
His vehicle, especially the paint job, is also made ??great 👍

24 February 2013, 13:34

Guy Golsteyn
The helmet is coming together nicely😉

25 February 2013, 21:15

Frank Krause
👍 👍 👍

25 February 2013, 21:16

Alexander Aristides Cronvall
wow, you do some very impressive work Guy ! 👍

26 February 2013, 00:02

Steve Wilson
Hi Guy. >you said< "Next the helmet and the vizor were spraypainted in metallic dark green and white, after which the were glued together. The artificial light doesn't do the helmet justice".
I noticed where light source reflects on top of the Helmet the metal flakes, suggesting to me use of metallic paint, what I wasn't aware of was the colour, I actually thought it was black... anyway! excellent work Guy, looking forward to seeing it completed🙂👍

26 February 2013, 08:09

Philip De Keyser
Awesome job 👍

26 February 2013, 11:54

Guy Golsteyn
Steve, before I started this project and the Graham Hill Lotus 49B, I was convinced that Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt all had black helmets; in fact neither of them does! Clark wore a dark blue helmet with a white vizor, Hill wore a dark blue helmet with 8 white oars, and Rindt wore a dark green helmet with a white vizor! But these are things that I only find out when I actually want to start spraypainting the helmets😉

26 February 2013, 12:08

Steve Wilson
Another Helmet like that Guy was Mike Hawthorn's, everyone at one time thought his Helmet was black, adding support to this theory was black & white photography, readily used at that time. But it was in fact dark brown, similar in style to your Rindt Helmet🙂

26 February 2013, 12:43

Steve Wilson
Speaking of Black & White Photography. I once saw at a Model Show a Diorama of Mike Hawthorn, Juan Manuel Fangio tussling for position in a race, I think it was Monaco. The whole thing cars, scenery and Drivers were all in different shades of black, grey, silver and white. I asked the proud owner what his inspiration had been, "I have a black & white photo of that scene and couldn't work out what the correct colours were"...

26 February 2013, 12:58

Alexander Aristides Cronvall
That's actually quite genius 🙂

26 February 2013, 13:34

Guy Golsteyn
I finally added the last 'finished pics', with the driver and his helmet next to the Lotus to complete the image...

4 March 2013, 10:48

Frank Krause
Absolut top! 👍

4 March 2013, 12:09

Steve Wilson
Top job Guy, excellent🙂

4 March 2013, 12:18

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Beautiful.!!

4 March 2013, 13:51