GT40 lovers, start your drooling

[jaykay]

Looking at these photos i'd agree with your observations. The Meng looked a bit to pointy/round at the front in the CAD renderings and the kit parts seem to confirm this.
In comparison to real car pictures the outlines of the doors are too round too and by contrast the rear window looks too square.
It's a pity. I really wonder why a comnpany making the investment into development and tooling they'll possibly be using for decades fails at the very beginning with getting proper reference ( and maybe someone with an eye for shapes to do the CAD model ). Why didn't they just go and scan a real one. There are enough around...

[sky1911]

Now that you mention it, I was wondering about the top of the doors as well, shape-wise and of course the lip showing in the Meng kit seems a bit "pronounced". Same for the slight dam where the windscreen rests upon, simulating, i guess, the seal running around. It seems a bit thick. I am not sure on the mount for the wiper (triangular thingy), the cutout is there on both kits, the mounting plate is moulded as part of the forward bulkhead on the Trumpeter, it is not visible in the Meng kit, but might just be a small bit that you need to glue in place later. There are other things, like the shape of the front bonnet, the holes around it...

Anyway, some of the FB crowd seem to like it. But then again, they recommend the KA upgrade kit for the Trumpeter (which had major issues, axles, exhaust, cough cough). Soo I would take their opinions with a grain of salt. Now where are the GT40 afficionados to chime in here?

ome more pics, Meng supplied it would seem, of the built model:
https://www.themodellingnews.com/2020/1 ... lejrKTV1v0

[bestbalsakits]

Little strange to see nr1 decals with blue lines & outline of white circles.
Think they should be black.

Wim

[bestbalsakits]

For those who know, what is correct for a 1966 GT40 as far as hoses and lines go, the kit has black rubber hoses, the restoration cars have an fittings with braided line it looks like. Anyone know how it should have looked in 66?

these are all I have, not really great engine shots, but hey, it is what it is
Ehhh, forgot where i got them from but thx to them.

























wim

[racingkars]

Little strange to see nr1 decals with blue lines & outline of white circles.
Think they should be black.

Wim

Funny, i seem to remember Michael Portaro from Indycals claimed they should be blue, not black...
On his website they are blue too...
https://www.indycals.net/decals/lemans/66gt40-1.html

[bestbalsakits]

Little strange to see nr1 decals with blue lines & outline of white circles.
Think they should be black.

Wim

Funny, i seem to remember Michael Portaro from Indycals claimed they should be blue, not black...
On his website they are blue too...
https://www.indycals.net/decals/lemans/66gt40-1.html

owww, well i checked my references, but most of them are b/w and coloured ones are too small to see.
O-oowww, if this is true, we better not tell anyone

Anyone has good colour pic to decide black/blue?

Wim

[Chinamalc]

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[Daryl_Huhtala]

I like blue for the stripe outlines and I don't see any steel braided lines so I think black hoses are the way to go. Lots of little details in the pics from the Shelby hangar like the AAR sticker on the side window of the #3 Gurney Grant car.

[bestbalsakits]

I vote for blue lines.
Exhibit A:-

66lm01gt40mkiikenmile0fku9 - Copy.jpg

M.

mmm, 1 pic don't make summer... especially not if blue is out of balance.
After a quick correction with yellow, colors already look more natural, and lines turn to black.

Ok there are still small areas where stripe has slight blue hue (like top of white circle of passanger door), but that might just be because it is near the blue of the car and picture compression recalculated color into something more blue than black. Note the rubber surrounding of the side window is also looking blue near top of white circle, and rubber is black, matt/satin black.
If even matt/satin black is represented as blue, then surely satin/gloss black from stripe in same area suffers same fault. Cameras can't interprete colours, they just grab what they get offered regardless of circumstances/influences.

[cbk57]

Thanks so much Wim for posting those photos. It looks to me like in the front of the car that the lines have hex fittings but there is black coating on the various lines. The last photo Wim posted it looks to me like some of the lines are braided with hex fittings and some are black hoses. The oil lines look like they are braided metal in the last photo.