caapa Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 WOLOMOPRO say Worlds Longest Modeling Project: It began in early 1968 as I saw first time pictures of the Lamborghini Marzal in the hungarian Auto-Motor magazine. I fell in love with in no time. I was a young draftsman and I made the 4 views based on the photos and main dimensions. And with my ambition to be ones an auto-body designer. Naturally my goal was to make a model . I took a block of polystyrene foam (insulation) and curved the body. My idea was to laminate some layer of newspaper with epoxi on the surface and remove the polystyrene foam after . But this would give a very thin lamella so I cut grooves first in the styrene for drag-wires glued with the same epoxi. After some sanding the body looked better as I hoped. In the 70`s I started to make dashboard, front and rear panels with rubber bumper, etc. I came to realize before long that windows should be made too. But I had no idea what material can I get and with which technology can I make this huge windows. The initial momentum die down slowly . At end of the 80`s I made seats with similar method as the body and tried to make wheels but I couldn`t make the fine details. During the 90`s could gear my workshop with more and more tools and my technological knowledge broadened materially. So I could make the wheels higly detailed. I made a negativ by candel wax from the wheel had been made formerly and scratched the details negativ in wax. After than I dilute the mixed epoxi by nitro thinner and „painted” the form inside. As the nitro evaporated I molded with normal epoxi much like a pasta. Next I copied a tyre and made „rubber” tyres by black silicon sealing-compound. Since I retired have more time. I made a little vacuum table and made more windows for 1:64 and similar. The only problem of Marzal remained the window furthermore. I coudn`t found any water-clear plastic for vauumforming. Before 2- 3 years my son asked me why don`t make the Marzal ? I told him the problem. I visited him January 2020 and FOUND material ! As I finished the Bugatti Royale Berline de Voyage I gone on the Lamborghini Marzal projeckt to finish. With the help of reference pictures I could make many details. What I made during the 5 decades was not all of the parts good enough . So I could use only the body, dashboard and the wheels. The other parts must be corrected or made new. Totaly I build the model from 234 pieces - scratchbuilt, molded, printed, curved, cut, bended or vacuum formed and plus 4 pc pins from 1968. (they are the axles) The body upper half painted with Strato Silver the under one with Nimrod Grey metalic by Holts Repair Paint. The inside is brush painted with Revell Aquacolors. Chrome made by Molotow pen. (I apologize for my poor english) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Very cool and impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Very cool indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 It takes a lot of talent to scratch-build a model like that. Very impressive and beautiful. Marzal has always been on the top list of my favorite cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maltsr Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Awesome work - as a boy I had a Corgi/Dinky diecast of this car, painted in lime green and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 Thank you for the nice comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1959scudetto Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Amazing model you made here, Janos, - this has been really a long-term-project ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 Finally I managed to make an inside picture half way acceptable. The plastic of the window made the distortion. Alas all of the windows are doing the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89AKurt Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I was just looking at pictures of this car. Very impressed you pursued this. You now have the only model of this wild concept, very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruleworld Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Amazing model. i had the matchbox one when i was young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeRS Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Amazing scratch building skills. I never imagined wax molds or silicone tyres before - ingenious! What scale is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hi Sonny, thanks for the nice comment. The model is 1:24 scale. The use of wax for molds isn`t my „contrivance”. I remembered that wax was used during making master pieces for casting bronze statues in ancient Egypt and in the middle age for bells too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Thibodeau Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hi Sir! Very impressive work, bravo! Unique subject, exclusive model, and a good lesson in self-reliance. I had this car as a small Corgi die-cast when it came out, but it was 1/43, I guess. The front and rear compartments lids were hinged, with minimal details inside. Your model brought back great memories of my youth, only much more detailed! Thank you! Respectfully, CT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) Hi, thank you guys for the comments. Hi Claude, happy you have nice memories with Lamborghini Marzal. I know a similar one as yours was manufactured by Dinky Toys 1:43 with hinged front and rear. This is probably the best toy Marzal ! Edited January 14, 2021 by caapa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan barton Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Janos, this is an amazing tribute to your decades of commitment to achieve your goal. Rather than saying "I can't make that", you used your hands, your brain and what you had available to manufacture the car of your dreams. I think most of us on this forum would be looking at your finished model with all the amazing details and thinking, "Wow, how did he do that?" Your description hides the amount of difficulty you must have experienced. Congratulations on an amazing effort! And yes, I too had ( and still have!) the metallic red Matchbox Lamborghini Marzal toy - it was a favourite toy of mine and is still in fairly good condition for being over fifty years old. Cheers Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Thibodeau Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 5 hours ago, caapa said: Hi, thank you guys for the comments. Hi Claude, happy you have nice memories with Lamborghini Marzal. I know a similar one as yours was manufactured by Dinky Toys 1:43 with hinged front and rear. This is probably the best toy Marzal ! HI! I guess your description is more acurate than mine. It must have been Dinky, not Corgi. It was more than 55 years ago, so... I tend to forget! CT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 Hi Alan, thank you for your nice appreciative words. I built some plastic kits during my decades. But I can imagine how hard could be the work of the engineers who are plan and do the kits with that accuracy really only now. It seemed who commented and probably the most of the visitors have the Matchbox Lamborghini Marzal - I have the metalic red too ! Best regards: János Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bainford Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Very cool model of the Marzal, one of the best looking show cars of the era. I am very impressed with your methods, and that you stuck with it for decades. It must feel good to have finally finished it. I always liked the Marzal since I was a kid (like others above, it seems), and in my adult years I have always wanted to build an Espada (basically the road car evolution of the Marzal). Well done, thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowlife ! ! Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Congratulations on completing this very unique build ! I wouldn't know where to start building a car from scratch, an ingenious method to use ! You must be proud to have finally completed it, well done ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 Hi Martin, thank you very much the nice comment. Yes I`m a little bit proud but mostly happy to completed the model. It was on my workbanch aside the field of action and looked with blame me for waiting so long. Now it can not blame anymore ! ? Best regards: János Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 1/14/2021 at 9:03 PM, caapa said: Hi, thank you guys for the comments. Hi Claude, happy you have nice memories with Lamborghini Marzal. I know a similar one as yours was manufactured by Dinky Toys 1:43 with hinged front and rear. This is probably the best toy Marzal ! And here is a photo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelbuilder Mark Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Great story, do not worry about the English, and very cool project indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lombardo Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Wonderful job of scratch building. Very impressive. I seriously doubt anyone else has it in 1/24th. Sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 I searched the drawing of Marzal made by me in 1968 for a long time but didn`t find it. Hopless I passed up the searching soon. But now I happen on the original drawing on tracing paper ! 3 x Hip Hip Hooray !!! This was the very first step in my long project. And now the begining and the end are together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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