24 hours of Le mans - any entrant, any scale

[Gramps46]

24 Hours of Le Mans Entrants

Shifting gears from the thread on the winners, this thread is for any entrant in this famous race in any scale.

Show us your completed models and include the year and kit origin please.

[Gramps46]

AC - Cobra

1958 #29 - AC ACE Converted from an AMT Cobra kit

1963 #4- Cobra - Homemade conversion from an AMT Cobra kit

1964 #5 - Cobra Daytona - Gunze Sangyo kit stretched to 1/24 wheelbase 

1965 #15 - Cobra Daytona - Gunze Sangyo kit stretched to 1/24 wheelbase

[vamach1]

Lemans 1964-1969

1/87 Piccolini GT40, Lemans Miniatures MKII

1/43. Tenariv (2), Starter, C Scale, Grand Prix, Record

1/24 and 1/25. Fujumi, Mini Exotics, IMC, Testors and CMA.

1/24 Gunze Sangyo Cobra and 1/43 Tenariv Cobra with Kyosho chassis.

 

Edited April 7, 2022 by vamach1

[vamach1]

While a lot of the kits may be out of production, GrandPrixmodels website lists 733 models just under the search for Le Mans resin/metal kits.  The majority are 1/43 but that is mind boggling how many kits there are to choose from.

Edited April 7, 2022 by vamach1

[Gramps46]

Corvettes at Le Mans

1960 #3 Cunningham Corvette - Revell

1967 #9 L88 Corvette - MPC

1972 #28 BFG Corvette - AMT

1976 #76 Greeenwood Spirit of LeMans - US Airfix

[1959scudetto]

Here are my other Le Mans participants in chronological order - most or all already posted here the other day.

 1960:  Ferrari GT 250 SWB (modified 1/24 ESCI kit): Noblet/Elde - 6th overall, 3rd in class:

1965: Ferrari 250 LM (1/24 Academy/Minicraft)  Dumay/Gosselin  2nd overall

1966: Ford GT40 Mk II (1/24 Fujimi) Miles/Hulme  2nd overall

1966: Alpine Renault A 210 (1/24 Heller)  Cheinisse/Delageneste  11th overall, 2nd in class

1967: Ferrari 330 P3/4 AKA 412 P (1/24 Union/Heller re-issue) Müller/Guichet DNF (engine)

1978: Porsche 936/78 (1/24 Tamiya)  Barth/Wollek/Ickx  2nd overall

1987: Jaguar XJR-8 LM  (1/24 Hasegawa) Watson/Lammers/Percy  DNF (accident)

Well, that's all for now - I do have several unbuilt Le Mans racers in my stash to do for the future....

 

 

[Gramps46]

A really excellent selection of LM race cars.  My favorite is the 412P if I had to pick just one.

[1959scudetto]

14 hours ago, Gramps46 said:

A really excellent selection of LM race cars.  My favorite is the 412P if I had to pick just one.

Thanks, Gary - from your Vettes I would pick the Cunningham Corvette - the classic white livery with double blue stripes suits it very well. Choosing between Cobras is impossible, so I would take the AC Ace.

Edited April 10, 2022 by 1959scudetto

[maysula]

Hi

This is a Porsche 910 from LeMans 1968

Tamiya 1/12.

Thomas

[1959scudetto]

Very good-looking 910 in after-race-condition. I have never seen a model of this 910 (Hanrioud/Wicky, DNF).

[Richard Bartrop]

Heller's 1930 4.5 Litre "Blower" Bentley.  Depicts the Benjafield / Ramponi car from the 1930 Le Mans. Retired after 144 laps.

[Gramps46]

The Bentley is super nice and you nailed the fabric body.

[Gramps46]

English Entries at Le Mans

1950 Jaguar XK120, Monogram metal body

1954 Jaguar D Type, Strombecker

1957 Lotus XXI Eleven, Merit

1959 AC Ace, AMT Cobra

1959 Lotus Elite, Scuderia Scale

1958 Aston Martin DB3S, Premier

1984 Jaguar XJR 5, UMI

2007 Aston Martin DBR9, Carrera

1963 Jaguar XKE, Revell

 

[slusher]

impressive models!

[Gramps46]

I am posting these models for Scott Kercher who beautifully built them and photographed them.

1967 Ferrari 412P - Fujimi

 

 

 1965 Ford GT - resin body conversion [can't remember who right now on a Fujimi chassis

 

 

1955 Jag D - Merit

 

1958 Ferrari TR- Hasegawa

 

1954 Cunningham C4R - Paul Fisher

 

[Gramps46]

Oops, I missed one of Scott's models.

1972 Ferrari 365 GTB 4

[Rich Chernosky]

Went to a model show this weekend at the Watkins Glen International  Motor Racing Research Center.  Took about 60+ of my latest completions. Rather than put all these back in the cases I left them out to be photographed.  All of these were featured builds on this forum.   Here are the links to these builds:      http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/163347-bmw-328-endurance-racer/#comment-2432405

                      http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/162960-fia-289-cobra/#comment-2425584

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/161772-martini-porsche-934/#comment-2405413

                   http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/157867-martini-porsche-936/#comment-2336470

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/157623-pescarolo-judd-01-lmp/#comment-2332043

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/154063-lemans-2017-ford-gt/#comment-2271157

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/153270-ferrari-330p4-spyder-coversion/#comment-2258435

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/152448-1964-ford-gt/#comment-2243737

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/167154-andretti-ford-gt-66-lemans/#comment-2501557

 

 

[1959scudetto]

4 hours ago, slusher said:

impressive models!

Very nice collection, Gary - I especially like the 3 white Jaguars.

[Richard Bartrop]

17 hours ago, Gramps46 said:

The Bentley is super nice and you nailed the fabric body.

Thanks.  A light spray of Dullcote over the Humbrol gloss green did the job.

[1959scudetto]

1 hour ago, Gramps46 said:

I am posting these models for Scott Kercher who beautifully built them and photographed them.

1967 Ferrari 412P - Fujimi

 

 

 1965 Ford GT - resin body conversion [can't remember who right now on a Fujimi chassis

 

 

1955 Jag D - Merit

 

1958 Ferrari TR- Hasegawa

 

1954 Cunningham C4R - Paul Fisher

 

Excellent models from Scott, Gary - especially the 412 P, the '65 7-litre-Ford GT, but also the TR250 and the Cunningham - marvellous!

[1959scudetto]

1 hour ago, Gramps46 said:

Oops, I missed one of Scott's models.

1972 Ferrari 365 GTB 4

Awesome Daytona  - is this Tom Tanner's Scale Design kit? (It looks different than my two unbuilt Italeri kits, but they are stored away so I can't compare yet)

[1959scudetto]

42 minutes ago, Rich Chernosky said:

Went to a model show this weekend at the Watkins Glen International  Motor Racing Research Center.  Took about 60+ of my latest completions. Rather than put all these back in the cases I left them out to be photographed.  All of these were featured builds on this forum.   Here are the links to these builds:      http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/163347-bmw-328-endurance-racer/#comment-2432405

                      http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/162960-fia-289-cobra/#comment-2425584

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/161772-martini-porsche-934/#comment-2405413

                   http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/157867-martini-porsche-936/#comment-2336470

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/157623-pescarolo-judd-01-lmp/#comment-2332043

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/154063-lemans-2017-ford-gt/#comment-2271157

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/153270-ferrari-330p4-spyder-coversion/#comment-2258435

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/152448-1964-ford-gt/#comment-2243737

                  http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/167154-andretti-ford-gt-66-lemans/#comment-2501557

 

 

Super nice, Rich - as we are used to see from you ! I will check some of the links as soon as I find more time.

[Gramps46]

19 hours ago, 1959scudetto said:

Awesome Daytona  - is this Tom Tanner's Scale Design kit? (It looks different than my two unbuilt Italeri kits, but they are stored away so I can't compare yet)

Scott responded:

 Please tell Helmut that the Daytona is indeed the Italeri kit, one of the worst models ever. Sink marks, bubbles in the glass, more pin marks than anything imaginable, wonky engineering, not to mention parts that are just wrong. 

Gary responds:  Despite all the problems Scott sure did a remarkable build on the Daytona.

[1959scudetto]

5 hours ago, Gramps46 said:

Scott responded:

 Please tell Helmut that the Daytona is indeed the Italeri kit, one of the worst models ever. Sink marks, bubbles in the glass, more pin marks than anything imaginable, wonky engineering, not to mention parts that are just wrong. 

Gary responds:  Despite all the problems Scott sure did a remarkable build on the Daytona.

Thanks to Scott for his reply - I've built several Italeri Ferraris and know their weak points: wheels/tires and lots of sink marks as well as omitments and simplifications in certain areas. 

[Brudda]

On 4/10/2022 at 11:17 AM, maysula said:

Hi

This is a Porsche 910 from LeMans 1968

Tamiya 1/12.

Thomas

Very nice!!!!