Corvette C5R Lemans, Revell 1:25

[Mattilacken]

 

I have for a long time wanted to build one of these but I have not felt that I could, until now when I feel that I have enough skills. Started this kit a wile back and posted it under my Arctic garage thread, and yes I do have many kits going simultaneously. I bought this as a glue bomb, I striped the paint of many parts and got started on the chassi. The body was not touched gladly, and the reason why I bought it. I do have one more of an other release that I might build at some point.

I have no transkit so it down to making my own version of grills and vents and such. 3d printer and cad skills might be involved along the way. 
I won’t make a replica per say since I really don’t like the wheels they ran and I am the one that will be watching it on the shelf so I will use something that I thinks suits it, either Tamika multi spoke wheels used on the DTM car which resemble what C5R had later, or I will be using an 3d modeled wheel that I have which is a BBS used by many but they are deeper than the c5r wheels.
 

well on to the progress, I tried to thin out the body in many places to be able to look more in scale, but I went to hard in one spot on the hood, thought I had to do a nose transplant from the C5R Silverado body that is left over from before, but I managed to salvage this one.

I then cribbed the hood out and I am now in the progress of filling the gaps a bit with CA and baking soda.
I have opened up all vents in the front but decided to leave the sides of the front grill so I have them as support when making my mesh. 
 

Right now I working on relocating the filler since the LM cars have it on the LH side behind the drivers door.  And only a mesh outlet in the back.

I will also be making the later intake since I like the all carbon intake. That will also result in relocating the coils. 
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i am trying to improve all the areas I just can’t stand on the revel body. The window frames toils have been 25mm thick if equal in 1:1. Also the air outlets are to small. As well as the lights are way of.
Here are som comparisons. 

 

 

[Mattilacken]

Som pics from today’s progress and with the BBS wheels. Here can be seen that the ride height up front needs to be adjusted.. and I would like to have posable steering. I sorted that on the race truck in one way, let’s see if I can fix that here as well. Body seems to ride high on the rear supports for the wing which results in quite big gap between diffuser and body. I think I need to upgrade the front brakes, they look to small in my eyes. 
 

[Mattilacken]

Any one else that have built this kit, does it seem like the body is to tall? I am reffereing to the cage that is clearly visible in the side window. Also the difusor seems to be to close to the ground and to long for the LM variant.

I know the later cars hade completley differnt diffusor and intake system. Thse also ran an other air inlett during 2002 at least but at Lemans they did have the naca ducts. 

This is a picture later that year at Petit Lemans 

 

Here is the ride height of mine since i lowered the front, the gaps are also looking better.

[Mattilacken]

I do also have these wheels to try..

 

[Pierre Rivard]

Looks like a fun but challenging project Anton. The body looks generally good but the panel lines look a little soft, but that's easy to fix. I would consider fabricating a diffuser with 0.5 mm Evergreen sheet to improve on the appearance of the crude kit part. You are printing your own wheels? Cool!

[Rich Chernosky]

Anton...I have considerable experience with your Corvette build having built several including the one you are working on now. Here is a link to one of my builds and I hope some of the info helps you:Two Racing Corvettes, C5R, Bad Boy C6R - Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers - Model Cars Magazine Forum.  I like what you have done so far and you are definetly on the right track. Are you going to open those hood vents? I made all the wheels poseable on mine  (a pet peeve ) ...it was easy and I can send you pics if you like.  I painted mine Tamiya TS38 Camel Yellow and did  so to match a previous build. Looking at most photos I think this is too dark and Tamiya makes a lighter and brighter yellow TS8 I think.  I did not think the body was too tall. Don't pay too much attention to stuff like that. It looked OK to me. Was more concerned with how it fit on the chassis.  Enjoy the kit...it nice and I am sure you will do a great job. Look forward to its completion. 

 

[Mattilacken]

On 8/23/2024 at 2:36 PM, Pierre Rivard said:

Looks like a fun but challenging project Anton. The body looks generally good but the panel lines look a little soft, but that's easy to fix. I would consider fabricating a diffuser with 0.5 mm Evergreen sheet to improve on the appearance of the crude kit part. You are printing your own wheels? Cool!

Thanks Pierre! Yes the panel lines will be taken care of soon  Yes that might be a good thing, the OB piece is bulky and thick in every way.  Yes i am, have two different setups, only thing i dont have is a good tire to print otherwise i would print them as well.

22 hours ago, Rich Chernosky said:

Anton...I have considerable experience with your Corvette build having built several including the one you are working on now. Here is a link to one of my builds and I hope some of the info helps you:Two Racing Corvettes, C5R, Bad Boy C6R - Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers - Model Cars Magazine Forum.  I like what you have done so far and you are definetly on the right track. Are you going to open those hood vents? I made all the wheels poseable on mine  (a pet peeve ) ...it was easy and I can send you pics if you like.  I painted mine Tamiya TS38 Camel Yellow and did  so to match a previous build. Looking at most photos I think this is too dark and Tamiya makes a lighter and brighter yellow TS8 I think.  I did not think the body was too tall. Don't pay too much attention to stuff like that. It looked OK to me. Was more concerned with how it fit on the chassis.  Enjoy the kit...it nice and I am sure you will do a great job. Look forward to its completion. 

 

Nice! I was reviewing your thread just now and they al look good mate! The chassi fitment to the body is something i have heared about earlier as well so was kind of prepared for that. The louvers was a pita to open but that is done on this body, still need to be done on the 2000 LM car. I have done that on my other C5-R chassi under the Silverado body so i am familiar on how to get posable steering  Nice, will keep that in mind for color choise, i have bought LP yelow and will do a test shoot some day to show how that looks. Thanks for taking time to respond!

Edited August 26, 2024 by Mattilacken

[Mattilacken]

Here is a mockup with the wheels that should represent the 1:1 wheels the best. 
 

[Mattilacken]

Modeled a new difusor on pictures from the 2001 cars. Think it represents better the 1:1 of 2001 now. 

[Mattilacken]

I have, as I wrote, had a problem with the body since the kit actually is chassis 001 and 002 with the narrow body. And in late 2000 they built chassi 003 which is the one racing in 2001 and which also has the most wins, 10 out of 17 races.

So the 003 chassi and all the later ones are actually 3 inches wider than the two early cars. 
I wanted to replicate that wide body and after studying al photos I can find on these which I have managed to gather allot! I draw the cut lines on the spare body and went ahead. I extended the gap with a 1,6mm rod which compensates for the cut as well.  So after the test run I will try the same on the actual body.. I just regret not doing this before cutting it in al its parts!!

[Mattilacken]

Made a new headlight assembly. no idea if it fits yet but we will see

[Mattilacken]

So i have cut up the body and made it 1mm wider on each side, front and rear as the original chassis 003 and 004. Which made the lines to blend better than in my experiment above.  here it can be seen next to an other kit body, which would repressent version 1 of the body and hood if i have understood my sources correct, my thought was to build 2000 LM and 2001 LM but the body that comes with the decals for 2000 LM is not the correct one, the 2001 body is actualy more correct ecept for air intakes i guess which was different on chassi 001 and 002.

Edited September 2, 2024 by Mattilacken