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[Jean-Michel Piot]

Hello folks!
 
This is the first K&B model I ever built.
 
As explained in the building instructions, one could cut the windscreen, add a roll bar and use the NART decals available in the kit.
 
This is what I did... (don't now if many kids at the time tried this!).
 
The goal was to reproduce this car:
 

 
I have to point out that in the kit I had (well, in this very kit in fact, I keep another one MIB, which I will show you) two wheels inserts were missing. Rather than reproduce one insert in resin, because the genuine parts were poor looking, not to say ugly, I prefered to create inserts based on the static version of the Monogram Ferrari 275P.
 
Hope you will like it...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Humbolt]

Wonderful work, Jean-Michel.

[Jean-Michel Piot]

Many thanks, Paul.
 
It makes me remember that I have to go to the post office for your parts...
 
Had no time yet but this will be done, don't worry.

[Tex]

Schweet!

 

I honestly love looking at the pics of your builds, and those of other master builders, as much as I do the real cars!

[TSR]

Jean-Michel,

What a superb job you did! IThe Monogram 275P wheel inserts and knowck-offs are actully better then the K&B items, so your loss was a gain!

Surtees found out that the car lacked power and was a bit too heavy to compete with American USRRC cars but managed to do well from his pure driving talent. Surtees and Clark had lots in common...

Thanks for sharing with us a beautiful model!

[Jairus]

Wow, that is sweet!

[Jean-Michel Piot]

Here is another picture of the car at Daytona in 1965:
 

 
And now, the same model in its box...
 

[Tex]

Looking at that Daytona grid pic, do you think Surtees and Bondurant are doing the "After you, sir"  No, after YOU, sir"  "No, I insist, after you" "Thank you, no, after YOU" thing?

[Jean-Michel Piot]

That was the time of Gentlemen drivers after all ... 

 

May-be they rather said "You'r talking to me? You're talking to me? I see nobody else there... Who the f... are you talking to then? You'r talking to me?" 

 

Let's revert to this sport version. Here are the instructions for the cut of the windscreen and make of a roll bar.

 

I thought it was quite a challenge.

 

 

 

 

Moreover this K&B with Borrani wire wheels, will because of this differ even more from other 330 P2 I may build or restore, like the Tamiya version with Campagnolo wheels and "regular" wind-screen and "wing" on the top of the roll bar.

 

By the way, on the picture, what you see is what remains from the top of the screen after it was cut.

[Jean-Michel Piot]

Last detail: the clear screens for the high beam lights...

 

[TSR]

Sure tease... 

[Jean-Michel Piot]

It is also for the road, we guess...

 

 

 

By the way, when we consider the K&B pilot face, it is closer to Pedro Rodriguez than to John Surtees...

 

As the two pilots shared the same car in this race of the 12 hours of Daytona in 1965, I could also have painted the helmet in a shade of gray/silver with a slightly larger blue band in the middle.

 

[Dave Fiedler]

Jean-Michel,

       Thanks for sharing your fantastic work. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the monogram static wheels are the best.

[Jean-Michel Piot]

Thank you, Dave.

 

I did not use a complete static wheel of course but turned an insert from the external chromed part of it.

 

You can see on the picture, from left to right, a Monogram insert as one can find in the slot kit version or in the body kit (too narrow), the ugly K&B insert which is larger and the insert I made from parts found in the static model kit version of the Monogram 275 P.

 

To turn the insert I glued the external part to the red plastic inner part and put the whole in a drill. I was then able to diminish the diameter with a file and a modeler knife.

 

[BWA]

Well, that's certainly given me some ideas.

 

Nice work as always.