...well, a 1/12th scale one does, anyway.

May I be the first to offer my

And yours truly the second; well done!
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& me the third !

Excellent! Way to go Barry!

Neil

Well done Barry, a real jem

Wow! Looks brilliant! Where can I buy one?

Great! Now do one in Lec Refrigeration livery, complete with broken steering wheel and 1:12 scale screwdriver in the footwell

Yeah, right.... Maybe in another 15 years! That's how long this one has taken.

I don't recall the broken steering wheel.

Sorry - "broken kill switch on the steering wheel"...

Fair play, Lec, that wasn't David's fault. The wrenched out gear lever, however, is another matter.....

One of your best, Barry
Congraulations

So that's what you've been up to all winter! congratulations

Wow, that is amazing............now what about the 1:1 version ?

Wouldn't that be a bit uncompetitive, even for Connew?

(don't take that the wrong way, Barry )

Oh I don't know, David. Plastic engine, plastic driver - sounds just like modern Formula 1.

It's finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done, Barry. It looks absolutely fantastic.

Is that the beginnings of the production line I see in the background?!

Mark

The windscreen alone is a work of art........ Now for the Token?

Exquisite. One day I'll commission you to do Tony Dean's B24.....

Confession time!

The cockpit canopy/windscreen is simply a single vac. formed piece of plastic. The screen is carefully painted with nothing more unusual than Humbrol gloss black enamel.

How did you get on with the oil tank?

Superb!

Love it. Like the bulges around the front suspension, was that for aerodynamic reasons?

Hi Barry,

Very nice work indeed.

I do a lot of (scracht)modeling mysefl and know how much work there goes into a porject like this.

But I was just wondering what was the base kit?
As far as I can see I think it was a M23.

greetings, Roland

How'd I miss this yesterday? Excellent, Barry! Congratulations!

this looks bluddy great! Now, when are you going to start on a model of Emerson in the 72 for me??? I'll meet you at Stoneleigh to take delivery of it, that be ok??

Ensign - the bulges were steel mounting points for the ends of the top rocker arm pivots. They were indeed shaped like that for aerodynamic efficiency.

Roly - well spotted! The engine & gearbox as well as the wheels and rear suspension are indeed a Tamiya M.23. The driver is from that kit too.

The rest is either jeluton or vac formed plastic. The decals are also home-made.

Ensign - the bulges were steel mounting points for the ends of the top rocker arm pivots. They were indeed shaped like that for aerodynamic efficiency.

Roly - well spotted! The engine & gearbox as well as the wheels and rear suspension are indeed a Tamiya M.23. The driver is from that kit too.

The rest is either jelutong or vac formed plastic. The decals are also home-made.

Great job Barry lets build one for real for Vintage Racing my son would be willing to drive it.

Well done, Barry!

Must've taken quite a lot of time and effort to do - especially as I assume you only had photographs to work from.

Now, you said that the driver was also from an M23 - so 'ooisit? Hulme, Hailwood, Hunt...

Anyhow - I'm curious: How do you make the decals? They are very impressive!

And forgive me for gate-crashing, but I assume that Ensign14 meant the 'bulged cheeks' on the sides of the of the nose rather than the small fairings for the rocker arm pivots up above. I suppose that only the aft portion of the latter were steel fabrications, as they actually constituted the aft rocker pivot fittings, whereas the forward portions were integral with the nose cone GRP moulding (and thus non-structural) and covered the forward rocker pivot points of the fabricated tubular steel subframe structure. My guess is that the larger 'bulged cheeks' were simply faired-in extensions of the tub constant cross-section geometry, gently blending the shape of the chisel nose with that of the tub - so, yes, their purpose would then be for aerodynamics.

It still strikes me as a pretty and generally well-proportioned 1972 F1 car - with a certain resemblance to Marius Dal Bo's Pygmée MDB16 F2 car of similar vintage

Bonde - regarding the bulges on the side of the nose, YES, exactly.

Ensign, sorry for the misunderstanding.

The decals are made using an Epson C.86 Inkjet printer that uses Durabrite inks which are supposedly, non-running. They are printed on clear or white decal paper, depending what colour surface they are going onto, and then are lacquered with a 'special' lacquer supplied by the people from who the decal paper came.

My first attempt, with my old Epson printer looked o.k, but then, a few days after they were applied to the model, I noticed that the colours had 'spread' and everything was ruined. Hence the new printer.

Not quite only photographs, Bonde. At various times I had in my posession some front suspension arms and Peter was able to furnish me with exact dimensions from actual parts buried deep within the Connew shed.

Plus, I still have the original simple side view scale drawing that we made when the bodywork was first being designed.

Had I completed the original Tamiya kit, the driver would have been Hunt.

For total masochists, I have added a page with more pictures of this model onto my Atlas website.

Anyone wishing to lose the will to live should go to....

http://members.atlasf1.com/barry_boor/model.html

Tremendous work, Barry. I had been wondering how you had done the vacuum forming on the Connew - now I know!

Superb Barry - I wish I'd kept my Tamiya Fittipaldi '74 M23, made but never painted and eventually thrown out - then you could have had a spare engine for the Connew, which is more than it had in real life.



Mind you, I have got a spare unmade Matchbox 1/20 Tyrrell P34 without transfers.................but all you can make with those little front wheels is another P34


Paul M

Peter Connew and his helpers get an honourable mention in Mike Lawrence's superb latest piece on pitpass.com

I thoroughly recommend reading it.

You are way too modest BB:smoking: GREAT work - I love the overhead shot - gives a new, different dimension to those familiar nice lines.

Lovely, simply lovely!

Barry....what would your reserve price on EBay be?

Can't answer that as I couldn't possibly ever consider even the thought of thinking about the idea of selling it!

So Barry, what your saying is that a TNF production run is in order? Because I'd ordering one as well!

Respectfully,

Jacques N. Dresang
UEMSI Motorwerks #80 Miata

And there I was, thinking I was the only one who thought the Connew had some similarities with the Pygmee MDB16. I'll be blowed.

I think it's the windshield that does it ;)

How did you deal with the "Francois MIGAULT" decals then - matched the red ink to the paint and printed onto white? Did you look into tracking down an ALPS printer instead?

And...how long will it take to resurrect this to its former glory?

Having rebuilt a model (essentially box stock, but with custom graphics) I'd done for a driver twice after it was accidentally smashed (once by said driver), I feel some of your pain...

I have found a logo, which supposedly is of Connew, but did Connew actually have a logo?
I have a feeling the one I found on the Stats F1 site has been made by the site-master.

Yes, we did!

I've always been wary of some of the "logos" on that site. It seems to be a mix of actual racing-car badge/logos, road-car badges, team letterheads and/or insignia from shirts, re-drawn "artist's impressions" of long-gone logos, and "something in a font that's vaguely like one the team might have used at some point"; and at most it shows one logo per constructor whereas several teams have had many over the years. I would not treat it as a primary source!

Thanks Barry.
The logo I found was just the PC...... without the onnew

Same thoughts here !!

Already found a different Coloni logo there