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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2008 18:58:55 GMT -5
Or somebody who has them..
How are the Kanaan Reynard McDonalds decals from Scale Coachworks?
Is the yellow and orange for the stripes included?
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Post by indy on Jul 31, 2008 19:21:09 GMT -5
Yes, stripes are included - I'll get a photo uploaded tonight but I'm stuck at work right now  Jordan |
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Post by indy on Jul 31, 2008 22:22:51 GMT -5
 Pretty nice sheet - $12 and it is Cartograf printed plus it's exceptionally rare to have an aftermarket decal sheet that has driver decals! Personally, I'm planning 2 versions of this car....  Jordan |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 8:53:51 GMT -5
Which Reynard kit is that sheet meant for?
Thanks!
Mongo
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Post by indy on Aug 1, 2008 11:21:06 GMT -5
The 1999 version is accurate - right bodywork and wheels. The 1999 version came in three packagings - Motorola, Pioneer, and Miller Lite. The decal placement guide was drawn on a '98 profile so one could get by with a '98 but this is a car that only ran in 1999 so obviously the '99 is more correct. Plus the '99 kits have chrome BBS wheels which is right for this car. Some '98 kits (Target and Visteon) have another style of wheel (OZ) while the Eagle and Shell cars have unchromed BBS wheels. The only '98 that comes with chromed BBS wheels is the Canadian released Forsythe car of Greg Moore and Patrick Carpentier. Of course some of would probably rather chrome the wheels ourselves - lol!   Jordan |
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Post by russd on Aug 1, 2008 17:16:17 GMT -5
Jordan,
In the first picture above... That is one of the more interesting "shark fins" I've seen. It appears to be much taller then standard dorsal fin... Very appropriate for shark week. LOL
RussD
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Post by indy on Aug 1, 2008 17:57:22 GMT -5
EXCELLENT CATCH RUSS ;D The standard dorsal fin was had a horizontal cut but this one is way higher up front and way lower in the back. A quick look at the fields back then is like.... "oh yeah, some cars ran fins and some didn't" ....but when you start digging into the details you see that there was actually a lot of experimention in shape and size of the fins. Some cars ran none, some ran a cut down version, some ran stock, there's this one, some were wider, and one team even ran dual delta wings on their dorsal fins once!
Again, one of the reasons I love modeling this car is there is so much variety. There's a half dozen plus dorsal fin configurations, there's at least three different rear wheel wing configurations, there are at least three different turbo inlet configurations, some teams ran customized speedway front wings, there are tons of variations in front road course wing configurations, they ran over a half dozen types of rear wings, and you can open up the radiator exits.... etc, etc, etc!
A modeler, if he so desires, could build Reynard after Reynard and still find ways to make each one unique. That's one of the things I really like about these cars - building a bunch of them in different liveries would be cool and I will not discourage OOB building of these kits. But if one wants to, there is almost unlimited customization opportunities out there! Let's take this car for example - it ran twice at Homestead so you'd think it would all the be same same but the bottom pic is Spring Training and there is no dorsal fin. But when the season opener at Homestead rolled around there was that cool shaped dorsal fin! These cars were really developed heavily by most of the teams and that means there were just tons and tons of ideas tried from race to race. A sharp eye car find some really cool bits and pieces that make each car unique.... and those things can really give a model some cool tweaks!
Jordan
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