Future Project:Ryan Hunter-Reay 2003 Reynard

[1961redlegs]

While the Zanardi Reynard's drying I'm planning my most ambitious Reynard project yet. I plan to do Ryan Hunter-Reay's 2003 Reynard.

These cars were five years older than what's represented in the Revell kits and I'm curious as to whether anyone's made a conversion of the Revell kit to the car as raced in 2003.

Does anyone have any advice as to how to proceed with this conversion? Thank you!

[indy]

I was holding off posting, in hopes of having others chime in.

Here is a good post on the car, and in a later post, I catalog a few of the kit changes I found.
mb2501.proboards.com/thread/4460/2003-american-spirit-cars

I do not mind sharing the decal artwork I did with a reputable source like IndyCals or GWS. It is in CorelDRAW (vector) and the details are pretty OCD :-) Here is a pic from an old test fit that had been on for about 5 years, so it had lost some along the way (I think).


I have a pretty good collection of shots off the internet of these cars from as many races as possible. Probably have a few more ideas since the posting linked above, too. I think it was mostly done save the stripes and roundels.

Very cool subject, it would be my honor to help whevener needed.

Jordan

[1961redlegs]

Thank you Jordan, I'll be sending you a PM shortly!

[indy]

Okay, Jerry PM'd me that this is back on the radar. I am going to reply here because we thought it might be interesting to other builders who might want to build this car now or in the future. Feel free to join in the conversation - make comments, ask questions, etc.

I will do this as a side so we will probably work our way through the car. First, let's talk color. This is my opinion and I am no expert but I think the blue is a dark metallic blue but not the red. I would say the red is a brighter shade.

Blue





Red - even though the red does appear darker in a number of photos, you can see it is brighter than the Lexmark signs in Australia but not as bright as JV's helmet. Not sure if JV's helmet is dayglo or just a very bright red.








Jordan

[1961redlegs]

First off, my apologies for having this drop off the radar, I got busy over the holidays and I didn't pursue this like I normally would've.

I agree fully on the colors, the blue I think makes the red look darker than it really is. I'm thinking maybe a Tamiya Bright Red and Tamiya Deep Metallic Blue. I may do a spoon test to see how they look, would anyone else have any ideas?

Jordan, I appreciate your sharing the knowledge on this subject, you're the guru of Reynards!