1996 Hemelgarn Racing Team

[lazierfan]

This is the Hemelgarn Team from 1996. I built the Lazier car about 8 years ago when the Revell kits first came out. I just completed the other 2 late last night. (Some one asked me to do the other 2 for them and all will be going as a group.) I plan on doing another full detail version of the 1996 Winner with even more details now that my skills are better. The others were built from the Revell kits as well. I needed to sand the brake calipars even with the rotors,sand down the wheel backing plates and remove the rear brake ducts in order to be able to mount the AMT wheels and tires. The rear wing mounting struts were taken from the AMT penske kits and modified to work. Modified the rear tire air ramps and scratch built the radiator exit defectors and cut down the rear wing end plates. While they are not totally accurate they came out pretty good

[russd]

Very nice! The paint jobs are Fantastic, and the added details really make these look great.

RussD

[indy]

Get those babies some sunlight so they can really pop!! ;D

Just an exceptional job considering you put a engine in this curbside kit!

Jordan

[russd]

May 7, 2009 14:07:56 GMT -5 indy said:

Get those babies some sunlight so they can really pop!! ;D

Just an exceptional job considering you put a engine in this curbside kit!

Jordan

Yeah Jordan... I noticed that engine also. Can we get a close up picture of that. I would like to hear how/what you used to make the engine and drive train.

I was hoping that some day, someone would come up with a decent cast resin engine block that you could add to these kits.

RussD

RussD

[lazierfan]

Russ and Jordan, thanks for the comments. There is an earlier post of the Lazier car with a pretty good picture of the engine from last fall(Aug 2008) I used a Cosworth engine from the old AMT kits. I shaved the heads and the bottom deck of the engine down untill they fit. them did the headers to fit. Used the Revell kit gearbox. I biult this car actually 9 years ago when I was just getting back into the hobby. It actually won the SAE Magizine regional contest in Chicago in 2000,but they never published photo's from that contest. It then placed 3rd at a contest in Indy. First and Second place went to Clay Kemp who now writes for SAE so I was real happy with the way it came out. And at that time no one had ever tried to put an engine in one of these kits. I am currently working on a new one(as a new fried has talked me out of this one.) The new one is going to be alot more detaied than this one as my skills have increase alot over the last 9 years.

The engime will be alot more realistis because I built this one from what I thought it would look like with no photo help. I now have very good photos to go from. If there is enough intrest I will cast the engine and other piece to do a conversion. I am working on the engine right now so this would be a great time to do it.

[russd]

May 7, 2009 20:19:33 GMT -5 lazierfan said:

The engime will be alot more realistis because I built this one from what I thought it would look like with no photo help. I now have very good photos to go from. If there is enough intrest I will cast the engine and other piece to do a conversion. I am working on the engine right now so this would be a great time to do it.

If you cast the engine I'll take 4 of them.

RussD