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#442923 I believe that they don't have the shape correct. From the
Posted by Craigj3534 on Friday Jul 15, 2016 at 04:29PM in response to #442921
pictures of the real #2 Le Mans car at the tech inspection (?), the body has more of a downward curve in the middle making it look more sleek and the windscreen is raked more sharply. The model looks thick in the middle; the body is too high, when measuring from the bottom of the rocker panel to the top of the front cowling and the windscreen is too vertical. Look at the side windows: in most of the pictures the shape of the bottom of the window is tilting down, toward the middle of the car; on the model the bottom of the window looks parallel to the bottom of the door frame, the bottom of the rocker panel and the ground.

I agree with Ulf, the shape looks closest to that of the last version that was scrapped.

When a good side view of the model is available, then we can make a more accurate comparison. Looking at it from an angle, such as for the model and Ulf's color picture of the actual car, makes the curvature of the fender top more flat and makes the window shape more parallel to the ground. Maybe this angle magnifies what might be only a slight difference between the model and the real car. For example, look at how the #2 car appears much more sleek in the b&w photo than in the color picture Ulf supplied. Looks like a totally different car.


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