Found these videos of this rather nice looking Mclaren F1 replica. Based (I think) in South Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIMh-kXNTC8&list=PLsJ5wU_AGBYuxCrOVcBRKwS5wj-Wvl8Q_&index=1

Not sure how he got it so accurate (although I wouldn't have gone with those wheel arches myself), can you do that level of accuracy 'by eye'?

I wonder if a 3d scan of one of the more accurate 1:12 models transferred to ply sheets to make a buck might be the best way of getting an accurate model.

Then you've just got to dodge Mclaren's lawyers... ;-)


Cheers,
James

P.S. Having reached my 40's and inexplicably failed to save up the pennies required to buy my own original F1 perhaps this is the only way forward!

[Edited on 4/3/21 by James]

Stop wondering, start being the hero that is Fred W B ;-:

https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=43112

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Originally posted by Fred W B
In order to measure it myself, I made up a simple 3 axis measuring jig from alloy channel section and flat, steel rules, a straight edge and a digital vernier. Then with the aid of a colleague Andrew, I measured the offset of the body surface from the datum base at every point on a 5 mm x 5 mm grid, and recorded the measurements on a large piece of paper

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Originally posted by Fred W B
The nose completed the set of body panels, so finally I can say the body is finished! That is if your don't count the headlight arrangements and the wheel arch inner panels.

These pictures are with the panels supported on blocks, and with the wheels just placed in the wheel arches.

Plan now is to take some time to spring clean the workshop, and then start to get to grip with the suspension and chassis.

Cheers

Fred W B

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Originally posted by sebastiaan
the hero that is Fred W B ;-:

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Im not sure where I found them but for the Mclaren F1 at least there are full autoCAD slices of the car ready to do an egg box buck I found these years ago so assume he could have used the same files, over the years i managed to find a few cars ready to make a buck out of countash, diablo, mercielage, gt40 to name a few, if you look long and hard enough some of them even come with chassis plans and cutting lists for materials.

If you have access to CAD you can also slice up your own cars as many of the modern driving games have good accurate models that can be exported in order to create a version of for your own choosing

as far as lawyers go i think the company in the states(Miami GT?) that makes the replicas would have more of an issue that a sole builder

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Originally posted by sheepish0001
Im not sure where I found them but for the Mclaren F1 at least there are full autoCAD slices of the car ready to do an egg box buck I found these years ago so assume he could have used the same files, over the years i managed to find a few cars ready to make a buck out of countash, diablo, mercielage, gt40 to name a few, if you look long and hard enough some of them even come with chassis plans and cutting lists for materials.

If you have access to CAD you can also slice up your own cars as many of the modern driving games have good accurate models that can be exported in order to create a version of for your own choosing

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Originally posted by sheepish0001
as far as lawyers go i think the company in the states(Miami GT?) that makes the replicas would have more of an issue that a sole builder

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