1/24 Panoz LMP-1
Model, Text and Photos by Tim Harris

This Panoz was built from a Renaissance kit. It is a very good kit, and it went together with little cleaning-up and few fit problems. There are two kinds of photo-etch, the wing components, wheel faces and side plates are made from brass and then all the dry break cell and hood latches, harness hardware are in a very good nickel silver.







The decals are a combination of Scalemotorsports and Modelers, both carbon fibre and carbon Kevlar. For most of the tub I made my own templates, firstly with Tamiya tape and then out of paper (it is better to draw around as it makes it just that fraction bigger, which allows for any shrinkage.) Then it is out with the Microsol for the flat bits and copious amounts of Microsol and Microset for the compound curves, along with a hairdryer and no small amounts of patience.



I also included some very good Sakatsu bits and pieces in the cockpit on the dashboard and on top of the drivers seat, they were turned aluminium buttons, warning lights and two kinds of switches.







The drilled brake discs were pinched from a Studio 27 Porsche 962 detail set, and the calipers were a Fujimi hop-up option. Technically these are wrong, as I am sure the brake discs were carbon and the calipers are definitely AP Racing, although the ones supplied in the kit were rubbish. I felt that the inclusion of the Fujimi Brembo white metal ones would look better and they do, although they are as I have already said not right. Artistic license we will call it.

This was not overly difficult build, it just took a long time, longer than I had anticipated, and as a result I had some very late nights to get this finished for a show here in England. I was going to enter it into the competition, but then did not at the last minute. Judging by most people's reactions, I should have done! Ah well, that's life, and it can always be entered at another show if I go to one.

Tim Harris