Thank you to Mark for sharing his incredible build with us at GSL! And thank you to all in the scale model community for your stories, artistry and support. Wishing everyone a happy and inspiring New Year!
Incredible! Pure passion. 4 years to build, with the fire extinguisher alone requiring an entire month to build. I'm getting into modeling again after a 40 year hiatus, and while I can never hope to reach Mark's level, this is truly inspirational and aspirational.
Stunning build of my favorite kit of all time. Being in my 70's I still have the original kit in my collection and never had the courage to tackle the kit to do it justice. After seeing his build I know I will never build it ! Just stunning. Thank you.
I remember seeing a street driven Lola T70 featured in Hot Rod magazine in the early seventies, and the article was entitled, IIRC, "Whatever Lola wants...." Such a cool car, and a really neat model. Well done!
I met him (and his wife) once there when I was picking up a few 1/43 car kits from his mom, Peggy. It's been a great while and I had completely forgotten about Mark's passion for super-detailing with special focus on Super-Sevens! You could tell that his mom was so proud of his skills. (BTW: I miss Amber. 🦮)
I also followed this build on the forums. This is the most beautiful model I have ever seen in my 60 years. Unreal the amount of craftsmanship built into the Lola T70.
The Marc Jones! Absolutely beautiful! Love that color! Guess I would have to look from a distance, that’s a lot of Magnets! Would probably fry my stimulator-pacemaker! Painting letters on tires used to be a big no no unless using acrylic paint! Who knew!Dang you can smell the race fuel just watching the video! Bravo Sir!!! 🫠🫡🇺🇸
Doug, great job on the interview with Mark Jones. What a beautiful car he had and it was nice that you and him could talk about all the detailing on that and I enjoyed that when I saw it at the show too anyway great job keep up the good work.
Mark is an absolute master of his craft and has my jaw on the floor with every build. Dad and I act like little kid’s when we see all the details and effort put in. When you have a build sitting next to Randy’s Corvette and your’s still grabs everyone’s attention you know you did something right. I have to get to a GSL in ‘24. Thanks for sharing
Those tires soften over the years then sag from the weight of the car. One trick I learned of was to cut an appropriately sized strip of plastic (that of beverage containers are ideal) and install it inside the tire. The plastic strip flexes outward to "reinforce" the tire and helps it to keep its shape.
I really admire car builders. With military or construction vehicles, you can get away with a lot. But cars are unforgiving. Everything has to be pristine.
That’s a stunning build, I’m glad we got to hear the stories behind it and it obviously deserved all the prizes. It’s interesting considering 3D printing, I’m still at the stage where I see it as an alternative to genuine scratch building, if you have the technical knowledge you can push a button and have any car or part in front of you in a matter of hours. It’s great but is it as worthy as someone who’s built that part entirely by hand? Especially if it’s someone else’s programme or coding? Maybe people felt the same when they saw Augie’s handbuilt marvels back in the day. I’m glad I’m nowhere near ever building anything to a contest standard, I’d hate to have to compete my poor scratchbuilt pieces against top quality 3D printing. That’s in no way a comment against Mark’s skills or anyone else’s btw, I’m just thinking out loud.
Thanks! We attach a cordless dji lavalier mic to each speaker, plus we have the mic on the camera(s) to sync with in editing. With a limited budget we only have two lavaliers so we have to compromise or put them on the table if there are more than two speakers. They help cut down on room noise at a show, but sometimes placement on the person gets interference from breath and beards. We’re still figuring it out.
This was the GSL XXVII International Scale Vehicle Championship (Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2023). It was a 4 day event, and the final one of a premier competition that has run since 1979. You can find other videos on our channel from this show (they all have GSL in the title) and we will be publishing more videos from this show as soon as we can edit them!
Sweet, but there's something I have always wondered. Why do people with a specialty car, always want a scale model of the same thing? YOU ALREADY HAVE THE REAL THING! This is that same idea, but on crack! Why spend all that time building a small scale model of something when you already spent years building the real one? Seems so incredibly redundantly backwards.
Thank you to Mark for sharing his incredible build with us at GSL!
And thank you to all in the scale model community for your stories, artistry and support. Wishing everyone a happy and inspiring New Year!
Incredible! Pure passion. 4 years to build, with the fire extinguisher alone requiring an entire month to build. I'm getting into modeling again after a 40 year hiatus, and while I can never hope to reach Mark's level, this is truly inspirational and aspirational.
Stunning build of my favorite kit of all time. Being in my 70's I still have the original kit in my collection and never had the courage to tackle the kit to do it justice. After seeing his build I know I will never build it ! Just stunning. Thank you.
Perfect definition of "if you're gonna do something, do it right" 👏😯
Wow! So much little detail. Thanks for sharing!
That thing is amazing!
Wow!
I miss making models
I remember seeing a street driven Lola T70 featured in Hot Rod magazine in the early seventies, and the article was entitled, IIRC, "Whatever Lola wants...." Such a cool car, and a really neat model. Well done!
I had the pleasure of watching Mark build this at MCM forums over the past couple of years. Tons of work to make it what it is for sure
I met him (and his wife) once there when I was picking up a few 1/43 car kits from his mom, Peggy. It's been a great while and I had completely forgotten about Mark's passion for super-detailing with special focus on Super-Sevens! You could tell that his mom was so proud of his skills. (BTW: I miss Amber. 🦮)
I also followed this build on the forums. This is the most beautiful model I have ever seen in my 60 years. Unreal the amount of craftsmanship built into the Lola T70.
Wow thats amazing work
Awesome !
What a stunner! Thank you for sharing this. 🤗
Wow, he did a vantastic job on that one
Amazing detail!
Absolutely Magnificent Mark!! That is just mind blowing detail!! Thanks for sharing your talent with us!!
What an amazing piece of art! Wow!
Absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing. What a gorgeous build of a beautiful machine.
Pretty Wild--
The Marc Jones! Absolutely beautiful! Love that color! Guess I would have to look from a distance, that’s a lot of Magnets! Would probably fry my stimulator-pacemaker! Painting letters on tires used to be a big no no unless using acrylic paint! Who knew!Dang you can smell the race fuel just watching the video! Bravo Sir!!! 🫠🫡🇺🇸
Wow, that's amazing work.
Awesome work!
Cool as always. Happy New Year 🎉
Wow so inspiring
Absolutely incredible. I've always thought the T70 was a beautiful piece of engineering
Good video thanks lee
Amazing.
Mark does amazing work, definitely a big fan of his art......
Seen his work forever.....my SoCal buddy competes against him on a regular basis. thx
Doug, great job on the interview with Mark Jones. What a beautiful car he had and it was nice that you and him could talk about all the detailing on that and I enjoyed that when I saw it at the show too anyway great job keep up the good work.
awesome build 👌👌👌👌🏆🏆
Awesome build.👍 Happy New Year 🎉🥳🎇
Wow, impressive work and model. Happy New Year from Nova Scotia...
Thats a awesome build!
Great build!!!!!! 👍👍
Mark is an absolute master of his craft and has my jaw on the floor with every build. Dad and I act like little kid’s when we see all the details and effort put in. When you have a build sitting next to Randy’s Corvette and your’s still grabs everyone’s attention you know you did something right. I have to get to a GSL in ‘24. Thanks for sharing
That was the last one. 😢😢
Awesome detail work. Very very cool.
Well built, beautiful. Thanks for sharing this inspirational build. 👍👍👍.
Absolutely MIND BOGGLINGLY " GORGEOUS " 🏆🏆🏆🏆 Thanks For Sharing Guys. Wishing You & ALL YOUR'S a Blessed Safe Happy New Year 🎉🪅🎊🤗 Gary.
Awesome build and it's absolutely amazing the amount of detail and craftsmanship that went into this build 🙌😍❤️
Insane level of detail. Thanks for sharing with us. Happy New Year to you Doug.
It's such a Beautiful Build!!! Great Video!!! Thanks for sharing
Absolutely GORGEOUS!!! ❤️👍🏼
Sweet build!
Most incredible build and mark is brilliant! I’ve watched this video over n over. Amazing work like your own sir.
Amazing - thanks for sharing this description of such a piece of art work! I am miles and miles and miles away from that perfomrance with my models.
Awesome craftsmanship
Gorgeously done! Thank you for the video!👍
Beautiful !!
The tires from that period are a problem. I had a M8A Tamiya where only 1 tire melted into goo after fourty-some years.
Those tires soften over the years then sag from the weight of the car. One trick I learned of was to cut an appropriately sized strip of plastic (that of beverage containers are ideal) and install it inside the tire. The plastic strip flexes outward to "reinforce" the tire and helps it to keep its shape.
Fantastic work!
Thank you and Happy New Year Doug.
Outstanding work! The level of detail I would love to implement in my builds, make it as close as possible to the real thing.
A madd scientist indeed. Sheesh!!
Brilliant and inspiring craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing this Doug. Happy New Year to you!
I really admire car builders. With military or construction vehicles, you can get away with a lot. But cars are unforgiving. Everything has to be pristine.
That’s a stunning build, I’m glad we got to hear the stories behind it and it obviously deserved all the prizes.
It’s interesting considering 3D printing, I’m still at the stage where I see it as an alternative to genuine scratch building, if you have the technical knowledge you can push a button and have any car or part in front of you in a matter of hours. It’s great but is it as worthy as someone who’s built that part entirely by hand? Especially if it’s someone else’s programme or coding?
Maybe people felt the same when they saw Augie’s handbuilt marvels back in the day.
I’m glad I’m nowhere near ever building anything to a contest standard, I’d hate to have to compete my poor scratchbuilt pieces against top quality 3D printing.
That’s in no way a comment against Mark’s skills or anyone else’s btw, I’m just thinking out loud.
shore come a long easy since I built my first MPC in 1970, I don't even remember what it was, nascar prolly, #43 WoW
Great video! What's the microphone set up you use?
Thanks! We attach a cordless dji lavalier mic to each speaker, plus we have the mic on the camera(s) to sync with in editing. With a limited budget we only have two lavaliers so we have to compromise or put them on the table if there are more than two speakers. They help cut down on room noise at a show, but sometimes placement on the person gets interference from breath and beards. We’re still figuring it out.
@@ModelCarMuse Thank you!
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wish he told us how he mixed that paint lol
how much pearl etc
What an exceptional build. I would put this on par with the skill level of the A4 GARAGE model builder. Check him out.
What show was this at?
This was the GSL XXVII International Scale Vehicle Championship (Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2023). It was a 4 day event, and the final one of a premier competition that has run since 1979. You can find other videos on our channel from this show (they all have GSL in the title) and we will be publishing more videos from this show as soon as we can edit them!
@@ModelCarMuse Thank you so much!
Why would it have a spare with it ?
Sweet, but there's something I have always wondered. Why do people with a specialty car, always want a scale model of the same thing? YOU ALREADY HAVE THE REAL THING! This is that same idea, but on crack! Why spend all that time building a small scale model of something when you already spent years building the real one? Seems so incredibly redundantly backwards.
2023 is expired lol