DaVinci provides 1:1 model of the winning Le Mans racing car
DaVinci delivered in February 1:1 model of the winning Le Mans racing car - Porsche RS Spyder
Team Essex won in 2009 the classic 24-hour Le Mans race in the class of prototypes and train while Michelin Green X Challange price.
The team was short before the race had an agreement with Michelin to sponsor the tires on the car got their special green colors and logo. As the team goes over Essex and wins Michelin wants to buy the car, but when it is already sold to an American collector, offers team boss Bo Nielsen to have produced a model in 1:1.
Team boss Bo Nielsen addressed to DaVinci to get manufactured model. DaVinci was then started to scan a model car in 1:43, when the original was no longer available and out of it and a lot of reference photos from Le Mans, modeled Lars Pedersen car in 3D CAD. The model was subsequently milled in 1:1 on a large five-axis milling machine with 10 mm sub-objectives, then was applied model paste was milled down to the finished surface, which gave a slight core of polystyrene and a hard shell of 10 mm. The car was then sanded and painted and finally wrapped in foil with the original colors and logo, so it appears to the original prototype.
The car will continue to be an exclusive representative of the Michelin Green X Callange concept on display at Michelin in Paris
See the case here
News wrote on 19 March 2010
