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[maddog]

Two items not included with the ORIGINAL 1955 Mod download, are available here as optional updates :


1/  A full colour front page, for those who prefer a colourful start.

2/  A repaint of the Gonzales Ferrari, with colours discovered to be more realistic than originally offered.  It's a lighter, brighter car, to better befit what little evidence we have.

 55mainbk_Colour.jpg   79.34K   156 downloads  Blue_Maser49.jpg   13.2K   197 downloads  Gon_blue.jpg   75.27K   199 downloads  1955_Argentina_Gonzalez.jpg   91.89K   168 downloads


. . . . . . .  55mainbk.zip   300.61K   87 downloads . . . . .  c08_Blue.7z   907.6K   119 downloads


INSTALATION  :
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1/  Unzip, or drag & drop 55mainbk.pbf to your : GPL/Layout folder, and overwrite.



2/ Unzip, or drag & drop c08_Blue to your :  GPL/cars/cars55/c08 folder, and overwrite.

[Manfred Cubenoggin]

Cool!    Thanks, Martin.

[gliebzeit]

Just plain wrong.

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•  1955 Argentina GP Maglioli #10 Gonzalez #12.jpg   62.44K   158 downloads
•  1955 Argentina Formula Libre.jpg   76.05K   165 downloads

[maddog]

The Mod team decided to give Gonzales the colour's of Argentina, though he also raced in traditional Ferrari red during 1955.  He did not race in a strange blue/black car.  Old colour photos sometimes age badly.  A indication of a problem is often the sky colour.  

Mod team artists have learnt to avoid photos with bad colour's where possible.   We've very few of Gonzales in blue.  Black and white can show us which cars are lighter, and which cars are darker when seen together.  There are also restored museum cars. While it's possible these do not have their original colours, most are similar to the one I've posted here.  None are as dark as in the released 55 Mod.

It takes good detective work, to restore the closest thing possible to reality, to the cars we provide to GPL fans.

 Flag_of_Argentina.jpg   29.99K   2 downloads

Edited by maddog, Dec 14 2017 - 01:19 PM.

[Luigi 70]

it was a puzzle for me too, until I found this model:

and so...

[gliebzeit]

The Ferrari 625 in the 1955 Argentine GP as driven by Gonzalez is the same dark blue/yellow as .... from the 1954 Argentine GP race which was the older 500 / 625 F1.  Notice the position of the exhaust pipes.

".... though he also raced in traditional Ferrari red during 1955" - Gonzalez ONLY drove in one championship race in 1955, the Argentine GP, in the dark blue/yellow Ferrari 625.

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•  1954 Argentine GP Gonzalez Ferrari 500-625.jpg   110.04K   147 downloads
•  JFG.jpg   66.21K   167 downloads
•  ElGrafico.jpg   187.73K   110 downloads

Edited by gliebzeit, Dec 14 2017 - 09:27 PM.

[Luigi 70]

Thank you Greg for the pics

[Royale]

Clearly, the mod team is just drawn to the dark side.
Actually Javier's drawing is what put me over when we were working on the mod. Thanks Greg.

[Luigi 70]

thanks to the Greg's pics (and photoshop ) I think the colors are close to this:

But I will not change anything in the GPL, because I think that 1955 GPL mod is a work of art ....

[gliebzeit]

"Clearly, the mod team is just drawn to the dark side."

'These aren't the Ferraris you're looking for..."  

[maddog]

Guys, the 1955 black & white I posted clearly shows the Ferrari lightness, compared to a Lancia, and a Mercedes.  And Museum cars show that lighter blue was usual for Argentina.  The dark blue the GPL artist has used, is not unattractive, and a huge improvement on the blue/black beta it replaced, but it's a 1954.  The 1955 car is lighter.

[Luigi 70]

The world is beautiful because it is varied...
and those years are fascinating for this too...
so the choice is yours (members)...

[maddog]

Most of our drivers simply want to jump in the cars and go race.  But here you see i little picture, of how we make things as real as possible.  Improvements are not always easily won, and there are few of us to make them.

I have made some new evidence that shows Gonzales racing the dark blue Ferrari, as suggested.  Look carefully at the car, and you will see where the darkness meets reality.

 1955_FAKE_Gonzalez.jpg   80.35K   52 downloads

Edited by maddog, Dec 15 2017 - 01:50 PM.

[Luigi 70]

I tried to color your image on this site:
https://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp:8082/
but the result does not help our research

[maddog]

Thanks for your help Luigi.  Black and white cannot give us the colour, but it does help to decide the hue, when different 'colour's' are shown together.   Your model in the photo makes good detective work.

Edited by maddog, Dec 15 2017 - 03:16 PM.

[Alan Davies]

This probably doesn't help?  Produced in 1955> of the 1953/54 article.  The condition of this toy is outstanding.

[Royale]

Cool & thanks. Nice dark blue

Edited by Royale, Dec 16 2017 - 08:25 AM.

[maddog]

That car is in amazing condition, Alan!  That's very collectible and worth a lot of money when near mint, and 3 dimensional

I first cars I ever owned, were Dinky.  I'd a Vanwall, a Connaught, and a Talbot Lago.  But their paintwork soon had 'dinks' in them, from every conceivable angle.


EDIT  :  For those arriving late, I'll add how frustrating it was to wait for new cars to be made.  A 1954 car in 1955, would have arrived at top speed!

Edited by maddog, Dec 17 2017 - 10:52 AM.

[maddog]

. . . .  Gonzales newblue.jpg   34.82K   64 downloads .

An exhaustive search  . . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . .

Edited by maddog, Dec 20 2017 - 02:58 PM.

[Royale]

Love that dark blue

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•  Blue.jpg   687.4K   78 downloads