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The videos I've watched on this car indicate it was made for racing in a new class that never materialized. It's possible the spare tire was a requirement of the class, and it was made as light weight as possible just to satisfy the requirement. All up weight on the car was at or very near just 2500 pounds.
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Chassis is finished now. Will begin masking and detail painting the body tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in.
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After spending the time to paint and detail that battery, it all gets hidden under other objects. Win some, lose some.
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In front is a spare tire compartment that rests under the front bonnet. The gold colored object is a brake booster and master cylinder. Before I put the chassis in place within the car body, I need to mask off the car body to paint all the black trim, then set the glass in place. A lot of masking ahead.
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The interior is almost finished while waiting for some details to dry before wrapping it all up. A while back, I found a vendor who sells a large fret of chrome Ferrari badges in various scales, self-adhesive-backed. These will come in handy on this as well as other Ferrari model builds in the future. I used the smallest prancing horse badge on the steering wheel. Almost too hard to see with the naked eye. At least with my naked eye/s. 🙂 The shoulder belts are done with masking tape cut into 3mm strips. My model gave no indication of lap belts on this model of Ferrari and I didn't notice any on interior photos found on the net.
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King Tiger Diorama by chadwijm6 - FINISHED - Airfix - 1/35
CDW replied to chadwijm6's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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With that twin turbocharged V-8 engine sitting directly behind the driver and passenger, seems the cockpit might get uncomfortably warm in the summer. When I was young, I owned a custom 1955 Dodge pickup truck with a 440 cubic inch V-8 engine. It got so hot inside the cab, in summer months, it was too uncomfortable to drive.
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Hey, I resemble that remark. 😄
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Here's my interpretation of the seats for the Ferrari 288 GTO Yellow. Are they close to correct? I'm not sure, but they will have to do.
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I robbed the .50 caliber machine gun from my Walker Bulldog kit to use on another tank project. I ordered this little kit to replace the machine gun. It's a shame to pay 1/3 the cost of the entire kit for one itty bitty machine gun but I did. SSMODEL SS835866 1/35 Model Upgrade US Browning M2 HB 0.50 Machine Gun 1pc | eBay
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Do you have "Ollie" stores in NY? They bring in cases of random model kits from time to time and sell at a deep discount. Typically, model car kits that normally sell for $30 and up are selling for $12.99, sometimes less. A couple of months ago, I bought a brand new 2 cycle string trimmer/edger for $69.99 at Ollies. That's less than half the cost of Home Depot or Lowes.
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Thanks Phil
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Today, I fashioned those "wings" next to the breather boxes I talked about yesterday. I painted the cover with wings, silver as can be seen in the stock photos. Here's how it looks on the model. Next, I consulted reference photos of the interior on the net. The kit instructions call for the seats to be painted in black with the center panels in red. This seems totally wrong to me with a yellow car. A yellow Ferrari with black and red seats is going to look ridiculous IMO. Unfortunately, I could not find reference photos of the interior in a red car, so I am going to guess they would be black with yellow center panels. My intention is to use liquid mask to cover each little panel in the center, then paint the seats black before removing the masking to show the yellow. Last, I gave the entire body a good wet sanding before laying down another good wet coat of yellow lacquer.
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Yes! Come over tonight and have a piece of cake and a cup of coffee. 🙂
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Thank you very much. Talent is overrated. Good friends like all of you is priceless.
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You’re too kind, Alan. Thanks! My cousin who is 95 told me, “getting old is not for the weak” I never had any bad days but now and then have a few sore ones. I’m having too much fun to accept reality at the moment. Or maybe it’s only as real as we believe it is.
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You guys crack me up and thanks for the kind words. I guess we all are getting closer to “old”. I turned 70 today and don’t need to be reminded I am officially a senior citizen. Heck, even my fishing and hunting licenses are free now. The governor probably knows my eyesight and reflexes aren’t much a threat to wildlife anymore. 😀
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I hope you didn’t really think it was my model. Yes of course it’s a photo of the 1:1 car and annotated to show what details need to be scratch built for the model. It’s a red Ferrari. My model is yellow. You are kidding, right?
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Outstanding work OC. It’s epic!
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Alright OC...this is so you get your 'picture-fix' before going to bed tonight. The gray breather boxes sit dry-fitted, the yellow piece also dry-fitted needs to be painted aluminum and need the scratch-built vertical wings on each side before being cemented in place. The four exhaust pipes can be seen exiting from the rear awaiting their aluminum exhaust tips. Nighty-nite, sleep tite and talk at 'ya later.
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They are in the mail. You didn't receive yours yet? 😁
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I'm building out the remainder of the engine compartment. The kit provides most of the detail seen in the photograph but not all. The two dark gray boxes at the rear of the compartment are breathers for the turbochargers. These are included. The aluminum plate notated in the photo is also included, but strangely, the two rounded vertical plates are not included and need to be scratch built. Not a big deal to make a couple but just a note for your future interest if you build the model yourself. Some of the smaller details seen in the photo but are not included in the kit, I'll need to decide whether I will or will not take time to add from scratch.
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The rear suspension and disk brakes are another area where you will want to take your time, be patient, and work the fit to get it right. It's a little fiddly to get all the parts in place at the same time, but that's what you'll need to do to get a good fit at the glue joints. On assemblies like this, I use the Model Master cement shown in the photos as it has a slower setup time, a precise applicator tube and allows superior control of the amount of cement and location of the same. Unfortunately, this particular product is no longer in production, and I am working on my last bottle of it here. In the future, I will go back to my old standby cement, Faller Expert. It can be found on Amazon if you're interested. As an FYI, I painted the disk rotors and hubs with AK Super Chrome, the calipers with Tamiya titanium gold. The control arms, transaxles in satin black with rubber color boots. The shocks are red with black springs. One of the fuel cells became the first casualty of removing the chassis from the tight fit inside the body. I've made a decision to assemble the remainder of the parts with the chassis outside the body as there is so little space to work the parts into position once the chassis is mounted inside the body. The fuel cell has been repaired. 🙂
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