1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC

[CDW]

1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

 

Edited April 15 by CDW

[DocRob]

I can´t like as fast as you build Craig .

Cheers Rob

[CDW]

I'll start with the engine. This is a 3D printed one from Texas 3D Customs. Very well detailed, much more so than the kit engine which is clunky, inaccurate, and outdated by more modern reproduction capability. Could I get by without it, yes, for sure. But I bit the hook and here it is. I plan on priming with a black primer then using a combination of acrylics, metalizer lacquers for dry brushing, detail paint the engine in the next steps.

[DocRob]

That engine looks beautifully detailed. For my 1/24 Fujimi Ferrari 250 GTO, I have a set, made by  USCP, addressing the most visible shortcomings of the engine, the air funnels and ignition wiring with 3D printed parts, but your set is even better.
USCP also produces exhausts for the 250 GTO, which are nicely detailed. I don´t know, if they are correct for your kit as well.

Cheers Rob

[Canute]

Nice bit of bling with the 3D print engine. Go get 'em Speedy.

[CDW]

Getting started with detailing of engine.

 

 

 

Edited April 18 by CDW

[Javlin]

Craig I see why you went the route of the AM engine whoa! The painting looks really good well look much the part under the hood(I like fast cars)

[CDW]

One of the kit decal options is for a particular year in the life of this car when it was red. I wanted a red Ferrari instead of the black as shown on the box art.

Due to complications of fit, I chose to resort back to the kit-supplied engine rather than the aftermarket one. I just won't have the time to fiddle with all the small mods needed to make the aftermarket engine fit this particular car. Maybe I can use it in a later model, Ferrari 250 GTO project. June is quickly approaching so I must get moving. Besides, I was looking at photos of this model built using all stock components and it looked very good.

Color applied was Mr Surfacer 1500 pink, followed by Mr Color Super Italian Red.

[Canute]

As your normal, the red finish looks superb, Craig. Ferraris should be red.

[CDW]

5 minutes ago, Canute said:

As your normal, the red finish looks superb, Craig. Ferraris should be red.

Thanks, Ken. I agree about red. 

[gsdpic]

20 minutes ago, CDW said:

Thanks, Ken. I agree about red. 

Especially Ferraris that have "Rossa" right in the name of the car .  And I agree, the finish looks great, as we are used to seeing from you.

 

 

[CDW]

Test fitting engine to chassis for fit. Everything looks positive. This is the kit engine.

[DocRob]

Bummer about the printed engine, Craig, but the kit engine doesn´t look too bad either. The wiring is a nice touch, is that copper wire? Your red finish came out great and I´m as well thinking, red is the color to go with Ferrari´s. On my Honda RC166, I used pink primer as a base for a red topcoat for the first time and it came out great.

Cheers Rob

[CDW]

3 hours ago, DocRob said:

Bummer about the printed engine, Craig, but the kit engine doesn´t look too bad either. The wiring is a nice touch, is that copper wire? Your red finish came out great and I´m as well thinking, red is the color to go with Ferrari´s. On my Honda RC166, I used pink primer as a base for a red topcoat for the first time and it came out great.

Cheers Rob

Sometime long ago I bought this very small gauge insulated copper wire for ignition wiring on 1:24 scale models. I cannot remember who I bought it from. I’ll look for more this coming Saturday at the model show. That’s probably where I bought it the last time.

[DocRob]

I have some rolls of lead wire in different diameters. It is very good to work with, soft but keeps as bent and is good to paint. I think it is made by PlusModel.
Your coppery look fits great to the engine.

Cheers Rob

[CDW]

.3mm Plastruct rod to simulate the white piping used on the red leather seats of the Testa Rossa.

Edited Friday at 01:35 AM by CDW

[CDW]

Along with the Porsche Carrera GT, Kawasaki Ninja, Honda RC166, "Betty" the Bugatti T35B will be going with me to Pelicon 2025, an IPMS regional show, here in Tampa, Florida, tomorrow. I always look forward to this event as it is a wonderful display of modeling talent from all over the southeastern USA. Not to mention a mountain of vendors. So much to see there!

 

 

[yvesvidal]

Please take some pictures from the show (if your hands are not too busy with kits and parts).

 

Yves

[CDW]

34 minutes ago, yvesvidal said:

Please take some pictures from the show (if your hands are not too busy with kits and parts).

 

Yves

Will do! I'm bringing a wagon. 😁

Edited Friday at 04:14 PM by CDW

[Jack12477]

4 hours ago, CDW said:

Will do! I'm bringing a wagon. 😁

I don't think it will be big enough, Craig! 😉

[CDW]

The Pelicon 2025 show was a blast! Many, many, high quality models on didplay. Hundreds of people attended. There were raffle drawings every hour in numerous categories with a grand prize raffle at the final hour with some excellent prizes. I managed to win six of the smaller hourly raffles and two of the grand raffles! I felt like a bandit. 
I managed to win one silver and two bronze medals with my four entries, for which I was grateful. I took a ton of photos but won’t post all of them now at this late hour. What I will post are photographs of Nestor Espinoza’s Nationals winner, the Maserati 250F by MFH. An extraordinary, beautiful build. Nestor is a resident of Tampa who has published work from Mig Ammo.

Edited Sunday at 06:10 AM by CDW

[DocRob]

Congratulations to your awards and raffle wins, Craig. The Maserati is a piece of art.

Cheers Rob

[Danstream]

Congratulation Craig for your awards! Well deserved!

Cheers, Dan

[Jack12477]

Congrats on your awards, Craig. Also for your raffle prizes. 

[gsdpic]

As others have said, congrats on the well deserved medals.  After the raffle haul, did you buy a lottery ticket on the way home?

 

[Canute]

Congratulations on the medals, Craig. Well deserved.

 

Did you bring your lucky horseshoe for the raffles?

[Jack12477]

Forgot to ask you, Craig, was the cart large enough for the haul of all the prizes etc ? 🙄 😉

Edited Sunday at 05:59 PM by Jack12477

[CDW]

12 hours ago, DocRob said:

Congratulations to your awards and raffle wins, Craig. The Maserati is a piece of art.

Cheers Rob

 

12 hours ago, Danstream said:

Congratulation Craig for your awards! Well deserved!

Cheers, Dan

 

10 hours ago, Jack12477 said:

Congrats on your awards, Craig. Also for your raffle prizes. 

 

8 hours ago, gsdpic said:

As others have said, congrats on the well deserved medals.  After the raffle haul, did you buy a lottery ticket on the way home?

 

 

5 hours ago, Canute said:

Congratulations on the medals, Craig. Well deserved.

 

Did you bring your lucky horseshoe for the raffles?

Thanks for the kind comments, all.

The small raffle tickets were $1 each, I bought 20. The big raffle tickets were $5 each, I bought 6. After you bought your tickets, you could drop as many as you wanted into each category bucket. The categories were divided between automotive, armor, aircraft, ships, or supplies. All the proceeds from the raffle go to support the host club while the prizes were donated by individual members and local businesses, some national businesses. I don't know why, but I'm mostly always lucky when it comes to these type raffles. Lotto, not so much. 

Here are some select photos of the myriads of scale models that were on display.

 

 

[Canute]

Quite a lineup, Craig.

 

And this was mostly local area modelers?

[CDW]

33 minutes ago, Canute said:

Quite a lineup, Craig.

 

And this was mostly local area modelers?

Not exactly sure but guess most are from Florida perhaps with a scattering from other nearby states. One thing is for sure, the members of our hobby, for the most part, are becoming more advanced in age shall we say. Not more than a relative handful of youth attended. 
Mist of my photos were taken early in the day. Many more models showed up later but taking photos was complicated by all the traffic around the display tables. Easily there were a hundred or more contestants and even multiple more models on display.

Edited Monday at 12:52 PM by CDW