Matt Bacon Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 A hard to find kit in an Italeri box, but it turns out that it's been reboxed for the domestic Korean market by Academy, as "European Classic Car". No mention of the maker, nor any Cavallino Rampantes on the box art or decal sheet. However, all the bits are there, and it can be had for a bit less than £20 delivered from eBay. Some detailing under the bonnet to fill the empty space, with a fair few bits and pieces liberated from the spares box or scratch-built. Otherwise it's pretty much OOB. Colour is a home-brew "Vinaccia" (so much nicer than "Aubergine") made with Zero paints components, and the interior is Ferrari "Tobacco" aka Vallejo Tanned Flesh with a dash of yellow added... bestest, M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Bacon Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 ...and with her build partner: it's much quicker to go curbside! bestest, M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Ed Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Very Well Done Matt. The Kit can also be had in a Testors Box with the Ferrari emblems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerPlant Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Great build of a beautiful car! BTW, RoG also boxed this one a while back, including all of the Ferrari emblems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Very nice. The paint is beautiful . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian-w Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 (edited) Beautiful! Totally beautiful! Love it. The paintjob is awesome and the darker brown fits perfectly to the black. You took up my idea to build this convertible in black. Some months ago I read about a barnfind in France. Same car. Also black and I began to look after a kit to build. When I was 20 years younger, I had two of them built already. 11 years ago I sold them with all my Ferrari. Last week I got a kit again - only because of the article So I know how rare the kit is. There was the same kit in a Revell box. This is what I bought. You did me a big favor: no red on the two Ferrari you show here. There a're so many nice colors by Ferrari and so I decided: a Ferrari hasn't to be red (in my shelf). The only Ferrari I'm gonna paint red is the F40. Like your Dino as well as the 250 Pretty well done! Edited May 18, 2015 by christian-w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimer50707 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Excellent job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjordan2 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Spectacular job, plus outstanding photography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMBENNA Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 great builds, looks awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrarijoe Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hamilton Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Wow!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney Schwartz Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 To wonderful looking models.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilrathy10 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Very nice work, Man....It's beautiful....Great paint job and photography..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Very classy looking models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1hobby1 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Love the color choice. Looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Looks great. Nice colour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1959scudetto Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 ...and with her build partner: it's much quicker to go curbside! bestest, M. Great Ferraris, Matt! The California Spider looks excellent - especially in that color! Unfortunately I built mine red/int. black, but have still 2 more originals in my stash: dark blue/tan int., metallic grey/red int. or black/red int. ? Now I see another color combination which pleases me! What rims and tires did you use? Spoke wheels look almost like Italeri's, tires like Protar's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Bacon Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the positive comments, guys! Matija, Christian... the great thing about the Academy box is that it's in production now -- the only reason for eBay is to find a Korean seller. I haven't seen an Italeri-boxed version for sale ever, and the only RoG one I've spotted was ridiculously expensive. I wonder if there's some license that's expired between Italeri and Ferrari. I emailed their team a couple of years ago to see if they were planning to re-release any of these "classics", as they are doing with the Porsches, and they told me a firm "NO." There was also a strong rumour a couple of years back that RoG was going to re-release the Italeri 250 SWB, which is way better than the Esci/AMT abomination, and that came to nothing. (Though RoG DID do the 250 GTO recently). In theory, Italeri could release at least the 250 California, 250 SWB, 250 GTO, 275 GTB and NART Spider, Daytona... Christian... I do have a few Rosso Corsa Ferraris, but I also have 'em in blue, black, silver, yellow and now "Aubergine". There's a lot of scope for interesting colours in the more "GT" rather than "Sports" end of the range... Helmut -- those are the wheels and tyres in the box. I don't think they are too bad -- put them next to a set of Renaissance Borranis or the etched wires that come in the Gunze 250s and they look a bit clunky, but I could buy two boxes of the entire kit for the price of one set of Renaissance wheels... Thanks again, all! bestest, M. Edited May 19, 2015 by Matt Bacon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbowser Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Beautiful pair. Nice clean paint and foil work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
om617 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Turned out great. Tempting to get one of these since the Academy kits are so cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Bacon Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thanks, guys... a bit of a test, now. I traded the EOS400 for an EOS40D, because the 400 was consistently underexposing, and all the shots had to be messed with in Photoshop. These following are straight out of the camera with the 40D. That in itself is a big difference, but I think they are actually better coloured, better dynamic range and slightly sharper. But I may be kidding myself... What do you think? bestest, M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microwheel Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Nicely done. Love the color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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