mario lucchini Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 A client and friend of mine gave me this kit to assemble & superdetailing it... At first I looked at it as one more small scale kit (I'm used to 1/8 scale), but as I moved on in the assembly and knowing the kit better I was more & more surprised with the quality of Protar's product and its great potential... I searched the Web as alwayas do, trying to find as much data as possible on the prototype, but alas, little I found... However, lets see some images... The wheels are assembled in four layers and a central hub...this is how they came out of the box...lots of flash to clean here!!.. One layer cleaned and polished, ready to receive primer & paint... The hub as it comes... The hub being trued & polished on the lathe... The hub ready... One wheel set complete & painted.. Continued .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario lucchini Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 The brake drum painted as foundry aluminum... A finished wheel seen from both sides... The 2 rear wheels ready to mount on the rear axle... The frame sides being polished & cleaned... The frame assembled with only scale hardware...the naked engine block in place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Is this a metal kit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZIL 111V Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Nice.....got to be patient with this one Protar's ultimate Auto kit, a real museum piece when finished....to bad no early F1 Ferraris made at this scale by Protar back then Revell AG should reissue this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario lucchini Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 Is this a metal kit? Hey Harry! It's 90% metal and the rest is plastic, mainly the engine parts....it is a delight to build, though you need a lot of elbow grease!! Cheers Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Mario, looking forward to your progress. You are the master! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario lucchini Posted April 25, 2010 Author Share Posted April 25, 2010 New parts added to the Fiat....handmade brass leaf suspensions for the rear train... The kit's suspensions are plastic and besides the asthetics, no way they will support the model's weight... The ones I made are from 0.4 mm thick brass plate, cut to 4 mm width from a K&S 1/4" wide strip, the remnant of the cut was used to make the leaf pack ties... Once cut, I heated the leafs to obtain a brownish color and inmediately submerged in W 90 oil, this gives them a certain appropiate elasticity...they were then polished and degreased to be blued before final assembly with cold gun blue... Here you can see them mounted on the frame....notice the real wood floor made with wood veneer table by table... The floor was treated with a slight wood stain and then hand rubbed with Tung oil... Thanks for looking... Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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