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[Matt Bacon]

Compare and contrast, once more...




Slow beginnings, but I wanted to get the body shells painted so that they can cure properly before final polishing while other work gets under way. The Daytona is Zero's "Blu Dino"; the 599GTO is "Rosso Scuderia", and a matt (ish) black (ish) homebrew for the roof.

These will go slowly while I work on some stuff for SMW 2012, but at least I've started!

bestest,
M.

[Deathgoblin]

Very nice! Excellent paint on both.

[GoatGuy]

Looking good. I need to get one of those 599 GTOs.

[Ira]

GREAT START!!!

[seanyb505]

An excellent study in Ferrari V12's. They both look awesome so far

[Matt Bacon]

Well, it's been a while... Scale Model World is behind me, and my B-26 Marauder Box Art diorama has seen the light of day, so progress is now being made on these at last...



Engines under way. The Italeri 365 GTB V12 is beautifully crisp, with a nice detail, and noticeably bigger than the 599 GTOs. The Revell parts are well-designed and simple, responding well to detail painting, but have slightly more flash and not so precise fit.




The "flying buttresses" are very well engineered, and to fit properly you need to have no primer on the "tab" element or in the slot on the car body. These are cleaned, sanded and pressed into place, where they fit really well....now!

Lots of priming and prep going on off-camera...

bestest,
M.

[Matt Bacon]

Slow progress today...



Engines slowly coming together. The next job is to wire the Daytona ignition.



599 chassis, painted with Vallejo German Grey. I assembled the chassis, wheel wells etc with Copydex (rubber solution glue) before priming and painting. Then, after the paint has dried, they can be pulled apart and the glue peeled off, leaving mating surfaces clean and ready to be glued as the suspension is assembled.



Various parts masked with mesh before spraying a "carbon" effect in graphite grey over black. And the results...





Work on the Daytona suspension continues as well...

bestest,
M.

Edited by Matt Bacon, 25 November 2012 - 11:35 AM.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Such beautiful, beautiful cars. And that carbon trick is slick.

[Matt Bacon]

Thanks, Bill!

Today I have mostly been building a chassis for the Daytona...




The engine is just dropped into place for the moment. The swinging arms are painted with Tamiya Titanium Gold. There are three parts for each corner -- axle and shock, upper arm and lower arm.



The steering isn't positionable, at least out of the box. This is a pretty good attempt at a realistic suspension set-up, unlike the 599GTO, which prioritises what you can see and being able to steer the front wheels. It's a lot simpler and easy to build than the even more prototypical Fujimi Enthusiast set-ups, though. I'd say, all in all, it's a good compromise between accuracy, complexity and buildability.

It looks good from underneath, as well...




As a matter of interest, this now completes Stage 1 of the Italeri instructions! In other news, I've at least had a response from Italeri spares about the bubble I found in the windscreen moulding -- they've asked for some photos for the technical department to investigate:



A long way to go before I have a replacement in my hands, but at least we have opened a channel of communication!

bestest,
M.

[jaymcminn]

Great work so far, Matt. I've actually pilfered your carbon-fiber technique for a few of my own projects- it works really well. The Italeri Daytona, like the rest of their Ferrari kits, builds up pretty well, but the kit's solid engineering tends to be let down by their indifferent quality control and atrocious packaging. I have a 275 Spyder I'm going to be starting soon where the first step in the assembly process was piecing the windshield frame back together! I'm anxious to see how you get on with the GTO, as I've just bought this one myself.

[Jamez]

Looks excellent Matt.

If I could ask, where did you get your mesh for the carbon fiber effect? I've been looking off and on for a month or so and not really found anything the right size.

[Matt Bacon]

Thanks, gentlemen...

@Jamez -- the mesh is actually a dress fabric, from my local department store which sells all kinds of dressmaking stuff. It's a plain acrylic mesh, which in dressmaking land is sometimes called tulle. It's used for veils or petticoats on 50s style dresses, apparently. Anyway, they have it in several colours, and you can probably get different size meshes in a big specialist store...

These guys (or gals) look like they could probably help you (they are in Calgary):

http://www.fabricdepot.ca

bestest,
M

[Matt Bacon]

Just a quick one to save anyone else any trouble. Revell have mixed up the brake disk parts in the 599 instructions. The bigger callipers with the disk only half-shrouded go at the front, on the narrower wheels. The smaller callipers with the "two-thirds" shroud are for the wider rear wheels. Just goes to show... I was so worried about making sure I had the disks facing the right way that I focused entirely on the instructions, and didn't look at my reference photos, which clearly show the right disks for the right wheels... or indeed think twice. I _know_ the beefier brakes go on the front, when there's an option, but I was derailed.

 

bestest,

M.

[Matt Bacon]

It's a big update today (for the 599 at least!) Lots of work that has been going on bit by bit in the background, with no real landmarks to post about, has now started to pay dividends.

 

First of all... some wheels:

 

I don't think that you can tell that they've been prised apart and stuck back together! Paint is Zero's Graphite Grey, and they are shod in Pegasus Michelin Pilots, which should help the look a bit. The disks are sprayed with Humbrol Flat Aluminium, which has a whitey-grey look that's just right for carbon disks, washed with Citadel Devlan Mud to pop the detail, and then the shields and centres are painted with Citadel black and grey. Callipers in Humbrol spray Yellow. Test fit carefully, because on at least one pair of wheels, the raised circular moulding on the back of the spoked disk hub  interfered enough with the brake disk hub raised detail that I could't close the front and back of the wheels. I had to pare it off with a sharp knife...

 

 

The bare chassis assembled. The hubs, suspension, shocks and wheel arches fit nicely if you VERY carefully follow the instructions and numbered sequence. For the back pair, get a hold of the drive shaft with a pair of tweezers and lift it as you slide the wheel arch assembly into place to pop it into the back of the hub bearing, otherwise it'll keep pushing the whole thing out of it's location.

 

The engine:

 

All done out of the box, with detail painting of the parts that Revell provide. You need to cut the tops of the location stubs for the front shocks, which come up through the wheel arches, to get a snug fit for the airbox on top of the engine. The location for the radiator is unclear -- it actually sits leaning back with only the angled side brackets on the baseplate, and the front edge sits ON TOP of the raised tab in the middle. It does NOT go with the flat lower edge glued to the  baseplate, as the location tabs might suggest!

 

 

A better view of the wheels in place, showing where the callipers SHOULD be...

 

More to follow...

 

bestest,

M.

[Matt Bacon]

...and now on to the interior.

 

 

Doors off, you can see the various slightly different blacks, greys and carbon colours (as well as Vallejo Sunny Skintone for the tan). I think the main thing is to try to get a range to represent the different kinds of materials. The steering wheel, for example, has Citadel Chaos Black, Vallejo German Grey, Citadel Charandon Granite (which is standing in for the suede-y Alcantara everywhere it appears in the cabin), and finally Tamiya Gunmetal for an ersatz "carbon" look on some details to small to "mesh" easily)

 

 

The colour's a bit off in this image, but you can see the mesh effect on the carbon dash, the centre console, and even on the seats, where I sprayed black over a German Grey base to give the effect of the "technical fabric" the real thing is made of...

 

 

Another view where you can clearly see the different colours and textures around the cabin. The rest is all tiny brushes and Citadel colours...

 

 

The chassis mocked up. It looks like it'll fill the body quite nicely...

 

bestest,

M.

[Matt Bacon]

And finally, a few "compare and contrast" shots...

 

 

It may be my imagination, or just a front-engined GT car thing, but I think I can see a resemblance between the underpinnings of some of Maranello's finest..

 

bestest,

M

[GeeBee]

Looking good, your putting a lot of work into these builds, I'm sure the final result will be worth all the effort

[johnwitzke]

Looks good!  I just bought the Revell 599 GTO.  Looks like a decent kit.  I have already ordered the exterior paint for mine, it's a little different than yours.  The color is a vintage Ferrari color called Vinaccia.  Here is a photo of the real car 

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[Paul H]

Excellent work, and those subtle colour / texture differentiations on the GTO interior looks extremely effective.

 

Btw, the Daytona was also released by Revell a few years ago.  Almost finished building one (but it has ground to a halt since I lost the bonnet hinge & haven't got around to making a replacement yet) and as you say, it's not as insane as the Fujimi kit, but still goes together nicely.

[cruz]

Very cool and yes, that carbon trick with the mesh is very cool, much better than trying to get a decal to conform to such crazy surfaces!!