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That car may not be authentic - always a problem with we classics builders from the days of black & white photography.
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Silver has a bit more "pop".
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It's time to start thinking about the grille design which is unique to this car so nothing in plastic exists for it. I have fired up Sketchup , my CAD design drug of choice and taken a photo of the car from the front, which gives me the oval shape of the grill and position of the vertical and horizontal bars. A photo of the top of the model is loaded in to the software to give me the curve of the front of the car and then I measure from a photo of the side the angle, which is about 11 degrees. Now I have all 3 views - front, top, and side so I can develop the grille design. Below I am working on it. When finished, I will make a copy, Flip that copy and "weld" it to the right half, then add the cavallino rampante to the center. Then print it in my Anycubic Photon 3d printer.
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Hood scribe template worked well.
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I've drawn the hood on the body so next is to make a template .
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Go for it!
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More body refining.
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I used what is called high density urethane. But it is high density only in relation to styrofoam, it is actually not very dense. The reason that I'm using it is I was never able to find any reasonably priced Renshape on ebay; until recently. I'm now using the Renshape on another project and it's much superior. Don't use this urethane, I've found finger nails will mar the surface.
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Pic of Frenzel.
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Frenzel supercharger: https://www.shapeways.com/product/LL4T3QMAD/frenzel-10-23-15-2-125?optionId=65231815&li=marketplace
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Refinements.
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A light coat of gray primer to sand and refine the body.
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Steve McQueen had one: https://www.velocetoday.com/steve-mcqueens-siata/
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None in 1/24 -1/25 but very simple to convert using a Cobra. I've looked seriously at it. The track is identical and wheelbase is only 1/2" difference. Rework grille area and add little fins on the rear. Probably some simple body mods. Uses a Fiat 8V engine, which I've already made - see my "The Supersonic has landed" discussion in the On the Workbench section.
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Siata 208S.