Ferrari FXX-K

[Funkychiken]

Like my builds, it's coming along slowly, but also yours looks excellent! 

[harti20]

Hi all

On 8/6/2022 at 8:20 PM, Funkychiken said:

Like my builds, it's coming along slowly, but also yours looks excellent! 

Thank you very much

The monocoque and the engine have been brought together and the last two carbon decals have been applied to the monocoque. Additionaly the cooler has been assembled from the PE set and brought in position. I just saw on the picture that one of the rivets got lost, so I'll have to hope that Hobby Design didn't count too exactly when bagging the rivets  

The seats have been painted and on the backside I started applying the carbon decals. On the upper part I was a little too confident on the first attempt and tried to cover everything with one single decal (from the top edge to right underneath the openings for the seatbelts). Now I'll try to cover it with at least two horizontal parts.

The painting of the outside of the doors has been finished. Now they only need some carbon decals (on the lower black part) and some clear coat. But as I won't be able to clearcoat in the next few days or even weeks because of the temperature it may take some time until I'll present some more progress on the body parts.

  

And that brings me to the last picture of this update. I started applying the carbon decals on the air box.

On 7/20/2022 at 7:04 AM, beeRS said:

Great work Urs. With regards to overspray in areas that will be covered up with carbon decals, are the decals fully opaque?

Yes, the decals are fully opaque, so that's no problem. But, what I didn't take in consideration was the fact that the decals might not fit properly (or I couldn't attach them to fit properly)...😔 So, I'll have to do some spot repair with black paint...

That's everything for this week
Urs

[harti20]

Hi all

Intrinsically I would have had a lot of time for modelling last week as I still had one week vacation, but in fact either I was not at home, or I just didn't feel like working on my kits. But a small progress has been acheived nevertheless.

First of all the first of the two seats could be finished. I won't cover it with carbon all the way down as it can't be seen anyway (I don't think that much of it can be seen once the model is finished anyway).

And the second thing are the brakes which could be assembled and are now waiting for their installation But before that I'll have to continue with the wiring of the engine because some spots won't be reachable later.

That's all for this week. Tomorrow I will have to go back to work, I'm sure I would love to build the whole next week... 😂
Urs

[harti20]

Hi all

This week I made some real progress on my Ferrari. Especially over the weekend I was able to spend some time on my workbench and therefore started applying the carbon decals.

First the splitter was done. Somehow I always have some trouble applying decals inside a curve. Usually I don't get the decal lying down without leaving a more or less big bubble underneath. This time I managed to get rid of the bubbles, but instead I got some wrinkles...

Then the air box has been finished. I know, the red stripe isn't as straight as it should be, but as it tore apart when I tried to position it, I was happy to not destroy it more, so I left it as is. The two Ferrari scripts are still missing, I will apply them once the clear coat had time to cure. I applied it only about half an hour before doing the pictures.

Then it was time for one of the decals that frightened me most, the thing on the switch panel on the middle console. That decal consisted of more holes than actual decal material. So I was super afraid tearing it apart while applying, but in the end it was no problem at all.

After that the rear wheel housings got their carbon decals and some matte clear coat.

To finish the carbon decal work for the moment I applied the thin stripes on the bottom side of the passenger door and the body part right behind the door. After having done that I couldn't resist applying the rest of the door decals as well to get a first impression how it will look like in the end 

And finally I continued wiring the engine. Somehow it seems that one plug got loose again. So if the engine won't start, I know where the mechanic will have to investigate first 

That's it for today's update.
Urs

[harti20]

Hi all

This week a lot of decal work on the body parts has been done, hoping to soon be able to clear coat the body.

Last week I showed you the doors with all the decals on. When I studied the building instructions again, I found out, that I missed two decals per door: the small Italian flag in the silver stripe and the "NO STEP" on the carbon part of the door. So I took the doors out of the box containing the finished parts, added these two decals and put the doors back in the "finished parts box". When checking the instructions again to get an impression what will have to be done before starting to clear coat, I noticed that you not only have to look at the side view, but also on the top view... 🤔 There was still the thin silver stripe underneath the windows missing... so I took then out once again, added the stripe and put it back in the box. I think, if I don't discover a previously hidden view from underneath, the decalling of the doors might now be finished... 😂

On the two body parts right behind the doors there was one decal missing as well, so I added this too (the FXX-K lettering). As you can see, I will have to do some touch up in the red paint.

Finally I also added some more carbon fibre decals to two parts in the back of the car. On the one in the second picture one decal was a little too small (or I cut a little bit away by accident, can't really remember), so I'll have to do some touch up with black paint before clear coating.

That's it for today. Last week I was a little skeptical whether I could finish it by end of the month to take it with  me to a exhibition held near Basel in Switzerland, but now I think it might work out. Especially because I unexpectedly will have some extra building time the upcoming weekend 🙂 
Urs

[slusher]

Real nice Decal work and detail work!

[dino246gt]

Looking great!!!

 

[harti20]

Hi all

On 9/13/2022 at 10:44 PM, slusher said:

Real nice Decal work and detail work!

 

On 9/17/2022 at 6:36 PM, dino246gt said:

Looking great!!!

 

Thank you very much for your kind comments

After having applied the last few decals to the bodyparts on saturday, sunday was clear coat day.

First of all the worst part: the engine hood. Applying the silver decals inside the recesses was a real nightmare. They wrinkled and were very brittle, so they also tore apart when I tried to move them around. Later when applying the clear over it, the surface got very rough. The engine cover was the only part the clear went on like this, all other parts were mostly fine. Some minor dust got in on some spots but nothing too serious.

On the front hood the silver decals have been much easier to apply. The only thing they didn't really like was MicroSet and MicroSol, with these liquids I had to be very careful, so I used mostly pure water to apply and flatten the decals

The remaining parts have been quite easy to apply the decals and also clear coating was no problem at all. Why I'm only showing one side parts? Well... silly me applied the first, mist coat of clear to all parts, but forgot the second side part when applying the second and third coat. Of course I only noticed that after having disposed all of the remaining clear coat and cleaning the airbrush... There are still some smaller parts (mainly the rear view mirrors and the winglets for the spoiler) where I'll still have to apply some carbon decals and which I had planned to clear with Mr. Hobby Super Clear as I thought, that would be enough shine for such small parts. Now I think I'll mix up some more 2K clear once these parts are ready and hopefully apply clear also to the second side part.

That's it for this week's update
Urs

[beeRS]

Great update Urs. The decal work looks very tricky, but you have done a fantastic job. With the clear coat on the panels look amazing. 
Did you take this to the exhibition in Basel?

[harti20]

Hi all

On 9/30/2022 at 6:55 AM, beeRS said:

Great update Urs. The decal work looks very tricky, but you have done a fantastic job. With the clear coat on the panels look amazing. 
Did you take this to the exhibition in Basel?

Thank you very much  No unfortunately I wasn't able to finish it before the exhibition, because I was mostly knocked off by a flu for more than a week right before the exhibition started

Nevertheless I continued building and could almost finish it by now. So let's start with the progress I made since my last update.

First of all the seats have been completed

Then the body parts have been polished and waxed. Here shown on the front hood

After that it was time to complete the interior. Unfortunately I only realised on these pictures that the carbon pattern on the steering wheel is way out of scale. But now I'll have to live with that...

The front hood got some more parts attached

And finally the first few of the body shell parts have been attached to the chassis / monocoque.

That's how far I am right now. I think that I should be able to finish it by the end of this week
Urs

Edited October 3, 2022 by harti20

[harti20]

Last week the FXX-K could be completed. You'll find the Under Glass pics here: 

 

[beeRS]

Thanks for sharing this build. It looks fantastic. 

[harti20]

On 10/11/2022 at 10:38 AM, beeRS said:

Thanks for sharing this build. It looks fantastic. 

Thank you very much