Kennyboy

Thank you Ray! I am really enjoying your scratch build as well! I would have loved to be one of you guys back then!! One of my all time favorite exotics.

Thanks Jason! Yeah I wish that this was like a Tamiya in quality too!

Ok, on to the engine/drivetrain.

I'm with Cato on this one. Aluminum cans don't really work as well as the pans. I did the pedals on my F40 with that material.

Thank you Bill. I wanted to do the Cavallino horse with a decal but it didn't work out so I did the F40 instead......I'm glad I did in the end.

Thanks Ben

Completed photos of the interior tub. Floormats were done like the dash and F40 was handpainted by me. Shifter was scratchbuilt from a straight pin and a stainless rod. Seats just need the harnesses.

Thanks Gary and James!

WOW Harry! That looks just amazing. The level of detail is incredible. Good show sir!

Great work on this Gary. Love the custom stuff!

Finished the dashboard, made a custom floor mount for the accel pedal, working on the floormats right now. Dash is glued in. Kept seats out for these to show details:

Thanks Derrick!

Thank you Ben. It is embossing powder that was sprinkled into wet paint, allowed to dry, dry sand with 600 grit, cleaned and painted over it with gray acrylic water base. (For the dash and interior of course Seats were similar without the sanding part.)

Actually, I found the command to rescale in my printer preferences when I went to print. It is in "effects" . Print % of original size. I then turned up the resolution to 1200 dpi (for photo paper) When you do this, you can check "view print size" prior to printing to see the rough size. May differ from printer to printer but the concept should be similar. Takes a little trial and error and you may have to downsize the original image a little before re-scaling. (try not to downsize too much or your image will get fuzzy) With this, I took a 6" wide picture of a gauge cluster and printed it at around 1" wide....very clearly I might add.

I have to agree with you and the others David, this kit does go together very easy and fit is great. Your build is amazingly clean (as usual for you) . Great job!

Beautiful build Mitchell! Makes me miss my 1:1 S2000 (been gone now for a little over a year.)

OH my gosh, finally an update! Been working on the interior because it needed a LOT of help. Scratchbuilt: Heater vents (plastic door panel push pins), glove box door, whole underside of dash, all gauges, all buttons, real leather e-brake boot. Added: ScaleMotorsport twill carbon fiber, PE shifter bezel......more to come.

Yes but they were very brittle and the too small for 1/12 scale. Not to mention, they weren't even Ferrari gauges. Problem is solved, a colleague at work helped me thru the problem. It turns out that I was trying to resize the picture not RE-SCALE the picture when printing. When you re-scale it prints clear enough to see the numbers on the gauge.

Oh yeah, the program I have is Photoshop 4. I don't know how to use it very well though. I'm just confused.....

I have been searching every day now for about a week and I can not find 1/12 scale Ferrari F40 gauges. I do not have the proper software to scale down 1:1 gauges either. I have burned up so many full sheets of paper with blurry prints on them. I am getting so frustrated with this! I need to move on with my build on my 1/12 F40 but these darn gauges are holding me back and the decal that came with the model (Protar) is completely useless because it is the wrong scale for the PE dash bezel. I am hoping someone can help me with this.....I work a lot and most of my model building is done very early in the morning (when I have very little patience for nonsense.) Thank you for your help on this.... Ken

Looking great Jonathan!

That is soooo unfortunate because that dash looked beautiful!

This is beautiful Romell. It is the benchmark I am trying to aspire to on my Protar F40 build.

Tomo, that looks just awesome! Great job so far.

As usual Ira, you have set the bar higher for yourself! This is just amazing! I bet you have the coolest looking display cases in your house. I love watching this take shape!