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Thank you, Pierre. Jason shared some of the photos with me. I agree, it's looking fantastic. Just by changing the knock-off and the finish of the wheel, they become infinitely appropriate for Mercedes, Maserati, Ferrari. The best part is, being 3D prints, the details are so fine, clean and consistent from batch to batch. Very much looking forward to hitting 'Buy Now'. 😃

Gary, the interior is great! The sheen on the upholstery looks very convincing. Nice and smooth too. Did you airbrush it? The foil work on the seats and other interior parts is very clean and the detail painting on the dash, console and so forth looks very good. Looks like you flocked the carpet too? Very nice. 😃

I see it, Matt. Agreed. It's probably safe to say you can replicate 'A' 250 GT SWB, as opposed to 'THE' 250 GT SWB, as they're all hand made with each slightly (or greatly) different from the next.

Interesting how the gray car has the later, deeper wheels, the red car has the earlier shallower wheels, and the white car has later deep on the front and early shallow on the rear.

Pierre's got it covered! 😃

Beautiful work, Pierre!!

Pierre, we always love to see your work in progress. Your craftsmanship is top notch! 😃 Something else I notice, looking at the shape of the rear wheel openings themselves. On the ESCI rendition, towards the bottom of the openings at the rear, they begin to encircle the tires the farther down you go. On the fullsize GT SWB and the Italeri rendition, past mid point, the openings become larger as you go down the fender. The radius is expanding slightly. On some of the full size GT SWB's that line almost becomes an angle leaning towards rear of the car at the bottom. The Burago diecast does this quite nicely and looks very authentic. Anyway, modifying the openings on the ESCI/AMT rendition in this way would help as well. I plan to do that on mine. Larger diameter tires to fill up the expanded openings will look better too.

Pierre, I'm with you; seeing potential in the AMT/ESCI version and analyzing what it needs. The biggest differences between the AMT and Italeri versions is in the tail section. The rear fender hump is rendered taller with greater amount of material above the rear wheel lip on the AMT version. Compared to the full size example, it appears too tall. Notice how the height of the fender lips compare on the full size versus AMT. The rear lip should be slightly higher up on the body, compared to the front. The way the bottom of the rear fender angles down to the same level as the rocker panel looks off as well. Raising the rear fender lip slightly is the first step, I think. Taking much of the angle of the bottom of the rear fender out, leveling it out more, and raising it makes it look much better as well. In the final photo, comparing a modified AMT/ESCI body to an Italeri body, they now look much more alike and accurate.

Duke, thanks for posting these links. Yesterday I was checking out Revell vs. Burago 250 LM models on evilbay and initially thinking the Burago cars didn't look quite right. Then I realized the difference between short nose, Scaglietti cars vs. the long nose Drogo cars. Most of the full size cars I've seen online are the shorter nose, which now makes sense, as they were built that way originally. The Academy curbside kits are a nice rendition, but the going price is just nuts. I'll probably end up buying both a Revell and Burago instead and rework them. I could use the Burago as a base to create a replica of the #21 winner of the '65 Le Mans race. I've seen people try to do that with the Academy kit, and now I know why they don't look correct ~ it's the Drogo nose.

Nice work!!

Fantastic!

Cool project, Phil! Great job. 😄 I saw one of these at Willow Springs and another at Coronado Island. The conversion is fairly straight forward and makes for an awesome machine. I'm doing something similar, but much more involved with my own TR4.

Paul, so that's the Danbury Mint version of an Atlante. The full size car has slightly smaller diameter wheels than what you typically see on one of the Atlantic coupes as modeled by Burago. The most cost effective solution is to go with resin printed wheels from Jack Modeling. He offers multiple diameters and it can be scaled to match the Bugatti. They're very nice, but slightly flat in profile. This is less of an issue for the Bugatti though as their original wheels were fairly flat as well. Another possibility is the old Union Alfa Romeo Gran Sport. It's wheels and tires are nice size and fit for an Atlantic, and they're chrome. Pricing is astronomical on evil-bay, but every once in a while you'll see one that's affordable. Hands-down the best looking option is Fernando Pinto wheels. I've attached some of photos for reference.