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  1. absmiami
    Should probably do some more work on the Vanwall engine - but I’ve got Ferraris on my brain … maybe I should just lie down to see if this passes …
  2. absmiami
    Oh dear ….
  3. absmiami
    If you’re loading pix fr your I phone. - give them a “spin” on the editing app - which will give them correct orientation on the thread - which is what I forgot to do on the first trunk shot above …the fourth shot is the obligatory “glued the model to my fingeR tip shot”. That’s always fun …
  4. absmiami
    Gonna put all the …. Junk in the trunk …. But first I have to recover the shut lines on the trunk lid with a strip of Evergreen and lots of CA glue …. And filling the one casting cavity that I found along the lower edges of the body casting …
  5. absmiami
    Diff and brakes really cool …
  6. absmiami
    Very nice
  7. absmiami
    Sanding. Filing. Scribing. Just removing all the excess resin so that the base looks like the master … leave the UMI markings under the base of the trunk, right ??
  8. absmiami
    couple more ...
  9. absmiami
    "filler up ... " note the body work structure support tubes throughout the trunk ... Maseratis and Ferraris always had such cool fuel tanks ...
  10. absmiami
    this is Ferrari 166 MM chass 0010 Cavallino 2000 old fashioned film ...
  11. absmiami
    The base plate has a few features - pretty basic - the kit was designed as a semi curbside with engine compartment detail but not much else - the frame rails should widen from front to back - these do not - the thickness of the base plate makes it impractical to add detail - so I’ll just clean things up and add one or two features - like the leaf springs -
  12. absmiami
    Like this …
  13. absmiami
    Trunk was scribed and then parted. Will use some drum sanders to thin the casting and some disc sanders to smooth the trunk surface. I’ll leave the doors on the body
  14. absmiami
    Time to start yours , Gramps …. Build the Le Mans winner while I make the Spa winner …. Peart build model cars ?? That’s something I definitely did not know …. ..
  15. absmiami
    I third that. The door and trunk lines on the body are very shallow - when the kit was sold you had to turn your xacto blade around to scribe resin or plastic - how’d that work ? the Tamiya scribers are my new gotos …
  16. absmiami
    Ok. Ok. Back again to googs. From moving pictures in 81 - nice. . Maybe brush up on my Rush …
  17. absmiami
    I did know that Peart was an author …. I need to get out more often …
  18. absmiami
    You’ve sent me straight to google …
  19. absmiami
    I would stretch to buy them because - it was generally known / understood that the masters could only produce a limited number of castings When MQ corresponded with Gramps last year he indicated that he sold about 40 of these kits... which is why you wont see many - if any - on Ebay .... How many have been built ?? I've seen a few.... how many are unbuilt ??? who knows - if you know anyone with an unbuilt kit - tell them to post here and snipe at me !! by the way - I think Fernando Pinto has produced a Barchetta - and I'm sure that it is quite good .... and also by the way - I think MFH did one - there's might be equally hard to find the FPP kit I'm certain is still obtainable ...
  20. absmiami
    well played
  21. absmiami
    The body was mastered by Paul Fisher - although the castings were - I think - Mostly done by R&D Unique. This would have been an early effort by Fisher. The body lines are spot on. The shut lines for the trunk and doors are shallow and will need scribing. And the castings had some flash and “stuff” which was removed before these shots. The bonnet fit was not perfect - when is it ever? I dunked mine in some hot water and taped it and massaged a curve on the trailing edge that gives an improved fit …
  22. absmiami
    those racing stripes are really sharp ... I'm looking at those wheels and I'm thinking that this is a 43rd scale ?? is it 43 or 24 ???
  23. absmiami
    nice Aston engine - you spent some time on that fan blade ... - fr the Aurora DB4 kit ?? treat your self to some 3D printed Webers - there are some very nice ones on Shapeways and floating elsewhere around the internet ...
  24. absmiami
    wait you're not gluing the strap to the cockpit floor, are you ?? "the torture never stops" Frank Zappa ...
  25. absmiami
    Very nice
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