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Don't give up on the leather top idea yet. Go to ebay or esty and search for " glove leather scraps". You will find plenty thin leather there. Get lambskin, as it is the thinnest and softest. If too thick, get a skiving knife and remove material from the back. Here is a photo of a sample that I have; it's .030 mm (1/64"). It is very soft and flexible. I'm using it as a sample to see how well it takes stains, which is very well.

You would get a better quality print if you used a resin printer rather than a filament printer. Or have Shapeways print it. The Maserati Zagato will be very complex and will be a serious learning experience for you. Keep us posted.

A Italeri kit was used as a base, the body was sheet plastic with putty applied to it. Not very well. which caused a bit of work for me. It wasn't resin cast.

I acquired this from one of this forum's members (Thanks, Eric). He got it from a well known South African resin caster, but is not his work. Who made it is unknown. It was really third rate work and I spent a considerable amount of time smoothing out the body, reshaping the trunk and correcting other areas. I'm fairly satisfied with the results. I consider the Kellner coupe to be the most attractive of all the Royales.

Bernard, My Maserati A6GCS from South America looks different, also. The panel lines are cleaner and narrower. Seats are different and the door line on the left side is different. I suspect what you got is a knock off.

How many unfinished projects do you have on your workbench?

Excellent work.

Excellent work as always.

The Mangusta haunts me and the quicker I get it done, the better I can sleep.

Thanks for the compliments! I'm now finished.

Almost on the road.

Progress.

It's time to slap it together.

Clear coat.

Chrome decals were made using the Decalprofx system. It's a very "fiddly" and difficult system, but once mastered, can produce excellent chrome decals.

Chrome !

I use Prusa SL1 for support generation. It's very simple to use. ChiTubox support generation is awful, but I use it for slicing and think it works alright, but I don't have any experience with other slicing programs.

Both Maserati and Mangusta are files from the net. They are not printable , however, without a great deal of work to modify them to be printable. The Mangusta suspension, chassis, wheels, etc, was designed by me.

It could, but I'm designing it to fit in my Anycubic Photon.

Thanks! ....but you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Mad Mike does some good work.

Superb work.

The body was fairly smooth to begin with, being high-poly ( many small flat planes make up the surface) and the resin printing method produces a smooth surface. Much better than, for instance, Shapeways, which is a fuzzy, nylon like material.

Last coat of paint.

More touchup.