Rich Chernosky

Nice clean build and the color looks great. Keep up the good work.

Thank you Gary, especially for the reference disc, which was an invaluable aid to finishing this kit. Yes....the shovel did come with the kit and it looks like it was very much needed according to some of your reference pics. If I remember correctly this was standard equipment on many cars at the time. The drivers were not allowed outside aid.

Another Fisher kit under my belt. This one is the Ferrari 365P White Elephant car that ran at Le Mans in 1966. Colour is Tamiya TS26 white and Testors 1111 dk blue. Extra features include seat belts, steering wheels, wing mounts, extra photo etch, mirror mounts. A lot of very fussy details went into this project and it slowed me down quite a bit but done it is. This model represents the car as it was raced. This car was run by North American Racing Team (NART) and went through quite a few changes before it hit the track. Seat blet materila is 4mm silk ribbon cut in half, Hardware came with the kitWhite elephant on the wing support is how the car got its nick nameOne of these knock-offs had one of it ears broken when I got the kit. Found it in the box and repaired it. It was very tiny and I was lucky to find it. Learned a new trick when I applied these bolt heads. They are almost microscopic.Original photo had a blue paint smudge above the front winglet. The camera never lies

very nice

Great looking build....like the color and decal choice.

Great job on this kit . I especially like the work you did with the emblems. so crisp and clean. This is one of my favorite Ferrari's and you have done it justice.

Do it step by step right along with the directions. Tamiya tape and Parafilm are my go to's. There are also guides etched into the plastic to help. Don't try and do it all at once...that was scary. Everything lines up like magic if you follow the lines.

Another one off the bench. Built this box stock. What an awesome kit. Not really much else to do. The fit on the parts was unbelievable. But also a very complicated kit,not for the faint of heart. Much masking and painting to be done here. Black is both semi gloss and gloss and had to be masked and painted seperately. Decals were many and only the red ones in front p[osed any real problems. After building this kit I can appreciate the engineering that went into one of these cars. They are basically built like and F-1 car but with fenders. The kit goes together the same way. Tamiya went to a lot of trouble to includes all this detail. You can barely see it through the tiny windows. I like to take pictures of the work that is going to be hidden. This looks more like an f-1 cockpit. Most of the semi and gloss black has been sprayed in these photos. getting ready for final assembly. All done, note how slick the body panels fit.

Built mine the same way. You did a great job on a great little kit

Unbelievable paint job, like the colour

Excellent work, like the wire wheels, good choice.

I didn't interpret your comment as criticism. I have actually answered that question many times. We are all artists here in some form or another. Our choice of techniques and preferences are what makes us unique. So all is good. Gary.....here is a site that may answer your questions.....https://gravity-colors.com/model-car-paints/colors-by-manufacturer/ferrari/page/2/ Just click on any of the colors and it will tell you what era it was used in. This is the site for Europe. There are two seperate companies...one here and one in Spain. I have some of thier colors and have used them and they take some getting used to. Which is why I went with what I know. I will use them in the future when I am experimenting.

Dale....I will give it a try with my next Mclaren project. A friend of mine wanted a 1/43 version of this car built and he provided me a sample bottle of paint that was alleged matched to the nose of a real Mclaren. Mr Color 109 Character Yellow matched this sample spot on. So I used it and it looked good to me.

Very cool picture Gary, its similar to the box art. The windshield was vacuum formed in clear green plastic. No need to color it.

On a roll with resin kits. This one is also a Fisher and represents the Mclaren M6A that Bruce and Denny Hulme drove in the 1967 Can Am series. Colour is Mr Color 109 Character Yellow. This is a semi gloss colour and had to be clear coated. This particular colour was the closest match to a sample taken off the nose cone of an early F1 Mclaren. There has always been a huge debate over the orange colour used by Mclaren. But this was my choice. Other features include steering wheels, wired and plumbed engine insert, handmade roll bar and seat belts. This kit was by no means a walk in the park. Much grinding and fitting has to be done to get the chassis and wheels to sit right in the body. But in the end it was worth it as i am fairly pleased with the results. Comments appreciated as always.I have a pet peeve about non steering wheels on a model. This was my solution. Plastruct rectangular tubing, brass rod and the stock axle. The roll bar was made from a steel paper clip. I got lucky when one end of it was just the right size.

The color was a personal choice. I had no intention of making this a "scale replica" Its a model car and just has to look good to the eye. It also had to match the other cars in my collection, in particular the 312 spyder. I have had great results with Tamiya TS49 so I stuck with that. Hope you understand better.

Thanks Gary...you were a huge help....appreciated..

One of my favorite cars...thanks for posting

Very Nice Dan, you do the best interiors...

Now that's cool, very creative, nice diorama too.

Nice save, looks great.

Great looking build, like the color.

My first resin in a while. This is a Paul Fisher Ferrari 312P coupe. Paint is Tamiya TS49 Bright red. Some extra features include steering wheels (my pet peeve) seatblets, and some extra photo etch. Build was pretty straight forward but with all resin kits it is the time spent preparing parts. Body in particular. Not my first trip with a Fisher kit as you can see I have it also as a 312P spyder. They make a nice dispaly in my Ferrari section. Thanks for looking.

Thank you for the compliment. I have the Tamiya kit completed as well. The working door hinges that Tamiya supplied were very clever. They pulled out and then up. And the door fit when closed was superb.

Mike...not to my knowledge. I soaked the decals in very warm water then applied them with some solvent. Then a hair dryer on low and worked them with a wet brush. Didn't do that the first time around and probably used too much solvent. If you have ever used the heat trick with decals you should be OK