MarkJ

Such fabulous wheel work. They came out so perfect you would never know you actually scratch built them. Very impressive. Now I know the finished build will be out of this world impressive too.

Good choice, Pierre. Gotta go with whatever all those hard found parts and decals will look the best on. You still had fun fixing the other body so nothing to feel sad about. The build will end up as always, top of the line and fabulous.

It amazes me how you guys find these really cool kits to build and how you transform them into something you would never have thought would come from the kit. Driver looks like he had been doing some honey-dos at home and forgot he had a race to run so he dropped everything and ran to the track just in time to start the race. Great job on the detail on that driver even the look on his face is one of enjoyment. Can't wait for the finished product.

Wow, what a major improvement over what you had to start with and vacformed your own glass. Very impressive. I can already tell the finished product will be astounding.

Wonderful weathering of this model and looks exactly like it should knowing the body that is underneath the paint and how the interior would have degraded in a barn for so many years. My question is, who in their right mind would put a Ferrari in a barn to have this happen to it? Unless the guy did it, had no family to tell them it was in the barn, or friends for that matter, and he passed away without any one even knowing the car was in the barn. Such a horrible thing to happen to a Ferrari. As you can tell I make my vehicles into actual living beings and even give them names and talk to them like they have actual souls. Gotta go check Maddy, my new Mazda CX-5 in the garage, and see how she is doing today.

I agree with Ken.

Mark, another stunning build. Weird how you had less trouble with the body fit with this one. Model looks just like the other one. You took the real car and shrunk it down to 1/25 scale. 2 down and one to go, and I'm looking forward with great anticipation to seeing it. Model on.

Looking Awesome, Mark. What scale did you say this was?

I'm getting new glasses in 3 weeks. Hopefully that will help the scratch work. After the results of my eye test, I'm surprised I can see at all with my cataracts. Going to have to do a lot of sanding on this deal to true things up a bit.

Going to try to make a Halibrand rear axle for the build. I only have weird oblong too close ref pictures of it to use but will try to decipher them and use other ref pictures of Halibrand rear axles to try to make a believable one.

Excellent job, Mark. Watched the wip with much attention and it's great to see the first of 3 done. Looks flawless from any angle.

Pierre, it is a great product so far. but like you say I'm kind of worried about the handling. We shall see. I'm going to give it a full week before I touch it and will wear clear plastic gloves to not leave any fingerprints.

After taking the offramp for the Chrom I'm back to the build. Made some roll cage padding for where it's needed on the cage. Drilled out some 1/8-inch tubing and slit it down the side and installed it over the .080 roll cage tubes. It really helps to use a jar opener pad when drilling out the tubes. I'm going to call the roll cage finished except for the bars behind the windshield. Now on to the rear suspension.

Took a picture of a cup car I did from this era of Nascar . I will use it as a guide to do the rear suspension of this car. After that, maybe I can start finishing up this build from hell. I've been handling the body so much I think I'm going to have to lightly sand it and hit it with a coat of clear just to bring the finish back. It's really starting to look dull and listless.

Yup, Dave, that's basically what I did but my results with the low humidity were much better than with the 90% humidity. Hopefully you don't live in the middle of Louisiana because Francine is headed your way. Try to stay safe yourself. We just went through Beryl a month ago and lost our power for a week. Luckily our house was okay.

Finally got a 55% day and got better results. I'm happy and can move on to the rest of the build.

Will leave these parts in the clam shell for a couple of more days. Want to make sure they are safe to handle without putting fingerprints in them. I might put a thin coat of future on them but I'm afraid it might dull them a little. I will have to put a lot of pressure on the wheels to install them into the tires. Not too worried about the other parts that much.

And just like magic, its fixed. Great work as usual, Pierre.

Sure is, Ken. Now I can move on and try to actually finally finish this year-old build.

Thanks, Anton, for stopping by for support. I have great news. The chrom came out so good I can't believe I actually did it. I think the difference was applying the chrom to a glossy painted surface instead of raw plastic and that I had 55% humidity to work with. When I get a chance, I will post photos of the pieces I painted. They look better than kit chrome on a sprue. If I can get these results, anybody can.

Mark, it seems like I'm looking at the real car instead of a model. Excellent, excellent work on this one. Can't wait to see all three finished.

I'm fixing to go outside to paint these parts chrome. I also finished the front part of the chassis where it fits into the nose of the body. If I never post anymore on this thread you will know what happened. The chrome was a major failure and I quit the build.