Pierre Rivard

Welcome back JC. Thanks for the info about wheels. I de-chromed and painted my cheapie wheels. I have used the Goodwood pictures as part of my references although with caution as far as accuracy of restorations. One thing I have not done is the red rear wheels...just looks odd to me.

Took time but you got it done. Resin body right?

Still Vallejo, with 20-30% water thinning, 2 coats. This way it goes on very smooth. It does not have a filling property but provides a good foundation for color coats. I spend time prepping the body before. After mods the whole body was wet sanded all the way down to 4000 grit before primer.

Going cheap on this build as I just put myself on a credit card embargo. So unless I receive a gift from a good samaritan this build will be all sweat and spares...

Thanks bud. It will be a while before I do color, but I just primed it in the last hour. Brushed on 2 coats and I surprised myself. Not a piece of dirt or even a hint of brush marks. I won't even try to polish that primer, going straight to color coat. I wish it was always that easy.

Félicitations Claude. I have zero knowledge about drag racing but there are a lot of cool cars in the category. Your model looks awesome and your detailing and finishing skills add up to an impressive results.

Cool!

Very nice Tony. Tell us more about your process for the body dings & bumps and weathered paint. Looks really good and lifelike.

If the 2008 restoration of this car reflects the original design...

Not much else was done to the body for 1962 LeMans duty. Location of race type fuel filler on rear hatch next to a cabin fuel tank vent, bug screen deflector and the LeMans style "mud flaps"

Making the fuel filler. Evergreen 4mm and 2.4 mm tubes, 0.5 x 1.0 flat, 0.5 mm rod and 0.35 mm steel wire.

Oh yes, something new to try. Go for it!

So no primer or color coat, just Future over the polished black styrene body? Nice!

Many good options. Make-up applicators with the sponge tip work great. As for products I like brushing on Vallejo washes (waterbased) for contrast and sponging on Tamiya weathering masters for creating color change areas (ex seat wear or exhaust heat effect etc)

That's a nice one Gary. XKE roadster + hard roof (if you can find one)+ some nice scratch building = Lightweight Jag. I love it.

Seat looks good. Might want to give it a dark brown wash, would make it even better

A wonderful build Helmut. It's great that you post a picture of the real car as it highlights the fidelity of the scale replica you have built. Color, detailing and finishes are all beautiful. I am not familiar with the Italeri kit but it looks the part. Even the (cast?) wheels look really good. Have you added any aftermarket detailing items or are all these nice details part of the kit?

Not sure yet. Maybe a mix of silver & black or silver with a dark wash. The grill has to be there to reflect the car I am modeling but I want to make it low key.

Helmut, beautiful builds of yet another great Ferrari prototype.

Wonderful fabulous build sir. Impeccable detailing and finishing. The 1/1 came in third but the 1/25 is a winner! p.s. I love the hood...?

The front side assembly sequence requires to assemble the bonnet structure & headlamp assembly to the bonnet and then glue in the lower front body piece. I pre-assembled the structure but gave it some relief to allow sliding it into a glued together upper & lower bonnet assembly. Taking the opportunity to use that structure to attach a fabricated inlet grille. I hate that grille but it was on the race car. I used the same method and materials used for the Corvette grille (picture 1). I'll try to make it look a bit thinner with paint effects.

Starting work on the body. the race ace car body is not much different than stock but first I want to make changes enable bonding the front and rear lower clips before body prep and paint so that seam (picture 1) can be dealt with. These seams would be very visible on a bumper less car. On the rear side it basically involves separating the lower body element from the chassis pan. After some experimenting on how the chassis and interior could slide into the rear body portion I just chose my path. Done.

Thanks. Then I should watch and learn and get convinced to take one of these on. Is there a sales outlet in North America or ordering form Japan the only source?

Rich, despite the many issues with the kit it has come out of your "atelier" looking mighty fine. You have achieved beautiful paint finishes and figured out ways to secure all these recalcitrant body panels. Big scale stuff can be unforgiving but you have nailed it! Bravo!

Bob, your work is magnificent and a great joy to follow. You are taking on the challenge to bring realism to the kit, something we always face with the 1/25 series (70's cars) Salvinos kits. The Satellite body on this kit looks really nice but the chassis/engine is junk i.e fix everything like you are taking on or transplant a Revell chassis with scratch built front structure. Expensive kit for just a body...