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Took time but you got it done. Resin body right?
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'57 Chevy Jalopy
Pierre Rivard replied to TonyK's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Very nice Tony. Tell us more about your process for the body dings & bumps and weathered paint. Looks really good and lifelike. -
So no primer or color coat, just Future over the polished black styrene body? Nice!
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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)
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Seat looks good. Might want to give it a dark brown wash, would make it even better
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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?
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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...?
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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.
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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.
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Model Factory Hiro 1963 Ferrari 250 Lusso
Pierre Rivard replied to Brudda's topic in WIP: Model Cars
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? -
Ferrari F-40 LM
Pierre Rivard replied to Rich Chernosky's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
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...