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Lol. Yeah, I may need mental help after that too. About the hydro dip, it’s not an option. Even if they made scale options for about the four kinds of carbon I need, there is no way to control its direction with precision. So I’ll stick to decals and try to keep my sanity. It’s not impossible. It will just take a little longer than usual.

This will be interesting

Thank you Scott. It is a complex build. And to do it justice, there is a lot of carbon work involved. Chassis and engine are no joke either. Its gonna be fun with different sizes and types of carbon fiber weave, all strategically placed in particular directions. My back and eyes are already hurting just thinking about it. LOL

This on the picture is the interior of the Huayra Lapo. It is even more hideous on the outside. It was made for Lapo Elkan - the heir to the Fiat empire and CEO of Ferrari. A controversial persona with middle-eastern blood and questionable taste. Back in the day he was driving a matt baby blue Ferrari 599 GTB with interior stitched from jeans. One of the seats had a back pocket randomly placed on it. His Huayra was for sale almost ten years after it was made with only 6 miles on the odometer. A lot of these cars were purchased and owned as automotive sculptures trailered to shows and events and never driven.

Thank you Phil.

Thank you Claude. I've done this same grille surround treatment before and it was posted on here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/146429-delivery-deuce/page/2/ Which reminds me that I have never taken photos of the finished model Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. If it doesn't rain.

Thank you Dan. Jimmy Flintstone makes the body, but it comes with the top molded on and it is a rough casting on the inside. What you see here took a lot of work to look decent on the inside. The cool part is that the body is available pretty much from anyone selling JF bodies and on his site and it is cheap - only $10.

The more I study the instructions on this kit, trust me, it's a good idea to study THESE instructions, The more confident I am that starting with the cockpit/interior is the right way to go. So, today I first sprayed my SEM color on and let the sun speed up the drying process, which with SEM paints is super fast anyway.But considering the amount of masking, some extra UV assisted cure time could be of help. Then all the blue areas I was going to need to stay blue were masked off. A rather tedious job. Tamiya is my go-to masking tape of choice, but for really finicky jobs where I need sharpest line possible, I use bare metal foil. After everything was masked, parts were divided into two groups. One received a coat of white primer and then a coat of Tamiya TS-7 Racing white, which to me is the most beige color without calling it beige. The other group received a coat of Tamiya TS-40 Metallic Black without any primer, as the SEM already took that role. And that's when I realized that I just had my second senior moment in just four days. I dug out all the SEM color cans I had and put aside the two blues I liked. And then sprayed all the parts with the wrong one, called Shadow Blue. I did not catch it during masking and during spraying the following colors. But I knew it was wrong teh minute I mocked up my parts, as it was way too dark. I love the color, but it's just not.....well....Just not Pagani enough for this build. So, the entire masking process was repeated, followed by the correct blue color and then everything was unmasked again. Much better combo! Now I'm starting to have a true Pagani interior with all its excess. Except it's just getting started, because everything that is not blue or white is going to be covered in three different sizes of carbon fiber. There is still one more color element to be added, but I have to wait for my Scalemotorsport order to come in with all the carbon sheets I ordered. And while I was playing with white primer, I decided to shoot the brake calipers. And after cleaning my airbrush like a million times, I thought "what's one more time" and sprayed some Tamiya Mica Blue on them. Me likes... Stay tuned and thanks for looking....

Thank you Andrew. I have some cool ideas about the interior.

Pretty cool watching this coming together. I love builds like this.

Thank you. I am winging this one as I go. Like Jason above said, you can go for broke on this particular car, as literally anything goes. Here's a prime example

My thoughts precisely. Most of these cars have interiors worthy of an Albanian brothel. Which is exactly why I like Pagani's earlier cars way better. I am keeping my Ace in the sleeve with the interior until I make it. I do have some Bianco Fuji paint left from some previous projects, which is a Ferrari tri-coat, which as beautiful as it is, I hate working with. I also have have some original Ferrari Argento Nurburgring, which is about the brightest silver there is. I am leaning towards the Bianco Fuji, as it will go bad if I don't use it. I've had it for almost ten years and almost finished it on my mailbox, when I got bored a couple of years ago.

Your comment was made while I was typing my last post. Great minds think alike, because that is exactly the color combo we are pretty much set on with my kids. Well, with a little twist on the interior. Actually we are set on the blue interior, but were not 100% on the type of white or bright silver for the exterior. Also I am going for gold wheels to match the engine and suspension bits, while my older son is campaigning very strongly against it, saying that it needs black wheels. His brother is with him, but thinks that the black wheels would need a thin blue stripe. I have quite a bit of carbon fiber decals it seems, but I still ordered some more today. I may start on some pieces tomorrow. Perhaps we can have a build off! LOL

I started to cut random parts off the trees and to prep some of them with the intent of visualizing how things would look together and getting closer to choice of color combos. The seats have their backs separate, which I glued and puttied the seams. It is nice to see that part of the seats that is in contrasting color on a lot of these cars is a separate piece. Saves on masking. I wish the seat backs had the same feature, but they would have to be masked if a two color combo is chosen. I am very pleasantly surprised at the variety of options the kit offers. For example the doors are mostly carbon fiber on the real car with a leather insert, housing the impressive speakers. not only these inserts are molded separate, which is a huge help in painting, but there are two different sets with different design speakers. There are also two optional luggage pieces provided, which fit on the shelves behind the seats like on the real car. There are no attachment tabs or holes, so it is totally up to the builder whether to use them. The only issue is that they are hollow with no backs. I fixed that with some sheet styrene and Tamiya grey putty. If you noticed the two wholes in the middle of that shelf behind the seats, they are for another optional piece. You can have a somewhat discreet storage compartment in the middle (which looks better without any bags on its side) for a cleaner look. Or you can put a subwoofer enclosure in the middle, which in my opinion "needs" the luggage on each side to balance its protrusion. As it is often the case in situations like this, I put the decision to a vote with my kids. Both my sons opted for the whole shebang - subwoofer, bags and all..... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/923/XezHgw.jpg We all agreed on the choice of door inserts. All this helped me get a lot closer to final colors for this exotic machine. The interior is going to have quite few blue pieces in it for sure. That's it for today. Stay tuned and thanks for looking...

I totally hear you about ending up in a box. Been there, done that...

I love that yellow. I hope you can fix the rear bumper without much trouble.

At first, this kit seems rather intimidating. There is like a million pieces and not many are for the bodywork. lots and lots of really fine thin and fragile parts. It should be fun! I decided to start by tackling the body first. It comes in a crisp white plastic and as I usually do, I'll be gluing some pieces in advance before any paint, even if the instructions call for a different sequence. The rear engine cover has vents for the air intake that are faithfully represented by moulding them in pieces. Gluing them is not an issue, but filling them and sanding in those crevices can be testing. Underneath is only slightly better. Because of all the nightmarish fitment issues I've read about, I removed as much material as I could. If hoods are fixed open, all that inner surface will be covered in carbon fiber. The rear facia is comprised of five pieces. Depending on how you plan on building your model color wise, you may want to paint these pieces before assembly. In my case this entire piece will be covered in carbon fiber, so no reason not to glue everything together in advance. Also this way it's easier to foresee any fitment issues at earlier stage. The side body work and side intakes are moulded in three separate pieces. In my case these pieces are also going to be completely covered in carbon fiber, as alf of them are the body work, which I am doing in exposed carbon weave and the upper half are part of the monocoque, which is notoriously exposed carbon on all Huayra cars. At least as far as I know. After considerable amount of sanding, pretty much all body panels are ready for primer, which seems to be the easiest part of this kit. Stay tuned and thanks for looking.....

Now that’s something you don’t see very often! I think you did a great job on essentially dreaming up and materializing a whole new car of your own. it’s a great model and beautifully executed to boot.

Holly thread resurrection, Batman!

I can't believe I just discovered this thread. After going through all the 25 pages, I'm still having trouble picking my jaw from the floor.

Very , very nice. I love it when models have personal stories attached to them.

Thank you. The frame was C-notched quite a bit at the front and there was not much spring left on top of the axle to make it sit that low. The front bumper exaggerates the stance further. Thank you. the interior is what it was all about. I needed a testbed for the B400 I was actually building.

I am a little hotrodded out at the moment and my wife always laughs at me that I need to build something different. So I am going to build not just an Italian exotic, I've built my share of prancing horses and raging bulls, but THE Italian exotic and arguably THE most exotic of all exotics. The Pagani Huayra by Aoshima. From all the Pagani cars this is my least favorite. I find it way overdone in terms of design and the fact that it has become the middle east's measuring stick for kitschy show off compensation contests does not help it much in my book. But I have had this box collect dust for almost three years now and it is time to grab this bull by its horns. This is my model I have not decided on color combos yet, but I am headed in the grey metallic/ pearl white direction with some wild interior. Something like this perhaps Or something just a touch more toned down.. Either way, from all the videos I watched about this model and everything I have read, it is basically impossible to build it with functioning hoods. It was just never designed that way and it is meant to be built and displayed with either the hoods open or closed. It does offer some amazing detail, so I will be opting for the full display of inner detail. It looks tho, I firs must order like 300 sheets of carbon fiber decals for this thing. Either way, stay tuned....

Nicely done. Here is my UPS truck based on another paddy wagon.

Scott and Rusty, thank you both. Rusty, I wanted the car to have a very traditional feel, but in the same time be like something that would have come out of Brizio's shop if I had the means to ask him for a "simple" daily driver B400. So I thought to add some simple "off the shelf" sparkle under the hood.