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Nice! Except it should be white.

Looks fantastic. More and more Vettes like this are starting to turn out at the autocross events on the Good Guys shows and at events around the country. I personally love the look of it. Can't wait to see it finished. What color is it going to be?

That's definitely wild. I would love to see how it turns out.

Day and a half dealing with decals and still not even half way there. There are quite obviously some things that need to be addressed and touched up, that can be seen on the pictures. There is also a lot more to be done and a lot more carbon to be added. Hope you like the pictures.

And let the "carbonization" begin.

The black parts were covered in carbon fiber, some other decals were added and then everything was sprayed with clear.

Nice progress. I love the F1 cars from that era

This is 100% my kind of build. I wish the manufacturers were offering more kits like the Aluma Coupe and there were more kits with parts like modern IFS an IRS.

Simply AMAZING work so far

Wow, that dash looks really good.

This is not a diecast. It is actually resin.

Thanks guys. The two tone paint job has a hidden agenda. LOL. Basically the car will be NART blue with the roof in matt blue carbon fiber. This is the reason for the two colors. LaFerrari was offered to customers in three general options. All in one color In two tone as the car was introduced to the press Some had body matching mirrors and some had roof matching mirrors As an option you could have all the black parts on a two tone car in carbon fiber And then came the super special cars requested by the super special customers, like this Swiss collector. This is what my model was inspired by. with a flat blue carbon fiber. So my model will be unique and definitely different, but totally within what is possible to order from the factory with all original colors and options.

The colors I am using for this build are based on a real car made for a customer in Switzerland. Except I twisted them a little. The original car is Tour De France Blue. I decided to make mine in NART (North American Racing Team) Blue. Both colors are original Ferrari shades. The NART Blue is very difficult to photograph with a flash, as it has bigger flakes than other metallics in the Ferrari range. My model has a different blue for the roof and center portion of the front. It is unfortunately very hard to capture on the pictures. Here the upper/roof portion of the doors is Blue Herra (a Lamborghini color) and the lower door is NART Blue. This picture makes the NART Blue grainier looking than it actually is, but it shows the difference with the Herra Blue in the middle section The insides of the doors were masked, painted blue, unmasked and then clear coated. This will give a good foundation for all the carbon fiber decals to be added. These parts are going to be mostly covered in different carbon fiber finishes, so they were sprayed with Tamiya gloss black. Stay tuned and thanks for looking.

I would also like to chirp in and congratulate everyone whose models got featured. I would also like to express the great disappointment in the issue, which I just picked up today. I am not going to comment the choice of models featured or the captions or anything like that. These are topics that will always have people having different opinions and something to cheer or complaint about. I just can't believe that the one issue of the year which is comprised almost exclusively of pictures has some of the worst model photography I have seen. Really? The one issue that everyone buys to drool over fellow builders color choices, paintjobs……The ,I am pretty sure, best selling issue of the whole year that people use for inspiration and as an idea book came out at least a month late and then it is filled with pictures that look almost as good the pictures my 5 year old takes of his Lego toys with my wife's phone. Basically according to the pictures, Ferrari red, Hemi orange, some pinks and everything else in between are pretty much the same color. I have seen many of the models featured elsewhere. Some I had the pleasure to have seen in person, some in other publications and others on this very forum. And I have to say that the pictures in this issue not only don't compliment all the hard work it took to create the models, but down right insults them. Grainy, badly lit, out of focus, lacking color and badly positioned pictures have no place in a magazine that has the pretensions of being THE model cars mag. Let alone in the issue that is basically a picture collection. I am not bitching and moaning, for lack of better things to do. But you guys have really dropped the ball with this issue. I am not mad or agitated. Just plain disappointed for my favorite magazine not leaving up to some pretty basic standard.

Thanks for the wishes guys. On a much brighter note, I just sprayed some clear coat on the blue parts. Now they will be wetsanded, decaled and cleared again.

The body was sprayed Tamiya Pearl Whilte Then the fenders and the spoilers and diffuser were sprayed gloss black in preparation for the carbon fiber that will go on top of it.

Thanks guys. AFX, the seatbelt material is a precut with adhesive backing from the parts box. I believe it came from a Fujimi Ferrari 330, but not 100% sure.

The engine compartment was also painted and put together The dash was also first painted and then detailed with some carbon fiber and photoetch. And everything together….

Time to revive this thread. The seatbelts were tested my patience, but I got them done Next the interior was painted in two tone red and black in a manner hiding its inaccuracies and carpeting and some more detail were added. The upper part of the belts were assembled and then attached together with the upper portion of the seats.

Thanks for the support guys. I have to ware a glove when in sunshine for the whole summer and when working with chemicals, but other than that my hand is fully functional. Still have some tension in my index finger due to nerve damage, but other than that it is healing really good.

HI guys. I have not been active on any of the forums for some time because I had a nasty accident. I burned my left hand pretty bad, which put me out of commission for the better part of two months. I hope not gross out anyone with the pictures. They are pretty much the healing process in two week intervals. I am finally fully operational again, altho not 100% healed. Updates coming soon.

Thank you guys for the great comments. The paint is Tamiya Bright red. They developed it for their Ferrari F1 models, when Scuderia Ferrari changed their color to "Marlboro Red". I just decanted it from their spray can and shot it through my airbrush. It is cleared with PPG urethane clear.

OK. I guess I will just repost everything up to now. The engine received the first round of wiring and plumbing After all the pieces for the body panels were glued together, all the seams were filled with Tamiya grey putty, sanded and then everything was sprayed with a coat of 2K primer. Once dry, everything was sanded smooth and then sprayed with Ferrari PPG NART blue. After drying for a day, the body panels were masked to leave the roof and some of the front exposed, pretty much like what the instructions show to leave black. Except I am not leaving it black. I sprayed it Lamborghini Hera blue. On the pictures it looks pretty much the same. But the two blues will look completely different once clear coated. They are both metallics, but the NART has A LOT of silver in it. The Hera is a lot finer and somewhat darker once cleared.

Hey, what happened to the rest of this thread?

I am still waiting on the carbon decals. The wait is driving me crazy.