Ferrari California 1:24 Revell, Hobby Desing

[karambolis8]

Hello.

This is my first topic, and my first 1/24 car scale model.

Kit is well knonw Revell Ferrari California Open Top. I'm going to use some photoetched parts from Hobby Design. Currently I have body painted with base colour and severall layers of Gunze GX100 clear. Base paint is blue metallic from VW palette. This is some sentiment from my first real car. I had VW Passat in this colour some time ago On pictures You can see wheels in gloss black primer. For some time I was thinking about leavig them in this colour, but finally decided to paint them white alumimium from Alclad. Brakes colour is just fitting. Still not decided yet.

Here are target interior colours: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2012/05/32-2013-ferrari-california-fd.jpg

Adam

[Dann Tier]

Looks like you are off to a good start! I will be watching.

[Speedfreak]

Beautiful car for sure Adam, I really like this body style. Colors are gonna look great, and , good choice on using Alclad for the wheels.

[da_ashman]

Looking good! I like the Yellow calipers only slightly more than the red.

[BVC500]

Looking good so far!

[Toast]

Great choice of color! I'll second the yellow calipers.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Great paint!!

Liking it.... so far so good

[karambolis8]

Hello.

Little set of aftermarkets.

Final wheels colour

Fitting of grill. A llitle bit to low. I hope this will disapear when glueig together with kit part.

I think that caippers will be yellow

Adam

[Toast]

Looking good!

That Hobby Design set will spice it up nice. 

Yup yellow calipers is the way to go. 

[Dann Tier]

Very nice!!  I hope the breaks hide the inner wheels  -they look weird-double imaged -great job so far though!!

[kargirl]

Great work!  I love that shade of blue.

[karambolis8]

It doesn't look that bad when one put brakes into it, but I must admint that this Revell's idea is stupid. Every else manufacturer can do normal wheels.

[karambolis8]

Hi.

I've done some polishing. I've made from sponge something like polishing disc to my Proxxon drill and tried to achieve some high shine with red, blue and white Tamiya compounds. Next time I won't use red one, because in some places I've rubbed to plastic.

I've dry fitted Hobby Design photoetched brake discs. It doesn't look bad for me. I'll put on callipers last layer of yellow gloss and burnish brake discs with sandpaper. I had put some chrome on nuts, but not sure if this is visible at all.

Cheers,
Adam

[Twokidsnosleep]

Liking your wheel assembly a lot !!!

[karambolis8]

Hello.

Some regress-progress today. I'm preparing body to paining. Some places needed filling and sanding.

I've polished brake disks with rough sanding stick and mini-drill. Before polishing on the left, and after on the right. I think it gives more realistic look.

Cheers
Adam

[BVC500]

Looking good.  I liked that shade of blue.

[MrBuick]

Looking great so far...that sucks you had to re-do the paint, I couldn't even tell there were problems in the pictures, but if you're like me it'd have bothered you knowing there were issues. I almost like the black wheels better, but then again, I almost always do.

[karambolis8]

It is not said, that I won't repaint wheels again to black  With this color high tires profile is not so visible. But aluminium is also attracting.

[Dogfish_7]

[Dann Tier]

looking VERY nice!! the yellow calipers are a nice touch!!

[kevjoh]

Did you have to alter the ride height?

[karambolis8]

I haven't started working on suspension yet.

[GTJUNIOR]

Looking good so far.