karambolis8 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann Tier Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Looks like you are off to a good start! I will be watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedfreak Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_ashman Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Looking good! I like the Yellow calipers only slightly more than the red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVC500 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Looking good so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Great choice of color! I'll second the yellow calipers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twokidsnosleep Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Great paint!!Liking it.... so far so good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted March 3, 2016 Author Share Posted March 3, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Looking good!That Hobby Design set will spice it up nice. Yup yellow calipers is the way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann Tier Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Very nice!! I hope the breaks hide the inner wheels -they look weird-double imaged -great job so far though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kargirl Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Great work! I love that shade of blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted March 4, 2016 Author Share Posted March 4, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twokidsnosleep Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Liking your wheel assembly a lot !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 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. CheersAdam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVC500 Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Looking good. I liked that shade of blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBuick Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogfish_7 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann Tier Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 looking VERY nice!! the yellow calipers are a nice touch!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevjoh Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Did you have to alter the ride height? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karambolis8 Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 I haven't started working on suspension yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTJUNIOR Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Looking good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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