1959 Ferrari 250 SWB

[Plastheniker]

Hi,

In the late eighties and nineties Italeri released a series of vintage 250/275/365 Ferraris. Most of them were also sold by ROG.

At that time these kits were well-priced and offered excellent quality.

However they showed the same conspicious and incomprehensible shortcoming: The wheels were much too wide. The least that the modeler had to do was reducing the width of the rims and the tyres.

In those days the Italeri plastic spoke rims were not bad by comparison but the spoke thickness was still completely out of scale. Therefore I replaced them by home-made wires as usual.

Apart from the wheels this kit is highly recommendable . If you can still get it you won't be disappointed.

[vintagercr]

Wow it looks like its 1:1

[vintagercr]

Jurgen, I was in Hamburg in August.  What a beautiful city.  I got to go Miniature Wonderland, amazing!

[Intmd8r]

Very nice execution!

[MrObsessive]

Absolutely beautiful Jurgen! Yeah, these are as scarce as hen's teeth to get! I built one years ago (Sterling Moss's '61 car in '98) and I've since got another one I'd like to build as a regular street car someday. 

Those wheels make the car-------I don't have the skill to make my own wires, so I ended up using PE ones to make my life easier!

 

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Very nice. Your talent for making wire wheels is amazing . 

[Zoom]

Really nice!

[Dann Tier]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!! -superb everything!! Q: is there any particular reason why all four tyres look to be too far forward in the wheel wells?  -Just curious, because I have this Italeri kit, and want to build it soon. Also, did you have any fitment issues with this kit while building?  -Love seeing your work!!!!

[PowerPlant]

This is possibly the best build of this kit I've seen, even if I would have preferred it in red 

Also one of the best looking Ferraris ever!

Shame Revell had licensing disagreements with Ferrari over reissuing it last year... I'm still hoping it will eventually happen, but not really holding my breath...

[slusher]

Excellent!

[Silver Foxx]

Very nice build , you do real nice work .

[BVC500]

Beautiful! The silver is a very nice color on this car.

[stevehansen]

Excellent, agreed on the silver being a great color

[ChrisR]

Very nice!!

[ChrisR]

Very nice!!

[bbowser]

Wow!  Nothing else I can say.

[sjordan2]

Superb, as usual.

[yura1961]

Beautifully done!

[peekay]

It looks like a very expensive large scale model - I never would have guessed it was the Italeri kit. Beautiful.

[tmathew1us]

Nice work, I think silver suits this car.

Do you have a tutorial on your technique for wire wheels? 

[martinfan5]

Wow, very nice.

[1959scudetto]

Very beautiful model, Jürgen, of a great car (I'm glad that I bought 3 of them back in the day which I intend to build in the not-so-far future...)

Your builds are always perfect!

[IJ001]

Superb build & finish. Hope my ongoing project turns-out as nice as this. 

 

Ian.

[Ulbo]

I can not believe it is not a real car! As usually by all your models

[David G.]

Beautifully Jurgen!  It could pass for 1:1.

David G.