Dave B Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Lucky this old girl made it onto the forum!! I undercoated it with auto acrylic and sprayed it white with a blue stripe ala the NART car, looked really good. I then shot it with auto clear and ended up with a pink 250 with a blue stripe. As it was moulded in red plastic I should have known better, but I thought auto acrylic primer would have sealed it!! I then decided to paint it black but the first coat crazed so it went out of the 'to build' cupboard to the 'dead shed' out the back. I then read an article about stripping paint and it reminded me of the use of brake fluid as a stripper so, nothing ventured, nothing gained, it was partially emerged in fluid. Sure enough with a little effort the layers auto acrylic came of, but being an old brittle kit I managed to break the nose in about 4 places. Nothing a bit of additional styrene and putty couldn't fix. Anyway, I opted for an iridescent dark grey which suited the dark blue interior (as per the original plan being the NART car) and it has turned out acceptable. Tks for looking. Dave B
Bainford Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Good looking Ferrari, Dave. Your perseverance has paid off. The wheels look particularly good. Are they kit wheels?
89AKurt Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Came out great! Looks good in the color. Different wheels? Did you leave off the bumpers? I got this kit at a swap, but the chrome tree is missing, was planning on doing a resto rod.
keyser Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Nice save. SWB's look great in non-reds. And bumperless as a comp/as raced car.
Hard_2_Handle_454 Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 I just bought one of these a few months ago. I hope to build it just as soon as I can get a house of my own.
Dave B Posted February 11, 2020 Author Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) Hi folks. Trevor, the wheels are pe's from Gunze Santo for the 250TR. I bought three sets and a mate poured some urethane into a mould I gave him for the tyres. Kurt, I left the bumpers off and added the brake cooling ducts in the lower valance, this contributed to the nose breaking when clean off the old auto acrylic. Dave B Edited February 11, 2020 by Bantoft correct spelling
Silver Foxx Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 This is a very nice looking build , well done .
Gramps46 Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 Nicely done. Impressed you were able to work through all the issues you had to deal with.
Phildaupho Posted February 13, 2020 Posted February 13, 2020 Gorgeous. One of my all time favourite cars. Looks great in grey. Always wanted one of these kits and it is such a shame Italeri has been unable to reissue their great Ferrari kits such as this and the 275's and even more surprising one of the Asian model companies has not found a way to do so. Someday I will build my AMT kit as a facsimile 250SWB.
Gramps46 Posted February 13, 2020 Posted February 13, 2020 18 minutes ago, Phildaupho said: Gorgeous. One of my all time favourite cars. Looks great in grey. Always wanted one of these kits and it is such a shame Italeri has been unable to reissue their great Ferrari kits such as this and the 275's and even more surprising one of the Asian model companies has not found a way to do so. Someday I will build my AMT kit as a facsimile 250SWB. X2
Dave B Posted February 13, 2020 Author Posted February 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Phildaupho said: Gorgeous. One of my all time favourite cars. Looks great in grey. Always wanted one of these kits and it is such a shame Italeri has been unable to reissue their great Ferrari kits such as this and the 275's and even more surprising one of the Asian model companies has not found a way to do so. Someday I will build my AMT kit as a facsimile 250SWB. Good luck with that Phil! I had an AMT one but they didn't get it right so I converted mine into a racing Spyder special. I went to rebuild it some years back but it broke so it is in my dead kit graveyard. Dave B
1959scudetto Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 On 2/11/2020 at 12:17 AM, BVC500 said: Nice job! I like the color combo. Absolutely my cup of tea - great model ! I really do prefer old Ferraris in any other color than the ever present red!
MrObsessive Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 David, that is soooo nice! This is one of the nicer 250 GT SWB kits that's been done. MFH's kit is very nice as well, but can cost a small fortune.......if you can find one now. I built one of these (hard to believe over 20 years ago now!) and IMO Italeri captured the lines very well as this I believe depicts a '61 car. Very nice color and I agree with the others that said it's nice to see one of these in another color besides red.
Dann Tier Posted February 17, 2020 Posted February 17, 2020 I'm glad you were able to save it!...it looks Beautiful wearing that kolor!!!
Dave B Posted February 19, 2020 Author Posted February 19, 2020 Tks guys, I appreciate the comments. Dave B
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