Ferrari Barchetta UMI Quarterman tribute

[absmiami]

Absolutely no problema - 

[absmiami]

Tail lights - modified the kit parts which are one peice white metal - using those for the housings and turning clear acrylic rod on the Sherline for the lights … when you machine clear rod you have to use slow speed - heat from the tool will deform the rod if you use the speeds normally used for metal …. Sharpie for the color …

[absmiami]

Left …. Right….

made three - two were good …

[absmiami]

The kit seats are very accurate - but required some scribing and sanding …

[absmiami]

Zero paints textured beige ….  It appeared to be too dark in the bottle - but it turned out to be the correct finish once airbrushed - it was a little difficult to clean the airbrush cup  - the pigments in this paint tend to break down in the airbrush cup after a very short period of time  -  didn’t have this problem with Zero’s aluminum …

[beeRS]

Amazing craftsmanship. This will be a masterpiece. 

[absmiami]

Gracias …

how many beers ?

nobody’s listening …

 

[absmiami]

Number placard’s ready for

some primer and trunk brace is done …

[absmiami]

barquetta took a nap ….  Spent some time with Harold Bradford over the holiday - he allowed me to birth some resin castings for the engine … this is what i pulled from these pink rubner molds …

[absmiami]

How good are Harold’s castings ?

this good … 

[absmiami]

Holes drilled for the cam cover bolts - the plug wires will be .011 dia - the plug boots were made fr short lengths of Detail Master coolant hose line - after stripping out the wire - one of the features  of the early Columbo V12    was the location of the plugs within the block …

[Straightliner59]

Beautiful castings, and, as always, excellent work!

[Bugatti Fan]

Lovely model of a lovely car taking shape here.

[absmiami]

The pipes that  distribute the plug wires are cast to the cam covers and as scale as possible - which means that the plug wires are a tight squeeze - six .011 wires will fit - barely - dont think .013 would fit …. 

[absmiami]

Time for some paint …

[absmiami]

Still liking the Tamiya Lacquer bottle paints - the sump is light gun metal w some mica silver - and the cam covers and block are mica silver w a little gun metal - best  of all - quick drying and durable - 

[absmiami]

2 things to notice here - the Ferrari  script is really small - and the cam cover bolts are either 7/16 or maybe 9/16 - presenting scale issues in 24th …

[absmiami]

So ive used Master Club .5 mm bolts and some tiny script that is made/sold by Global Toy - Chinese outfit i think - they sell on ebay - the script on every 24th scale Ferrari GTO cam cover i’ve Seen is over-scale - usually twice as large as it should be …

[absmiami]

This is the GTO timing cover casting that I modified for this engine…

[absmiami]

And this is what I’ve ended up with … think you can see the changes …

[Pico]

Super nice detailing.

[Dave Van]

That is a ton of work. I have a UMI IMSA JAG kit that I gave up on years ago.......

[Hoffman]

Andrew, that's beautiful, impressive work you're displaying! You really have quite the knack for breaking down components into bite-size chunks as you're scratch building them. Very nice. I've thoroughly enjoyed your series here. Thank you for sharing.

Also, thanks for the tips on Master Club and Global Toy. I was checking them out last night. Great sources! On the script, I came up with 5 pages of Ferrari decals and scripts at the Global Toy store on evil-bay. ? Which one did you buy?

[absmiami]

Dave V - don’t surrender to the Tullias IMSA Jag !  I’ve got The UMI kit also - im certain that it’s buildable -  maybe - lets do a build thread together on this sucker next yr !!

[absmiami]

Hoffy - gracias - ill take a picture of the sheet tonite and post it manana -