simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) This time I will continue my Late 50's-early 60's sport convertibles car series. And for my some of pals here in Puerto Rico that makes a joke on this...yes..it will be painted in red like all the others in this series...jajaja. Besides,..it's almost like a ferrari, what another color could be use in an Alfa Romeo? This a good example of this classic which opened the doors for the classic Giulietta racers series. Although it's named "Giulietta", looking for some reference info and pictures, I found that the model Revell of Germany intended to make was the 1965 "Giulia" and not the late 50's "Giulietta". Anyway, the model looks to be a sharp one, free of exesive flash, a great chrome tree(when I removed the parts by were they were hang, they are connected by a perfect spot that only need a tiny dab of pay to cover the spot), all the doors can be opened(a great feature, considering I will do a box stock model and there's no room for any alterations), a crisp Cartograf decal sheet, and the fact that the model can be done with less of 100 parts covering all the feautured components of this classic car. First of all I started to paint the engine, chassis, and suspention components that will be in the different shades of black(gloss, semi-gloss, and flat). Again for the glossy parts I trusted on the Gunze Sangyo Lacquer Black, that gives me a perfect thinn and in scale finish of black. The parts were organized since their shades. After all the blacks were painted, I followed with the aluminums, and silvers. Some challenging masking was needed in order to get the correct color in some parts. This masking is intended for some spots that will be painted later in red. That's a main problem with "just a few parts" kits. Here I already mounted all the painted parts to the unpainted body to check how it will look and to make any needed adjusment to side doors, trunk, and hood. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited March 25, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 A first look to the body on the chassis. Everything opens now! to be continued... Simón P. rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismaelg Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Red? Nahhh Not that we make any jokes. It is just that nobody else can paint a car in red because he has the exclusive rights to the color I tried once and I spent months getting all the approvals and permits Just kidding... Nice project! Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Now some color!...among the different shades of reds I have at home, there were a few ones that could be used, but, there were more than I though, so, the task wasn't a piece of cake thinking also that I had used some variations of them(in case of the FINISHERS) in the other cabrios of this series. I chosed the Modeler's Bright Red(actually is a light deep red shade) for different reasons. One of them is the fame of being a great model car paint in Japan(they just made paint for model cars). Another one, although I bought this stuff like 4 years ago, I hadn't give this a try. You guys can see on the back of this first picture the thermometer reading 82!, sorry you guys up there in the north! The winning red! Some Gunze MR. Surfacer 1000 gray primer, followed with Gunze MR. White Base in order to bright out the base coat a little bit. I pre-shaded the body sections that will be covered when I put together all the doors in order to get a uniform red paint coat. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited February 23, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hey Ismael, you're the guy..."MR. Anti-Red" Thanks for you kind comments...as you can see, I'm back....from Argentina...jajaja I hope to see you real soon to see all these projects from the last year in person...and maybe some food, as always...jajaja! Simón P. Rivera Torres Red? Nahhh Not that we make any jokes. It is just that nobody else can paint a car in red because he has the exclusive rights to the color I tried once and I spent months getting all the approvals and permits Just kidding... Nice project! Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Now everythin' is being put together... to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbwelda Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 sweet! are you going to lower it significantly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 I will love to, but, remember it will be a box stock contestant, where they are very serious on this, besides the instruction sheet has to be on the table. Thanks for you comment! Simón Rivera Torres sweet! are you going to lower it significantly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phenom Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 vaya simoncito good work on this one saludos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Vaya Rey, thanks a lot for your comments, I'm looking foward to see the 250TR completed. Deja ver si nos vemos pronto pa'ver todos estos modelos con Tato. Saludos! Simón vaya simoncito good work on this one saludos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojaveRacer208 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Buenos Dias Simon. Looks as though you are doing very nice work as usual. Here is the Giulia version I would build of this kit: It's not my car, I built the roll bar for it. A couple of suggestions based on personal observation of the full scale car: Como recuerdo, the access plate on the bottom of the bell housing es hecho de acero estampado, no vaciado de aluminio. Es pintado negro, and attached to the aluminum casting of the bell housing with the bolts which show on the model. Y todas las piezas vaciadas de aluminio, no son tan brillantes. These suggestion are very minor details, but maybe they can help you to succeed with your competition with this model. The following is for information to those who would also prefer to build this as a racer. Being a race car, the one in the photos has a fuel cell with fabricated suppports, and much wider tires. But the body, other than the holes for the rear braces, removal of the bumpers, aluminum headlight replacements, hood pins and the replacement of the windshield with a small plexi-glass screen, is quite stock. If the roll bar seems very tall in these pictures, it's because the owner is very tall. The roll bar had not yet been painted black and the head restraint pads and fiberglass seats were out getting upholstered. The class designation "F/MP" is for a vintage racing organization. Original SCCA would be "F/P" or "F/Prod". The exhaust without a muffler would exit just ahead of the rear wheel. Oh, and for those not familiar with Spanish: As I recall, the access plate on the bottom of the bell housing is made of stamped steel, not cast aluminum. It is painted black, and attached to the aluminum casting of the bell housing with the bolts which show on the model. And all of the cast aluminum pieces are not so brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Hey Richard, nice pictures, indeed! Is this a model or a real car? I have a good amount of reference pictures of this car, but, I hadn't found a racer ALFA Giulietta like this one. Thanks a lot my friend. Tremendas fotos, gracias un monton. Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited February 23, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 (edited) Not much more it's been added today to this build up, but, here I'm showing how the model being after the red coat of paint was added. Although I have to confess that I wasn't too sure about the performance of this Modeler's paint, since I did a try with a spoon and I didn't like the way it look after. I guess it was due to the fact that I used a Modeler's product I have that is labeled "Thinner retarder". From what the people of Rainbow Ten in Japan told me, this is not Thinner + Retarder, it should be labeled as simply "Retarder". Please, if someone here has more information on this I would like to be sure exactly what is this for. To resolve what I saw in the spoon and to make sure I could use this in the model, I thinned the paint first with of my model cars favorite thinners, Finisher's auto paint thinner. To this, I did a mix with this Finisher's thinner plus the Modeler's Thinner Retarder and a few drops of Gunze Sangyo Mild Retarder to about 10% of the general paint-thinner mix. This gave me one the most impressive paint flows I had experimented until now. Let's see how it performed... Here we can see how uniform this coat of paint looks with almost not orange peel. Every rail and detail it's being shown under the paint. Ahh!!!... the magic of the lacquer!!! This one remind us the look of the front on the original Batmobile of the 30' or the 40's. As can be seen here, almost no orange peel. A look under the direct sun light just to make sure. Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited February 25, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 A close up that shows how everything matched after I removed all the panels with the first paint shoot in the parts that were covered in order to achieve a uniform color coat. Panels off!!! to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) Again, there's not much, but, here some pics of the finished bodywork. It has been one the best finish I've got on a model after I airbrushed the paint, but, some problems with some old black paint inside the airbrush(or maybe in the paint), caused a delay in order to apply the clear coat. The a real nice mix of the paint-retarder gave me a so nice and even surface that I just saded it with the 4000 polishing pad. Since I was painting this with my magnifier visor, I noticed some tiny black spots that when I tried to remeved beliving it was some debris on the surface, it resulted to be somethin like the remeins of black paint and it was spreaded a little bit. Because of this I was painting and checking continouslly the surface with the visor. I could afford to paint and sand some spots with just 3 minutes waiting time!!!..obviouslly using my dehydrator. Here's how it being. Like I said before,"Ah, the magic of lacquer", because it didn't covered any detail on this model. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited March 4, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) The clear coat was also applied with the same ease than the color coat. I used the Modeler's Super Clear with Finisher's Auto Clear, mixed with Modeler's Retarder thinner and some Gunze Sangyo Mr. Retarder Mild. Since I'm still with the doubt of what is that Retarder thinner for, I decied to add also the one from Gunze. The combo of all this clear, thinner, and retarder mix with the dehydrator again was suberb. It gave me a real glossy and even surface like I bever had experienced with any Lacquer clear ever. Here you guys will se the results... As it can be seen here...almost no orange peel! Test fit with the cleared parts without any sanding or polishing yet. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited March 4, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) As it can be seen here...almost no orange peel! Test fit with the cleared parts without any sanding or polishing yet. to be continued.... Simón P. Rivera Torres Edited March 4, 2009 by simonr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Johnston Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 What a beautiful car ! I did not know that kit came with an engine...that's a nice bonus, and you are kiliing me with that beautiful red paint job ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 Thanks a lot Jeff for you comment. The model was polished last night in a long 3 intense hours period. It was real easy to polish, due to the perfect level on the clear coat, but, it was a long one, first because of the big amount of red parts to polish, and secondly, because of the large amount of the details the body has. This morning I started with the bare-metal detailing, and it will be followed tonight with the decals and some additonal painting in some parts already in red. Like you guys can see, it's a box stock, but, it feels like a high detailed model, due to the amount of detail I have to pick in order to have the most corrected period Alfa. Simón P. Rivera Torred What a beautiful car ! I did not know that kit came with an engine...that's a nice bonus, and you are kiliing me with that beautiful red paint job ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbwelda Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 that is SO NICE, and no real alfa ever saw a paint job as beautiful as that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxer Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Great paint! I love these old sports cars and an engine! Not many of these old 4-bangers around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 After spend a couple of nights in the elbow grease deparment, it's time to start to put things together. I will start from the front to the rear, passing through the cockpit. Here a couple of shots of the beatutiful chroming on this model. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 This is a technique I haven't used yet in my years as a modeler, but, here I didn't have a better option here for the place of the part to be painted. I have to paint in grey this plastic bag, so, I placed bare metal foil all over in a combo with some Tamiya tape. In order to replicate the shadows and a little bit of semi gloss shine I rubbed it with little bit of oil from my forehead. Here,a couple of pictures of the completed engine where it can be seen how being the masked section. The engine from the rear. The cockpit received all the decaling, painting and bare metal detailing. to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 To end this update, a couple of pictures of the body and the already done parts. Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 In order to "close" the car I have to finish the doors. Here are a couple of shoots of the doors process. I add some bare metal to the looks at the sides of the doors and the body doors frame. Also to the glass frame. I would like to cut the clear plastic to show it with the glass down, but, since it will at a contes where it has to be a "pure" box stock, I had no other choice. After all, I like how it see with the whole glass. The inner panel was detailed with some chorme paint. I think the detail it's not bad for being a box stock model. How they looks in the model? to be continued... Simón P. Rivera Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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