Justin Porter Posted May 6 Posted May 6 Finished! At last my Italeri 1/24 Ferrari 250GT California Spyder is all finished up. Painted in Cobra Motors Grigio Thalasse with Wine Red stripes, and wearing seats from Yamamoto Model Parts, wheels and tires from Jack Modeling, steering wheel spokes from Highlight Model Studio, and assorted parts box photoetch to dress up what really was a decent if basic kit. I'm pretty pleased with the end results even if there's a fair number of flaws traceable to the kit's wonky Italeri heritage. 14
Rich Chernosky Posted May 6 Posted May 6 Very nice Ferrari California Spyder Justin. Followed your WIP. That came out great. Thank you for your efforts. 1
NOBLNG Posted May 6 Posted May 6 Fine looking Ferrari. All the upgrades really add to the beauty of the finished product.😎 1
Matt Bacon Posted May 6 Posted May 6 Looks fabulous, Justin. All those add ins really lift the base kit. Super clean building and painting, and all in a very stylish colour scheme to boot. Love it! best, M. 1
Ragtop Man Posted May 7 Posted May 7 Carbineri are coming for you - all Ferraris are supposed to be red, Signore! Nice build - did you hit any snags and how did you fix them if you did? Asking cos there is one in my rotation to build 'one of these days' 1 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted May 7 Posted May 7 Very nice. I like the toned-down look of the satin chrome too. 1
Justin Porter Posted May 7 Author Posted May 7 3 hours ago, Ragtop Man said: Carbineri are coming for you - all Ferraris are supposed to be red, Signore! Nice build - did you hit any snags and how did you fix them if you did? Asking cos there is one in my rotation to build 'one of these days' Funny thing is that I actually used a specific car as the reference for this build! As to snags, the headers have pretty vague instructions and worse fit, the brightwork all has nasty mold lines, the wheels and tires are hideous, the seats are a joke, the interior side panels equally so BUT if you install scale seats then the side panels won't fit properly, the chassis wants to sit too far forward inside the body once the firewall is attached, and the windshield frame fit is most courteously described as vague. That said, it's not insurmountable and it can be very satisfying to get something nice out of it.
bbowser Posted May 11 Posted May 11 Love it! Didn't Enzo say that street cars should not be red, only the racers? 1
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