Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

[Matt Bacon]

This is the excellent Hasegawa 1/24 kit, which has to be one of the best engineered and best fitting kits I've ever built...

Highly recommended!

bestest,

M.

[philo426]

Great builds! Are the wire wheels kit-supplied or are they after market Boranis?Who makes the 250 GTO kit?

[MonoPed]

Beautiful build!! Still haven't found decals for the car I want to build, but yours sure is inspiring. Nice work.

[Brizio]

Very very nice!!! Looks different to see it in black.

[Railfreak78]

Very nice work. This is a wonderful looking car and a model I have not seen in a long time.

[vizio93]

Wow nice looking Ferrari's you built there. They look really good

[droogie]

Just gorgeous! How did you do the piping on the seats?

[Matt Bacon]

Thanks, Guys... your encouragement is much appreciated!

The wheels on the GTO are etched metal, provided in the kit. It's the Gunze kit, re-boxed by Airfix in the early 90s as "Hi-Tech", and it was a gift (along with the 1/24 Jag XK-E from the same stable) from someone who was never going to build them, so in value for money terms, it was priceless! The E-Type has a full white metal engine and "origami" etched brass spaceframe, so it's more of a challenge...

More pictures, like this:

are here:

http://gallery.me.com/cmatthewbacon#100238&view=grid&bgcolor=black&sel=2

The seats are just Citadel (Games Workshop) Skull White paint, hand painted with a fine brush, apart from the outside edge, which was wide enough to hold some Tamiya 6mm masking tape to get a sharp edge.

I wouldn't like to build ONLY Ferraris, but if someone told me I could only build models of one make of car for the rest of my life, Modena would be my spiritual home, just as if I could build only one type of aircraft, it would be a Spitfire...

bestest,

M.