Bugatti Coupe Napoleon

[Luis Ayala]

I just wanted to share with you some pics of one of my unfinished projects from 2006.

This one is an Italeri Bugatti Coupe Napoleon. The one thing I love about this one and other similar kits, is that you have to set up the body, chasis and wheels piece by piece like a puzzle. :idea:

Here's the first look at the parts trees:

Next thing is the wheels...

This is the Upper Body Assembly and some test fitting.

To prep the parts for primmer, I used a flat sanding stick to scratch the surface and reveal the lower spots. I don't use putty often so I preffer to wet sand the whole thing and level the surfaces where the plastic is thick enough.

Here you can see that the hood came molded with the top portion of the body where the windshield is attached.

If you were to display the engine, you will have to remove the whole piece assembly wich is totally wrong for the real car.

Now it looks better...

Now that most of the ruff look of the upper body is sanded I lay it over the lower piece to match and glue all parts together.

All right, now lets move to the chasis...

All parts are line up and clean, so I lay them over the lower body, did some test fitting, sanding and glued all together.

Here are some pics of the finished chasis sub assembly. All parts fitted nicely and as you may see the kit stands up right and all the wheels match the table.

That's as far as the build went last year. It is already primmed and ready to paint but as I told you I moved to my new house and things are going very slow.

I will take some pics later this weekend so you may see how the body work ended.

Sorry for so many pics... hope you like it... :wink: