Fiat 500F

[mitchell]

Building a few 24 scale during a break from the 1/12 porsche. This one is a one of the great Tamiya historic car kits. Very detail except the trunk cannot open, other than that, a very accurate and detail kit. Tamiya seems to capture the magic of the cars from the 60's. Got the body done and misc. parts painted. can soon put this car together.

[mitchell]

more done on this little gem. engine is built and started the wiring on it. The kit doesn't come with a coil but i have a spare. But the odd thing about this engine is that it doesn't have the hole casted for the spark plug. Got the drill out for that. Also added parking brake cables and built a transmission relay shaft. After mounted it on the chassis, I will add more wires and weather it. Most of the painting is done already, just have to put it together.

[mitchell]

a bit more progress. it is almost done. Just need to focus on a few details and rebuild the hinges for the engine lid. The way it was design doesn't really open it up. Need to scratch built some hinges for it to open fully. But it is basically done. a wonderful little kit with a few minor problems.

[Zarana-X]

This is turning out very nice. Paint work looks very good.

[mitchell]

actually tried to do some orange peel to the paint work. Since this is a cheap little econobox, it shouldn't have a great paint job. Normally I will polish my car to 12000 grit, this one, i bascially just painted it. Will be doing some weathering so it look a bit used.

[Tom Geiger]

Here's a pair of the Gunze version, these are curbside without engines. Short coming of this kit was that it didn't have interior door panels. They're flat so I made a pair. Mine is the red one, white one is by my friend Tim.

And to illustrate just how small this car really is!

[mitchell]

I have some issue with Gunze product in general, they seem to be a bit off scale and the sophistication of the model is way less than Tamiya. This is the Tamiya version with a very accurate looking engine and nicely engraved interior detail. Also very well engineered with only slight fit issue. But these 500F are just cute, maybe building a few more of them in the future. Great job on the pair of the 500F. They are well built.

Edited June 16, 2013 by mitchell

[mitchell]

this one is almost ready to go to Under-glass section, made a very simple hinge so at least the lid can be opened up to a reasonable angle. Call it done. Also a picture with a Karman Ghia.