jaymcminn Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 (edited) This is the excellent Italeri kit of Ferrari's 275 NART Spyder. I won the kit in an Ebay auction a while ago. It was sealed and complete, and, like all of these I have EVER seen, the windshield frame was broken into two pieces and completely separated from the body. I repaired and reinforced the windshield frame with brass strips as the first order of business, and then set to work on the kit. I had a set of 275 Campagnolo alloys from Historic Racing Miniatures that I used to replace the terrible kit Borranis. Although the Borranis are more common on the Spyders, at least a couple were delivered with the alloys, and I like the look.The HRM wheels are a direct swap for the kit wheels with no modification required. They're painted in Tamiya Gloss Aluminum with wire valve stems.The nifty resin Pirelli radials came with the wheels too. Bumpers and most of the kit chrome were stripped and painted with Alclad chrome. I was pretty close to shaving the bumpers on this car, but i'm glad in the end that I didn't.The paint is Testors Custom Lacquer Dark Bronze Metallic. It's actually a pretty good stand-in for Ferrari's Nocciola Metallizzo (Hazelnut Metallic). None of the NART Spyders was, to my knowledge, painted this color, but I think it's perfect for the period. Panel lines were washed with a dark brown custom mix. The Interior is Tamiya semi-gloss black, flocked with Detail Master flocking. I added the scratchbuilt passenger's foot rest. Engine detail is largely stock with basic wiring and texture painting on the exhaust headers and air cleaner. I had to carve the prancing horse from the front grille as the real cars don't have one there. Lots of photoetched bolt heads went into the interior and the top boot. The kit vent windows were ridiculously thick, so they were replaced by clear styrene. On to the pics! Sorry about the lack of in-progress shots, but I was on a roll after my 250 California kit and didn't really want to stop while building and shoot pictures. WIP pics of my next project, I promise! As always, any questions or comments are welcome! Edited January 27, 2014 by jaymcminn
Harry P. Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Man, that is absolutely off the hook! Fantastic! The level of detail is impressive. I love it!
PappyD340 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 OUTSTANDING build Jason, excellent detail and beautiful paint!!
beeRS Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 A great job there Jason. I love the colour - it looks very period, and if you didn't say, I would have thought it was a real Ferrari shade! I like the nice deep panel lines and good use of chrome foil/Alclad. I have two of these kits on the shelf waiting to be built (a Spyder and a Coupe), and - yes - the windshield posts on my Spyder are snapped too. Very nice to see a Ferrari of this vintage without the Barroni wheels. The kit ones would not have looked good on such a nicely finished model anyway. I can only hope that when I finally build my one of these it looks as good as yours. Do you remember what the part number for those Campagnolo wheel + tyres were? HRM...?
jaymcminn Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 A great job there Jason. I love the colour - it looks very period, and if you didn't say, I would have thought it was a real Ferrari shade! I like the nice deep panel lines and good use of chrome foil/Alclad. I have two of these kits on the shelf waiting to be built (a Spyder and a Coupe), and - yes - the windshield posts on my Spyder are snapped too. Very nice to see a Ferrari of this vintage without the Barroni wheels. The kit ones would not have looked good on such a nicely finished model anyway. I can only hope that when I finally build my one of these it looks as good as yours. Do you remember what the part number for those Campagnolo wheel + tyres were? HRM...? Thanks, Sonny! (and everybody!) Those wheels are part # HRM-407. I got them through Strada Sports. I agree that they add a lot to the model... I'm probably going to have to order another set if I ever score a Berlinetta. It never fails to amaze me how rough Italeri is in packaging their kits- half of the prep work in building one of their models is cleaning up the scratches/scrapes/ broken bits from just throwing a bunch of unreinforced parts into the box! I actually bought that Dark Bronze paint to use on a 365 Daytona Spyder, but I thought it suited the 275 better after seeing online pics of a Berlinetta in that color. It's really close to the Nocciola color.
sjordan2 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Superb. Great choices all around, especially the wheels. I wish I could get them in 1/16 for my Gullwings.
Dave B Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Very nice clean build Jason. I too have one to build, had it for years but have not opened it, must check for damage!! Dave B
CJ1971 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Talk about coincidence...!! I just saw the Chasing Classic Cars episode, with Wayne Carini, where he met the son/family of a man who had 1 of these, 1 of only 10 ever made, who was good friend's with the Italian fella ( can't recall name ) who had Ferrari make these for him, so he could race them. It was an all original 1 owner NART & man it was beautiful!!! Anyways it sold at auction for a record $25 million, which the family donated to various charities.... The entire amount!! Your NART is just as beautiful, but as you've said, no NARTs were made in that colour, but maybe at least 1 should've been! Awesome build, super clean & definitely a show piece! :-) Cheers Cliff
majel Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Very nice looking build,I especially like the body color
bryan_m Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 very nice! really clean build.......excellent paint and interior. cheers bryan
ZTony8 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 The "Italian fella" would be Luigi Chinetti,the North American importer of Ferrari automobiles at the time.
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