Ferrari 250GT Pininfarina Cabrio S2

[jla]

Wow nice.... I know its just painted for mold making but it looks pretty nice in blue.....

Anyways how did you do the texture for the map pocket area on the door panels?

[360spider]

Awesome job Niko!

[nniemi]

Originally Posted by F1Tommy

Did you see Fisher is doing the 365 P2 "White Elephant" Lemans 1966-67 in 1/24th scale!!!

Yup, ordered two, it looks great. Can't wait for other versions of P2 also.

Originally Posted by jla

Wow nice.... I know its just painted for mold making but it looks pretty nice in blue.....

I'm planning to build mine in dark metallic blue.

Originally Posted by jla

Anyways how did you do the texture for the map pocket area on the door panels?

I have couple of pictures to show, i'll try to explain what i did.

Materials needed: liquid glue, 0.5mm styrene sheet and 0,25mm styrene sheet that was sanded a bit thinner.



First stage is to lay a thick coat of glue on thinner plastic sheet. Glue almost melts the sheet and makes it really soft.



Glue two sheets together and use some suitable tool to make creases on the surface. I used the handle of my hobby knife. This is where the thicker styrene sheet is needed, it doesn't melt as much as the thinner one and gives some support for the thinner sheet. At this point the thinner sheet is so soft that it can be formed quite freely.



This is what the result looks like before cutting to shape. Looks quite rough, but i only needed two 25x5mm pieces, and this sheet is roughly 150x50mm.



Hope this explains how i did those.

-Niko

[jano11]

Fantastic, thanks for the explanations!

[jla]

Thanks for the explanation; that's a pretty slick trick. Looking foward to seeing more.

[nniemi]

Some progress, kind of





-Niko