The 1:12 scale Ferrari F50 Progress Thread

[SupercarFreak]

hi guys.
well, my acu-stion 1:12 f50 photoetch sheet arrived today, so i got started. it adds a ton of detail to the semi-assembled diecast body Tamiya 1:12 F50. i mainly bought the sheet because i was very, very disappointed with the stock brakes, especially considering the model's price of $300 usd, but i plan on using everything included on this sheet.



The modding has begun!
Painted the stock rotors flat black so that you could see the holes better.
Had to break the handbrake caliper and then glue it back together after I got the rotor on.
I didn't glue the rotors on, they are a tight fit anyway. I'm going to polish them more, they aren't even close to my mirror-like 1:8 F40 rotor, but you get the idea.

totally stock brakes:

version 1.0:

version 2.0:

[TireGaint]

WOW, you are doing another BIG scale Ferrari at the same time....btw can you remove the hand-brake caliper?? Tofosi, Happy New Year..

[Sebstar]

MAN YOU ARE A FERRARI NUT! but your work is so nice! what does your modelling cabinet look like? :P

[tazdev]

you are insane with your builds supercarFreak. nice work.


oh and more pics more pics

[86_SR5]

Nice photo-etched stuff. Man, I've got to get ahold of one of these kits for my Enzo.

[SupercarFreak]

thanks.
im done polishing, looks much better

[SupercarFreak]

Original pedals.

Originals were painted black, these were polished.
Probably the hardest thing I've ever done involving model cars, took me at least 20 attempts to attach the acceleration pedal.
Hard to get a good pic of them...

[86_SR5]

Cf Fever!

[Slipknot]

wow

[Keo]

hows this build going i want to see it done lol

[digitalbanzai]

Let me get this straight, it's real, right?

[jgmodelcars]

these are really nice reference photos but weres the model??

haha great work!

[Doug E Fresh]

Looks nice, but how's the F40?

[remus_nl]

very very nice

[krebs128]

beautiful, i can tell you've put alot of work into this-and the benefits are unbelieveable