Italeri Ferrari 250 GTO 1:24 WIP/Repair

drunken monkey

04-06-2011, 01:13 PM

andrew landon

04-06-2011, 02:18 PM

I'm praying to Joe Pesci that this works out...

CrateCruncher

04-07-2011, 03:20 PM

DM,
I've noticed the TS paints are a bit translucent. The thicker the paint the darker it gets. No guarantees but the slight mismatch might disappear as you feather the new paint into the old.

drunken monkey

04-08-2011, 10:21 AM

I suspect I might have to do so.
Part of the problem is that I didn't sand everything in the area down to primer; only where the join is so there is colour mismatch between paint over red and paint over white primer.
I took off the masking because I have a bad experience with leaving cling film on a painted body and in part to check on the colour match.

Next step might be to sand back a bit and then mask off just the join part.

This is the first time I've used bmf as the first masking step and I'm impressed by just how fine the edge is.

MidMazar

04-09-2011, 10:00 AM

Its funny that you should mention, a lot of times this happend to me i put the model back on the shelf. Most of the time they get forgotten.

BTW Beautiful recovery, once polished out noone will know.

drunken monkey

04-09-2011, 11:11 AM

Well, this did sit on a shelf for about 3 months before I got back to it.

Normally, I work on the car body way in advance of actually building the kit so of anything went wrong, I could just ditch the car body and hunt for a replacement.
In this case though, I really was at the very last part of mating body to chassis and just couldn't bring myself to "box" the build. Of course that did just make things even worse but it also made me feel more inclined to fix/finish it.
I toyed with the idea of buying a Fujimi kit that made no sense what-so-ever so I figured I see how fixing the break and paint would go.

I do have so many kits in various stages of being built and I was and still am determined to finish them before starting another one.

drunken monkey

04-22-2011, 08:07 AM

ok.
decided to add another layer of paint and after leaving it to cure, this is how it is.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_CiFVeDwpZmA/TbF9MASeflI/AAAAAAAAAW8/cuNxWGYDt2o/Italeri%20250%20gto%20022.JPG

as you see, the chassis is in place which is what really matters to me right now.
the paint repair isn't 100% but to be honest, i didn't take as much care as I should have.
Just got to fix the clear parts and the trim on them then it's another one ticked off the "incomplete list".

mattbacon

04-22-2011, 09:19 AM

It's easy to get fixated on the pristine state of today's pampered "classics". Back in the day when the 250 GTO was a hard-campaigned race car, _Ferrari_ didn't take that much care of the paint, nor did _most_ of the privateers. You can always say that it suffered a bit of nose damage in a close encounter on the track, and has some resprayed and filled parts.

I often think if someone made a 60s race car model with the finish that those cars really had on the track, no one would believe it, and it'd certainly not win any competitions, despite being a prefect replica in miniature! Check out "Races, Faces, Places" or any of the "Sports Car Racing in Camera" books if you want to see what I mean!
bestest,
M.

drunken monkey

04-03-2012, 09:05 AM

right after long enough, I finally pulled all of the little bits out of the little ziplock baggie and re-attached them to the body.

some quick dirty shots done in the conservatory then I can call this one "finished".

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b7vDraND2fg/T3sBZ9m-WDI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/dqUZwtjr1Ig/s750/250%2520GTO%2520F%2520004.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6XfQlUKIodo/T3sBX_YdHRI/AAAAAAAAA1E/Y3OtJKJQLEc/s750/250%2520GTO%2520F%2520003.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-VLMvoFAnbUU/T3sBXcNZEMI/AAAAAAAAA1A/GBQccWxAJLI/s750/250%2520GTO%2520F%2520001.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a99e4lT4aKA/T3sBYMJveKI/AAAAAAAAA1I/--3mGHhjn1w/s750/250%2520GTO%2520F%2520002.JPG

nugundam93

04-03-2012, 02:33 PM

nice save on this kit!

corvettekid_7684

04-03-2012, 08:19 PM

Nice fix & nice model!

Drift F.C

04-04-2012, 04:31 AM

Nice work, the paint looks really deep and shiny!

MidMazar

04-05-2012, 09:19 AM

Sweetness!!

ZoomZoomMX-5

04-05-2012, 11:14 AM

Nice save! :cool:

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Italeri Ferrari 250 GTO 1:24 WIP/Repair