Ferrari 575 Super Italia (hypothetically...)

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Here is another fantasy build using Fujimi 575M. Since there have been many excellent 575s built already, I wanted to make something a little special. In this build, I mainly wanted to try two things: full-carbon finish using woman's tights and a rear pushrod suspension visible from interior. Suspension is a beautiful thing. Why hides it?

I modified the body here and there but nothing dramatic enough to ruin the overall shape of 575M. The stock rims were enlarged by fitting into Pegasus stepped sleeves. Rear fenders were also widened slightly to accommodate the wider wheels. Seat belts were from Tuner Model Manufacturer and they were quite nice to work with. The color scheme is inspired by Zonda R. I really like the contrast between black and gold. Tamiya paints were used throughout and the color strip was done by masking and airbrushing. This was supposed to be a quickie so I did not take any progress pictures. For photo shoot, I brought in 599 and 512 to brighten up the pictures because black is really a dull color.

Let pictures do the talking and thanks for watching.

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Bro,can explain on how you do the carbon texture with the women stockings?Very interested to try it out!

:iagree:Bro,can explain on how you do the carbon texture with the women stockings?Very interested to try it out!

That's gorgeous!

For the carbon I'll take a guess at base coat, then put the tights over the car and then sprayed the black or whatever over the top?

It´s F******ing awesome!!!! MASTERPIECE!!!!

Good looking beast. Half street and half Prodrive racecar.

Tom Tanner/Scale Designs/Ferrari Expo 2013-Chicago March 2013

Beautifullll-beautifulllll-beautifulll
Respect :dupe:

Stunning!!!

I didn't think regular 575 could look good, but you made me think differently.
I adore it, it looks so good, every single detail, but the wheels/body contrast....wow

That is a very creative interpretation of the 575. Beautiful work.

You have done a superb job, congratulations! The only thing you could add is a little black to the engine cover/fender gap.

Love it!

Looks great!!!

What an excellent rendition of the car!

Thank you all for the nicest comments.

Shelby 427 was right about how I prepared the carbon surface. I think I read about this trick somewhere on this forum. So, I first had a semi-black base coat before wrapping the body with woman tights. I stretched the tights until the size of mesh/sieve was about right. I then spray a light coat of a cocktail of silver and semi-black (I also added a hint of gold) over the tights. Small parts such as size mirrors were painted separately.

This technique is faster than decal, however, it is not perfect. It took me a few tries to figure out how much of the silver coat I needed to spray. Also, some corners and areas were trickier to cover with tights. As a result, the pattern is less consistent than decal.

@voyageur: You have a pair of sharp eyes! I thought I could get away with panel lines since the body is already in black.:p

Hi

You are using tights I´m speechless, it looks very special, great...!

Can you do a WIP to show how do this?
Which colour you used for the rims?

Regards,
Sascha

Unique and nice for sure, I love the rims color suit the theme well! Congrats!

your models are impressive.
I look very often at the little pics in your signature and everytime I am surprised from the impressive work u need to make such unique cars.
Many are fantasy ones, but the level of the (scratch)build and the beauty of the finishing is too nice really.
I have many original models of the ones u tuned.It is absolutely not easy at all convert so well and clean as u did.
really bravissimo Helico.Congratulations.

Looks fantastic.

Amazing! Really cool idea!

Amazing work, and pictures!

As many others, I want to see the "woman tights - Carbon fiber tutorial"

I am delighted that you guys like the color scheme. I have to say again that I did NOT come up with the idea of using tights to recreate carbon fiber finish. I shouldn't take credit for this ingenius idea.

Having said that, I will be happy to post a tutorial in my next project which is about to finish soon. I used the same technique but slightly better.

@Sascha: Here is how I painted the rims gold. I airbrushed Tamiya clear yellow over the chrome rims and aluminum sleeves to achieve a bright golden color. I wanted something a little darker. So I airbrushed a mix of clear yellow and smoke to further darken the color to nearly bronze.

Amazing, i like it a lot!

I like it alot top job mate.

Awesome brother!!

Did you machined yourself the coilovers?

Now that is amazing.....speechless!!!!! I bow down.....wow....

That is a beautiful model!!! :eek: I also love seeing suspension components, like a rear sway bar on a car your driving behind. Thanks for sharing this excellent model!!

Great idea and execution

Always fancy your works Helico, this one is just brilliant! I always hate modified ferraris, but this one looks striking! Great work!

That is some amazing detail there. A beautiful model.

I like carbon cars its looks great,fine CF

Wow. Good god sir. A great mix of classic details on a modern car.

I'm finding myself just staring at your pics here for extended periods of time. My wife thinks something is wrong but I've never seen anything like this before. Thanks for sharing!

so beautiful

this is a master piece!!!!
Color is awesome.
rims are excelent.
It will be great to show us that trick to paint....please
Miguel

I can only echo the well deserved praise already shown! I love modified Ferraris and this one is fantastic! Well done, very creative, I love it!

Yes, great idea and outstanding execution, as usual.

On-board shock absorbers are simply fantastic.

Very well done Helico !!!

Robi

That is a very creative interpretation and that is a Great Job, Well done.

amazing!

I really LOVE the way this model turned out.

REALLY!

And now I want to make one just like what you've built and shown us.

To do so, i'd like to learn just exactly what parts you've added to get the body wider .. and what else exactly it was that you added - where did you get the extra body parts from?

And where did you get the neat half roll cage from? Where did the hood vents come from?

Where or what the rear quarter vents come from?

Why did you open the two driver's side fender vents, ... but only the one of them on the passenger side?

Where did the rear lower body extensions come from? The rear diffuser .. ect.

YES - I really do love the "look" of your model car!

I can find the Fujimi 575M kit easily enough, and I can get the pegasus hoops w/ tires at my local hobby shop .... but I can't find the rest of the parts you used without knowing who makes them.

Please help out with MORE INFO!

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Thanks,
Keith

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Hi KTMkeith0, thanks for your interest. Sorry I have been really busy lately. I was gonna do a carbon tutorial but haven't had any time.

All the modifications on the body were scratch-built. I only widened the rear fender but left the front untouched. I made the vents on the hood, and also added some small details here and there. The rear quarter vents were also reconstructed on both sides. Two vents on driver side, and one vent and one fuel door on the passenger side. Roll cage was also scratch-built from styrene tubes. Racing buckets were resin replicate of FXX.

I did make a "double-deck" diffuser just for fun:biggrin:, but didn't take a picture.

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Good luck with conversion. PM me if you have questions.

Best.

Nice paint finishes. Curious, what kind of paint do you use, and how do you go about painting your bodies? My shoddy paint jobs will be the death of me, and I'm trying to figure out what I can improve on.