My Enzo Ferrari progress

Started to build my Enzo a week and a half ago. I'll detail this one with the St27 etch set, do the wiring and use Museum Collection and SMS CF decals. Right now I can't decide between painting this one yellow or black, suggestions are welcome.

I already uploaded pics of the progress up to now in the gallery of the forum, but I'll post some of pics with comments today.

Let's start with the wheels.
I stripped the chrome, primed & repainted them with Alclad White Aluminium. Applied the decals and finally clear coated them. Since the rubber tires are so beatifully molded and the mold line is almost invisible, I didn't scuff and left them as new.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoWheels1-med.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoWheels2-med.jpg

For the engine I puttied and sanded the joints where visible and primer from a distance trying to leave a rough surfece, later airbrushed it with Alclad Aluminium and a wash with black oil paint. The cam covers were primed white and sprayed with Tamiya TS-8 red, and later flat coated. I used Museum Collection's CF decals for the cam covers center section and St27 photo-etch logos.
The heat shielding over the transmission was done with cigarette packaging's aluminium foil (I think Marlboro ones are too shiny, I'll use Camel ones on my next Enzo :p and BTW I don't smoke since High school but luckily my brother does :D), I used the Sakatsu etch set as template (I'll use the whole Sakatsu set for the next Enzo I'll build super detailed)
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoEngine1-med.jpg

I'll continue the thread later, your comments are welcome.

Nice progress! I think yellow will look very sharp! Just one question for you: does the oil paint stays on Alclad Aluminum well? I use oil paints on Tamiya paints, and never use them on Alclad's. P.S. The oil paint really makes the engine details stand out! Keep us updated!

so far so good

Looking good so far. Try a black Enzo. I think that would be awesome, but of course, lt is your car, so you can paint it any way you want.

Mmmmmm.....I like it when realism is built in as you go, it makes so much difference in the end. Looks great!

very clean, I must say. quite detailed, too bad revell's doesn't come with cf decal.

Looks awesome. Cant wait to see more progress of this project.

looks great!! Cant wait to see more progress pics ....

Great job so far. keep us informed :bigthumb:

very clean, I must say. quite detailed, too bad revell's doesn't come with cf decal.

I didn't think Tamiya's kit did either?

I didn't think Tamiya's kit did either?

Jonno, you're right about that.

Olivier

Jonno, you're right about that.

Olivier

Ohh, I must of mis-understood what Leroy said...

Yea, I meant it's too bad that for the price of 3 revell enzo's, you get one tamiya but still no cf :(

That's a fact, it' pretty much close to each other quality-wise.

Only thing that 's in my opinion better on the revell, If i m not mistaken, is the fact that the incision on the front wing (don't know how to explain it), the panel line connecting the nose to the body seems to be captured better on the revell kit then the tamiya kit (see thesaint's awesoe build-up)


Olivier

yea I noticed that also, but I like the fact that tamiya has opening doors.

Very good work so far
Put more pics

Pedro

off to a great start can't wait to see more pics! I'd say go for yellow, i haven't seen a yellow one yet but plenty of red and one black!

Any updates?! :D

Sorry if I revived this very old thread of mine. Well, finally decided to finish my Enzo after a two year hiatus. I've done some progress here and there in that time but forgot to take pics. So I'll try to post whatever pics I had available back then and some new ones.

Well here are the exhaust pipes covered with tin foil and painted the heat stains with clear orange and blue.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoExhaust3-med.jpg

Here's the plenum chamber covered in carbon fiber from museum collection + tamiya metal sticker on it. I like to work with museum collection cf decals, because they're cheap, 1000 yens for a sheet that is almost twice the size of an SMS one. They're thick but they still manage to register all the detail under them and are forgiving. They have shrink wrap like properties, I can pull them, stretch them and cover any curved or irregular surface pretty easily. The downside is the pattern printed on them has more silver than black, so you have to tone them down a lot with tamiya smoke.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoEngine3-med.jpg

Here you can see the exhaust glued to the engine. The heatshielding on the headers and transmission was made from cigarette foil.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoEngine4-med.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoEngine5-med.jpg

From the pictures I have of the bare monocoque, ferrari used plain weave cf in the cockpit section and twill weave in the engine and trunk. Here's the cockpit section covered in plain weave cf and clearcoated. I decided to use sms twill weave cf on visible parts only since they're kinda expensive, and i'd be spending at least 2-3 sheets to cover it completely :rolleyes: And museum collection didn't have twill weave pattern decals available back then.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoChassis1-med.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoChassis2-med.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoChassis3-med.jpg

Here are the headlights covered in CF, I'd have been able to cover them with a single piece of decal, but in the end I needed 1-2 small pieces on the sidewalls because they didn't get covered completely :uhoh:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/93846EnzoHeadlights1-med.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoHeadlights2-med.jpg

Cockpit floor CF'd and clearcoated. I don't remember how many pieces I used to cover it but the hardest part was the tunnel.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoInterior1-med.jpg

Here I glued the cockpit walls, the back wall I left it as semi-gloss black. From the reference pics I got it, you can manage to see it's not covered in clearcoated CF, and looks more like the fabric used on the F360/F430. Still need to glue the PE net in the middle of it.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/back-wall.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoInterior3-med.jpg

These are the seat's back covered in CF and clear coat.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/93846EnzoSeats1-med.jpg

After this I think I glued the cockpit floor to the monocoque as well as the engine and then I took my hiatus. :uhoh:

More pics to come, any comments or criticism are welcome :D

Super decal work! very clean!!!
you may want to clearcoat with smoke instead of clear. i have never tried it but ive seen amazing results from very respectable modelers here. they argue that many times the weave pattern is printed too bright, when the actual shade is more toned down and dark. smoke works to clear and darken a bit to give a more realistic result. you can test it on a junk part first.
cheers

Here are some pics of the dashboard, it was a bitch to decal it. I had to cut out many small bits of decal just for the central console.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/dashboard-front.jpg

In this pic you can see I drilled out the upper part of the dashboard, in the real Enzo those holes seems to be covered by a very fine mesh, you can see the pedals and steering column thru that mesh. In the scaled down case, I can't find a mesh convincing enough yet, guess i'll leave it till later. :(

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/real-dashboard.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/dashboard-up.jpg

Air intakes and doors with cf. The Studio 27 PE mesh for the air intakes is a bit oversize, you may also notice some of the decals on the doors overlapped, but oh well I think it'll be hardly noticed with the doors assembled.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/doors-cf.jpg

Wow, your CF work is stellar man! I'm working with the stuff in my Mercedes, and you've done it about a billion times better than I can!

Nice start.

Ok, let's move to the undertray and all the CF in it has certain direction on each different panel. My first reference I had and I'd say it was the best one so far was a picture from the japanese Super Ferrari Mook by Rosso. It's a single pic of the whole underbody of the Enzo and it clearly shows all the CF direction/pattern on it.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/enzo-undertray.jpg

Of course this was later confirmed by other reference pics and the SMS CD pics.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/front-undertray.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/undertray-center.jpg

Here is the CF on the model.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/Rear-undertray.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/undertray-rear.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j86/Kamui_04/Enzo-Ferrari/undertray-front.jpg

Astounding CF work.

I am very impressed by how meticulous you are about getting the direction of the weave correct. Very nice work.