ferrari without side windows? - not any more

i was bored today, so i thought why not fit side windows to my ferrari 360.

its a bburago model, and the one thing that always bugged me was the missing side windows...not even a hint of a window that was wound down.

if anyone is intetrested in how i did it, just ask.

before:

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after:

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I am very interested, please show me how you did that! It looks great!

u should write a complete tut for that..



nice shit!

Damn, nice job. Looks like it came like that. I would also like to know how you did that.

i think everyone wants to know how its done. i wonder if i could do it to my murci

im very sorry that it has taken so long for me to reply, i have been on holiday for the past 5 days.

the method is very simple....

first i found some fairly stiff clear plastic packaging. the vacuum formed variety. the plastic i found was from a pack of parker ink cartridges. make sure you find the perfectly smooth type as all too often the packaging can be a little rippled, which of course would look pretty crap.

this was the source of my plastic:

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Then i looked on the door for where i could mount the plastic. the best way is to find a crack of some kind that the plastic can slip down. it may be necessary to take the door apart to remove the ''wound down'' window that might already be there.

i then cut the plastic so that it would fit into the door length ways.

slide the plastic into the gap in the door far enough so that it can be fixed in later. Close the door and push the plastic up against the window frame.

using a marker roughly mark out the shape of the window and remove the plastic.

using a sharp knife (scissors will bugger the edge) cut out the shape, making sure that there is enough plastic left for trimming.

now it is simply a case of re-placing the plastic and slowly trimming as required until it fits nicely into the door. (remember to take the plastic off of the car before you cut it as a slip cound result in a nice scratch on the roof of your model)

the only problem now is that you have to flex the plastic to fit the contour of the window. i sorted this by carefully bending the plastic with my hand until it stayed in the shape that i wanted. be careful not to crease the plastic like i did on for the Ferrari, luckily the camera didn’t show it.

the final part before fixing is to apply the black detail on the edge. for this i used a black soft nibbed permanent marker. using the cut edge of the plastic as a guide, i ran the marker around the edge pushing harder until the desired thickness of black was obtained. at the bottom of the window where the plastic extends well below the area you want coloured, you will need a steady hand. Practice this free hand line on a scrap piece of the plastic before you do the real thing.

now the fixing. luckily with the ferrari the crack that was there was tight enough to hold the plastc with out glue. for other cars glue may have to be used. i suggest pva glue (kiddies water based glue) for this because if you decide to remove the glass later it will be easier.

you will have to forgive my poor spelling and punctuation, i have only just come back from holiday about an hour ago. so if i haven’t explained anything very well, just ask me to clarify.

i will do some progress pics tomorrow if it will help.

im sure the method i have used here can be improved upon, besides this is the first time i have done this type of thing, so feel free to try a different method if you feel it will give a better result.

Nice tutorial.Thanx.

how is theoverall quality of the bburago Ferrari?

Originally posted by fwdfreak
how is theoverall quality of the bburago Ferrari?

its geneally ok.

its very solidly made with good details, although the gear stick is typically bburago...only thing is that the front wheels have a rediculous amount toe in...maybe my models just a dud.

im happy with it though, its one of bburago's best...:flash:

Bitchin'! I'ma gonna do it to all my cars!

I'de like to try that with my maisto Murcilago, but i'm not sure how im going to fit it in. The door does not have any natural spots, plus it has the entire frame (sides and top)

Originally posted by Sean Quinn
I'de like to try that with my maisto Murcilago, but i'm not sure how im going to fit it in. The door does not have any natural spots, plus it has the entire frame (sides and top)

yea, that would be little more difficult. good luck :cool:

i have found the perfect peice of plastic too, its from a 3 pack of vinyl erasers, and just the right size

Hello,
I happened to try something similar to my Maisto DB7 Vantage about a year ago. To my knowledge most of the Maistos and Bburagos have seperate door pads and doors. Let me tell you that this is a really good simple solution to problems that have plageud lower end models. I don't mean to be critical but some real cars have frameless doors and it wouldn't look realistic if the doors had the lines around them.

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Originally posted by fwdfreak
how is theoverall quality of the bburago Ferrari?

As for this, I have one and I personally don't rate it too highly. It is a good car to modify so I painted its interior as the level of detail didn't impress me. Also its right door broke. I found a decent solution to this by running a piece of wire parallel to the door frame and added a wire dogleg. Just incase anyone has the same problem. And I'd like to tell Simdel1 that the real car has a blackened B-pillar so he could blacken it too with a felt pen tocomplement those great windows.

Originally posted by Varun
[B] I don't mean to be critical but some real cars have frameless doors and it wouldn't look realistic if the doors had the lines around them.


i know exactly what you mean. i wanted the model to look right (with the rubbers on) when the door was closed. i dont display it with the doors open so it didnt bother be that the rubber shouldnt be on the window.

not to burst anyones bubble here but there is a reason for the windows being down. On some models (like the ferrari enzo) its pretty neccesary to have the windows down so you can open the door. The windows rolled up make it considerably harder to open doors :P

I think we realize that, but on this Ferrari, you can still get the doors open and it looks a lot better.

SUPERCAR_MAN has a point there it does make the model look much better.