Rosso Ferrari 512tr

[mel79]

Hi everyone,

I thought I should post this finished build before Ferrari's 60th anniversary year is over. This post also covers 50% of the models I have finished this year...

This model is build from Rosso kit, which is quite Fujimi-like ie. even though the parts look good there are quite many small adjustments needed when building the kit. Anyway the finished model looks good and captures 512tr's looks very well.



The parts that needed attention in the body were the side panels behind the door slit strakes and front lights. The side panels would have left a visible seam if I had built them the way the instructions told, so I had to make some adjustments to make the seam go away before painting the body. The pop up lamps were supplied as separate parts for some reason and these did not fit without filing, puttying and rescribing the lines around the lamps. The body was primered in white and painted with Tamiya TS-8 Italian red, which was polished with Micromesh polishing cloths and finished with Novus plastic polish.

The underbody wheel wells needed extensions because otherwise there would have been a large gap between the body and the wheel well. I made the extensions with plastic card.



The interior is finished with a mix of Tamiya desert yellow and flat white acrylics. The floor mats are Model Factory Hiro's tan carpet material and the Ferrari logo on the steering wheel is also from MFH. The gear shifter is a metal pin and the seat belts are made from masking tape and the buckles are photo etched parts. Door lock pins were made from streched sprue.





Other details include photo etched wiper blades from Modeler's (unfortunately they look a bit short especially on the driver's side) and some metal mesh under the engine hatch louvers. The Ferrari emblem on the front bonnet is from MFH and chromed Ferrari and Pininfarina logos are from Crazy Modeler's set. Reflectors on rear lights and front turn indicators are pieces of cigarette packet foil painted with clear orange and red. Side indicators are pieces of streched clear sprue painted with clear orange. The wheels were stripped from the chrome plating and painted with Alclad 2 white aluminium. Alclad paints were also used with the exhaust and the exhaust tips were replaced with lengths of polished aluminium tube. Side windows are made of clear plastic sheet because the kit part was too thick and distorted the view to the interior.

All sounds very simple when told but I had to put many hours for this build. Maybe my skills are getting rusty, but I felt that for every step forward I got 0.5 steps back... I had to do many things two times just to correct errors and mistakes I made earlier and that meant the whole project took much longer than necessary. For example the body was polished and painted two times because I polished through the red paint to the primer on the first time etc. The model may not be compeletely worth the hours I invested in it but I am happy it is finally finished anyway.











Feel free to comment.

-Mikko

[BVC500]

Great, nice clean build. I love it!

[willimo]

Looks marvelous! Sorry this was so much trouble. Sometimes a kit goes together like a dream and other times it fights you every step of the way. In any case, this is beautiful. Looks like a dream. Very clean build, worth the effort I'd reckon!

[tapetape]

Wow! I love this car and this build. Very nice!

[carl63_99]

I built the Monogram kit a long time ago. Came out great, but not without some serious work. Great looking build, makes me want to go out and get the Rosso kit and build it up!

[ales]

Mikko, it looks fantastic.

[gionc]

Quite nice.

[Viccario]

Although one of my least favourite Ferraris I think you have made a superb job of it, well worth all of the extra effort that you put in, it looks very nicely done. I know what it's like to have to do multiple paint jobs from personal experience!

[stevenoble]

Excellent work.The interior is very impressive and you have also achieved an excellent shine on the body.I have a Fujimi 512TR to build,I hope it turns out as nice as yours!

[jano11]

That model looks great! Very clean build and excellent paint job!

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by jano11

That model looks great! Very clean build and excellent paint job!

Hi,

just what I´m thinking.

One question: Shouldn´t the seats back be filled ?

[rockinanko]

Hi mikko,

i like to congratulate your built, clean & straight.

i totally agree with you that nowadays it's like 'taking 1 step forward but 0.5 step backwards' syndrome. i'm having this illness too.

i guess it's nothing wrong with the kit itself, but rather we modelors are asking for more...more detail, more accurate, more realistic etc.

this is a good sign you know, for everyone else can do the same car OOB. but you can now dictate what you want your built to look like...as your experience grows. this is healthy, for your built will never look the same like the others...ie, your build is one of the kind!

keep this thought positive, for one day you will find that what you created will all be 'master pieces', only one sample existed!

this is my thought, as i'm struggling now to made that 'one of a kind' build. but the thought of NOT having to wait for manufacturers to produce that slow new kit easily justifies what i'm doing...and it feels good too!

cheers!
marc
SGP

[Jamme]

Hello Mikko,
Nice build. I remeber building the kit when it was realeasedn some 15 years ago(??)
I made the car in Yellow, with black interior.
I remenbered the car was not bad. I don't have tha car anymore, but, last year I found one at a swap meet for a few Euros, so I had to buy it.
It is now on my " to do pile ".
To go back to your build, I like the paint, the interior, but I don't understand why you didn't put backs on your seats, as you worked on the chassis as you will not see so many of the work as it is finished?
Soory for the critic.
Anyway, it's a nice build.

Jamme

[robrex]

Nice work!

[mel79]

Thanks for all the comments, nice to see you liked the model.

I may have sounded too harsh about the kit quality, it wasn't bad but like some Fujimi kits it needed careful assembly here and there to get things right. There are much worse kits around and the finished model captures the looks of 512tr very well in my opinion. Also like I said I felt my skills are getting rusty and with more careful planning I would have probably had much less trouble with the project. If I were to build another 512tr I would choose the Rosso kit again.

And those seat backs... I just forgot to fill them before painting and once I noticed I missed them I was too lazy to correct the omission

-Mikko