A Pair of Ferraris 50 years apart (458 Italia and 250SWB)

[mattbacon]

Mostly been working on the 250 SWB today:




The white base is a ceramic tile, for making sure the wheels all sit square on the ground.



...bit of a traffic jam building up on the bench!

bestest,
M.

[mattbacon]

It seems like an awful long time since the last update. Partly finding it hard to get to the bench with lots of travelling, but partly I seem to have spent a lot of time painting bits in various shades and layers of black and grey, but making very little visible progress!



The engine bay is done. Not many parts, just some basic detail painting, but it looks pretty convincing, I reckon, especially under the rear cover....




I've gone for a "carbon driver zone" and charcoal grey leather. Just the OOB parts with some detail painting. I used Citadel Chaos Black, Vallejo German Grey and the carbon fibre technique for details on the dash and console, the flappy-paddle, and the seat backs.


The 250 SWB from a similar angle, for compare and contrast purposes.




The two chassis for comparison (The 458 parts are only dropped into place, not fixed -- the engine bay goes into the body shell when it's assembled properly...)

bestest,
M.

[mattbacon]

Progress on both the 458 and 250SWB this weekend:





Once again, this is just taped up and dropped in place. This one DOES fit together painlessly...





This one does not! I've had one got at fitting the interior in to see how it goes, and it's not going back until final assembly! It doesn't fit, trimmed accordion to the instructions -- or at least it goes in, but getting it out again demolished on half of the front suspension and knocked off a back wheel, so some further adjustments (about 3mm off the far end of the nose frame) have been made. The BMF goes on painlessly, though there's some more cleaning up of the paintwork to do to remove adhesive, and the shut lines need emphasising gently...

Next, glazing. OK for the 250, but I'm not looking forward to doing the black window surrounds on the 458, without ready made masks (you do get spoiled by Tamiya, don't you?!)

bestest,
M.

[auw12]

Great work there Matt. The color for 458 wheels looks awesome, gotta get some. Thanks for sharing, keep up!

[mattbacon]

Thanks, man...

I think I'm on the home straight now:




This was NOT easy. The chassis doesn't fit if cut according to the instructions. I had to shorten it further, and brig the radiator in about 3mm more than instructed. The door windows were a mess. No matte how much I polished them, I couldn't get rid of some "scratches" On closer inspection, I reckon they were actually "tidemarks" where the flowing plastic met, inside the mould. In the end, I cut them off and replace the window with acetate, which is much thinner and clearer. This meant some uncertainty about the door panel fit, but I got them as close as I could to where they would have been with the windows still attached. It still took a bit of fiddling to get them to fit when I closed the body up...

The 458 was a lot easier...






The various modules fit nicely into the body shell, and there are no real gotchas. I replaced the decal over transparent plastic "mesh" with real black mesh instead.

And finally, for tonight:



Lots of decals for the 250 tomorrow, and bits n bobs for the 458...

bestest,
M.

[mattbacon]

Details, details... mirrors on, indicators and lights well under way. Next job, which I'm not looking forward to, is the black tinted surround on the windscreen. After that it's just tidying up...




These decals are great. They are really well-printed, with no show-through on the white at all. They take a little while to settle down, but respond well to decal solution.




I discovered :blush: that I'd made my flip-up fuel cap out of one of the spotlights on the chromed sprue -- got confused between the SWB and GTO tree. Fortunately, I found another kit to steal a pair from! Lots of lights to do on here as well.

Finishing touches for both of them are the wipers.... can't be far away now!

bestest,
M.

[mattbacon]

The 458 is now fully assembled and recalled:







I'm going to live with the £30 fine for not having an proper front number plate! Now it needs a good clean to get rid of the dust and greasy fingerprints, and then I need to figure out if, and how, I'm going to highlight the panels and shut lines...

bestest,
M.

[da_ashman]

Nice work, Love Both of them!!! Personally Id do a mix to make a dark yellow colour & apply into the panel lines... Black will be too harsh & unrealistic...
But thats just me.

[mattbacon]

Thanks, mate!

OK... this is pretty much it for this WIP. Proper photos of the pair of them to come, when the weather lets up!






Some more considered thoughts on Ferraris 50 years apart, and kits 25 years apart, to come...

bestest,
M.

[DasWiesel]

Originally Posted by mattbacon

Three stages to a "carbon" diffuser.

That is just ingenious! Thanks a lot for showing, i will definitely try that.