Testors/Fujimi Ferrari Dino 246GT

[JD4JC]

I hope this thread is still alive!

I owned a 1973 Dino 246GT and sold it to get a back seat for the baby seat for our first child. I had bought it new, and sold it after 18 months ownership and made $2000. Twenty years later, it resold for more than $300k more than I paid for it!

So, I bought a Testors 1/24 kit and my son and I assembled it. We were bot very happy with the result. However, over the years, time was not kind to the model, and parts of it were broken. I've always thought it would be proper to build another.

We're in the process of moving, and to my amazement today, I found a complete, unassembled Dino 246GT model kit that had long been forgotten. My question is, how can I find a detail kit such as has been described in the thread. I'm not thinking that I've got the skills or time to duplicate this excellent project, but I'd sure like to give it a try.

Any suggestions on how to get the detail kit, and how to proceed with this project?

[Porsnatic]

Hi, as you can see the model was finished, although now I will have to do the trunk and hood's hinges. You can get the Model Factory Hiro detail set in a couple of places.Here is an example of where:


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Originally Posted by JD4JC

I hope this thread is still alive!

I owned a 1973 Dino 246GT and sold it to get a back seat for the baby seat for our first child. I had bought it new, and sold it after 18 months ownership and made $2000. Twenty years later, it resold for more than $300k more than I paid for it!

So, I bought a Testors 1/24 kit and my son and I assembled it. We were bot very happy with the result. However, over the years, time was not kind to the model, and parts of it were broken. I've always thought it would be proper to build another.

We're in the process of moving, and to my amazement today, I found a complete, unassembled Dino 246GT model kit that had long been forgotten. My question is, how can I find a detail kit such as has been described in the thread. I'm not thinking that I've got the skills or time to duplicate this excellent project, but I'd sure like to give it a try.

Any suggestions on how to get the detail kit, and how to proceed with this project?

[MPWR]

Hi JD4JC-

Welcome to AF, and welcome back to the hobby.

Must have been a terrific car to enjoy while you had it!

If the 246 will be your first build in a few years, I strongly recommend that you skip the detail set. It would add greatly to the expense, complication and effort to the build- but likely will not make the results better in the end. A better plan would be to do a couple other kits of other cars first, and come back to the 246 when you are more confident in your abilities. But even then I'd be hesitant to go with a multimedia detail kit. They're good fun if you're into complexity for the sake of complexity (and many of us are)- but it also adds a lot of unnecessary difficulty.

(If the kit you found does not have an engine, you could find the Fujimi Enthusiast version which does have an engine on Ebay- and likely spend a good bit less money.)