Ferrari F458 GT2 1/24

[scapin]

Originally Posted by lovegt40

@Andrea, la faccio AF Corse col tricolore italiano...

Mi piace moltissimo.

[lezdep]

WOW ! Amazing work ! Great skills !
I wish you would make a resin copies for sale

[Brat_R]

Despite I'm not a big fan of Ferrari this is incredible! Very clean work!
Keep it up!

[Helico]

Oh wow. The modification on the front end is no easy task.

[John18d]

Paolo - this Ferrari -is coming out fantastic - great work - Keep this pics of the work coming - John

[das_auto]

I´ll chime in with the others!

Another fantastic creation from you Paolo.



//Emil

[lovegt40]

thank u John, och tack Emil

[sam01contact]

Paolo, this is amazing! Keep up the great work!

[lovegt40]

imho your ones are much nicer will try to do my best. Today I've ordered the decals sheet from decaldoc.The livery will be this:


..as well as I also ordered the Motorsport decals for that BMW m3gt2 I have here in showcase looking at me since 1 yr.

[John18d]

Paolo - your fantastic build of this Ferrari has urged me to order a 458 kit from HLJ - I just have to add a 458 GT3 to my LeMans collection. I too will contact Frank at Decaldoc and see what all types of livery "decals" he has for different 458 cars. I do not suppose you have any drawings of the "vents" from the front that you made? Can you either share all your reference with the Forum or at least me? I can give you a personal email address rather than the forum PM system so you can send the information?? - it would be much appreciated - no hurry though as I am sure you are very busy. Thank you - John

[kans0002]

Originally Posted by lovegt40

Meanwhile the unpainting of the chromed front lights is misteriously tricky.Usually I place theme in a bath of sodium hypoclorite and in 10 minutes they return pure plastic.This time they are bathing since 4 days and just some parts become unpainted.

Hey Paolo, I am having the same problem on my Revell 458. I use something called "Simple Green" cleaner, and usually the i soak the parts overnight, then chrome plating comes off very easily. This time the chrome plating came off but it left a sticky yellow looking film over all the parts.

Is this what happened to you as well? I think i might try using bleach if the parts are still covered in sticky yellow goo this evening.

Great progress so far on your build. I love the front louvers.

Stuart

[lovegt40]

@John:
The blueprint I have is not a serious one,and is too little.
The car is too new, so is still too hard to find GOOD documentation (even more drawings I think).I am using one from a friend making add on for rfactor and videogames.My main source of inspiration come from the accurate study of the pics of the real car.I have many,nearly all taken from internet, so nothing special (but being the car so nice there is some around,mostly to understand the little upgrades they are doing to the car race after race, as the 2011 front lips and lower air intakes).
happy u also wanna build one. Think they are deadly nice in a collection.
The Gt3 is also too nice one.Just saw theme last sunday in Monza track.Some differences with gt2 (less wider, less air intakes and different front end as well as the rear extractor) and many
many pretty cool livery.Dunno if around there are decals to make it.

@Stuart:
I'm going on with the bath in the liquid.some chrome went away, but really too hard this time.Also on my parts remains a yellow grease on all parts, but can it be also coming from the chemical reaction of the liquid with chrome paint.It already happened to me other times,even if when I take away such chrome from tamiya parts it tooks less than 3 minutes to become completely clean.

EDIT:
Just cleaned now the front lights.All wants to do such work, be VERY careful cause when u took away all the (terribly heavy) chrome paint, u will see the grey plastic misteriosly glossy. Such gloss is a sort of ts-13/ 2k trasparent paint that comes away with a scratch tool.
I really dunno wtf do they use at revell to make so ugly chromed parts.
If u reach the pure plastic parts, the details on the lights are incredibly nice and seems done in resin.

[John18d]

Excellent work Paolo - the design software really helps us get a look at what needs to be done for the roll cage. Also that for the pictures - keep them coming - this will really help me - I have ordered a 458GT on the way as soon as they are in stock again - John

[nipponts]

Very impressive mods ,Paolo

[kingkai]

Nice stuff Paolo!