Ferrari F-40 "Beurlys" spider, scale 1/8

[Pascal D]

After four "sessions" of filler, sanding and primer, it starts to look smooth :





There are still a couple of holes and bumps left, I hope that I will finally get rid off the last ones with more filling and sanding.

Greetings

Pascal

[da_ashman]

Stunning work so far, looks awesome!! Great scratchbuilding

[Pascal D]

Well, this build is becoming a lot more complicated then I thought :roll:

First, I made the two side "bulges" that are located just in front of the windscreen :







The bulges appeared to be OK, but after looking at the pictures of the real Beurlys, I noticed that the shape not correct. They're not long enough and to narrow :



But there was no way that I could make these bulges bigger without some more rebuilding of the hood. First I added a couple of plastic pieces to the rear of the bonnet, to make it longer, and change the angle of the base that will hold the windscreen :



After :



Before :



And I had to change the holes for the louvres for the third time !! They will be moved another 2-3 millimeters to the sides of the bonnet :







And this is how they look now :









After the removal of the center square piece, I'm left with four holes on each side. New center pieces will be made, to change them into eight holes.

Till next time

Pascal

[star21]

interesting car and likewise interesting project. it takes a lot of guts (and money ) to chop up an F40LM. good job so far.

[512BB]

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is one of the projects I have in mind in 1/24 scale and I also planned to use that lousy 1/43 from PM as a reference base. But thank you for your topic which will serve as an important reference for my future project (hopefully). Keep up your good work and I can't wait to see your completed model!

[AustinMartin]

Looks amazing! Cannot wait to see more of this!

[Pascal D]

Did some work on the doors :















then it was time to really do some cutting :

Before :



After :





And now it's time to start rebuilding the front suspension, to make it look like this :





Pascal

[Pascal D]

Progress is slowly, a lot of time is spent looking at photos of the 1/1 Beurlys.

One of the sidewalls had another fight with my Dremel :



The hinges need to be altered because the top one is visible from the front and from above :





The red square shows where the top hinge is situated, the blue square shows the height of the sidewall :



And the dashboard received some plastic strip :



There is still a lot of work to build the front suspension, but finally I have an idea of the dimensions of the parts.

Till next time.

Pascal

[360spider]

Wow, that's pretty insane! Awesome workmanship!

[tuned.by.twenty]

This is such a big project, in more ways than one! I like the fact that you're taking the time to make everything perfect-not everyone could keep with this like you have. I want to see more!

[Pascal D]

Well, I've decided to build the rear suspension from scratch, and to modify the standard Ferrari gearbox into a Hewland DGB one.

As you can see, there's a lot of difference between the Beurlys and a normal F-40 :



Because the suspension is attached to the gearbox, I will make the inside of wooden blocks, which will be glued together :
















It took me a couple of hours to make this part from a piece of 2 mm aluminium :







Compared with the "real stuff" :



Building the gearbox and suspension will add a couple of extra months to this project, but I think (hope) that it will give this model a nice extra touch

Pascal

[Midnight Racer]

incredible progress, can't wait to see how this turns out

[Pascal D]

Did some work on the gearbox, for this I use knitting needles. They come in all diameters and are a lot cheaper then messing tubes :







Made a "hinge" from one of the knitting needles, still needs some shaping and sanding :



Glued both righthand halves of the body together, the gap is clearly visible :



The gap on the lefthand side, was filled with a plastic strip, filled and sanded :



And the hole in the front was patched :



Greetings

Pascal

[ScratchBuilt]

Yay! I'm not the only one around here who uses knitting needles on my projects then! I agree with you Pascal - they're very useful to have around (I acquired my gran's stock several years ago - if she knew what I was using them for...) I found them particularly useful on the 908's roll-hoop - I threaded one inside a length of 4.8mm styrene tube so that it kept shape whilst I heated and bent it. Biggest problem seems to be cutting and drilling them - very tough (or my drills are blunt, I suppose).

Enjoying the spider project - I'm particularly looking forward to seeing the suspension come together on that gearbox. Keep going!

Cheers,

ScratchBuilt

[Pascal D]

A little update. Did some work on the side "walls", these will be made flush with plastic strip :





Started modifying the cooling vents :




















And I'm adding some details to the doors :













Progress is slow, but I'm still enjoying every minute of this build

Greetings

Pascal