'05 Ferrari 575 GTO

[Samurai75007]

Wow, sexy ferrari gionc.

How could i have possibly missed this amazing build! Inspirational stuff!

[Cobra Colors]

Crikies! I'm just tuning in too. Lots of exceptionally fine work in many different areas here that's well worth the time to examine closely.

[nugundam93]

great work there!

[gionc]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

A bit of update:

I realized a problem on the "nose" of my GTO: too many layers of decals and paint, too much transparent white decals: was better after a light sanding and a clearcoat but not perfect. So I decided to sand down clearcoat, decals and a bit of color not the happyest work in the wordl. This time I rescribed gaskets lines around windows and... I redone transparents trought warmcast.

Everyone own a Fujimi 550/575 know that the worst parts are transparent's fittings: body shell isn't beveled inside and.. the fit is not perfect and you'll see a good mm of air in few points from body and winshied top: not well engineered. No problem: aren't we modellers? Where's teh fun? Doing hard adventures (to me at least )

By steps:

I drawn the transp. part outline (base) on a balsa wood at start and on a plywood after broken the balsa , than I fix with clay the tarsparent (we'll call it mould from now) leaving some mm under it. May be someone will have some better results with a stronger mould like a resin cast piece: I want to try with the original part and all come ok.







Than I warm up the acetate board (fixed to the plywood/balsa) with a body shop's phon (few bucks at hardstone, no professional stuff) and push the wood trought the mould.





Nothing difficult: some attempt was neede only to find out the better material (girl's sexy slip box ) since the bords from my LHS was quetly thick and those done some micro-bubbles after heating. With thin acetate all was ok.

I treced outlines with a felt marker and cut out with some lexan scissors wich I use on RCs: definitely better than std. scissors.



Now transparents are quetly dirty (alcohol bath to remove felt pen is needed) but suit perfect this beast windows: I done also some other few mods, I blind out the third window: I plan to replace it with a carbon pattern with the original window shape (aka 911GT)





Thanks to read

ciao
giovanni

[klutz_100]

What, no seaweed? j/k

Amazing work, Maestro
I watch and learn like little bambino

I think it was a really cool concept to close off the rear quarter windows - it gives a great aggresive, racing look to the lines.

Use compound and wax on the acetate and it should polish up very nicely

[pjesus]

Wow!
You were brave enough (or nuts ) to strip the paint to the thing?!?!?

Regarding the 'windows', doesn't the acetate get too thin and fragile?

Keep it coming!

[edit]
BTW, how does the acetate improve the fitting, since it's molded from the original? Because it's more flexible?

[mike@af]

Wow Gio. Seeing you make windows is really impressive. I've always wondered how to go about doing it since clear resin casting doesnt have nice results. Now the options for modeling are limitless. Thanks!

[WRC_413X]

Originally Posted by gionc

not well engineered. No problem: aren't we modellers? Where's teh fun? Doing hard adventures (to me at least )

Thats my motto. Way to take the problem head on .
This is some great work giovanni. Love the idea with the 3/4 windows.

Keep us posted!

Great tutorial on making the acetate windows.I never thought of doing it like that,thanks for sharing.. keep up the good work!

[portalus]

I hope that you will show the tutorial "How to create a windows by Gio" at FAQ on PWM Forum.
In similar way I created a lights mirrors for my Ducati - have you seen that?

[rx7king]

amazing work, inspiring

[gionc]

Originally Posted by portalus

I hope that you will show the tutorial "How to create a windows by Gio" at FAQ on PWM Forum.
In similar way I created a lights mirrors for my Ducati - have you seen that?

(Thank a lot guys, really I'm enjoying an unexpected feedback)

Hi Portalus: I guess not, I'm very busy now but as soon as I've a second I'll update the thread on your wonderful forum and have a look at your 916: I seen it's the revell 1/9 kind, since I own a couple of 1/9 stuff I'll follow with a lot of interest thanks man.

[p9o1r1sche]

Nice looking model, Gionc. Too bad about the transparent parts, but fixing things like that and making alterations makes us modellers and not just assemblers.

[gionc]

Some interiors: with the F40 as inspiration I redone side panels: just a carbon board with a simple mechanic device to open doors

So doors panels redone with 0.5 styrene board


Interior's components (now I have to do belts job and few other accessories like estinguisher etc.)



I cut out some details and try to render some glued kevlar boards cockpit



Kevlar decals are the S27 kind and black glue line are the s27 carbon kind

Back panel: it should receive some detail like estinguisher and rapid-fueling line


I done some job on dashboard: I removed plastic vents and replaced by some PE vents I done, I also turned the aluminium rounded surround.


I cutted out the radio and replaced it with a square board: I need to rdo the PE job since I screwed it with a marker doing edges: it should receive teh "start" button and some few switches.

Since teh fujimi kit represent a manual gear car, I converted mine in a F gear kind doing the backup plate: I milled down teh plate (3.5by5.5mm), turned the buttons and the lever.





Some job on seats: I choose some racing recaro for my trackday beast: customized recaro I mean



Some fitting test also for belt gaskets



Seat masked (back with maskol and tape to avoid textures under carbon decals) and sprayed with thick insigna red to obtain a certain textile or leather appeal



Gaskets fits ok (obviously I removed plastic one)



Back was also decalled: I tryed a self made carbon decal: I printed the black pattern on a transparent decal film and placed over dark silver (or light gunmetal 9



last updates: I done "gill" intakes on my beast trought styrene shapes glued with Light Curing Putty from inside: 1 min. later I sand down a bit and finished with thinned putty:





Thanks a lot everyone for your kind feedback and your comment!

ciao