WIP: Ferrari 575GTC, 1/24 60th aniv. AF build

[tonioseven]

You are truly a master-builder! This thread is awe-inspiring!!

[sportracer02]

Fantastic work on the interior as well as on the body (decalling and finish)

[auw12]

Fantastic works Sasa! I love them very much. And seems it's going to be finished quite soon, you could have 2 or 3 more entries according to your speed LOL.

[sjelic]

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by auw12

And seems it's going to be finished quite soon, you could have 2 or 3 more entries according to your speed LOL.

I am giving a serious thought about that I kind of fixed my schedule, so I have 2-3 hours every day (ok night ).

[bvia]

Excellent job (and save!).

Thanks for sharing,
Bill

[P64]

bene, bene, bene, mi sembra venga molto bene. ottime tecniche, molto laboriose. un buon lavoro. aspettiamo la fine.
ciao, alessandro

well, well, well, me it seems comes very well. optimal techniques, much laborious. a good job. we wait for the end.
hello, alessandro.

[sjelic]

I am so glad you guys like it, thank you very much.



Next few pictures have no real tooling look but I will try to explain with words.



Disk rotors are nice fat PE pieces but callipers were attached to it and if done like that give no realism at all. So I cut them of, cleaned the disks with Nitro thinner and painted with Alclad pale burned metal directly on PE. Callipers are taken from scrap box (I think they were on some DTM cars before), groove is made with rotary tool to fit the disks and those cut PE callipers are glued on faces. Everything is painted with combo of Alclad pale gold, burned metal and just a bit of chrome for finishing effect, letters are washed with acrylic red and callipers are cleaned after that with acrylic thinner to remove paint spills from letters.



Then I took fine sanding paper (1500) and removed paint from discs working surface (outer diameter) to get the effect.

The problem in this part is that all the discs that I saw on the 575 are different (rear and front) and looking different then ones I got in the kit, so I made them like instructions said even thou it could be wrong.

Central nut is made from turned alu, I painted it with pale gold and washed with black acrylics.









Next part were CF bits and pieces, everything was cleaned and primed with Tamiya metal primer (since those parts are either white metal or PE), then I put enemal semi gloss on all parts and waited to cure.

All of the CF is from the kit except door panel, they are from SMS, pattern is the same just colour is slightly different.







Here you can see how does the door panel look after first drying period (decal placed and soaked with MicroSol), still a lot of bubbles and irregularities.







Then I took small needle and pinched all of the bubbles and re-soaked with Micro stuff.

This is end result before clear coat.







And all parts together







I started with seatbelts, hardware is from S27 while shoulder pads are from Scaleracecars.







Also I spend three days polishing tiny scratches and finally I have satisfying result.

[Toughbeard]

ooooohhhh aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh now this is a Ferrari.

Excellent build Sasa. Did you use a Knurling tool for the wheel nut for the pattern?

I have one of this kit on the way, hope you wont mind if I follow this thread for my build up (also Alessandro's thread as well )

[sjelic]

Originally Posted by Toughbeard

ooooohhhh aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh now this is a Ferrari.

Excellent build Sasa. Did you use a Knurling tool for the wheel nut for the pattern?

I have one of this kit on the way, hope you wont mind if I follow this thread for my build up (also Alessandro's thread as well )

Those wheel nuts are just perfect and I didn't do a thing to them but painted, amazing little jewls, the best thing is that you get 5 of them so you can even lose one
Complete kit is supplied with extra parts for some delicate stuff, also for some small decals. This is realy nice to see, if you ask me this Tecnomodel kit is the best curbside resin model on the market.

[Toughbeard]

wow now I am anxiously taping my fingers on the desk waiting for the mailman to bring my kit...

[auw12]

Actually I've gotten really tired of adjectives, are there good examples of commenting on such excellent works without adjectives? W W~~~~~

Perfect works on solving the problem on the decal, I may give up if facing the same problem. And I love the seatbelt verymuch, only the texture on the belt seems a bit out of scale, is that stuff coming from S27 too? I wonder if there's anything better than that to be the belts materials. And the shoulder pads are perfect! You can consider your next project ahead Sasa~~

[Jamme]

Hello;
Wonderful Work!
I really like the car is on her wheels!

Jamme

[sjelic]

Weekend has passed and it is time for another update.



Seat belts are done, pattern is definitively to hard for 24 but....that's how it is.







Next of were cameras, there are two in the car, one in the top right corner of front windshield and one in the top left corner on passenger side, they are made from soldier wire, electronic plug connectors and thin wire.







Dash board finished







And with all in place, interior done.

















Next of, rear diffuser, although I liked how Mr. Prini did that, with soldiering all in place I opted in the end for super glue, soldier should be just to much for me.

Here you can see primitive way of PE bending, this measuring tool is perfect for that purpose.









Primed with metal primer and grey primer.







Rear wing is also done, clear coated and all.







Inside of the body was painted with Tamiya flat alu with wide brush







I did some work on body but I will leave it open till next update.

Thanks for watching.

[Jamme]

Hello Sasa,
Your interior looks incredible!
I really like it.

Jamme

[tonioseven]

This is astonishingly beautiful (I'm looking for new adjectives to describe this build)!!!