Ferrari 599 Hamann

[The Yes Man]

Very nice

[Jagar]

Crazy Job!!!

[rx7king]

Watching you so easily replicate the body pieces is mind blowing, I cant wait to see it

[OliVTEC]

Stunning work, I'm really looking forward to see it completed.

[360spider]

Haha, Ramon, good thing that you decided to stop playing these video games and get back to model building, lol! Your work is inspirational.

[Viccario]

Wow! Mind blowing detailing and scratchbuilding skills, looks fantastic!

[robrex]

WOW! This is very motivating watching your work Ramon!

[tuned.by.twenty]

I really don't know what to say, I'm just blown away by what I am seeing. You make it all seem so simple and easy!

[xpeed]

Jeez, you sir are a beast.

[drunken monkey]

nice to see some proper model and scratch building.
See people, you don't need trans-kits to make cars that you like.

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by drunken monkey

nice to see some proper model and scratch building.
See people, you don't need trans-kits to make cars that you like.

just good access to plenty of Tequilla it seems ....

[Bossolani]

Brow!!! You are building the best Ferrari I've been seen!!!

Keep it up!!!

Cesar Bossolani

[das_auto]

I really don't know what to say, I'm just blown away by what I am seeing. You make it all seem so simple and easy!

[agamo]

Thank you Stevensky, Entau, Tommy, Yes Man, Jagar, Justin, OliVTEC, Alex, Viccario, Rob, Bill, Phil, drunken monkey, Cesar and das_auto for such great comments, I really feel so flattered, I’m glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Entau

how long did you take to open the glass window?

Cutting with the paper discs and the mototool is very quick, using the saw in the corners a little more, but what took a little more time was removing the unwanted material and sanding to adjust, it took me may be 1 hour and a half total.

Originally Posted by 360spider

Haha, Ramon, good thing that you decided to stop playing these video games and get back to model building, lol!

No I didn’t LOL, well, not at all, just a little, that is why this car took me so long, it’s been almost two years that I have not finished a car (shame on me) But at least I decided to reduce considerably the time I spend (or waste) with the video games, I really want to build more, and you guys motivate me a lot!!!!

And well, onto the works…

Body Detailing and painting process…

It is turn of the body details, starting with the Ferrari crests which require some bending to match the fender shape, in the picture, at the left, the badge straight from the fret and at the right the badge bent to shape…


Then the adjustment of the headlamp covers to make them fit flush with the body…


The adjusted headlamp cover…


The headlamps require some work too; first the removal of the chrome with “Easy Off” oven cleaner, then the lamp receptacle is removed because this part is way too simple and the real one has three diameters, so it will be replaced by a machined aluminum one (This will be done latter)…



It is turn now of the hood which requires the removal of ejector marks, correction of the air intakes (they were smaller) to adjust the PE grills, addition of hinges supports and the hood closing striker…


The front grill from “Crazy Modeler”…


The separated parts; the outer frame is bent to match the body shape…


Ready for paint …


The “Crazy Modeler” PE kit includes the seatbelt buckles; some plastic is added to make them solid…


I had to go back to the interiors because I forgot to detail the steering wheel, steering column and shift pads.
The steering column just requires the addition of the key cylinder lock, the shift pads just some sanding (I won’t use the PE parts here because they are too thin) and the steering wheel requires the correction of the “Manettino” which is too small, so, some plastic was added, the “Manettino” will be scratchbuilt latter, a perforation was made for the starting button as well…


With this, all the modifications and scratchbuilding is finished, so it is time to start the painting process which begins with the preparation of parts…
The first parts to prepare are the interior ones because of all the carbon fiber decaling they require, so, patterns are made with masking tape for dashboard, door panels and seats…



The parts are washed and sorted by color…


The body is mounted and ready for primer…


The first coats of primer are applied (Tamiya though airbrush)…


Don’t forget to protect your lungs…



The first round of paint, then some masking and to the second round…


Some sanding to find and remove any imperfection in the body parts…



The body required just minor corrections…


This step is repeated until no more imperfections appear and then the last coat of primer…


The color for this car is Black, so the first mist coat of Tamiya TS-14 is applied through airbrush to the body parts as well as to the Hamann aerodynamic elements which later will be covered with carbon fiber decals…


Some dust in the left fender and a bad paint application on the right side and the top, required some sanding before the next mist coat…



Two more mist coats and then a wet coat; everything is going better now…



While the wet coats cure, the carbon fiber decals are applied to the dashboard, seats, door panels and center console, for this task, “Scale Motorsport” (Carbon Fiber Plain Weave Pewter 1424) decals are selected and with a good dose of “Micro Sol” and “Micro Set” and some heat applied with a hair dryer, the job is done…


Carbon fiber decals finished, at the end I feel the pattern resulted a little too big…




Once the first wet coat of the aerodynamic elements is completely dried, the respective carbon fiber decals are applied, for these parts, “Crazy Modeler” (Carbon Fiber CM-DC0122) is used, these decals do not work well with solvents, but can be applied with some extra work…



Back to the body and before the last wet coat, some sanding removes any imperfection or dust left in the surface, particularly, the hood resulted with an accentuated orange peel, but extra sanding did he job…




And the last wet coat is applied…



Sanding between coats pays at the end of the process…


After the carbon fiber decals of the interiors are completely cured, several coats of transparent lacquer are applied, then everything is masked to apply the interior color, in this case the interiors will be black leather, so, to reproduce the tone of black leather, (that never looks completely black) a very dark grey is mixed with Tamiya German Grey XF-63 and Semigloss black X-18 both enamel…


Using this tone allows applying some shading with black…


The resulting seats and door panels…



With this, the painting process is finished, in the next installment, I’ll start building and detailing everything, so the progress will be faster…

And as I said before, any comments, advices, corrections or suggestions are always welcome.

[countach79]

Unreal.....i can't find any other words

One day i wish to be as good as you Sir!!