Tamiya 1/24 Ferrari F40 - progress

[robrex]

Thanks for all the comments!

Originally Posted by thadude

What did you use for the interior to get the rough look if i may ask?

Originally Posted by thadude

??

Originally Posted by godfather23

What do you use for the dashboard?? Interesting technique it seems!

Sorry, I use Micro balloons. It's a model railroad product that they use for replicating snow in dioramas. Initially I mixed it with the paint and sprayed it on but recently I have used a different technique. Spray the part then sprinkle the micro balloons onto the wet paint (just like flocking). Then knock off the excess and re-spray the part in the desired colour. The photo's show the effect as quite grainy and rough but it real life it is very soft and fine.

Here's the finished effect mixed with the paint for comparison

[kenyap83]

Amazing details man! This will be one intersting thread to follow up. So, keep it coming!

[Captain Mark]

Mate, you so should be working for Tamiya...
Fantastic as always!

[robrex]

Not much in the way of step by step progress. But here's a picture of the engine at the moment. Lots still to do...



I made replacement turbos to replace the awful kit pieces.. they still look ordinary in these photo's but you can see how small they are and once on the kit should look the business



I've also started on the wheels by machining the centre out from the kit wheels and then made resin copies



The original wheels are 17" but I prefer the look of bigger wheels on scale models so I've stepped the machined rims to make them look slightly bigger without affecting the ride height or changing tyres. They aren't that much bigger but improves the look don't you think?





More soon....

[klutz_100]

Those turbos just blew my socks off!!

[Joe Blyth]

Wow, excellent work. Can you go into more detail about how you made the turbos?

[thadude]

lovly work on the engine!
And thnx for awnsering my question

[slk320]

Abolutely beautiful!

[kenyap83]

Immpressive detail engine.

[Decs0105]

awesome work, man I missed your progress threads

[robrex]

Here is a quick update.
I mentioned earlier that I am making new wheels so here is the progress.
First I made resin copies of the wheel centres


To make the machined rims I decided to do them in two pieces, the actual rim and the section which bolts to the centre. The reason for doing it this way is 1st, it made it easier to mill the bolt holes and 2nd, I can adjust the offset when I'm finishing the model to get a nice fit.
Here you can see the 3 pieces and then almost completed pictures (I still need to find bolt heads to use)




More updates soon.

[klutz_100]

Lovely job, Rob!

How about making your own bolt heads?

[robrex]

Before I started on the paint I needed to fix a few problems with the kit.
The first is the air inlet next to the side windows


The kit simply has this section added to the window and asks you to paint it red. On the actual car this part is shaped to direct cool air into the engine. I forgot to take a picture of the glass in the kit but to fix the model I made a template of the shape and then used putty to form the intake




I then sanded the groove and after a bit of work it looks OK


Thanks for watching

[rockinanko]

i can only say for those who has machining assessibility / capability, you do have a absolute advantage over us (the plastic builders).

i hope for all those precision works you've made into this build, will shine out better than those who uses only plastic.

let's see what you can do on the completion.

good luck!

marc
SGP

[robrex]

Zero Rosso Corsa basecoat applied. Clear coat to follow soon.




I've also done a bit more on the rest of the kit




Thanks for looking