1958 Ferrari 375 Arciero Bros./Gurney 1/43

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As raced and won 1st place at Riverside in '58.
Resin and white metal kit by Marsh.
Body is pretty clean, minimal clean-up and a few holes need to be drilled for the roll bar and fuel filler.
Here I have taped the roll bar to the body so I can get an idea of what angle to drill the holes in the body for the supports.

I mounted the chassis to the body to make sure the roll bar would meet the floor and attached the supports to the main bar with CA.

When the CA set, I removed the assembly… Doing it this way pays off in the end since it will fit and I won’t have to fiddle with it over a finished body.

As you can see the tires (made of a hard resin) have holes too large and not all that true for the wire wheels. I have one coat of silver on the rims, they will get another.

I honed the inside bead of the tires and machined a “wedding band” from 6061 aluminum. They fit snugly onto the wheels and into the tires and will be painted silver to match the wheels.

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There were not even indentations for the tail pipes so the exhaust pipes were drilled out a little with a pin vise…

The interior comes with PE for floor and bulkheads. PE also for the pedals and shift gate. The seats received some very mild weathering and shading to give them a little life.

The gauge cluster is done. PE and decals. I went with a crinkle finish.

Steering wheel was easier to assemble on the white metal “sprue”. Wood grained rim to match the gear shift knob.

I added “lenses” to the gauges with Future…

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The body was primed in white after being fully cleaned up and washed in detergent and shot Testors Italian Red. Now it gets to dry for a spell, thankfully it is summer and hot…

Wheels & tires are done for now…

[soono87]

Wow! What a beautiful tiny model!
Details are better than ordinary 1/24 models!

[360spider]

Looks great, though I'd re-do that steering wheel - the rim is WAY too thick, looks out of scale.

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The body has been decaled and cleared… Some black detailing has been done too. I see there is a little wax I need to remove from some of the crevices…

[dozman]

Nice work mate.

How did you get that wood effect on the steering wheel?

I have built a few Marsh Model kits and my only gripe is some tyres don't fit the rims - other than that they are some of the easiest 43rd kits to build.

[Scale-Master]

I just used black, brown and red paints brushed on to look like wood grain. Overall they are nice kits, but this one had the worst tire/rim fit of all the Marsh kits I've built.