Ferrari F2000 1/20 Tamiya

[booch982]

After an incredibly busy month, I am returning with a new project, the tamiya F1-2000. I decided to add to this beautiful kit the super detail-up kit by Top Studio, the Top Studio antennas and zero-paint matched color. Lots of new stuff for me!

After the work made with the P34, that needed so many adjustments to correctly fit, I was very happy to return back to an all-fits-very-fine kit. However, when I saw the detail up, I thought that this built will not be so plain... It is my first detail-up and I think to need a large amount of help and luck!

In any case, since I have so much to learn, I decided to couple the biult of this kit with that of F2001... two very similar models, and I think that the latter will become the experimentation kit!


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Thank you for reading,

Antonio

[booch982]

Well, some progress. As I said, this is a double WIP... given the similarity between the cars (and the kits), I'll show some progress on the F2001: especially in this phase, the work is almost the same. In this case, I'm adding a PE detail set by Studio27, seems fine!

At first, assembly of the cowl, puttying and sanding. Wings must be removed to add the PE ones. Lots of sanding is therefore needed to guarantee a smooth transition between the cowling and the PE, given its smaller thickness.





Most of the small additional wings must be removed to insert the PE ones.




A beautiful kit but.... ejector-pin-holes everywhere. Those placed in the middle of the rear part of the wing are very visible so... MrHobby liquid putty and sanding. Lots of hours doing this, I hope it worths..



Some additional work must be done to properly thin the parts of the diffuser.


At the end... an ensamble view.


Of course, all this work is doubled!

[booch982]

Since I like to make all adjustments to the pieces and test the fitting before the primer-and-paint work, I spent this time mainly sanding, adjusting, studying (the instruction of TS kit... very hard work!), so very few to show.

F2001:

Among other things, I prepared the wheels (with PE rims), with a little help of small PS strips to collectly center them



Then, some work for the seat. It is all prepared to be inserted in the cockpit (so I can make separate paintworks and minimize maskings...), lot of test fittings were needed. I also prepared the roof, to add some realism.



However, I've firstly finished preparing all the bodywork pieces, given the long time needed for painting, decaling and curing








Main adjustments were lot of puttying, all rivets and protrusions removed to guarantee good sanding and polishing, they will be substituted by PE. The false grooves in the headrest (tamy wants to simulate a sort of small pillow, I think...) were puttied and will be substitutes with a real one.

F2000:

similar work on the F2000 (yes, it's a double work....), but less puttying.









I think that a lot of difficulties will arise for both cars: as it can be seen from references (thanks daveyman!), in the bottom of the car a smmoth transition can be seen between the red and the black color. Some decals are included in the kit, but I think that the decal red could be different from my ZP red so... airbrush and lot of luck will be my main instruments!

[booch982]

Unfortunately, all the work done for primer was ruined by a wrong white-primer choice: I used a vallejo white primer for airbrush (urethanic)... after a satisfying airbrush session, and after curing, I started sanding , and I discovered that adhesion was quite unsatisfactory. I mean, if you burn through this primer, it peels off instead of being sanded. This is if course an unaccetable risk, if you want a good pantjob! So I decided to strip both primers but....it was very difficult. No solvent was good. I had to use brake fluid to dissolve the tamiya gray primer to peel the white vallejo. Lot of mess and work. But I did, and at the end, I was able to start again with gray primer (two coats and sanding) and white primer (two coats), and after some sanding, I will show some photos later. In the meanwhile, a rear suspension arm simply disappeared. So I decided to scratchbuilt one;
This is the pieces (well.. its brother!). Not so difficult, on overall it is flat and the wing profile is neutral, i.e. symmetrical.


I started gluing some PS strips and sanding to get the overall profile:


Then, I gave the shape by cutting and sanding. The C-shaped part is taken from a PS tube of the right size.


Then some small PS strips and pins were added and shaped by light sanding them. I know, not perfect, but quite satisfactory.

[booch982]

White primer on all bodywork pieces, slight sanded with 1500/2000 grit.


F2001



F2000





That's all for the moment, see you later!

Antonio

[dynosam]

Will be watching this closely. I am building the F2001

[booch982]

Well, back in action. I decided to change a little bit my way of modelling: since the detail set of the F2000 needs a good preparatio work of the pieces (also the kit...) to reach satisfactory results, and there are so many details to check, I decided to focus on single parts of the car at a time. Today: brakes preparation.

Most of the work was devoted to build the rear hub brakets, since that of the kit were hollow. Since the car will be exposed within the weels (the TS brakes are awesome), some work is needed. This is what I want to obtain:



This is the kit piece, with some PS added to close it:


Then I added other PS strips, until a shape is obtained:


and then sanding, sanding, sanding and so on...


This is the final result, I think at least better than the original!



I prepared also all other brakes-related pieces (drilled holes, checked fittings, sanded and similar), PE included.


I can be satisfied: mission accomplished!

[ZEQUIELLE]

Great job!!keep the good work!

[Maranello1977]

Go trabaojo piece you wear, the F1 kits I have outstanding, so I follow with attention.
Saul.

[booch982]

The last week was devoted to painjob. I know it took long time for correctly core the paints, so I prefer to work on it befor mechanical works...

I started with TS tamiya pure white by airbrush to the wings (there are some white decals, but I thought it could be fine to make all the work by painting). Then I masked the white parts and gave some coats of red (zero paint, Pre-2004 red). I also painted all the other bodywork pieces. I started with a myst coat, immediately followed by a wet coat, 24h curing, sanding with 1500 grit and another wet coat.


After this, I masked the red parts to give two coats of MM classic black. This will work as a base for CF decals in the undertray and is used to simulate heat protection of the bodywork (even if it has a matt finish, I'll use a matt coat at the end...)



And this is the result...



The mask in the undertray was removed and the smooth transition from black to red was done by ligthly airbrushing the black paint. The same was done on lateral parts of the bodywork. It is probably not perfect, but I think that it will be possible to sligthly correct the shadowing effect by means of compounds... I'll try. Anyway, better than using a decal with a color probably different from that of the ZP!!




Well... of course, the same was done on the F2001!!!








Thank you for reading!

[da_ashman]

Awesome builds! cant wait to see more

[Maranello1977]

Good paint job, keep it up

[sebasoakley]

nice job..I keep waiting more updates and progress.

[John18d]

Excellent WIP Booch - how did I miss this one - great pictures with lots of details - John

[booch982]

New problems on the paintwork... after color, I decided to try the zero paint 1K clear... what a mess!!! after a couple of mist coats and a wet one (this coat is devoted at protecting the decals, and will be followed by clear coat over decals)... the surface become somewhat wrapped (hope this is correct term...), different from orange peel. And this is the minor problem. Over the white parts, it assumed a yellow/orange tone, so I have to strip yhe paint and start again, at least with white parts. The other will be accurately sanded, but... very long job. have someone had the same problem? Maybe an old bottle?





Thank you for reading and for comments. Anyway, I'll keep going!