In progress: Ferrari 512BB #88 LM'78

[nniemi]

I started this few months ago so this won't be one of my two-year progress threads

The model will represent this car:



Starting point to this model is an old ARII 512BB kit that would have needed a lot of work to represent a street car so i decided to convert it to the "Competizione" specs.



Decals are from an old Scale Designs sheet bought from ebay:



Here is couple of photos from body modifications. I made new wheelarch extensions from plastic sheet and putty, front spoiler is reshaped and brake cooling air intakes are formed from plastic sheet:



The front end was reshaped, ARII's body is too wide at front so I narrowed it by taking a couple of millimeters from the center and glued the halves together:



The interior is almost totally scratchbuilt. Only kit supplied parts that i used are dash, seats and steering wheel:





Here is the body at its current stage, paint is ready and most of the decals are on:





Hope you like it

-Niko

[ales]

I love it! It's a beautiful car and the model is also looking great. Awesome

[gionc]

Fantastic clean masterwork: I love it.

[NissanSkylineGTR98]

Nice work! The interior looks especially good as does the body, can't wait to see it finished!

[nniemi]

Well, this one is mostly finished. I will have to steal those additional drivinglights from somewhere, but other than that it is ready for track.

I used Historic Racing Miniatures wheels and tires, Sakatsu antenna and numberlights and Seimitsuya's fuel caps. Rear spoiler and engine air intakes were made from putty and plastic sheets.







-Niko

[sportracer02]

Hi Niko,

this one looks good and is probably a cheaper model than the Studio27 kit.

In your first posting you wrote, you will build the LeMans racer; so my questions: are you sure they drove with co-drivers seat? Didn´t you intend to replace the stock drivers seat with a racing seat?

[nniemi]

Well i dont have good references on this, but at least few years earlier co-drivers seat was obligatory on LM. I based the interior on pics of the restored car on these pics:

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All....7.512.BBLM.htm

Seats are probably a little wrong, but because there were no better references available that will do.

And yes, that was some $ 120 cheaper than S27 model.

-Niko

[boxjelly]

I really like this Ferrari. Alot.

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by nniemi

Well i dont have good references on this, but at least few years earlier co-drivers seat was obligatory on LM. I based the interior on pics of the restored car on these pics:

http://www.barchetta.cc/english/All....7.512.BBLM.htm

Seats are probably a little wrong, but because there were no better references available that will do.


-Niko

Hi,

I guess your reference material shows a former race car, nowadays equipped with a second seat to show co-drivers, how the cars handled.
In times, when these cars ran in LM, there was no second seat in the cars.

[quadzero]

very nice conversion, the results are excellent. keep up the good work.

[91p10nizmo]

Nice job, looks very well made.