WIP: Tamiya FXX

[SkylineFan]

This Tamiya kit build up will be featured in Model Cars Magazine in the May/June issue I am told. I have to have it complete along with the article by the end of April!! This is why my POC pontiac has been put on temporary hold.

Here is the real car..... what a ride!!!!



Since I am pressed for timne, I quickly worked it into paint this weekend. I cleaned and sanded all the body components with 600 and 1000 grit paper. Then I primed it all with tamiya grey surface primer followed up by duplicolor white sandable primer so the color will be nice and bright. I wish tamiya primer was not so costly. The stuff is so smooth!!!

After a few days of curing I hit the parts with Cobra Colors Rosso Corsa Ferrari red. This was cleared with 3 coats of Dupont Croma clear 7500S. It still needs to be polished (few pieces of trash) but I find the Dupont to be real easy to work with and dries to a fantastic wet look shine. More to come soon......



Finished polishing all the body parts. I even decaled the bonnet. I was dying to see what it looked like!!!







This is the chassis underpan. All the CF is SMS decal cleared with 3 coats of future applied with an airbrush. I replaced all the molded kit bolts with PRO TECH .030 PE bolts...... I imagine the entire belly is CF on the real car but I like the contrast of the black along with the CF.... makes for a nice appearance in my opinion.





Wheels were [ainted Tamiys TS-29 Semi gloss black. Decals were applied from the kit sheet for the red outlines (just like a cup car!! 8) ) I added inspection dots that are in pics I have seen of the real car. The center nuts were painted silver and then hit with a few coats of clear red topped with tamiya decals.



Finally all panels are polished and assembled for a test fit..... its looking like an FXX!!!


The most time consuming part of building an enzo is the tedious carbon fiber decal application. Especially as complex as the enzo is.... Here are a few pics of the dash using regular weave 1:24 decal from SMS. I cleared the decals with Future. The dash bolts are from Pro Tech and Model Car Garage. ( I need to flip one of them over... shows the blue side!! 8)




Alot of work went into the interior floor pan, bulkhead, and rear inner firewalls along with the sides of the chassis. All done in Regular weave CF by SMS all cleared with a few light coats of future.. Here are some mocked up pics with the dash





Finally the beggining of the engine. I primed it lightly to give it slight texture and then shot it with alclad aluminum.





More updates soon!!

DaveT

[gionc]

Great start: now we're ready for "DaveTM" details.

[ilferraristarosso]

Wow,very attractive work.
Wonderful.

[slk320]

Very nice CF work and I agree... lots of CF on this baby...

[Enzoenvy1]

Seems like the FXX craze is not dying as of yet!! I like this one alot, very simple and clean. Makes me realize that I can build one that doesn't have to be super detailed. This is beautiful, hands down!!!

[SpoonMan Dos]

Very good! Excellent detailing.

[D_LaMz]

Judging from your previous work, this will be perfect!

[Honny]

great progress so far !

im having trouble to decide for my kit if i should paint the red lip for the wheels, or just stick with the decals.... but what i can see the decals arent to bad, it doesnt look too "toyish" like.

[Enzoenvy1]

Originally Posted by Honny

great progress so far !

im having trouble to decide for my kit if i should paint the red lip for the wheels, or just stick with the decals.... but what i can see the decals arent to bad, it doesnt look too "toyish" like.

I was thinking that also, but for the amount of work entailed, the factory decals will suffice.

[SkylineFan]

Back to the build!!

More progress tonight. I decided to tackle the seats. The real car has the foam covers in black on the area where the driver sits. I replicated this texture by painting the seat after masking off the backs with Krylon "Suede it" tan paint. I then removed the masking and painted the seats krylon flat black. The Cavalino horses are from a Crazy modeler metal transfer sheet painted flat red. The seat backs were covered in SMS regular weave CF and cleared with future. The lower seat belts were added using the tamiya Photoetch buckles and fasteners. The set also provides the cool vinyl red seat belt material as well.



Once the seats were mounted I added the shoulder belts also provided in the Tamiya PE sheet. These belts were extremely tedious to install, but I think they were worth it.

[tonioseven]

This is a work of art in progress!!

[slk320]

Looks geat! The one comment I might have though is that the cavallinos int he headrest apper to be tilted slightly... (may be 45 degrees). Otherwise tis perfect!

[SkylineFan]

Originally Posted by slk320

Looks geat! The one comment I might have though is that the cavallinos int he headrest apper to be tilted slightly... (may be 45 degrees). Otherwise tis perfect!

They are suppose to be tilted... look At the pic..........

http://www.hiroboy.com/gallery/displ...lbum=29&pos=14


Thanks guys!!

DaveT

[Enzoenvy1]

Well, I am shocked at just how clean this all is. There are no flaws in the CF or the paint at all?! Do you work in a dust free/vacuumed room or something? Seriously how do you keep it so clean? I am liking this build the most of the FXX's because it is so simple, yet highly detailed and clean.

[SkylineFan]

Thanks guys..... The final tedious work is done. The enzo has heat shielding covering 90 % of the engine bay. I used foil I purchased from Dave at Detail design & scale. Rather straight forward application. Just make templates and apply with white glue.



Here is a shot of the interior with the upper cage installed along with the dash.....



Next up is to get the engine complete.

Dave T