Ferrari 288GTO Revell + Fujimi #29 (Work in Progres)

Hi, today's Sydney was soooo windy, that was 100km/hour, according to TV news! I was too afraid my house would be blown away with my GTO... oh, now my GTO is the first priority, I realized.

The seat belts. Combinations of after market seat belt metal fittings, Fujimi's parts, nickel silver rods, insect pin #0 and Nitto's tape. I prefer Nitto's tape for the seat belts than any other materials including satin ribbons so far, because Nitto's tape has enough softness thinking of its scale; 1/24.

Setting these was very irritating task again. I'm under training to be calm.

Another tiny tiny task. Flattened 0.3mm nickel silver rod, 0.3mm plastic paper and polished 0.3mm nickel silver rod.

That tiny thing was set left front side of the driver's seat. It's front bonnet open lever.

Now I think I did enough for the interior. Oh, I didn't mention about seat belt holder in centre. It was mainly from Fujimi's box but 0.3mm plastic paper painted in red was applied; release buttons. And it's stays were replaced by 0.5mm nickel silver rods. Side brake handle was adhered offset to the driver's seat. The hole for it was filled up with putty and overcoated by the same powder and color.

Then rear combination ramps. I picked Hasegawa's 328GTB's ramps, because of their correct shapes. I dug hole in centres of ramp parts then the clear orange (and red) was airbrushed from the front, with lacquer based color.

Some may say it'd be painted from the back, but in my opinion the real one is solid clear orange (or red) parts, they are in their color from the front.Then masked and semi-gross black was airbrushed.

I airbrushed the clear colors fairly thickly.

The straw was cut and painted in silver...

Then set inside the rims from the back, because I didn't like to see through black color in clear orange (red as well). The centre plastic beam were painted in silver from the back and inserted.

Then Hasegawa's Mirror Finish was cut in circle. I found Evergreen's rod (one in the "associated" pipes and rods) is almost the same size. I pushed the rod onto the Mirror Finish and cut outside.

Then set from the back.

Right one was the treated one, left one was not. Please say, right one looks better!!!

The rear combination ramps and meshes were glued with Aqua-Linker (Konishi Bond's). Mmmm.... I need to treat the gap between body and the side meshes.

 I choose Hasegawa's Mirror Finish on the back of driving ramps. Yes, looks like mirrors. The lenses were from Modeler's light lens sets. (Modeler's no longer exists, but I believe we can find similar one).

The head right glasses were from Fujimi's 330P4 (I ordered the spare parts, I'll make 330P4 someday, surely), and the bases were Sakatsu's aluminum parts, I think I mentioned it in the post I made before.

 How many magnets I've used in this built?? But I'm sure this will make it easy to open.

 Light units were successfully placed to the body. Of course it could be closed!

The photo-etched front grill (from Fujimi's box) was also set. Now I can feel this is GTO's face!

Just some more things to do to finish!! (The windows fitting will be big job, though)