Ferrari 288GTO Revell + Fujimi #32 (Work in Progres)

Hi all, from sunny and windy Sydney.

I'll post progress of 5 days (I wish I could spend all my time making my GTO, though maybe 1-2 hours a day).
I'm sure I'm approaching to the goal (except the left door).

Masked and sprayed the window rims.

0.3mm Plastic paper was adhered to the side of rear window. It could be a bit thinner, but I thought thinner materials would trace the rough surface. This was cool enough for me.

Front hood stay. Mainly just made from 0.5mm nickel silver and plastic bar to be adhered to the body, but to show as if it was dumper, I just added the brass tube. ....I forgot to take photo of rear one (rear one was simple, as the real one was).

Finally the body and chassis were docked. Still lots of adjustment for the stays of front and rear hoods, height of the interior tub.... and so on.

I normally trim the edges of the back of the wheels. I don't know why car model manufactures make me do this messy job.

Then simply masked the wheel centres. I could take off the plating, but after painting the metal-look paints, it's all the same, we can't touch so much. I took an easier way.

Sprayed Flat Aluminum (Tamiya enamel XF-16) and the air valves were attached. I bought these valves about 10 years ago.

Tyres were attached. Now I can see this is a car, indeed. Luckily, it seems like I don't need to adjust the height again.

I need to hurry up instead of watching, but I can't help smiling watching this "almost finished" appearance.

It was lucky I didn't need too much time to adjust and fit the head light units.  

Left door is now under repair, but just some small jobs to do!!
And I'll be making wipers, fitting emblems, mirrors and show case as well very soon.

I hope I could tell "I finished!!" on the next post.

Have a happy Monday... :) 

Ferrari 288GTO Revell + Fujimi #31 (Work in Progres)

Hi, I'm still struggling to fix the clack on the left door, but I believe I can report the success of it :) If not, the color will run out and I can never match the color up with other body parts....!!! I have never been serious like this before, in my life (exaggerated expression).

Just a quick post.

Fixing the arrangement of the hole.

It's not perfect, but keep on going! Or I can't finish this project. I took too much time already!!!

Masking of the shade on front window. Thick double sided tape and 0.2mm plastic paper.
I decided to use the front window from Revell's box. It was not too bad, and I thought it'd be too tricky to attach the thin, 0.2mm window I made. For now, I just want to finalize this project.... I am doing too much, and now I want to make other ones!

The shade's color was, clear blue 60% + clear red 40%. Then clear coated. After this, I'll polish.

But the rear window was replaced to 0.2mm plastic transparent board. I want to see the dashboard clearly through.

Temporally the body and the chassis were docked, to keep my motivation...
(I'll treat the black color beside the rear window).

Thanks for watching!!

Ferrari 288GTO Revell + Fujimi #30 (Work in Progres)

Hi... I'm struggling.

There appears clacks on left door.

Actually I found these before polishing, so....

I sanded them out, clear coated  and....

Polished again, indeed.  (don't worry about the  water drop on this picture)


BUT HERE COMES THE CLACK AGAIN, AFTER 2 WEEKS OF TIME!!!

I think I'll over coat them with clear again then sand and polish.... suspecting the clacks coming again....

Oh, I was noticed there's one little mistake on head light.

I placed the adjustment hole on the wrong side on this one. (Actually Tamiya's 1/12 seems to  make same mistake!!)

It's not perfect, but almost.

Real car. I hadn't realized these tricky arrangements of the holes.

Very short update....