It's quite some time since I've posted anything scratchbuilt. Jonathon (my son) and I are now in our third season of "Classic" open meetings and in the last 2-3 years I've built somewhere in the region of 50 scratchbuilt\conversions but as they are generally only "completed" 5 minutes before the racing starts and never in a fit condition when the racing ends I haven't been able to show any builds here.
We have now a reasonable selection of cars that are "fit" for racing, so the number of builds should now slow down and (hopefully) be mostly tuning and improvements. ; such is the case for this Ferrari model which must be finished for this Sundays "Setpember Classic" at Rockingham.
The Story So Far
I was looking for semthing a bit different (as I alway do) and came across the Ferrari 246P which was an experimental 2.5Ltr Mid-Engined GP car that was only used ar Monaco in 1960. I started making drawings from the very limited number of pictures available when I came across Pascal Celton at Slot Cars Legends who was supplying a resin body for this car together with a choice of two printed chassis (sorry folks these are no longer available). I immediatly ordered two bodies/chassis to be built up for the Wolves event in late 2015 - One to be built as a accurate representation for Jonathon and another to be finished in yellow for myself (I can't cope with two similar cars on the track together). The build went realtivly well and the ABS chassis seemed flexible enough to use; untill I was applying the clear coat on the Friday using a rattle can to speed up the process. The mist coat whent on OK but when I put the next coat I picked up a can of black rather than clear - I spotted my mistake quite quickly but the damage was already done and my car was quickly re-provisioned for Jonathon's use.
Jonathon was quite happy with the car in practice and set what he though were reasonable times but unfortunatly he was taken ill during the night so we didn't race.
The Build so far
I decided to re-build the car using the black\red body (if I don't finish it in time I can use the existing body). So stripped the damaged paint work - It's not perfectly clean but should be Ok.
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The next thing is to add whatever detail I can to improve the looks. Firstly the prominant rivets round the cockpit. The white metal rivits I have from Hobby-Shop Japan are tiny at 0.7mm (they are on the sprue at the bottom of the picture) you should be able to see the seven rivets fitted and they look fairly good for scale but in reality they are enormous in scale.
Several hours later the rivets round the cockpit and also in the side panels were fitted and a small amount of superglue was applied to hold them in place whilst thier tails were filed off.
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Next Dzus clips and screw heads were added at the appropriate places.
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Finaly, CF rod was added to the rear view mirrors - an incredibly fiddly process.
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Once the mirrors tails are trimed, next step is a quick clean and then priming.
to be continued.....................................................
We have now a reasonable selection of cars that are "fit" for racing, so the number of builds should now slow down and (hopefully) be mostly tuning and improvements. ; such is the case for this Ferrari model which must be finished for this Sundays "Setpember Classic" at Rockingham.
The Story So Far
I was looking for semthing a bit different (as I alway do) and came across the Ferrari 246P which was an experimental 2.5Ltr Mid-Engined GP car that was only used ar Monaco in 1960. I started making drawings from the very limited number of pictures available when I came across Pascal Celton at Slot Cars Legends who was supplying a resin body for this car together with a choice of two printed chassis (sorry folks these are no longer available). I immediatly ordered two bodies/chassis to be built up for the Wolves event in late 2015 - One to be built as a accurate representation for Jonathon and another to be finished in yellow for myself (I can't cope with two similar cars on the track together). The build went realtivly well and the ABS chassis seemed flexible enough to use; untill I was applying the clear coat on the Friday using a rattle can to speed up the process. The mist coat whent on OK but when I put the next coat I picked up a can of black rather than clear - I spotted my mistake quite quickly but the damage was already done and my car was quickly re-provisioned for Jonathon's use.
Jonathon was quite happy with the car in practice and set what he though were reasonable times but unfortunatly he was taken ill during the night so we didn't race.
The Build so far
I decided to re-build the car using the black\red body (if I don't finish it in time I can use the existing body). So stripped the damaged paint work - It's not perfectly clean but should be Ok.
The next thing is to add whatever detail I can to improve the looks. Firstly the prominant rivets round the cockpit. The white metal rivits I have from Hobby-Shop Japan are tiny at 0.7mm (they are on the sprue at the bottom of the picture) you should be able to see the seven rivets fitted and they look fairly good for scale but in reality they are enormous in scale.
Several hours later the rivets round the cockpit and also in the side panels were fitted and a small amount of superglue was applied to hold them in place whilst thier tails were filed off.
Next Dzus clips and screw heads were added at the appropriate places.
Finaly, CF rod was added to the rear view mirrors - an incredibly fiddly process.
Once the mirrors tails are trimed, next step is a quick clean and then priming.
to be continued.....................................................