paddy
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Well it's taken 55 years but i finally own a Ferrari, albeit a rather small one
In my efforts to be diverse i have gone as far away as i can from my last F4U build which was dull,faded and oil stained.to high gloss clean and polished, metals are now carbon fibre and engines have gone from 24cyl radial to V12....
Obviously i don't want to do a red ferrari ! so it came down ,after a lot of searching, to either white or Yellow.
Well white has won on the basis that the interior for a white car offers more interest/scope than a Yellow car which would have a basically black interior.
I found a car for sale in Saudi that will be a good role model being a special order for a customer with red leather interior trimmed in white
So white it is. I am going to add a slight twist and use a pearl white to add a bit of depth to the colour or in this scale it will look like i left it in a white undercoat
. Disadvantage is the whole thing is molded in Red plasticso will take some very careful masking and colouring to stop the whole thing turning out like lady Penelope's rolls royce
shocking pink.a couple of upgrades are available for this kit from Tamiya, a carbon fibre decal sheet that now i have it, looks like a non starter and a small PE sheet with wire mesh grills to replace the rather strange kit supplied clear parts and mest decals ???
I have also ordered some resin brakes because the kit parts don't look up to much with the calipers moulded into the discs.
I will call out the after market parts as i go.
Off to the model shop now to try and find some Tamiya fine surface primer to cover that red plastic....
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