Jim's Fe-raar-ay *** Finished ***
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Rightio, decided on the Italeri Ferrari 348 1/24th, got really cheap on a Kiwi auction site, and we shall see why...
It had no box and was just bagged, and had been opened, the tires had been put on the rims, anyhow here are the sprues and insts..
It's red!
and why it was cheaper than chips...
its almost a chop top, and one side has a bit of a middle age spread as well..
rear suspension has taken a hammering.
some one took a dislike to the head rests.
So a dooer uppa, but hey its a Fe-raar-ay
It had no box and was just bagged, and had been opened, the tires had been put on the rims, anyhow here are the sprues and insts..
It's red!
and why it was cheaper than chips...
its almost a chop top, and one side has a bit of a middle age spread as well..
rear suspension has taken a hammering.
some one took a dislike to the head rests.
So a dooer uppa, but hey its a Fe-raar-ay
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Jangle jangle, click, rer rer rer, brrmmm brrmmmm, squeal....
We are off! so I stripped the chrome off the wheels using oven cleaner, as the scheme I'm planning doesn't have silver wheels, mind you I haven't seen any photos of chrome wheels either....
How about this for a car bore factoid? the 348 was : "the first Ferrari to universally comply with global crash testing regulations" pretty good eh?
We are off! so I stripped the chrome off the wheels using oven cleaner, as the scheme I'm planning doesn't have silver wheels, mind you I haven't seen any photos of chrome wheels either....
How about this for a car bore factoid? the 348 was : "the first Ferrari to universally comply with global crash testing regulations" pretty good eh?
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That's all very well, but what is the dwell angle?Jagewa wrote:How about this for a car bore factoid? the 348 was : "the first Ferrari to universally comply with global crash testing regulations" pretty good eh?
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34 degrees at lower revs, 38-39 at the top of the band... doesn't everyone know that? ;-P
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Stuck the sides, front and rear on the body shell..
yep, it's a bit squashed..
and twisted.
The rear part is twisted as well, so with that and the twist in the body it doesn't want to stay put. So maybe some heat and gentle persuasion into shape is required, or I break out the hammers.
I just can't build it as a left hooker.
The little V8 is together and the rear subframe.
Plastic is quite nice to work with, soft, has a bit of flash, and some ejector pin marks on mating surfaces, which I've had to sand off.
Detail looks good to me..
Primer drying on the rims, so James has something soothing to nod off to
Opps forgot a factoid: Ferraris are red... unless they are a different colour
yep, it's a bit squashed..
and twisted.
The rear part is twisted as well, so with that and the twist in the body it doesn't want to stay put. So maybe some heat and gentle persuasion into shape is required, or I break out the hammers.
I just can't build it as a left hooker.
The little V8 is together and the rear subframe.
Plastic is quite nice to work with, soft, has a bit of flash, and some ejector pin marks on mating surfaces, which I've had to sand off.
Detail looks good to me..
Primer drying on the rims, so James has something soothing to nod off to
Opps forgot a factoid: Ferraris are red... unless they are a different colour
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Oh boy, looks like a kit based on the actual 348 that they used for the crash tests. Nothing you can't handle Jim.
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Great idea Steve, just need a Buster for the drivers seat.
I worked on the RHD conversion tonight..
Sliced the brake and clutch pedasl off and relocated them, also had to move the gear selector gate and the hand brake..
the hand brake area, I've bult up using a large piece of Airfix hex sprue, sanded to size. The gear selector gate I srcibed around than used a razor saw and cut out, slice it in have and glued the two bits back in swapped around. Whipped up a new throttle pedal, and pluggin a few left over holes with sprue..
Moved the instrument binnacle, cut out the slot for the steering wheel neck, and have blocked up the holes on the left hand side. Just a touch of filler, in fact I've used more on a large sink mark on the top of the instrument binnacle.
The instructions have you cementing the inlet trumpets onto the block, then the induction manifold on top once the block is moutned in the car, but a quick dry fit, showed the trumpets didn't line up with the induction manifolds, so these have been cemented to the induction manifold.
Splashed a bit of paint on the engine block as well, and some red on the cam covers.
Cheers
Jim
I worked on the RHD conversion tonight..
Sliced the brake and clutch pedasl off and relocated them, also had to move the gear selector gate and the hand brake..
the hand brake area, I've bult up using a large piece of Airfix hex sprue, sanded to size. The gear selector gate I srcibed around than used a razor saw and cut out, slice it in have and glued the two bits back in swapped around. Whipped up a new throttle pedal, and pluggin a few left over holes with sprue..
Moved the instrument binnacle, cut out the slot for the steering wheel neck, and have blocked up the holes on the left hand side. Just a touch of filler, in fact I've used more on a large sink mark on the top of the instrument binnacle.
The instructions have you cementing the inlet trumpets onto the block, then the induction manifold on top once the block is moutned in the car, but a quick dry fit, showed the trumpets didn't line up with the induction manifolds, so these have been cemented to the induction manifold.
Splashed a bit of paint on the engine block as well, and some red on the cam covers.
Cheers
Jim
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A very nice bit of "proper" modelling Jim.
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Nice work Jim. I recently did a similar swapping of the drivers seat position in a 73 Mustang I'm building. Its a nice touch. I'm not trying to be a wise guy with this next question but What is a Binnacle?
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I may have used the wrong term Dirk, I'm loose and easy with the English language , maybe instrument cluster is the right word.Dirkpitt289 wrote:What is a Binnacle?
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Jim you are right, I have heard binnacle used to describe instruments in a car before, but it's normally used to describe the wood box that hold a ships compass in.Jagewa wrote:I may have used the wrong term Dirk, I'm loose and easy with the English language , maybe instrument cluster is the right word.Dirkpitt289 wrote:What is a Binnacle?
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In Briton and the USA we have different names for a lot of the cars parts, for example we call the engine cover a bonnet yet Dirk would call it a hood, we call the compartment at the rear a boot yet Dirk would know it as a trunk.
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Thanks for the clarification. The only time I've hear the word binnacle before was in fact on a tour of the USS constellation located in Maryland's Inner Harbor.
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Yeah sorry, I've always called the instrument cluster binnacles.
As long as didn't hear, "There's that golden rivet" you're fineDirkpitt289 wrote:... The only time I've hear the word binnacle before was in fact on a tour of the USS constellation located in Maryland's Inner Harbor.
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Jagewa wrote:Yeah sorry, I've always called the instrument cluster binnacles.As long as didn't hear, "There's that golden rivet" you're fineDirkpitt289 wrote:... The only time I've hear the word binnacle before was in fact on a tour of the USS constellation located in Maryland's Inner Harbor.
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.