1/18 Ferrari F40 LM and GT

[Cat_baloo]

 I had a whole lot of fun building the Pocher kit, way back when.

After the 288GTO this has to be my favourite Prancing Horse. Oddly enough, using the centre section from the 288. And first supercar to breach 201 mph. (Apparently.)

 

Unfortunately I downsized some years ago and the car went to a collector.

 

This is the first I've seen of somebody chopping up a metal kit! Cela fait un boulot extraordinaire.

I am not truly content until there's a serious, long-term kit-bashing thread in progress.

The finished paint is going to be impressive.

 

Regards

[Pascal]

Thanks for the replies.

It's been a few weeks, but here's an update. This is the result of a lot of hours of testing, modifying, dryfitten, etc.








The white piece of plasticard needs more work :















 

[dodgem37]

Good show, Pascal.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[Pascal]

This project is really getting out of hand. Here's a pic of the production line, 11 F-40's :



Made some parts from scratch :









Dryfit :





The body met my Dremel again, more metal has been removed. This area of the body will get a lot more attention :



Sincerely

Pascal

[Pascal]

The white hump has been glued in place, both sides need to be altered to get the same height as the hump :







The white letter A will become part of the rear frame :

[Pascal]

Update :

More bodywork, this time on the backside of the central part of the body. The Bburago model looks like this :





First step is to remove some zamac and drill a hole for the tube :



The Kyosho model looks like this :





Close but no sigar. A few hours later the BBurago looks like this :







There a lot of work to be done on this part, the goal is to make it resemble the 1/1 F40 :



 

[Pascal]

After some filling and sanding :









Not there yet but it's going in the right direction.

[Pascal]

I drilled the holes for the fuel tanks in the first 2 bodies, the modification of the backside is in progress :

 

Modification in 3 steps.

Step 1 :



Step 2 :



Step 3 :

[Pascal]

Most of the work that I've done involves removing unwanted metal and filling gaps and holes.

First one is this tube that holds the bonnet in place :



This was removed with my Dremel and a coat of putty was applied to show where further sanding is needed. The damaged to the louvers will be repaired :



The rear spoiler has a hole on both sides :



This was filled with CA and flour and sanded. The rectangular holes are for the extra light for the american version of the F40 :



The inside of the spoiler has a lot of unwanted metal :



This was sanded down (this is the spoiler of the GT version , that why the central part with the louvers has been cut out) :



The central part of the body received a couple of plastic strips  :





 

[Pascal]

This will help the central part and cockpit adhere to the chassis :





The bonnet also has holes on both sides :





These were filled with a piece of plasticard :



Glued with CA and flour and sanded to shape :



Finally the rear spoiler received some plastic strips to help the bonnet align with the spoiler :




Please feel free to comment.

Sincerely

Pascal

[Out2gtcha]

Wow, what a load of work!   

[Cat_baloo]

I've been patiently waiting for updates.

Good to see work proceeding. Very keen on seeing how these upgrades will look on the finished thing.

 

Bravo!

[Pascal]

I finally put this project back on the modelling table.

 

Nine of my 11 Bburago F40's will go to the production process. Some pics of the F40 graveyard  :

 

 

 

A couple of years ago a friend of mine made about 30 of these with his CNC milling machine :

 

 

The goal is to make a frame like this one from a Kyosho F40 :

 

 

That's were this project got stuck. I had no idea how to turn those A's into a frame, untill about a week ago : TATAAAA, I have an idea. First step : glue a piece of plasticard - in a shallow angle - on top of the frame :

 

 

Step 2 : connect the A's with some scrap plastic :

 

 

First dryfit shows that there's some tweaking left to do, but the idea seems to work :

 

 

The Kyosho will serve as a donor for a lot more parts, here's a couple of them  :

 

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

[LSP_Ray]

Wow, that's a lot of F40's! Interesting project.

[Pascal]

Been very busy the last week. Everytime that I modifie a piece, the same has to be done to the other 8 Bburago F-40's.

 

My workbench is littered with parts :

 

 

I removed about 5mm from the front part of the frame. Before :

 

 

After :

 

 

I finally cut all the struts from a U-shaped brass profile. Took me couple of hour. Sorry for the lousy picture  :

 

 

The struts are sanded on the top, so that the piece of plasticard fits nicely :

 

 

I'm using this part from a Kyosho F-40 to make some details that will go on to the back of the piece of plasticard :

 

 

Kyosho made the air inlet tubes like this :

 

 

This is a first test on one of the Bburago frames, I might want the alter the shape of the hole a bit because now the tube gets squashed :

 

 

 

I hope that the tube will look like this when done :

 

 

Sincerely

Pascal