1/18 Ferrari F40 LM and GT

[mustang1989]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!! You're in a whole different league than me bud. Un flippin' believable!!!! 

[Starfighter]

Brilliant! 

[Pascal]

I did a ton of work the last couple of weeks, time for an update.

 

I glued the NACA duct to the front hood, the ducts came out of the part that I cut from that hood to make the large hole for the air inlet :

 

 

The BBurago hole for the headlights :

 

 

I made these bigger for the LM and IMSA versions :

 

 

Before and after family photo :

 

 

Started with this Bburago part :

 

 

 

I removed the grills, tubes and some plastic from the rounded area to the back, and started boxing in the new bigger holes :

 

 

 

Dryfit :

 

 

These parts were 3D-printed. The red louvres are for the GTE version, these were drawn and printend by a belgian friend. The black louvres are for the IMSA version, these were drawn and printend by an italian friend :

 

 

Dryfit with the red louvres and NACA ducts :

 

 

 

Dryfit with the black louvres :

 

 

 

These need a bit more sanding, luckily the dimensions and especially the height are perfect :

 

 

Made a hole and glued in the NACA ducts on the sides of the body (LM, GTE en IMSA versions) :

 

 

These tubes were printed in Italy :

 

 

 

As were these U-shaped brackets that hold the suspension arms. I ordered 100 of these :

 

 

 

Back to the tubes. The first one is glued into the frame and some putty has been smeared to plug the gaps. Needs a little sanding, but it's a major improvement to the first version that I made with the green plastic tubes :

 

 

One side of the tube is more round then the other, just like with a 1/1 scale F40 :

 

 

These are the headlights of the Hotwheels F40 :

 

 

These are headlights from Legende Miniatures :

 

 

The look OK, but they dont have the depth of real headlight. I made these with the lathe. The macro-photo has each of them look a bit different, with the naked eye they all look the same. The first one took a couple of hours to make, now it takes about 20 mins to make 1 headlight  :

 

 

In this photo the left one has a round piece of clear plastic. I will use thicker sheet cause it's barely visible :

 

 

Used the lathe to turn the BBurago tires into slicks :

 

 

Some light sanding is still needed and the sides need to be rounded :

 

 

That's it. Next update will have to wait a few months, because I have to repeat all the modifications to the other 8 F40's.

 

Till next time

 

Pascal

[LSP_K2]

Ambitious, might ambitious.

[chrish]

wow!

[mustang1989]

This is gonna be one crisp ass build right here!! Awesome!!! 

[LSP_Ray]

Incredible! 

[Pascal]

Thx for the replies, highly appreciated.

 

Progress is very slow because - despite all models being Bburago's - there are quite a few tiny differences between each model. So every part that I make, has to be tailored to a specific model.

 

Used some plasticard to enlarge a part of the body :

 

 

With some plastic strips and putty, I made the top of the beams round, needs a bit more sanding :

 

 

 

Here's my handmade frame, every frame is a bit wider, lower or higher depending on which model it will be fixed to :

 

 

 

 

 

Used CA and a steel nail to beef up the structure :

 

 

Dryfit. I'm glad I ordered the letters A (they are made with a CNC millingmachine) a bit too tall, now I can sink them into the beams to get a strong bond :

 

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

Edited September 18, 2020 by Pascal
Removal of the bbCode

[Pascal]

I really need to find some more time for modelling.

 

Update. Resin parts :

 

Cylinder covers :

 

 

Manifold :

 

 

Drilled holes in the underside to attach the tubes :

 

 

Tubes :

 

 

Some plastic needs to be removed to make room for the tubes and covers :

 

 

This lousy pic shows the back of the gearbox. I scratchbuild the master for this part, the Ferrari logo is visible with the naked eye :

 

 

These triangular parts attach the gearbox to the frame :

 

 

Inside the gearbox I fitted a terminal block, fixed in place with resin. The screw in the block allows me to hold the driveshaft in place, it also allows the gearbox to be moved about 5mm vertically, to change the ride height (I took some photos while I fixed the terminal block in place, but can't find them)  :

 

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

[MikeA]

The thought of repeating this so many times leaves me reeling in exhaustion! Just modifying one would be enough. Amazing stuff!

 

Mike