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Ferrari 250 Bertone GT, scale 1/18


Pascal

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Hmm, It seems I forgot to post one of my side-projects. So here we go, work was started april 2019 :

 

Last year I got an email from a collector. He told me that he had a partially build resin kit of the Ferrari 250 Bertone GT.

 

The Ferrari 250 Bertone GT is a "one-off" car that was recently restored :

 

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The collector bought this kit second hand. He had no idea who the maker was, but he send me some photos of the partially build kit :

 

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He said : "All it needs is to be painted and completed".

 

I accepted  what looked like an easy project, but when I put the kit on my workbench it became clear that this would be quite a challenge.

 

I removed the primer and then the resin horror show began :

 

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Lots of detail that is missing and panellines that look like trenches :

 

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The kit has no brake discs and the wheels were superglued to the resin. Removing the wheels wasn't easy - I actually broke the PE on one of them - they will be replaced by AM wheels :

 

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I removed the seats only to discover that the chassis was bend :

 

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A dryfit of the windshield showed that this would be a major project :

 

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But enough on the negative side of this kit. Allow me to share this work-in-progress as I battle this kit into submission.

 

Will post the updates later this day.

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

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This is another older update, most of the work shown here had to be undone later :

 

Here we go. If this was a zamac or styrene body, I would use my Dremel. But all the parts are resin, so out came the knives and files.

 

Started carving a groove to hold the windscreen and added a few styrene strips  :

 

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More strips and more CA + flour :

 

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Windscreen dryfit, still a lot of gaps everywhere :

 

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The photos above are the result of a couple of weeks (or was it months ?) of work.

 

Basically, I carved, filed, sanded, puttied, carved, filed and sanded a few hours a day, only to get nowhere.

 

I finally put the kit away for a week or two, then started on the backside of the body, but that will be for the next update.

 

All reactions, tips, help and criticism are welcome.

 

Sincereley

 

Pascal

 

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I got tired fixing the problems with the windows, so i turned my attention to the backside of the body (sounds a bit raunchy).

 

A prominent feature of the backside are the lights. A close inspection revealed that the holes for the lights aren't round and they're not on the same height :

 

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I started with drilling the holes :

 

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Then glued a piece of tubing inside the hole. This will be sanded flush, so that the holes are perfectly round :

 

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A piece of alu tubing will form the rim for the lights. The alu tubing will be polished or painted with chrome paint :

 

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After a couple of hours of sanding (to get the top of the rear of the body straight) this is the result (the bumper is a dryfit) :

 

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Sincerely

Pascal

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The interior will be completely changed, this is how it looked when the model arrived :

 

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I started with this part, it's warped and the left side is much longer then the right side :

 

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Set by step :

 

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The red paint and self-adhesive felt was removed, the area behind the seat was rebuild. Here's a dryfit :

 

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1/1 scale reference :

 

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Sincerely

Pascal

 

 

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Last update from 2019 :

 

Did some work on the side windows, took me days to get the windows to kind of fit. Still a lot of work left to get the fit right :

 

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The other side was just as bad, but slowly we're getting some results :

 

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The louvres behind the side windows will have to be rebuild, I might try scribing them a bit deeper using a comb as a guide. We'll see.

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

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And finally, the update of today :

 

I applied a lot of putty to the F-40's, while the putty is hardening I did some work on this 250 Bertone.

 

The way this model is designed, the windows are never gonna fit properly : you have to glue a PE border to the clear plastic and glue that to the body. No way this is gonna give a good result.

 

So after much head scratching I came up with a solution that might work : I'll use a 2 x 2 mm plastic H-profile that I will glue to the body. This will replace the PE border and give the clear plastic something to fit into (at least that's the theory) :

 

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I started by removing the resin A-pilar :

 

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And replaced this with a strip of brass :

 

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Made a trench in the inside of the body so that it can be fixed securely :

 

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Dryfit with the side windows, yes we might be on to something :

 

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I'll keep the PE border for the side windows, the H-profile will be used for the windscreen and rear window, dryfit :

 

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It will take a lot of work to carve a little ledge in the resin for the H-profile to be glued to. This ledge has to be about 0,5 mm wider then the H-profile because I'm thinking of gluing a 0,5 mm black cable on the outside of the H-profile. We'll see if that works.

Did some work on the interior, a couple more parts and this will be done :

 

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I made it as strong as possible so I can be pressed into the body, dryfit :

 

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Looking pretty good :

 

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Sincerely

Pascal

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