1/18 Ferrari 333SP, Daytona 24hrs 1998

[Pascal]

I hope to have more free time in 2019, really would like to finish this build this year.

 

One of the things that make this car unique are the vertical "fins" that are located just behind the front wheels :

 

 

The fins come with this little PE-set  from Legende Miniatures  :

 

 

There's no way I can glue these little pieces of flat PE to the body. So I soldered a couple of metal strips to the top and bottom :

 

 

 

To hold the metal pieces in place, I clamped them on a piece of aluminium plate that was bend in a 90° angle.

This way it was just a matter of putting some flux and solder on the joint, use the "creme brulee" torch and voila : a solid bond :

 

 

Dryfit on the  body :

 

 

 

At the rear the shocks are attached to a "kidney" shaped piece of black plastic.

The rod ends and tubes that I made earlier were to big, I couldn't fit them on the rear suspension without hitting the driveshaft.

This time I used a tube of smaller diameter (about half of the first version) and soldered a tiny brass ring to a piece of copper wire to make the rod ends.

I'll have to make a couple more cause the copper wire is not in the middle of the brass ring :

 

 

The kidney shaped part received another hole, this will hold a hexgonal bolt :

 

 

Turned the lid (3mm diameter) from an aluminium rod with my lathe :

 

 

A dryfit shows the hexagonal bolt in the lid. The head of the bolt is 1mm wide, but's it's to big. I will replace it with a 0,8mm bolt :

 

 

In the end, it should look like this :

 

 

Sincerely

Pascal

[Garage21]

Very nice work.  This is a great car and you're building an excellent scale model of it.  LOVE the snake-pit exhaust.

[Pascal]

Update :

 

After months and months of headscratching, I've finally found a way to attach the kidney shaped parts to the gearbox.

 

They need to be fixed to the gearbox at exactly the spot where there's a hole for the screw that attaches the gearbox to the chassis.

 

I've trimmed a plastic part of an old aircraft kit so that it fits in the hole, the copper tube will hold that part in place while I drill the holes :

 

 

Here I've drilled the first hole and inserted a piece of brass tubing that will hold the kidney shaped part in place :

 

 

Dryfit :

 

 

 

 

Not a lot of clearance between the diagonal torsion bar and the suspension arms, but the real car looks exactly the same :

 

 

I'm really happy that I've finally found a solution, now I can move on with this project.

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

 

[Shawn M]

that looks fantastic!

[Pascal]

Spent a lot of hours fiddeling ...

 

After endless dryfiting, I found the solution to the problem : I moved a hole in the gearbox a bit more to the front :

 

Lousy pic, but it shows the old and new hole (barely)

 

A copper tube will be fitted in the new hole, this will serve as an attachment for a piece that's part of the suspension  :

 

 

I added some tiny parts to the gearbox (triangles, strips, circles, etc) :

 

 

 

Made 4 of these with the lathe, they will attach the exhaust tubes to the exhaust :

 

 

 

Dryfit  :

 

 

 

 

It was a lot of work, but I'm happy that it went well.

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal