WIP - Ferrari 156 "Sharknose" - Update 04/01/08

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Hey Gendebien's car!! :)
I love it!!!
And the build, great!!!!!

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Beautiful work, thanks for sharing!
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Post by Mr.Grumpy »

enzo, fantastic stuff so far. i built the monaco version of this kit. test fit, test fit, test fit!!! looking forward to more updates.

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Well done so far ! it's looking good
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Hi guys, thanks for the nice coments, and let's go for some more progress on this:

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I decided to go for the car dashboard. The kit machined meters were painted semi gloss black on the backside, and the decals were fixed in place. A few drops of future wax were used to make the lenses over the decals.

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The dash itself, assembled from a PE part and a white metal tubular structure. I've sanded the PE part to get rid of the excessive gloss of the polished metal.

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And the meters glued in place.

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And here is the tubular chassis, after countless hours of of filling, sanding, primer, sanding again, and finaly painting. The kit parts were far from perfect on finishing nor fitting, but after all the fixes, the result is stuning.

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Another shot from the chassis.

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The engine and gearbox were them assembled to the chassis. Also the gear lever base and fire extinguisher were painted and glued to the chassis.

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And another shot from behind.

That's it for now. I hope to have a major upgrade after this weekend.

Thanks for following this.
Forza Ferrari !

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stunning!

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Post by 43rdMichael »

Your chassis clean-up is amazing!! Really, totally and completely awesome...!! :-) Is the paint alclad?

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YES! absolutely awesome! good job!
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Thanks guys.

Michael, the paint is the titanium silver color, mixed by a guy here in Brazil that have a low production automotive hobby paint company named garagem colors.

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Post by Jacques »

Your building is very clean and nice.

The sharknose 156 is one my favorite ferrari of the 60's

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