FChat Completed Models and WIP Thread

Amazing ...one of my favorite Team livery.....

 

That's most excellent!

Beat up board, the whole scene...

 

Update on my 512M conversion: after four coats of white I peeled off the masking tape and for a first try I'd call it a success. There was only minor paint bleeding on a few difficult spots (in front of the air outlet in the nose, but otherwise the Tamiya masking tape for curves works excellent.
I was able to correct the bleeds with nail polish remover.
Now I need to do the finishing touches. Mainly the air intake, which I masked off and will paint with a fine brush. Then applying the blue stripe and finally the decals.

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Excellent!

 

It is finished! As I feared the quality of the decal set is not that good. First of all I had to cut out the decals myself. For decals with straight edges this is not that bad, but some of them had a narrow white border, which you don't see when they're still on the decal sheet. The same goes for the white decals. The white is not opaque enough. This is apparent on the 'Scuderia Filipinetti' script as well as the Trico decal. Unfortunately I could not correct those. I was able to do something about it for the Shell decals on the rear winglets. I first applied a piece of white vinyl decal cut to size.

So it's not a perfect transformation, but overall I'm very happy with it. Let's see if CMR decides to bring out this livery after all!

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p.s. I know it's not faithful to the livery as raced at Le Mans, but I didn't like the Camel decals anyway and some of the decal sheet wouldn't fit properly. So I tried to come ad close to the one I saw myself at Val de Vienne in 2019.
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Looks great, very well done!

 

Peter, nice job, looks great!
I have used several times decals from the same company for a few BBR 250 GTO's.
I had the same problem with the white colour, so I bought two of the same decals and put them right on top of each other.
I know, it's a little more expensive, but it looks better.

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I've thought about that too, but a bit expensive indeed for basically three decals. Another option might be self adhesive letters like below. I have these, but a bit too large.
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Turned out very nice, Peter!

 

Does anyone know how these tools for holding a model while spray painting are called? And are they usable for various scales? I will be mainly painting 1:32 and 1:18 scale models.
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It is just called a painting stand. For example: http://www.dallasmodelworks.com/products/productDetail.asp?ItemNumber=TA-865-74522

It says "all scales" so should be suitable for your purposes.

 

That paint stand looks like it is one of the items made by Tamiya.

 

I'm looking for the correct Tamiya TS spray paint that comes closest to the older Ferrari red of the fifties. I'm leaning towards TS-85. Is that a decent choice? Some model shops call it mica red, sometimes even (brilliant) Ferrari mica red. I already have the TS-8 paint, which is called Italian red. But that seems too modern to me. Another option might be TS-18, metallic red. Yet another option might be TS-39, mica gloss red. I'm confused!

 

I'd say TS-8 is your best match from Tamiya. It's basically Rosa Corsa. The vintage Ferrari China Red was slightly darker.

Zero Paints might be a good option.