1/24 Ferrari 2550 GTO ..... Sir Stirling Moss

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Right then .... a bit out my comfort zone ..... and as a quick break from the MASH dio, i'm attempting (deep breath)...... a car!!!!!

Going to build this....

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as this...

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Just a little personal tribute to Sir Stirling Moss .... basically cos he was "the man"

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Great idea Colin and yes he was the 'Man' for sure.

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tasty...this will be a good un!

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Beautiful Car!! I will forward looking this one with interest!

Great idea Colin, and deserved pause of your fantastic diorama.

Cheers

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Nice onew colin , a great subject ,both car and driver. As beautiful a car as the 250 is ,it can sometimes be a case of 'oh , another red ferrari', so its going to be a really refreshing change to see one in the green , makes you take a fresh look at what a fantastic design it actually was. As for the driver, well, stirling certainly was , and still is , THE man! Widely accepted as the greatest driver never to win the world championship , he still won countless races , not least being the Mille Miglia . Apart from this he is a true gentleman and a tireless ambassador for motorsport , a top bloke. tony

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just camo it m8...

jeff.

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Looking at what i have got myself into Jeff, that idea's on the back burner

so.......

Got the engine block together and added rockercovers and odd and sods, scratched some HT leads and will be adding hoses when i find my black tubing. Won't be going ocerboard with extras as not much of it will be seen when the lids on

Have drifted away from the destructions as i'm making sure there's room for stuff before i end up with a body that wont fit due to a hose being too high or something stupid. I'm leaving the chassis bare plastic as you wont see it much and the car had a black chassis anyway.

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Looks like i'll be painting a fair bit on the sprues as it's more fiddly than a fiddly thing thats got a degree in fiddlyology.

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As per usual there's loads of conflicting info about what colour bits were so i'm going with the best looking and most logical.... sort of

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[papa 695]

A very nice start Colin

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Great start Colin , I`m in on this one .

Richy

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a bit of a set back, the wheels and tyres ......

Come in three chromed pieces per wheel, two outers and a spoked thin inner disc, all very brittle and covered in chromed flash (the worst parts in the kit)

Got them all rubbed down and ready, glued them up as per the destructions into the tyres, then used mini clamps to hold them so the the rims met in the tyre, this meant the tyres were squashed slightly

when the clamps were taken off the tyre expanded back to shape and ripped the inner of the rims apart, snapping the spokes and making three of the four completely unusable.

Should have gone with my gut feeling and glued them together outside the tyre then carefully inserted them when dry ..... ho hum.

Gonna have a look for some nice wheels and to be honest i like the look of the car with a retro alloy, have seen an image of a GTO with alloys in a track event and it looked good.

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Colin, what a pain in 'arris about those wheels....thats the part of modelling that does my head in..the unforced error...

Having said that, as you say, when you can source some alternative wheels (keep us posted on that particular topic please mate), then hopefully it should look like the business. Good work on the rocker covers, the detailing there is in a 'high risk' area and it looks spot on.

Have you thought about the dio or is it too much at the moment??

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"unforced errors" ... i like that

Wheels might not pose so much of a problem as there's plenty of cheap 1/24 (ish) toy cars in the shops at the mo.... might find some nice wheels i can re-mackle to fit.

Thought about a simple dio ... doors/bonnet open .... some mechanics floating around in beige overalls .... maybe a pit wall or something.

Then again i suppose it'd look ok on a polished wooden plynth with open hatches showing interior detail?

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I feel your pain m8.

jeff

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Engine and chassis done. pipework added etc.

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floor pan together ready for paint

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Body assembled, the roof had been mis-moulded and was about 1mm offset, had a bit of filing and sanding to get it square, the left door fits badly with a huge gap but i'm going to display it doors open so no worries really

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some of the interior, simulating brown leather

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Wheels sourced, they're alloys and i've had to add a little tube to the rear so they fit to the spindles and still show the disc brake assembly if you look through the spokes

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Exhausts and some scratch built harnesses

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Looking sharp Colin,the harness came out really nice too!