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

[Guest]

nice work so far

[yak face]

Nice work on the harness colin , and good job sourcing the wheels , keep at it matey its going to look great , cheers tony

[Guest]

Well just had another set-back of sorts when trying a dry-fit of everything.

Whilst easing the body onto the finished chassis the plastic strut between the windscreen and bonnet opening snapped at a weak bit. when the bodies on this stays slightly open. This means i'll have to glue and sand this crack in situ ... what a pain.

Issue now is that instead of painting the body and then fitting it, i'll have to mask all the inners off and paint it like that.

I'll be using a rattle can of Vauxhaul reed green over a white base instead of grey so it's brighter and lighter.

[spanner570]

Very nice Colin, great detail. Good to see a motor being build, it makes a nice change. It's certainly putting up a fight though!

The mention of Sterling Moss brought back memories of when I was a diddy winky. I remember seeing him, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Roy Salvadori, all the top F1 drivers at Oulton Park in Cheshire, when this was one of the premier F1 British race track.

For a couple of shilling (10p) the public could walk around the pit area and get autographs of the drivers....How times change!

My dad made me a set of wooden steps so I could see the race from his height....Happy days.

Thanks for jogging the memory bank!

Keep the photos coming.

Ron

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Heh heh thanks Ron, glad i'm sparking some memories, i seem to live on them these days, keeps me away from the horrible real world ...

I've spent many a happy afternoon pushing my car to the limits round Oulton Park on their track days .... i even managed to stay on the grey bit most of the time too.

My claim to fame is i beat Bruno Senna round a lap once ..... he was on an in-lap though but we dont mention this

I've been watching F1 since my dear old dad plonked me down in front of a black and white telly and said "watch these cars wizz round, they're the same as your scalextric set"

[spanner570]

Just a quicky, and then I won't interrupt your build with my prattle....

I own a Panther Kallista V6 2.8i, and a few years go we went to a Charity classic car show at Oulton Park. For a fiver we could have three laps around the circuit. We paid and when the time came around 20 cars lined up for what we thought would be a burst around the track......Fat chance!

A marshall car lead the way at 30mph for the 3 laps, we even had to endure the 'short circuit' too. The A.C. Cobras even dropped back to have a quick flat out. The marshall stopped everyone when he saw what was happening and made them trundle back into line......Tosser!

And now back to the build!!!!

Ron

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a 2.8 Kalister panther .. ford v6 jobbie ?????

now I'm slightly jealous ... nuff said.

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so i'm here at the moment ......

Paint on .... all together ..... just starting to get the chromed handles etc sorted.

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[Guest]

Looking sharp Colin,love that color!

[Guest]

Its a tad dark to be totally authentic Trey ..... and the camera makes it look even darker/deeper.

At least its not a boring red one eh?

[Guest]

Hi Colin, dont care if its not totally authentic, looks cracking to me mate, nice one!!!

Cheers, Andrew

[papa 695]

Looking realy nice Colin realy nice indeed

[Guest]

im feeling this build Colin..nice work so far..

The dio idea is pretty good...or perhaps you could do a 'on track' scene?? Bombing around a corner or some such....Then again, mounting on a plinthe would look pretty cool..a bit more 'classic'..decisions decisions...

any news on the wheels?

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The wheels in the photo are whats being used, theyre alloys off an AMT mustang.

The dio......... i'm thinking of a road, grass verge and drystone wall

[Guest]

just dont display the car off the road, across the grass verge and parked into the wall, thats all i ask!