curt raitz Posted February 12, 2017 Posted February 12, 2017 Staying true to the NNL West theme of "7"...being any car built in a year ending with a 7. I found a 1/12 scale Italeri Fiat 806 Grand Prix online. This model represents the car Pietro Bordino won the 1927 Milan Grand Prix at Monza. I first thought it to be a re-pop of the Protar kit, but there are numerous differences. It was enjoyable building and only made a few changes to the kit, most notable were the plug wires. The kit includes plug wires, but they are huge rubber cords with big unrealistic caps. I replaced the spark plugs, resin cast the distributor caps (using the rubber ones to cast a mold) and rewired with brown fabric plug wire. Similar to a Protar kit, the kit is held together with numerous screws! These little buggers are of the "slot" variety and not magnetic, so getting them started was not much fun.
Belugawrx Posted February 13, 2017 Posted February 13, 2017 I like the sheen of the paint ,...looks GREATWell done Curt, Cool looking car Cheers
GaryR Posted February 14, 2017 Posted February 14, 2017 Amazing! Absolutely amazing! Looks like the real thing! GREAT WORK!
Apriliadan Posted March 13, 2017 Posted March 13, 2017 This is very beautifully done, very nice. I am wondering how you chose the color?
curt raitz Posted March 14, 2017 Author Posted March 14, 2017 This is very beautifully done, very nice. I am wondering how you chose the color?ThanxI've been playing with the new Humbrol Spray paints.Their gloss paints after drying have a semi-gloss sheen to them.They can be clear coated and/or polished to gloss them up.I don't believe paint in 1927 was glossy anyway, so I wanted a nice semi-gloss finish on the Fiat.I liked the look of the red after testing on a plastic spoon and thought it would do the job..
Earl Marischal Posted March 14, 2017 Posted March 14, 2017 Now that is a very fine piece of work.steve
Randy D Posted March 14, 2017 Posted March 14, 2017 WOW !!!! Great looking model Curt. Good call on those plug wires and the semi-gloss finish for the paint, looks very period correct. Randy
Twokidsnosleep Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 Very cool, extremely well made, something to aspire to Got this and the other big beast Fiat from Italeri when they came out
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