Scale-Master Posted July 3, 2007 Posted July 3, 2007 Been working on this for a friend/client. It's a Fisher resin kit. Painted it with Tamiya red a month or so back, just now getting on to the decals and interior and mechanicals... It's just set together, not cemented together yet.
RJWood Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Wow, nice so far. The paint came out real nice. Fisher models has some great racing subjects. But a bit out of my price range. maybe someday. Keep bringing the up-dates, I would like to see this one completed. 8)
Scale-Master Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 Ferrari 512S Final Paint This one is painted with Tamiya TS-49 with a urethane clear coat. Had a reaction with just the numbers and roundels with the clear, first time with this clear. The other decals (from the same sheet accepted the clear with no adverse effects). Oh well, a bit of sanding and polishing on the affected spots, an overall wax, and voilà, it's ready for assembly...
Scale-Master Posted July 27, 2007 Author Posted July 27, 2007 The seat was an important part of the build for the client. I matched the red to some photos with a mix of Tamiya acrylic paints that I hand brushed over a base of black enamel. It took several light coats. That gave it some depth and shading. Then I used my Iwata airbrush to put a fine "splatter" of very dark gray for the "pattern". I considered making a decal, but decided it would come out almost as random when it came to application, but with some uniform areas too (maybe even looking like a boo-boo), and probably too heavy to look right in scale, those dots are really tiny. Several dry coats of clear flat made it look more like the cloth material instead of a vinyl or leather.
Scale-Master Posted August 12, 2007 Author Posted August 12, 2007 The interior is mostly done. Lots of fun playing with textures in this one for the seat cloth and wrinkle finish on the dash. The texture on the dash photographs very different from what it looks like in person. No decal was provided for the steering wheel, yet it is shown in the instructions. I know, I could have made one, but I decided just to hand paint the stallion, just for kicks...
bsoder Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Lookin'good mark,and I think your prancin horse looks as good if not better than a decal. Is that shift gate a metal or photE.part?
Scale-Master Posted August 13, 2007 Author Posted August 13, 2007 Thanks! Is that shift gate a metal or photE.part? It is the kit supplied resin part with the kit supplied PE part on top. They suggest using one or the other, but I thought both looked best.
MonoPed Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 It is the kit supplied resin part with the kit supplied PE part on top. They suggest using one or the other, but I thought both looked best. My resin part went flying across the room, so I made a base from some scrap plastic, then attached the supplied p.e. gate, and added some Grandt Line styrene bolts. I just hope it won't be totally hidden once the body is on with the windscreen in place.
Scale-Master Posted August 13, 2007 Author Posted August 13, 2007 All my Fisher kits are molded in a tan resin. Is your's grey resin? Or is that a shiny primer? Just curious...
MonoPed Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 It's grey resin. Not sure when it was cast, but it has a copyright date of 1995 stamped inside the body.
ScaleCentral Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Fisher's kits were molded in three colors over the years. His very first kits as Dragon and the early Fisher's are a dark tan. This is not as dark as the old dental resins, but it is close. I have a couple of his like this including one of the old McLaren M6's of Mark Donohue's. The second resin he used was a smooth light resin which is probably what most people have. It is very similar to what everyone else has been using for a long time. He went to a slightly rougher texture tan resin for about a year or so and then wound up with the smooth gray resin that his planes are currently made from. He went to the gray around the time the Porsche 908 kit came out. I had one that was a mix of the smooth tan, rough tan, and gray. The last couple of kits that I got of his were gray including the last one I got, the 312P spyder. I think the gray ones are better. I sent Brian one of the 512S kits that I had since he had never built a resin kit before. Now if he'll just hurry up and finish it... Nic
MonoPed Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Still trying to get my muse to come out of hiding Nic... when it does, you'll be the first to know...lol!!
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