Post by woodracer on Jul 2, 2020 21:07:37 GMT
1958 Ferrari TR58
This should have been posted long time ago and again after seeing the comments about how slow the rate of posting on this forum has been recently I have prepared this in the hopes that this might be of interest to some members and perhaps inspire some to post their recent and not so recent builds (as in my case - about 2 years old)!
The resin body is one of John Warren's superb castings of the 1958 Le Mans winning Ferrari TR58. This has nice detail - very fine mouldings over the canvas cover to the side of the driver which I did mask off in an attempt to keep my clumsy spray painting off whilst dealing with the main body colour. The kit comes complete with exhausts, windshields (two if I recall properly), driver etc etc. A super addition to anyone's collection of pre-1960 race cars and highly recommended.
What is not recommended is the way I built the chassis! The wood is fine but now I have learned some new tricks and I would put in some form of rotation between front axle and the rear which will keep the wheels touching the ground. I do like building with wood but future builds will be simpler and try to get the motor even lower. Mounting the motor on the side allows a full driver figure which is essential for looks and realism in my books and this nice wide body of John's got me thinking of using a FC130 motor which would provide a bit of decent power unlike the smaller FF050 motors I used in previous builds.
There is some rock in the body which helps handling. I think John has captured the look and feel of these iconic cars and I hope this build does some justice to his excellent castings.
Not much ground clearance on those exhausts - they look quite interesting but were a pain to mount!
I make my own decals using a Canon printer and white decal paper from MicroMark.
The open top build cries out for a pendulum driver which will be done one fine day...
Note the lead off-set weight to the left of the driver figure. This compensates for the motor position.
How NOT to organize guide leads !!!
Thanks for looking
Regards
Richard
This should have been posted long time ago and again after seeing the comments about how slow the rate of posting on this forum has been recently I have prepared this in the hopes that this might be of interest to some members and perhaps inspire some to post their recent and not so recent builds (as in my case - about 2 years old)!
The resin body is one of John Warren's superb castings of the 1958 Le Mans winning Ferrari TR58. This has nice detail - very fine mouldings over the canvas cover to the side of the driver which I did mask off in an attempt to keep my clumsy spray painting off whilst dealing with the main body colour. The kit comes complete with exhausts, windshields (two if I recall properly), driver etc etc. A super addition to anyone's collection of pre-1960 race cars and highly recommended.
What is not recommended is the way I built the chassis! The wood is fine but now I have learned some new tricks and I would put in some form of rotation between front axle and the rear which will keep the wheels touching the ground. I do like building with wood but future builds will be simpler and try to get the motor even lower. Mounting the motor on the side allows a full driver figure which is essential for looks and realism in my books and this nice wide body of John's got me thinking of using a FC130 motor which would provide a bit of decent power unlike the smaller FF050 motors I used in previous builds.
There is some rock in the body which helps handling. I think John has captured the look and feel of these iconic cars and I hope this build does some justice to his excellent castings.
Not much ground clearance on those exhausts - they look quite interesting but were a pain to mount!
I make my own decals using a Canon printer and white decal paper from MicroMark.
The open top build cries out for a pendulum driver which will be done one fine day...
Note the lead off-set weight to the left of the driver figure. This compensates for the motor position.
How NOT to organize guide leads !!!
Thanks for looking
Regards
Richard
