"SLINGSHOT" dragster project in 1/16th scale

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After spending hours cleaning off injection pins and molding seams, the frame was glued together. I used good old Testors cement for the initial gluing, but the frame was badly twisted and out of shape. So I used heavy metal blocks to hold everything straight and true.
Once it was in it's "jig" I used small drops of Tenax to insure a good weld on each joint. The frame was given a goat of primer, to make it easier to see any seams or flaws I might have missed. A few motor pieces were stripped of their chrome & glued together. The inside of the body had ton's of injection pins and part numbers. These had to be sanded & puttied. Squadron Green putty was used for this small stuff.
In this shot you can see where I've filled in some of those annoying injection pins. Once the frame was cleaned of parting seams and injection pins, it was sprayed Gloss Black. Once the body was straight it was given a coat of PlasiKote Metallic Green, then clear coated.
 
Engine pieces that we're going to cover in metalizer, were primed and sanded to perfection before painting.

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'39 Chevy Crew Cab
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"BAT" Custom

What do you get when you combine a "Predicta" and a Corvette III ? This...
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1/12th Scale Ferrari 512...
This is an expensive kit, so to protect during construction it resides in it's own Plexiglas case. The kit is a big, heavy, resin casting with minimal detail. Kind of like a 1:12th scale version of a 1:43rd scale kit. To add more detail I dug into my aftermarket goodies for fuel lines, and electrical wire.

The back side of the motor. The tires are black resin, the rims are machined aluminum with resin cast centers. Tamiya plastic kit brakes add detail. The front half of the body fresh out of the spray booth. I spent many, many hours block sanding and priming this body!
The back half of the body is about a dozen pieces that had to be glued and molded together. Many hours of work just to prep this body for paint. Here's the first moch-up with the freshly painted body. The "Ferrari Red" screams Ferrari! The wheels are suppose to be painted solid gold, but I couldn't bring myself to painting over that beautiful machined aluminum.
Still pretty early in it's construction, but the kit does show potential. Kit headers molded in brass. The kit's steering wheel didn't survive the trip from Italy. A Tamiya wheel will replace it.
Reference: "Ferrari 512 S&M" by: Christian Huet, and Pietro Carrieri. Cavaleria Publishing. Copy right 1993. The instruction sheet is VERY simple and not much help, but it doesn't matter since I will be building a much more detailed suspension. The photo-etch sheet comes seat belts, but I decided to use Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland's more realistic resin pieces.
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