At first I was going to use the dampers that brings the kit, since I was not convinced by the detailing parts from Hobby Design, but at the end I decided to add de details missing in the Hobby Design photoengraved parts.
It has been two evenings detailing and building parts to earn a bit of realism, and I really do not know if it’s worth so much effort …
Finally clearcoated…
After a few weeks drying, I painted the entire body with bicomponent Number5 clearcoat.
Have been four very thin coats of clearcoat following the procedure indicated Number5 in his instructions and after drying a few days this is the result.
I have had the “luck” that has not fallen almost no speck of dust during coating, just in a door, but after a smooth sanded and corresponding polished, it has become like a mirror …
The truth is, I’m glad when you begin to see the end and everything is going well …
I have started to modify the dampers …
I replaced the brake calipers and discs that brought the kit by the Hobby Design … and really they earn a lot.
The discs are composed of nine photoetched parts, performed with a high level of detail.
The brake calipers are resin parts that are not far behind, a great finish of the resin to which I just had to sand the marks of separation from the mold sprues.
It was fun to mount discs using Plasti-Zap to join the pieces.
Once assembled I gave them a coat of Alclad Steel, mixed with a little brown and black. Once dry, I took a few washes with Humbrol matt black to give more volume to the holes in the discs and their component parts.
Thanks to the reference photos that send me a pair to me of friends, I could see that the exhausts are burned, and taking a slightly darker metallic brown.
So it is called on to give that brown tone them and I have tried detail them a bit as they come too smooth, without soldering sections or detail of metal mesh that connects the exhaust section to the muffler inlet.
I have chosen this time not to remove the “chrome” that have the parts and use it directly as metallic background, applying transparent acrylic paints, Hull Red for “brown rust” and smoke tones to unify colors.
I exaggerate a little the colors to give more contrast, since once the piece in its place and with the little light of the closed interior would not see too much.
While the paint dries, keep with carbon fiber decals.
In this case the passenger compartment, fenders, bottom of the car, diffusers, etc …
Thanks to several friends who passed me reference photos as I was told that not all the car had the same type of fiber, I could go discriminating which parts had which fiber type, using, depending on the area, a fine frame Hobby Design (HD04-0007) and a medium frame Motorsport Scale (7220).
Now I need to varnish them in satin the one of thick frame and in bright the one of thin frame, since in the reference photos it appears very shining.
In the last weeks I could not advance so much as I wanted, but in any case the paint shop has opened its doors …
I started, sanding the surface of the pieces and gave them a couple of coats of primer, so they were ready to apply the paint.
After drying the primer I’ve given three very light coats of the red color, in this case a sample I got long ago of the original color Guards Red from Porsche, and has been perfect, the paint covered well and dried very quickly so applying has been a cinch.
Once the paint dried I made the paneling with black enamel paint from Tamiya.
And this is the result.
Now is the time of the final coating, I hope I get lucky and get a smooth lacquer …
And finally the last upholstery work. Black painted on the sides of the seats and varnished in satin with a little matte.
For interior doors I follow the same procedure with seats for the leather parts, and applied the carbon fiber decals, which this time are varnished gloss to give the shine that has in the real Carrera GT.
Was funny to give the leather pieces shadows and highlights, and next time maybe a little more depth to the seats.
All the pieces that compose the dashboard, steering wheel, central console, etc, already are mounted.
It cost to me to imitate the skin, since with satin varnish it was too much shining and with flat varnish it was too flat, but in the end after giving veeeeery light hand of flat varnish on the satin I like the “almost nonbrightness” that it has left.
Final washings with Enamel from Tamiya and here it is…
