Ferrari 333SP, Rolex Daytona 24Hrs, 1998

[wetsellery]

A collector asked me to build this car, using a Hotwheels 1/18 model.



The HW model and some PE from Tremonia :





And some parts and decals from Legende Miniatures :





I took about an hour to take the model apart :



I got rid of the paint and used my Dremel to trim off the metal on the sides. Before :



After :



The original car has large air-inlets on both sides :







My Dremel made short work of the zamac :









I cut out a gap for the resin NACA duct :



Sanded the louvres on the left side and added plasticard to change the shape of the headlight housing :





Cut away some zamac, added some plasticard and added another NACA duct :





Sincerely

Pascal

[Leon]

WOW that is some awesome work Pascal .Want to see some more.

[bullardino]

I agree with Leon, this one looks awesome

[wetsellery]

Thanks for the replies 

I took a look at the rims and tires, and decided to use the original HW tires because they fit the rims better :



The tires look a lot better after some sanding :





I found a way to fix the rims to the suspension. First I cut off the brakes and sanded the plastic brake discs to the same diameter of the PE ones :



Three little pieces of tubing for the front rims :







The front rims are to wide :



The diameter is to small for the HW tires :



I glued a pieces of tubing to the rear rims :





A dryfit :

[bbd468]

Wow, this is cool and looks fun! Great upgrades fella.

[Boo]

Very nice indeed, I love this sorta stuff.

[Deleted]

Looking good on this one! Keep it going!

[`Boots`]

Thats terrific work...........look forward to more of this bud!

[wetsellery]

Thanks for the replies 

This is how Hotwheels made the cockpit :



The cockpit of the real car looks like this :







The seat has some plastic rods on the sides :



These were cut off, and will be replaced :



With my Dremel (What else ?) I removed the left sidewall :



With a couple of pieces of plasticard, I extended the cockpit bathtub :



Dryfit :



I made a new sidewall :

[exserco]

I love this guy!
I don't know 1 guy that is more handy with a Dremel then he is.

TIP:
If you keep following him, make sure you buy shares in Dremel and styrene cards. It will produce a reasonable amount of money, that you then can invest in scale modelling.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot it:
Nice updates, Pascal!

[Leon]

Pascal,you are doing some amazing scratch work on this ,and it is looking really good.

[wetsellery]

The suspension "arms / bars" (what's the name of those things ?) are overscale :





Made my one from a brass tube and rebuild the gearbox :



All my work is inspected by my cat :









Sincerely

Pascal

[Deleted]

Incredible work.

G

[wetsellery]

This is how HW made the exhaust pipes :



The first 2, made from sprue :



Four more :



This 333SP has no radiators, the inside of the sidepods will be visible. I removed the 4 metal tubes that hold the screws :



And modified the fueltank. Before :



After :





Sincerely

Pascal

[wbill76]

Very nice adaptation work Pascal, exhaust pipes look light years better than what HW gave you.

[wetsellery]

It took a lot of work (and patience) to build the rear suspension from brass tube and copper plate :




Fixed together with a soldering iron :




Dryfit with the wheels :




The construction is hold together by 2 brass tubes inside the gearbox. It will be glued after painting :



There still a lot of sanding work left on the headlight housings, and I have to find a way to make the headlight covers :



Sincerely

Pascal

[wbill76]

Nice job on the suspension unit Pascal, lots of metal work there but it looks great.

[Mence]

Amazing work Pascal, a pleasure to follow.

[wetsellery]

It's been a while. The exhausts have given me a lot of headaches. But after much trial and error I found a method that works for me.

I don't know how many times I build and rebuild the exhaust tubes, but here's some pics of the different versions.

Electric wire :



Solder wire :






Leftover plastic (sprues) from a 1/35 scale tank :





I modified the engine in order to fit the exhaust tubes :





And the finally I found the right method to make the exhaust, a mixture of sprue, solder wire and aluminium wire :







Let's compare it with a reference pic :



YES, were getting there !!

Sincerely

Pascal

[wetsellery]

After a lot of hours of bending, cutting, sanding and dryfitting the left set of three inner pipes is ready :

[Leon]

Awesome work on the exhaust Pascal.Your doing an outstanding job so this.

[deafpanzer]

Looking pretty good!

[wetsellery]

The engine compartment has a big airscoop. I opened up the hole in the front and glued the inner part with CA which was covered with flour :





The HW version looks like this :



The real one looks like this (this is not a picture of the car that won the race, but it has the same type of airscoop) :



I used my dremel to cut a line that will hold the top horizontal frame :




Sincerely

Pascal

[deafpanzer]

Huge improvement there!

[wetsellery]

Step 1 :

[exserco]

Nice to see my bro at work with thisone.
Keep it up, Pascal!

[wetsellery]

Step 2 :

[deafpanzer]

Catching up... looking perfect!

[wetsellery]

More work on the big airscoop. I started by glueing the white plastic strip on the bottom of the airscoop (the silver paint is there to spot any gaps and cracks) :



Glued some plastic strip on the top of the engine to fill the gaps :



The airscoop now fits perfectly and without gaps on the engine :



The yellow strip will get roughly the same shape as the grey one :





I've added about 0,75 mm to the grey strip because it was to narrow :



Should look something like this :



Sincerely

Pascal

[deafpanzer]

Awesome... glad you could fix it!