Just for a change I thought I would show you a "work in progress".
I like several others on this Forum bought some resin bodies of 50's Classic Sports Racers from American Company Resilient Resins. I also wanted to try one of EJ Hobby's Retro Brass Chassis, so this seemed a good idea to combine the two items together.
Work on this Ferrari 250 so far involves building the chassis, (real nut & bolt job), making some body mounting posts and roughly preparing the body.
The results to date are shown below :-
The body is supplied with a lexan windscheield, but there are no dashboard details, steering wheel, driver figure or the all important (for this particular car) exhaust system. I do think Resilient need to include these items on future releases.
The resin is fairly thin in places and the body needs a fair degree of finishing to get a decent shape. It does however, appear to be fairly accurate, much better for instance than the same car offered by Ninco.
The wheels and tyres used are Pink Kar Ferrari GTO ones, and I must admit my first impressions of the tyres were , what rubbish, throw them away!, but I then tried the rolling chassis on my test track, (slippy ole' Scalex Sport), and the grip levels were very good, better than Ninco Classics !, remember we are talking non-mag here, so I may well keep them. I just wonder if the extra grip on Sport Track is generated from the heavy ribbed pattern on the Pink Kar tyres....Interesting.
The chassis is a work of art, (if you love retro chassis), and is really a copy of the original Strombecker one. The chassis is supplied with a couple of alternate motor mounts and 1/8th oilites. Keeping the American theme, I fitted some 3/32nd oiites from Professor Motor and a TSRF Guide system. The chassis was given to me by Paul (Revvvs) Reveley,after I expressed an interest in these chassis in an earlier post, thanks Paul I owe you one.
As for the motor......The Dark Prince of the Desert, Mr. R. Sheldon sent me no less than 4 Team Slot motors to try out. If you have not seen these before, they are great brutes of motors, the can being finished in chrome with red Endbell sections, just right for the 50's/60's feel of the car. Axles, Crown wheel and pinion are Slot.it
I'm not really sure what colour to paint this car yet, as I'm still researching histories of various cars on the web so if anyone has any suggestions, please contact me.
Regards
Alan
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