@fiveten @anthonyricco @gblair @chinesegeorge @johnb @brithebuilder @bikequeen. HI GUYS! Remember me? Been busy with the 1/1 truck and fending off weather :(. Yesterday was a nice calm slow rainy day so I decided to start this Tamiya 1/12th. Paid a lot of money for this kit only your find the tires had deteriorated the seller wouldn’t back it up so I got stuck with it. After sitting there for a few months and me “jonesin ” to build a model I started it. A V12 engine…..this is not your daddies Cosworth 🙂 (apologies to Ferrari aficionados for the incorrect paints colors). Here it is….way more to it that I first thought. (Added bonus spring weather shot of my backyard) 🙂

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I love racing cars, Cricket (@bikequeen), especially the old Formula 1 cars. This one looks awesome. Glad you are surviving the weather. I live in Central Texas, and we just had 5 inches of rain, along with severe storms, golfball-size hail, and a tornado. Supposed to have a another round of severe storms tonight. We need the rain, but I am really getting tired of all this severe stuff.

This is a great kit, Cricket @bikequeen, and it’s equally great to see you back at the modelling bench (or maybe the kitchen table), I’m sure you’ll sort out the tyre problem, I think you can get some resin rain tyres. Are you still planning to build that 1/20 Le Mans Jaguar?

Amazing @bikequeen, good to see you back. Ah man what a dream kit, sorry to hear about the tires - if you can't find you can maybe makes some of the heating blankets they use when the car is parked to cover that up.

Love this kit - would love one of those myself - looking forward to your build.

@brithebuilder yes thats my back yard and also the view from my combo kitchen table and work bench :). I have searched for tires but got impatient and just cracked on. @gblair ….so you’re the one sending us the evil stuff :). I have a friend in Texas so I am up on it all there. I am also a SKYWARN spotter for NWS Memphis…so I’m kinda plugged in. @chinesegeorge the jag is on the shelf of doom, there tons of decals and try as I may I could not get them right so I didn’t go any further 🙁 @fiveten Spiros the bad weather isn’t over, it’s just calm now. the mid south of the US gets a lot of it, the cold air moving south misses with the warn air from the Gulf of Mexico and BOOM…usually right over us :). I hate it and I love my little home but I’m sorry I moved here for weather reasons. @anthonyricco yeah it’s a nice kit but do to it’s age the tires are bad, and I kinda knew they would be but paid ton o bucks on it anyway….SIGH. DOnt know what’s the heating blankets are.

Both the engine and interior look great, my friend @bikequeen!

Hi Cricket @bikequeen, here’s the info on those resin replacement rain tyres, maybe an idea for you, I got this from Scalemates.com. Love your work on this Ferrari so far.

@brithrbuilder @fiveten @chinesegeorge @Johnb @gblair thanks everyone, I looked up and found the tires on Scalemates but no price or any way to order them :(. Brian, yeah thats what we have been having upper 70’s then nose dive to 40’s. seatbelts/harness came with the kit, it also had a sheet of adhesive aluminum color, but I found that Tamiya Silver Leaf TS-30 color match perfectly and easier to apply. Also the kit had a felt, almost suede like material for the seat but it was out of scale and didn't lay very well….I guess it was to old to use. Luckily I had a can of dark yellow so I used it on the sets and pads instead 🙂

More to come…reaching the finish line…so to speak 😉