I suppose it would George, good thinking. The decals are great, definitely a worth while investment. I've got them for the Laferrari as well.

The instructions call for the air box to be added later on in the build, but I couldn't wait till then and painted it today and dry fitted it just incase there's a reason it's been left till later. The air box is slightly different to the Enzo's carbon fibre one. There was a lot of masking involved to get the red stripes right, but I struggled on rather than attempting to dry brush them later. They are fairly close together so I just done two at a time.

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Looks very neat and tidy Richard.
You are doing a grand job mate.

Cheers Simon, much appreciated, thanks very much.

I think your right George about some of the weave being a bit out of scale in certain places, but I think in 1/24 it will need to be a bit exaggerated in order for it to stand out. The Tamiya car kits are fantastic, I've got the Toyota GT One and the Nissan R89C as well. I just wish I could spend more time building them! Which Nissan have you got?

Right, last little bit before I go to work. I've started working on the actual interior now. I would have liked to have painted the roll cage in a cool metal effect, but I'm being disciplined here and not messing about with it. The seats are just fabric on the FXX instead of a designer leather but get the carbon fibre treatment as well. I've still got a lot of work to do on the seats as the belts are provided in the Tamiya after market photo etch set.

I spent a bit of time earlier painting all the little small parts for the engine bay and cabin. They are all installed now but I'll have to leave it there till next time. See you in three weeks!

I've got the Nissan R390 GT1 in black and red livery as entered in the 1997 Le Mans race. I've also found a kit of the Porsche 907/908 in long tailed form by a company called Union, they seem to be French, but I don't know anything about them, have you heard of them? It's a beautiful looking car (at least I think so!), but I'm a bit wary of buying something unknown. They also do the 917 and Ferraris 512S and P4, but these are all covered by Fujimi.

I'm back home and back on the Ferrari! The fans are done for the front nose of the car and test fitted perfectly. I really wanted to paint the wheels in a dark metal colour. I've seen a couple of examples with silver alloy wheels, but the vast majority of the FXX's in the reference pics all have gloss black wheels. I'm still being disciplined and sticking to the original car so I went with the black. I'll save my imagination for the La'ferrari I think!

I just need to assemble the photo etch race harnesses and I can start fixing a lot of this build together, as most of it is still in bits all over my work bench and has only been 'dry' built for the benefit of the work in progress pics. I've been putting the belts off for a while now as they are one of my least favourite parts of the build. Very fiddly and frustrating!

Going slightly off topic, I've just bought my first house and it has quite a decent sized man cave! Instead of a glass cabinet I am going to fix a series of display cases on the walls using brackets. I've bought my first case from a company called Striking Displays for a very competitive price. I've had this one custom built and is sized to house my 1/12 bikes. I've got lots of smaller builds in there at the minute staying dust free, but eventually I plan to have a different case for cars, one for tanks, one for 1/32 aircraft etc. In the end it will probably still cost the same as a large cabinet, but it won't take up any floor space and I don't have to pay a few grand in one go!

That 907/908 kit is an old Heller issue, I'm not sure about splashing out that much money on such an old kit... thanks for the Scalemates tip.
I've one big display case at the moment, but I've just filled it up!
It'll be good to see all those small pieces installed in the cabin, it sure looks more like a track car than a road car.

Not too bad a job you have done there Richard.
Well worth the fiddling with the seat belts .