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About one year ago, or maybe less, a good friend sent me some photographs of the Ferrari 642 and 641 that Jean Alesi had used sometime. These photographs clearly showed the differences between the 642A and 642B models. At that time I had the idea - still have it - to turn a Tamiya's 641 into a 642A, since they are very similar.

This idea came to my mind after building the Ferrari 412T2 from Museum Collection, because I had some extra "8" numbers left which belonged to J. Alesi in 1991 (the "28" of course). One of these photographs immediately drew my attention; the one where Alesi was testing the 641 at Le Castellet in the European Winter '91 season. This car was basically the 641 used by Mansell in 1990, but bearing the name Alesi on the Marlboro sponsor logo and without number.

Final Decision

Two months ago I was working on the construction of what would be the Ferrari 642A (I will soon write a review on its construction from a Tamiya's 641 and of course build it), when I came across some pictures of the great work by Andy Mathews published in TMMI some years ago.

I decided to change my way of construction and use the Perfect Parts super details kit. You can read the review I wrote on this detail set following this link:

http://www.modelersite.com/en/807/how-to-work-with-photoetched-parts-perfect-parts-set-pe641

As I already indicated in my November 2000 review on detailing a McLaren MP 4/6 with plastic and wire, I really enjoy working just with plastic very much while I'm really not an expert with photoetched and metal parts on a high quality model like Tamiya's 641.

Summing up, I built a Ferrari 641 model in a relatively short time if we consider the complexity of this model and the fact that I wanted to finish this article as soon as possible. Obviously, my "conversion" project was postponed, but at the end of the article you will notice that I took the artistic liberty (that's the good thing about not participating in contests) to add the number "28" and the name "Alesi" to it.

A second instructions manual

As I meant this article to be useful to anybody who wants to pursue this project, I decided to write it in the form of an instruction manual, following the steps set forth in the Tamiya's instruction manual, but also indicating all modifications to be made in order to insert the "Perfect Parts" metal parts, along with suggestions and advice on my experience with this model on every stage of the construction.
All general recommendations on the use of CA and handling of metal and photoetched parts can be found in the previous articles.

I believe it is important to note that if you want to build such a complex model as this, using a Perfect Parts detail set, you should have some previous experience on construction of a similar straight-from-the-box model. If you have never successfully built a 1/12 complex model, I would not recommend this type of project.
In this article I will take it for granted that you already know all the construction techniques and basic painting jobs; therefore, I will refer to them as washes, dry brush, etc. You can read this review as it is, but for a better understanding it is important to always have the Tamiya's and Perfect Parts' instruction manuals at hand.

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