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Building the Tamiya Ferrari F40 CSAI-GT MonteShell #24284 1/24 scale

by Geo Tziafas © Modeler Site

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Those who had the luck or misfortune of building Tamiya's F40 know that this kit is one of the worst from the Japanese brand. It has fitting issues, a rear hood that virtually won't close no matter what you do, shape inaccuracies, missing details, and a large number of molding marks, making it a challenging project.

 


A few years ago, I built the street version of the F40 and put a lot of effort into fixing issues and detailing it as much as possible. A set of photos from that build is available at the end of this tutorial. I hope this tutorial and the attached information will be useful to those who, like me, love this car perhaps Tamiya's most iconic one.


The Tamiya Kit

Despite what I mentioned earlier about the kit's quality, and with the experience from my previous build, I tried to achieve the best possible result.

For those who have never seen an unboxing (which would be quite unusual with social media full of them), here is the content of Tamiya's classic kit.

 

 


Construction

This model will need to be transported, so to start, nuts were added to the floor of the model, as it will need to be secured to a base to ensure its integrity once finished.

 


This tutorial is offered in PDF format to be read or printed using Acrobat reader, contact our webmaster > Here

Includes more than 370 pics, here we show only the text pages.

 

Esta Nota es ofrecida en formato PDF, el cual puede ser leído o impreso usando el Acrobat reader, contacte a nuestro webmaster > Aquí

Incluye más de 370 imágenes, aquí solo mostramos las paginas de texto.

 

 

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