1/24 Miami Vice Daytona Spider (Fujimi)

[Biskup]

Did you make anything more with this?

 

[Neo]

What did you use to polish it ? came out amazing

 

[ridefast]

I used automotive polishing compounds to finish the paintwork. First the 3M coarse compound (Fast Cut), followed by 3M fine compound. To give it some final shine I applied Meguiar's Cleaner Wax. =)

 

[ridefast]

Usually at that stage it is time to paint all the window frames, door locks, knobs, etc. but that car had none of those. Ferrari Daytonas had a silver molding around the windshield but here it was black. Smooth door panels and bonnet. Almost nothing more to do with the body. Perfect! =)

Something I had to modify/add were mirrors. Miami Vice car did not have nice, small, chromed, round mirrors but big, rectangle, black ones. I decided to copy and/or modify a set of mirrors from the stash of my model kits and nearly ideal match was found. The mirrors came from Aoshima Toyota Hilux Custom. I would have never believed that the best match for Ferrari door mirrors could come from a truck. =)


Bumpers from the kit were great. Nice, chromed pieces. The only thing missing was a rubber molding. I did not want to strip chrome and repaint already perfect parts and I did not want black paint to rub off from smooth surface. The best solution was flat black adhesive foil from Hasegawa


The finished bumpers


Next - Headlamps. Those had to be modified to Daytona early type specs, as I did at the begginning - both lamps under one long transparent cover, but the shape of the lamps also had to be modified. In genuine Ferrari Daytona it was round but in Miami Vice - rectangle.
Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns ( Miami Vice video by StevenMighty )

I did not have such lenses in my stash so I had to make them from a spare transparent part.








Note amber turn signals. Ferrari had those partially clear.

Windshield in place


And bumpers in place

 

[ridefast]

Time to put everything together =)






Miami Vice Daytona had Ferrari emblem above the headlamp cover but since the cover from the kit had clearly marked space for the emblem I applied the decal there.


It is a tiny change and I did not strive for 100% accuracy... =)

Door mirrors and wipers




And Miami Vice licence plate =)


Nearly there! =)
Vice chase

 

[ridefast]

Just one more Miami Vice chase (with Italian dubbing) and back to work...
MIAMI VICE CHASE FERRARI DAYTONA PORSCHE 910

Just about the only thing to do was a bit weathering on the exhaust, chassis and in the engine bay












Just a few weathering touchups here and there




And it is finished =)

 

[ridefast]

Nearly forgot... Something for Biskup =)

Miami Vice - Jeff Fahey blows up Crockett's Ferrari

I am not going to do the same with the model though =)

 

[rookie]

Wow looks cool. Love the paint work . Makes me want to put on my my pink linen suit and blow dry my hair 8)

 

[bdr65]

Nice job on the car as a whole. The paint work on it looks awesome 8)

 

[Fredrik64]

Stunning finish on the paint very Clean build !

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Incredible detail bro... love the way it turned out!

 

[Quaralane]

Turned out very nicely

 

[ridefast]

Thank you. I really appreciate your comments. I am glad you like it =)

 

[Tailor]

Great work! Double-Wow for the paintjob!
Cheers,
Guido

 

[Jaitea]

That is so beautiful, the shine on the body is perfect

Any photos yet of it without anything to give away it's scale......you'd think it was a real motor

J

 

[ridefast]

Thank you =)

Do you mean something like this?





=)

 

[Jaitea]

Ohh Yus!

She looks GREAT

J

 

[gregfrank]

Wow... just wow

 

[LrdSatyr8]

I remember that scene when they blew it up! Awesome job my friend... love how it turned out!

 

[Biskup]

It looks great and Thank you for the scene
LrdSatyr8 - I was trying to convince Marek to recreate that seen but he didn't want to