Deatiling a 1/18 Ferrari 512 Testarossa from Kyosho

A real beauty in form, I consider the 512 Testarossa as among the most beautiful ever produced by Ferrari before the end of the 20th century.  Here is the exquisitely sculpted 1/18 model from Kyosho posing in my garage diorama back during Christmas of 2008. Then using a light blue cartolina paper under my window. 

Back in 1994, I assembled a 1/24 Tamiya model or an earlier version, the first released by Ferrari and had it painted white, my favorite color for this particular Ferrari. I had it sit beside the 1/18 model. 

Another nice thing about the Kyosho model is that it was relatively easy to disassemble so I could have more detailing done to either the interior or the engine.  The interior I left untouched. but had a good time detailing  engine.  

The engine of the Kyosho model was detailed enough to allow for more detailing. This is perhaps the most detailing I did for any model. It rivaled the engines in some CMC and BBR models. Here are some pics that remained in my hard drive. 

 

Detailing a 1/18 Porsche GT from Autoart.

The really nice thing about 1/18 models is that they lend nicely to getting detailed and then then taking lovely photos. Here is an excellent model to begin with that never fails to inspire detailing. The Autoart 2006 Porsche 911 GT3 was one model I missed so much. When I had it, the model went through 2 phases of detailing.  Here are few of the details, mostly interior wiring, I did to the model. The first phase was the Reconstruction of the a detailed wiper arm

The detailed single wiper arm, a real pleasure to behold after I completed it. 

The wiring details in the interior