My most favorous Ferrari car and long waiting Ferrari 250 GTO model from Fujimi ("FJ") is finally here. Yesterday, I found one in WaiLx in Wanchai, I bought it right away without second thought for $238. I don't know if it is a good deal or not, if anyone found a better deal in the market, please let me know as I want to buy two more boxes for painting in different color and different degree of modification.
The kit's building layout is quite similar to the one I bought earlier by Gunze Sangyo ("GS"), a discontinued model introduced in the 80's where I bought from eBay for more than $500 four years ago. However, my GS kit has no engine detail but has a lot of white metal & PE parts, and preassembled PE wire wheels.
Both kits have their pros and cons, I really cannot judge which one is better than the other without building them first. But by the glimpse of the body shape, parts and the way of building process, I think FJ is closer to the real car than the GS, it is not surprising due to the improvement in measuremnet technology after 20 years.
The GS is still a very detailed and collectible model kit, it required certain skill to make the end product looks marvelous. It's a model that you would admire from top to the chassis. There are no other manufacturers in nowadays who use white metal and PE as parts of the kit, which gives a better quality feel to the model.
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Somehow the shape of 250GTO is a myth. They look so different in different photos. So are the models. I have an old kit of Italeri. Straight from the box, its shape is not very beautiful. But it is far away. I have seen a master making it right simply by extending the nose a little and making the rear wheel arches fatter. I tend to say the front end of Gunze is the best among the three. Fujimi has the best rear body except that the rear wing looks a little bit too small. The strange thing is that I find that the 1:18 die cast model from Kyosho has the most beautiful shape overall but I do not know whether it is correct or not.
ReplyDelete[版主回覆08/07/2008 02:37:00]Yeh, you may be right, I really couldn't tell, and would never find out, which kits have closer dimension to the real car. This is a really rare car, most of them are probably locked up in the garage of the super rich collectors.