Ford v Ferrari 330 P

       

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Original Kit:
Ferrari 330 P4 1967
Made By:
Fujimi (kit #12575)
Scale:
1/24
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Ferrari 330 P from the movie Ford v Ferrari
Ford v Ferrari 330 P deck Ford v Ferrari 330 P interior Ford v Ferrari 330 P rear

 
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You can't have the Ford without its titular rival from Ford v Ferrari, so as soon as the GT40 was wrapped I got to work on the 330 P. It wasn't quite as straightforward a project, though, thanks to the history of the car and quirks of Hollywood.

The 330 P3 was unveiled in the 1966 Le Mans, and went on to fail spectacularly: the Bandini/Guichet #21 lost its engine in hour 17, the Scarfiotti/Parkes #20 crashed in hour 9, and the Baghetti/Maglioli #22 didn't even start. Despite the mechanical troubles, the design was (and still is) considered one of the best-looking racers of all time, so when Ferrari came back in 1967 with the much-improved P4, they retained much of the P3's look. The success of the P4 made it the better known car, and became the template for Race Car Replica's "R4," the car representing the Ferrari P in the movie.

All of which is long way of saying that Fujimi's P4 was more accurate to the cars in Ford v Ferrari than the actual rival Ford faced in 1966. So I figured I'd build the kit essentially box stock, but with a few modifications for screen or historical accuracy.

The chassis and interior all went together with no issues, very much like the GT40. I painted everything Tamiya TS-17 Gloss Aluminum, then went back and brush painted the details: flat black for the bottom pan, semi-gloss black for the cage and interior, gold for the brake calipers, flat white for the exhausts, and a silver/gold mix for the transmission. To get something similar to but clearly different from the bright red body, I used TS-39 Mica Red for the seats. The seatbelts and gauges were all straight out of the kit. The P3 had a set of slotted wheels rather than Ferrari's iconic five-spoke design seen on the P4, so I swapped out the kit wheels for a set from Fujimi's Circuit Wolf Yatabe Racing Special with knockoffs from Welly's Shelby Cobra.

The body needed a bit more cleanup than the GT40, likely due to the greater number of mold parts needed to make the curvier body. It still wasn't too bad, certainly not compared to some other kits, and with a little time (and care to not take off the molded in rivets), it was ready for paint. I started by masking off the circles for the numbers, then shot it with white primer, pink primer, TS-8 Italian Red, and TS-13 Clear - all from Tamiya. The wing mirrors were also pulled from the Yatabe RS kit, as they looked much closer to the small mirrors used in '66 and the movie.

Final assembly was pretty straightforward, though cleaning the sprue connections from the rocker panels and windshield had to be done very carefully thanks to the close tolerances. The headlights were tinted yellow to better match the look of the movie car, but installed with no problems. I did have to replace the marker lights, though, thanks to the carpet monster eating one of the ones that came in the kit. The decals were a combination of kit supplied and my own creations, designed to split the difference between the movie car and the actual P3 that ran in '66.

 

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