The rear looks good and accurate. The middle fog lamp in the back is replicated in metal and the exhaust pipes look like they had quite a bit of effort put into them. I really didn't like how there's no carbon on the bottom areas like my 599 GTO. Maybe they got tired of all the work that took. Lazy asses.
One of my favorite parts on this model are the seats. Seems a lot of die casts I've been buying lately have lacked in the seat department. They are molded shitty, have lots of mold lines and they don't bother using better paint to replicate seat surfaces. But I noticed with this model a bit of clear lacquer or something was added to give the impression of real leather. The embossed logo on the headrest is great too and they actually bothered to cleanly cut the hole out below the headrest.
The interior looks really crisp. The lines are really nice and not sloppy. I notice that a lot of car models the trim paint and two tones are normally botched a bit. But the person who did my model was able to color within the lines like a grown up.
Wow. That actually made me feel pretty shit. Chinese kids are probably painting the trim on these models...Okay. I'll cut them some slack. But they did a really good job on this one! Or...at least my chinese kid did. Chinese kid. If you are out there. You are better than you're peers.
I tried to use my newly acquired SLR focusing skills. Joking. I just pressed the silver button halfway until the auto mode focused where I wanted it. But here's the 3 planes of the interior.
First is the steering wheel, column and paddle shifters. The mold lines are crisp and the paint is very accurate.
In the far back, I have the interior door panel. You can see the trim is painted really well which allowed me to praise my highly skilled Chinese baby friend. I'm allowed to say that. You guys are not. And if you laughed you should feel terrible.
Last area here is the center console. Looks very crisp. I like how the armrest is a separate molded piece as if it could lift up or slide forward in the real car. I like this shot quite a bit because if you aren't careful you might not even be able to tell it was a car model.
Engine detail! Pretty hard for them to get the engine extremely detailed on this car because the engine bay lacks a lot of detail to replicate. This area is more Ferrari's fault instead of Hot Wheels. I could tell Hot Wheels tried to squeeze out every detail they could.
One of which is this tiny polished metal embossed cap:
Also at the very front there is once again an embossed and pressed metal logo right in the middle. The airboxes are molded very nicely and although it's plastic I can see all the intricate details they had to press into these areas. The valve cover is very nice with metal bits creating the lines and Ferrari emblems.
When you look at it from this angle, the front of the car looks great. My only complaint here are that the headlamps look extremely plasticy. They didn't bother to outline the edge of the clear covers to give you a more "realistic look". I'd take them out myself and line them, but I hate re-gluing clear parts. Always fogs up or gets smeared.
Disappointed in the engine?
ReplyDeleteA bit. It's a bit too covered up. The details on the areas of the engine I can see are great. I think this one is more Ferrari's fault than Hot Wheels.
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