jetplane Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Ferrari F512TR 1/24 ROSSO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richter111 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I love the old TR Living in Wisconsin though I would leave a lot of sliced cheese behind me... Nice finish on the model kit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2qwik4u Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Very nice. Which kit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetplane Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 Thanks, Kit is 1/24 by ROSSO....I have another 512TR by Fujimi.. both are excellent kit but Fujimi has left/right-hand drive options and U.S.Spec. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2qwik4u Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'm not familiar with ROSSO. Is it a resin kit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetplane Posted November 22, 2011 Author Share Posted November 22, 2011 I'm not familiar with ROSSO. Is it a resin kit? Plastic Model kit by ROSSO of Japan... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UKPonchoMan Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Jut to add - Rosso was a company created by a bunch of ex-Tamiya people... so Tamiya quality too :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DDC Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Great build. Still a good looking car! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 MY FAVORITE car of all time.. EXQUISITE work.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Great build. Still a good looking car! My thoughts too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Cheetah Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I love the old TRLiving in Wisconsin though I would leave a lot of sliced cheese behind me...Nice finish on the model kit Lol. I remember reading a review of the earlier Testarosa in Car & Driver, they said the side strakes were to keep animals and small children from being sucked into the radiators as the car drove by. You couldnt publish that in a magazine now. Jut to add - Rosso was a company created by a bunch of ex-Tamiya people... so Tamiya quality too :) Really, I didnt knwo that. I must look for this kit then, Always liek the looks of the 512TR, would be a nice buddy to my Tamiya Testarossa. Great build and paint work I might add. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MoFo Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Slight correction: Rosso was started by ex-Fujimi employees. (long-winded history of model cars follows:) Back in the 80's, Tamiya, Hasegawa and Fujimi were in heated competition, each trying to out-do each other with better kits. That's why you see Fujimi's 1/72 F-14 with full engines and such. One of the off-shoots of this was Fujimi's "enthusiast" series kits. Where Tamiya had engine detail, Fujimi included *full* engine detail, right down to the pistons in the engine (Porsche 356). Tamiya had opening hoods, Fujimi did opening hoods, trunks and doors. Kits with a couple hundred parts, phenomenally detailed for the time, basically throwing down the gauntlet to say "we are the best". Apparently the line was produced by a special department in the company, run by the son-in-law of the company's president. The Enthusiast series faded in the late 80's. Fujimi went back to making simpler curbside kits. The son-in-law, and most of the rest of the patternmakers, left to form their own company so they could continue producing high-detail kits. This was Rosso corporation. It was supposed to be sort of like "Enthusiast Series" under a different brand name. Rosso released a handful of well-reviewed items: a couple of 1/43 cars (NSX and Ferrari 643), a couple of items in 1/24 (including the 512TR), and some big scale 1/12 and 1/8 stuff. A few years later, there was a fire in the Rosso warehouse. Inventory was lost, and the toolings were damaged beyond repair. Rosso went belly-up, and their kits have become rarer and more collectable. Obviously there's a lot of speculation about the circumstances, but it's all just gossip and whisperings. I have no idea what happened to the son-in-law, whether he went back to Fujimi, or went somewhere else. Rosso kits still pop up on eBay pretty regularly. Some are pricey, others are pretty reasonable. They're not all hyper-detailed, but they all have nice toolings. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crowe-t Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 George, This looks real! Very well done. Mike. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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