Lamborghini Diablo VT

[Schwarz-Brot]

As promised in the WIP-section, some pictures of the completed Diablo. A few build-pictures can be found there as well as a little more info. Wiper deliberately left off as it seemed massively overscaled and wouldn't fit correctly. Couldn't be bothered, to be honest. Maybe someday I'll do or find a better one. Probably not.

First some shots from all sides, trying to catch the model as well as the aggressive pose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next some Moneyshots for your preferenced car magazine 😉

 

 

 

I love that reflection from the flash on the badges edge 🙂

 

I love those rims. Kit chrome stripped. Completely painted in Vallejo Model Air Aluminium, black wash all over, outer ring and Lugnuts Molotov chrome. Badge is Kit decal and fitted perfectly.

 

 

I hope you like it. Not perfect, but fun and quick to build. Pictures were taken in its recent display place in our bookshelf. Quite a critical colour combination to take good pictures of.

[Alan R]

Lovely!

I was thinking that this Revell kits was a re-pop of the Italeri one, but now I'm not so sure.

 

Cheers, Alan.

[Schwarz-Brot]

Thank you, Alan. The Bodypanels where printed (!) with something along the lines "made for Revell in Shenzen, PRC". No additional Information on the original boxing. Scalemates shows no connection to Italeri for this particular kit, but that's no safe bet.

[TommyOneTwoFour]

Well done, Schwarz-Brot. That kit isn't easy and white is a hard colour to paint.

 

On 29/06/2019 at 17:25, Alan R said:

Lovely!

I was thinking that this Revell kits was a re-pop of the Italeri one, but now I'm not so sure.

 

Cheers, Alan.

That's not so easy to say... I built the Revell Diablo with item no. 07351 some years ago.

If Schwarz-Brot doesn't mind me showing it in this thread:

 

 

As you can see, it is the latter version of the Diablo with the glass cover headlights instead of hidden headlights. As to my surpise there is no other Revell or Italeri kit replicating this very model, I did some research and found out that in fact this kit IS based on the Italeri kit with the following differences between them:

- the Italeri kit has hidden headlights, the Revell has the glass cover headlights
- the Italeri kit has different decals and different tyres and wheels
- unlike the Italeri kit the Revell kit does not have the rear wing (the one on my model is scratch-built)

 

So, in fact, Revell did a lot of modification back then on the Italeri kit, just to replicate that latter Diablo type.

 

Note that the widely available Revell Diablos kits with item no.'s 07066 and 07365 (such as the one built by Schwarz-Brot) do not have anything in common with the Italeri kit. They are completely different kits and (unlike the Italeri kits) come with a detailed engine.

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2019 by Tommy124

[Schwarz-Brot]

Thank you for the Heads-up, Thomas! Valuable information.

 

May I ask where in Germany you live? Greetings from Krefeld 🙂

[TommyOneTwoFour]

On 12/07/2019 at 23:37, Schwarz-Brot said:

Thank you for the Heads-up, Thomas! Valuable information.

 

May I ask where in Germany you live? Greetings from Krefeld 🙂

You're welcome! I live in Ostwestfalen, within Kreis Lippe. 😁

[FunkyChiken]

Great build!

[Alan R]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the update/ I may well look out for a Revell Diablo then.

 

Cheers, Alan.