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Chassis n° ZFF81BHB000223160
Bonhams : the Zoute Sale
Estimated : € 650.000 - 850.000
Sold for € 687.190
Zoute Grand Prix 2019
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2019
"The Ferrari F12 has never struck anyone as being in need of more power. It really doesn't feel like it needs more nor, at least without significant modification, should it be given it. But here we are: the Ferrari F12tdf, a special version of the F12, limited in production but unlimited in ambition." – Autocar.
Introduced to the motoring public at the 2102 Geneva Motor Show, the Ferrari F12 replaced the 599 family of front-engined Gran Turismos. "... the company has thrown everything at it to ensure it's vastly quicker than its seminal predecessor, but also that it's more enjoyable at low speeds," declared evo magazine, continuing: "It claims to be both GT and supercar, mixing front-engined packaging and civility with exotic, F1-inspired dynamic ability."
Ferrari's gorgeous new berlinetta was soon garnering critical accolades, being voted 'Supercar of the Year 2012' by Top Gear magazine, and in 2014 receiving the coveted 'Premio Compasso d'Oro ADI', one of the world's oldest and most prestigious design awards.
It is an oft-stated cliché that 'the heart of every Ferrari is its engine', and the F12's 6.3-litre, 65-degree, normally aspirated V12 is acknowledged as one of the finest ever, winning the 'Best Performance' and 'Best Engine above 4.0 litres' categories in the 2013 'International Engine of the Year Awards'. With 730bhp on tap, this class-leading power unit - one of the most powerful every installed in a Ferrari road car – delivers stupendous performance, propelling the F12 to 100km/h in 3.1 seconds on its way to a top speed of over 330km/h. Around Ferrari's Fiorano test track, the F12 proved to be 3.5 seconds quicker that the preceding 599 GTB and 2.0 seconds quicker than the mid-engined Enzo; even the hardcore 599 GTO was slower.
But these days even a supercar has to make the odd concession in the interests of fuel economy, and with this in mind the F12 incorporated Ferrari's HELE stop/start system that reduces consumption when idling. Paddle shifters mounted on the steering wheel – an innovation pioneered by Ferrari in Formula 1 - had long been a feature of the Maranello marque's road cars, and the F12's controlled a seven-speed dual-clutch semi-automatic transmission. Stability, traction control, suspension, and other settings were also controlled from the F12's steering wheel, while improved carbon-ceramic brakes helped keep things in check.
The engine/transmission package was mounted in an aluminium spaceframe chassis - developed by Ferrari's close neighbours and long-time collaborators, Carrozzeria Scaglietti – that represented significant gains in rigidity and weight reduction when compared with the preceding 599 GTB. As one would expect of a modern-day Ferrari supercar, the F12 came with the latest in driver aids as standard: ABS, SCM-E magnetorheological suspension, electronic limited-slip differential, ESP Premium stability control, and F1-Trac traction control.
Styled by the Ferrari Styling Centre and Carrozzeria Pininfarina, the F12's voluptuous body restated the traditional 'long bonnet, small cabin, short tail' look in a manner suggesting muscular horsepower while retaining all the elegance associated with the Italian coachbuilder's work for Maranello. A significant aerodynamic development was the 'Aero Bridge': an under-body air channel running from front to rear that increased down force while exerting less drag than an external wing. 'Active Brake Cooling' ducts had been adopted for the same reason; opening only when the brakes required cooling while remaining closed at other times to reduce aerodynamic drag. The result was a remarkably low drag coefficient of only 0.299. Based on that of the Ferrari FF, the 'Frau leather' interior featured aluminium, Alutex, and carbon fibre trim. The F12's optional accessories were extensive, though pricey: who would have thought that a carbon fibre cup holder could cost over €2,000?
In October 2015, Ferrari announced a limited-edition variant, the F12tdf, its nomenclature referencing a competition variant of the 250 GT, so named following the latter's many victories in the Tour de France Automobile in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Like its illustrious predecessor, the F12tdf was a lightweight, track-focused model aimed at wealthy connoisseurs and gentleman racers; only 799 were built during the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
The F12tdf used the same 6.3-litre V12 engine as the standard car, albeit modified to produce 770bhp, while deleting much of the leather/aluminium interior trim in favour of Alcantara and carbon fibre, together with swapping many exterior aluminium panels for carbon fibre, helped shed some 110kgs from the total weight. The result was a reduction of the 0-100km/h to 2.9 seconds while the claimed top speed was now 'in excess of 211km/h'. Around Fiorano, the F12tdf was 2.0 seconds quicker than its standard sibling.
Completed on 20th October 2016, this beautiful F12tdf is finished in special Grigio Alloy with central stripes, wheels and accents in Canna di Fucile (gunmetal) and Blu Medio Alcantara interior. Delivered new by the well-known official Ferrari dealer Monza in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, the car was built to the special order of the current vendor, its sole owner from new. This car is one of only three F12tdf models delivered by Monza.
Used sparingly over the course of the last three years, this F12tdf has covered a little over 6,000 kilometres from new and has been painstakingly maintained with yearly services undertaken by Ferrari dealer Monza in Belgium. The owner has enjoyed his rare F12tdf on numerous occasions, including the Mille Miglia Tribute to Ferrari in 2017.
Representing a wonderful opportunity to own one of Ferrari's all-time great, front-engined supercars, this stunning F12tdf comes complete with factory tool kit; locking wheel nut key; service wallet and manuals; and the all-important F12tdf Classiche book. Offered for sale by a Belgian Ferrari collector, the car is presented in immaculate condition, ready to be enjoyed by its next custodian.
Journal of Doctor S. Finnigan – Leading doctor of Project B27
Entry 104
After three months of the modification project, we are finally starting the last phase. The subject’s immune system is no longer fighting the medication and his muscles have been dissolved from the bones. According to Professor Rosenfeld’s calculations, they will easily reattach to the carbon skeleton after the procedure. Our head engineer Mr. Gordon and his team finished the prototype ten days ago and produced the first usable version. We are now making the final calibrations. The subject has been sedated and the observation team has arrived. The insertion procedure will start at 3pm, after the gouvernment‘s permission is given.
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This is something I wanted to upload for years now ! In 2011, n7mereel, Mr. Grievous and me built this, but never came around to uploading it for several reasons. Now I finally found the photos on my PC, reedited them and we decided to uploade them.
I still like it very much, even though it is a bit old.
Hope you agree !
Giving the rear wheel wells a plate more of clearance. While I'm at it, I'll rework the steering. Which might create a new problem: while the front half of the body is very sturdy, it connects to the chassis with only six studs. Altering the steering might reduce that number to four.
Should I sacrifice the opening doors for more structural strength?
Modifications on the Technic set 8110 Unimog U400.
- blue cabine
- steering steeringwheel
- black wheels, closed
- moving bucket (3 sides)
- Train bogey front and back
- Snowplough
Modifications on the Technic set 8110 Unimog U400.
- blue cabine
- steering steeringwheel
- black wheels, closed
- moving bucket (3 sides)
- Train bogey front and back
- Snowplough
Work in progress:
ready modification of 'Taiga' face mold, but I still need to smooth all the surface.
Рабочий процесс: модификация модели лица "Тайга" готова, но ещё нужно сгладить всю поверхность.
Reddit user Conc, also known as "Steve who restored the real Delorean A car"(imgur.com/a/OlWlB#0) inspired me with his modifications to improve my own set, and I'm satisfied with the outcome.
Soon the approaching rain storm will make very slight modifications to this desert landscape. Those tiny changes eventually lead to these natural beauty sites that all photographers love.
Marcus los his tooth piece ;)
I made it of apoxie for him and painted it. The thing looks like some creepy monster on its own :P
Modification for LEGO® Technic set 8258 Crane Truck (default build). It gives set 8258 an added fifth wheel (coupler) and power supply to connect/attach trailers realistically. A (semi-)trailer has a so called king pin. This pin is at the front of the trailer and connects to the tractor or semi-truck which set 8258 is.
These modifications are in building instructions and a inventory/parts list is available for you to add this to your own 8258. By modifying 8258 with this you enable the ability to connect to soon to be released lowboy trailers!
This kingpin at the front of the trailer makes a pivoting connection with the tractor's fifth wheel. It forces the fifth wheel to open up and as soon as the kingpin is in place rubber belts forces the fifth wheel to close again. It stays there until it is manually released. By moving two levers manually the trailer can be released and thus uncoupled.
The pictures show two lowboy trailers. Both are so called detachable gooseneck trailers. The Yellow version has a liftable third axle. The Blue one a so called flip axle where a part of the frame holding the third axle is flipped on top of the second axle.
With this type of lowboy trailer the gooseneck is removed to make the deck accessible. Because the front part of the trailer rests on the surface the truck with the gooseneck still attached can drive off. In order to keep the gooseneck elevated at the correct hight is as a support. This support rests on the trucks frame.
Instructions for both shown lowboy trailer will be available soon, the first one in December 2014, the second one hopefully the 1st half of 2015.
Both lowboy trailers can perfectly be combined with LEGO® Technic set 8043 Motorized Excavator as well as with LEGO® Technic set 8275 Motorized Bulldozer. Obviously you can combine it with any of your MOCs as well.
So...what did I do to this EAH body?
Long story short:
After I shortened the neck and upper arms, I put the bits that were cut off in an acetone resistent lidded jar and added pure acetone ( don't smell the stuff! Work in a well ventilated area!). Once the plastic had melted to the right consistency, I used it to thicken the neck, glue back together the upper arms and to elongate the knees, then once the plastic was solid again I used sandpaper to make everything smooth.
I also cut a little bit of lenght from the bottom of her forearms, and slimmed down the calves ( her forearms and lower legs are made from different types of plastic and won't melt with acetone)
Short story long:
Like people who repaint dolls know well, acetone won't damage a doll's vinyl head, but it will melt its plastic body. In the past I used this fact to my advantage to remove the kind of copyright information that's molded ( insted of printed ) on some dolls and to glue back some doll torsos that I had cracked open and limbs that I had shortened.
When I had to modify this EAH body to fit my custom mini unoa head, I first thought about thickening the neck with epoxy putty, but then I would have had to use paint to cover the mods, and paint chips and it's difficult to match anyway. That's when I remembered the plastic melting properties of acetone, and after a quick internet search which returned a lot of results about car repairs... AND this tutorial www.flickr.com/photos/6_6tina/albums/72157646135456221 I was finally able to obtain my ideal closest equivalent to a 1/6 scale Unoa body... that's not a resin fluorite Unoa light *cries*
By the way:
Almost a year ago, when I posted the first pictures of this body, I included a brief "how to" underneath a pic of the naked body, hybridized with the head of Barbie's little sister Chelsea. That photo gained thousands of views in a suspiciously very short time.
Now... I'm not bothered -AT ALL- by doll nudity, but somehow, the fact that what was basically a child's head on a fairly realistically sculpted naked body was gaininig so many views so fast made me a bit uneasy, lol :| so I deleted the picture... totally forgetting about the tutorial underneath it, so here it is again :P
taken on the 21 dec 2012 in wiltshire uk...... Im not sure what these lines in the sky are but as you can see from the pictures they seemed to be pulling the spray left by the aircraft across the sky (see next 2 pics in my photostream). As much as i dont like to believe it, i think weather modification is real and poses a great threat to all of us and life on earth in general as we all have to breathe the same air !.. The reason i post these pictures is to try and raise awareness as i feel that the more people that know about this, the more chance there is of putting an end to this complete madness !!! For those of you who have not heard of this before please research geo engineering, chemtrails, solar radiation management... Anyway thanks for looking at my pictures and thanks to all you guys who continue to post great pictures here on flickr.....
In case you have missed it, on my website I explain why I believe the rear suspension of the LEGO 42083 Bugatti Chiron has a design flaw and how I think it could have been solved: www.nkubate.com/model-optimization-a-42083-showcase/
Chronodex Mods by Folks at Fountain Pen Network
Here's an update of the Chronodex Weekly Planner for 2012.
I'm very happy to find like minded people who love the Chronodex idea. Although it was first designed for the Midori Traveler's Notebook format, folks at Fountain Pen Network really took it to the next level.
Coronado took the time to modify it into a more popular portrait format and in half letter size for his Levenger Circa. He also changed the grid background into dots so it is less intrusive. You can download Coronado's version of the Chronodex here.
Coronado also made a Levenger Circa version of the bookmark I portrayed. Like minded.
jsButterfly, who has just started a new blog called Paper Spaces, made Chronodex her 2012 diary too, also following Coronado's bookmark hack.
If you are into radial thinking for heightened creativity, or simply want to have a little change of your scheduling method, please do try Chronodex and share with us fans here on Scription or the Chronodex Flickr group.
Lastly, Boris from Russia, how do you find using Chronodex? I'm yet to receive any comments from people from Hong Kong and Japan. どのようにスケジューリングのChronodex方法が好きですか？
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/chronodex-mods-by-folk...
I decided to do some slight modifications on my live action Plumette and animated Lumiere figures to make them more movie accurate. For Lumiere (from the Deluxe BatB set that came out last year) I decided to give him some candles "arms" since I found it strange that he wasn't given any. I got the "candles" from an old Lumiere figure that broke, so I cut them off and glued them to his "candle holders". Finally I painted the candles and the flames. For Plumette I decided to glue some ACTUAL feathers and I also cut the cut the bottom of her base and glued some real feathers inside. Finally I glued a few strings of gold threads and a small piece of mesh material to add details.
i decided to follow some holga mods i've saw online and i think they worked really well, also even better because the woman in asda thought my camera was broken and didn't charge me for development!!! :D
Holga
Agfa vista 200
PB04 GBRf new toy 66734 . 2nd Loco to carry this number Awaiting modifications before it enters service for GBRf.
@ DONCASTER ROBERTS ROAD . Wednesday 22nd December 2021
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I don't know if there are any more strobists out there who own larger scale not-so-portable strobes like I do, but I think this would be more geared to you I think. I have 4 Alien Bee strobes, along with the grid spots that I really enjoy using, but they aren't the greatest thing to go "portable" with.
I like using the AlienBee/White Lightning 7" reflectors and grid spots, and wanted to find a way to use them with my SB-800 (although this could be fitted to any flash unit I believe). So, I set out to Home Depot to search the isles to see if anything would work. In the electrical section, I found this 3" to 2" pvc bushing that fit very snuggly into the 7" reflector.
It was a little long, so with a hacksaw I cut off the excess lip up to the inside support bars. Next, I outlined with a marker the shape of the SB800 onto the bushing. With a file set, I filed down the area that I outlined with marker until the flash unit fit all the way in until it was all the way in (this took a little while to shape out correctly to fit).
Once I had a good tight fit, I removed SB800 from the pvc, placed the pvc into the reflector, then re-inserted the flash unit back into the bushing (this gave a nice tight fit into the reflector).
Like I said, if you don't already own these, I don't know if this will be of any help to you. Also, maybe someone can find a better way to improvise this, but it works great for me, and maybe it will work for someone else as well!
Check out the lighting spread from using this here.
Modified version of the LEGO Brick Bank (#10251).
There's now an ATM and the additional floor provides room for an insurance agent, who might not be the most respectable one.
Ça faisait longtemps que je voulais retailler son nez - Voilà c'est fait !
Since a long time, i want to modified her nose - well, it's done !
Direction le make up maintenant
This is a modification of my hot rod pickup. It still has everything that you might like (motorized/remotely controlled driving/steering, lights, turn signals, working steering wheel, working V8 and radiator fan, working door handles, gearbox…) and some new features (wheels, suspension, engine, roof, front lights, interior, fuel tank, movable license plate, chrome details…). Like the old one, it is 50 studs long and 28 studs wide but it is heavier - it weighs 1285g.
VIDEO: youtu.be/jR0rCEck7_0
Characteristics:
-Leaf spring suspension with height-adjustable rear
-License plate with simple mechanism to hide it (manual)
-Lights (front and rear) manually controlled with a lever connected to a speed dial of 8878 battery (which allows you to switch between low and high beam)
-Turn signals (front and rear) connected to a servo motor via coupled PF switches (2 switches)
-Working steering wheel
-Manual gearbox – 4 gears (5:1, 3:1, 5:3, 1:1)
-Suicide doors with working door handles
-It is powered by two L motors and 7.4 V (8878) rechargeable battery box.
-Servo motor for steering
-Working V8 fake engine with some details to make it resemble real V8 engine, connected directly to the driving motors so it works at the same speed no matter what gear you choose (in neutral also)
-Working radiator fan, connected directly to a V8 engine
-Rear doors can be opened.
-Roof window, fire extinguisher, fuel tank…
-Front tires from 8070 supercar, and rear from 42000 Grand Prix Racer.
I hope you like it, feel free to comment…
p.s. it has been blogged: thelegocarblog.com/2014/07/03/rod-mod/
This is a modification of my hot rod pickup. It still has everything that you might like (motorized/remotely controlled driving/steering, lights, turn signals, working steering wheel, working V8 and radiator fan, working door handles, gearbox…) and some new features (wheels, suspension, engine, roof, front lights, interior, fuel tank, movable license plate, chrome details…). Like the old one, it is 50 studs long and 28 studs wide but it is heavier - it weighs 1285g.
VIDEO: youtu.be/jR0rCEck7_0
Characteristics:
-Leaf spring suspension with height-adjustable rear
-License plate with simple mechanism to hide it (manual)
-Lights (front and rear) manually controlled with a lever connected to a speed dial of 8878 battery (which allows you to switch between low and high beam)
-Turn signals (front and rear) connected to a servo motor via coupled PF switches (2 switches)
-Working steering wheel
-Manual gearbox – 4 gears (5:1, 3:1, 5:3, 1:1)
-Suicide doors with working door handles
-It is powered by two L motors and 7.4 V (8878) rechargeable battery box.
-Servo motor for steering
-Working V8 fake engine with some details to make it resemble real V8 engine, connected directly to the driving motors so it works at the same speed no matter what gear you choose (in neutral also)
-Working radiator fan, connected directly to a V8 engine
-Rear doors can be opened.
-Roof window, fire extinguisher, fuel tank…
-Front tires from 8070 supercar, and rear from 42000 Grand Prix Racer.
I hope you like it, feel free to comment…
p.s. it has been blogged: thelegocarblog.com/2014/07/03/rod-mod/
Sienna Evans' original Alex body on the right (unmodified), and modified Tonner Antoinette body on the left.
I filed and sanded the Antoinette body neck to match the contour of the Alex body's neck. There was plenty of material in the Antoinette neck to do this without the neck becoming too thin. I also had to make the neck peg gap smaller to secure the Sienna head, and I did this by taping around the neck peg and squirting polyurethane resin onto the underside, essentially casting a space-filling washer in place. I used Smooth-On Smooth Cast 300Q.