Benz Mercs.....

Started by Guest_zebm1_*, Apr 07 2007 05:43 PM

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#1 Guest_zebm1_*

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Posted 07 April 2007 - 05:43 PM

Having nevah done this before, please bear with me. I have seen as how some of yall luve those german Mercs....and having always had a hard time turning down real steals..er ahem deals, I bought these two for 10 bucks a piece. So I thought I would share them with yall.

Probably do this in two posts, around 20 pics. Crtiques welcomed. :wink:

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actually 3 kits, forgot tha wheels for tha S 500
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Protar S 500
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I wish it were not silver plastic, don't know if tha rear view shows tha prominent swirl mark and tha inside view shows a very deep undercut for a sunroof...and tha chrome looks like a satin finish, not sure this is correct?

, but other wise it's a pretty clean curbside.

zeb

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#2 horsepower

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Posted 08 April 2007 - 08:07 PM

All of the late Mercedes that I've got have all had the matte finish on the chrome, it didn't matter what manufacturer it was. I don't think that you will like this kit, want to make you're money back? (LOL)

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#3 Guest_zebm1_*

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 04:14 AM

Tha other benz has shiny brite chrome...and no I don't sell them, but I do occasionaly trade 'em.

zeb

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#4 jbwelda

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 12:04 PM

two things for sure:

blue oyster cult needs MORE COWBELL

and

benzios need gold wheels.

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#5 larrygre

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Posted 09 April 2007 - 12:22 PM

Zeb,

The Protar S500 is the same plastic as the Revell Germany S500 and the Italeri S600 (except the Italeri kit has different wheels). I did a full review of the Italeri kit in MODEL CARS a couple of years ago, I don't know exactly in what issue it was published at the moment. It's very workable, but the "back-less" seats aggravated me a bit, and the flimsy axle pins will need replacement by some metal items.

The Fujimi gold wire wheels look good, but they might just look a tad small in the wheel wells of the big S. I used Fujimi's AMG 18 inchers on mine, and those meats filled up the wells real nicely.

FYI, Protar was bought by Italeri three years ago.

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