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Maserati Merak (Airfix 1/24)


Tommy124

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Hi folks,

I just finished this one. First non-US car model I built in almost 3 years. The kit itself is horrible as was the building and painting process itself. Anyone who wants to see the lengths I had to go to to make this turn out a halfway reasonable result, see my WIP here: 

 

This is the way it ended up:

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And a group shot with his "rare" brother, the Boomerang...

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That was like shoving a wet noodle up a Bobcat's *** while in a phone booth!  Came out great, considering the low quality of the kit.

I *had to* get the Boomerang kit recently, just because, despite knowing it's also bad.   I have a Russian forum bookmarked, a builder stopped posting about half way, so much needed to be fixed.  Yours came out very nice, is there another topic of it?

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Many thanks guys, I appreciate it!

19 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

I *had to* get the Boomerang kit recently, just because, despite knowing it's also bad.   I have a Russian forum bookmarked, a builder stopped posting about half way, so much needed to be fixed.  Yours came out very nice, is there another topic of it?

Thanks Kurt, and congrats on getting a Boomerang kit! They are very hard and expensive to come by, especially in 1/24 scale (the 1/16 scale Revell kit is easier to find but not cheap either). I remember the WIP on the Russian forum you mentioned, that guy practically cut the whole body into pieces in order to correct the shape and make a Bora V8 fit in. He also intended to 3D-print better wheels but I guess that is where the WIP ended... years ago. The Boomerang can be made into a nice kit box-stock. My build is a resto of a kit I build many years ago. I showed it on this forum back then (although the images are not great):

 

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  • 2 years later...

Absolutely beautiful Tom. If it's of any interest to you, the two Testors Maserati Merak's I've done both had very good bodies and none of the problems you ran into. One easy way to tell them apart is the front fenders have holes for forward mounted sideview mirrors on the Testors models. Also, due to a battery compartment built into the floorboard, the Testors models only have two front seats. I recently finished refurbishing one I did with my son, and all we did was clearcoat the bare plastic. In case you want to see a Merak without any bodywork done to it, check mine out.

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