MrObsessive

Just took a look at Bruce's page and his didn't have the wires on the one he did, but those threads suggested above are very good ones. You probably realize this, but I'd be treating those wheels as if they were kits in themselves. Time consuming, but worth the effort in building them as they're going together pretty much like the actual car.

I have the very same kit as you Day, but I haven't even begin to start it yet. There's a builder here by the name of Bruce Tanaka (Brudda) that built a MFH Ferrari, but I can't remember if his had wires or not. Hope to see pics of yours on the board sometime! That is a VERY interesting kit in that the engine with pistons, valves and all actually "works".

The one I have I see listed on the 'Bay here. This is the one I got from Micro-Mark that they don't sell any longer.

You can try here Keith.

VERY interesting machine! I'm a bit partial to the one I got from MicroMark however as it has its own self contained vacuum unit. Unfortunately, I just checked their site and it looks like they no longer sell that one. They have a MUCH more expensive one though for $700.00! Also, I'd like to be able to see just when the plastic is starting to droop. Too long a wait time will leave little tiny "bubbles" in spots on your windshield for example and not look right. As far as PETG, here is a seller on the 'Bay who I've gotten my sheets from at a reasonable price. The auction listed is for 12"x12" sheets, but I have gotten them smaller from him to suit my machine which is 5"x5".

Absolutely GORGEOUS interior Bruce! Where will I put mine when it's done? I'll be building short "bookcases" this week while I'm off for not just my other models, but for the 1/8 Shelby when I'm done with it. I originally had another spot picked out for it, but when I moved to the new place a year ago, I let that display case go as it was quite old and not as stable as it used to be. Also the 1/8 Mercedes 300 SL (on standstill till Eaglemoss sends more parts) will also go on the top shelf of that short bookcase (I'll be building two) when it's all said and done. One thing that's a MUST HAVE for these when they're done is some sort of dust cover. I've got nosy cats and the last thing I need is to have these come crashing down because they decide to be nosy. I thought they sold a cover for these..........I'll have to call and check with 'em. I notice that DeAgostini painted the chassis on yours black, whereas on mine they did the red oxide primer. It must have been on the car they modeled which is why perhaps they went that route. Yes, these things are HUGE (and heavy!) when they're done! It's the reason I'm not going to go superdetailed on the chassis on mine. There's no way I'll be picking this thing up and turning it over to show off the chassis like I would with a 1/25 scale I've done for example. One thing that's a must for me is some sort of trunk mat in mine. I just don't like the appearance of all the screw heads sticking up in the way when the trunk is open. Just a personal preference as I'm quite sure they didn't put this in the kit. If I could figure out a way to repro the Burtex pattern like the 1:1, that would be good, but as it stands right now, some sort of simple very thin vinyl material will do.

I have a very nice and clean (unpainted) built up of one of these. Original box and all. I'll GLADLY get another one because one can easily tweak the AMT '66 Nova chassis, find an inline six and go to town. At least this one won't cost NEARLY as much as I paid for the original. The original box art is a nice plus too.

Just a mini update this time around. I'm on vacation until the 12th, so hopefully I can get more done on this. Some of the chassis and rear end done. At first, I thought about adding fuel lines and such, but my better sense told me to let that go as a lot of this chassis is hard diecast although, part of the middle is painted plastic. Just the same, there's no way I'm going to be turning this thing over to display the underside. This will be one heavy model once it's all built! DeAgostini cheated a bit with the rear suspension. As you can see there are leaf springs (one for the time being) per the 1:1, but the axle has "helper" coil springs if you look closely. I believe they did this to keep the ride height level as this will be hefty, and also to take some of the stress off of the leafs as they are indeed steel, albeit very thin. I did overspray the rear part of the chassis and once I get to the forward part, I'll overspray the sides lightly to represent the 1:1 as they would have been painted coming down the assembly line. This also takes away the "too clean" look that the chassis has, even though I won't be displaying this roof down. The upper side of the gas tank shown which did include the filler neck. You can see here all the attachment screws and I sure hope the kit gives you some kind of mat for the trunk. The trunk lid opens and that would look so unkempt with all those screw heads showing through each time the trunk is open. There were so many boxes, I can't remember if there was a mat or not. I got the first binder they give you all nice and full and now onto the second binder which no doubt will get just as full as the first. Interesting info in each mag as they cover different types of cars and history along with the instructions. That's it for the time being. Next on the agenda is one of the rear wheelwells which I'll paint body color and they want another wheel to go in the tire. I'm going to do like the other two and plop that wheel into lacquer thinner, strip it and then polish it up and paint the letters on the tire after the wheel is in. Thanks for tuning in!

Those 10 spokes look good Bruce! Just the right sheen it appears too as those were not shiny, but more of a cast aluminum appearance. Still plugging away on my Shelby........I thought about adding brake lines and such, but the chassis is solid diecast and I'm not so sure about constantly drilling into that without breaking drill bits. ?

I don't know how I missed this one Bruce, but I LOVE what I'm seeing! I had a choice to get either this or the Ferrari Daytona Spyder when I wanted another MFH kit. I picked the Ferrari as MFH had announced they wouldn't be doing anymore Ferrari kits in the future. I STILL want this one badly and who knows, I may get this as a Christmas present to myself before the end of the year. Yes, MFH's white metal parts can be quite fiddly. I noticed a fit issue with the Daytona's hood as it's white metal, but looks like it can be bent to shape easily. I'll certainly keep this one on my follow list!

Loooooong overdue update coming up! When I got a hold of Eaglemoss and the nice lady told me that they would not be shipping new parts for the Mercedes 300 SL until mid October, I figured it's simply time to dig out the parts for the Shelby that were put away from moving and get more done on that. A bit of a task as the parts were split into several boxes as there are so many you get with this kit. Not to mention finding the ones that you need to keep things "in order". This is the first I've worked on this since I moved out of my other house a year ago and into the new one. The engine intake manifold for what they give you is quite sparse to my eyes, Some kind of detail is definitely needed as far as the carbs and while I won't add every nut bolt and fitting to them, some linkage is better than none at all, especially in this scale. The carbs represent the Holley double pumpers that were in the 1:1. At first I was going to hollow out the carbs and do sort of what I did to the 1/25 '67 Mustang I built with that carb. Then it occurred to me that if I stray too far from what they give you, it might affect the fit of something else down the road and lead to more frustration. Some fuel line hoses added along with linkage tying the two carbs together. Trying to get things to look in scale is a bit hard for this one as it's not a scale I normally build in. I wanted everything to look "right" without being overbearing. I drilled a hole in the manifold (a bit tough as its solid diecast) and make a bracket for the return spring. Later on as the rest of the engine gets built, I'll add the throttle rod along with making a possible bracket on the rearmost part of the manifold to hold it per the 1:1. The air cleaner element was painted silver along with everything else......I wanted to change this and paint that more of a tan to represent what you'd see if the air cleaner was taken off. The next step in the instructions has you moving on to the driver's side door. I didn't like the bit of orange peel I was seeing in the paint's clear coat, so I got out the polishing cloths and rubbed out the surface starting with the 3200 grit all the way up to 12,000. After that I used both Zymol and Meguiar's Car Cleaner wax to polish things out. I had to be careful and mask off the lower stripe as it does NOT take to rubbing out well as I suspected. Pretty sure that's some sort of decal and they recommend protecting those stripes as they can chip if one is too aggressive and not careful how the parts are stored. Now the door glass. DeAgostini slipped a bit of a red herring when they said the model has "opening windows". I understood this to mean that the model actually had roll up windows just like the 1:1. No. The models windows "open" because they attach to the door via this frame and of course they're going to open along with the door. So, instead of going through a lot of changes re-engineering the door to take a roll up setup AFTER it's all painted, I decided to let that go and build it as is. One annoyance though is that they chromed only the one side of the frame, leaving the rest clear. No.......I got out the BMF and decided to foil ALL of those areas that would be seen especially if the doors are open. Now we move on to the interior door panels. As most of you detail guys know, your panels rest on the door jamb which is BODY COLOR. It's never the same color as the panel itself, so I took the time to mask the door off and primered it gray. Thank goodness I got the '67 Midnight Blue from my local paint guy before I moved. Last I heard he was no longer open due to a new road they're about to put right in front of his business and he decided to sell off the place and retire. As you can see here, I painted the outside perimeter of the door with the dark blue and I put this in my dehydrator to dry. Here is now the finished door with glass, handle and mirror in place. There is some slight distortion with the glass, but nothing to get too crazed about and nowhere near as bad as some kits I've seen with terrible optically distorted glass. The kit gives you the aluminum inset, lower trim panel and handles as separate pieces. The upper trim panel was quite tricky as it snaps into place, but you have to be careful slipping it in behind the one handle and you have to make sure the door panel is attached to the outer door before putting it on. Got another wheel and tire done as seen here. Like the other wheel, I dunked the entire thing in a can of lacquer thinner and stripped the silver paint off. Every Magnum five star wheel I've seen on a Shelby has always been "chromed" and not painted aluminum. Looks more realistic than what's originally in the kit. I wanted to scuff up the tread just a bit. A big model like this to my eyes would not look right sitting there with "shiny tread". That's it for the time being. Looks like the instructions has me moving on to the seats. I got the one seat back done and the seat bottoms are next. I'll post pics of those when the entire thing is done. Thanks for following along!

As I mentioned above, hopefully I'll start getting parts again the middle of next month. I got the complete chassis done, it's the rest of the front suspension and the complete rear I'm waiting for to finish things up. At least I got a timeline when shipping should be. When I called there a couple weeks ago, the fellow I spoke to had NO timeline at all to tell me. Oh well.......I still have that 1/8 Shelby to keep me busy with more than enough work to be done on that one.

I'd LOVE a kit of the new '20 Charger Daytona "widebody". Just something about that car and I'm not the biggest fan of four doors. Word has it (unless something changed) that 2022 will be the last go round for the Camaro. Sad as I feel that Chevrolet missed the mark with the car's styling. Not bad on the outside, but on the inside with those small windows, the car IMO felt woefully claustrophobic. I had considered one about a year after I bought my Challenger and after sitting in one I said, "No Thanks"! Hopefully there'll be something to replace it, but with the current market tripping over themselves with the latest trucks/SUV's/CUV's, I don't see that happening.

Just a bit of a heads up for anyone that's building this. I spoke to someone from Eaglemoss the other day to ask about the latest shipments which I have yet to receive. She tells me that backorders should start shipping again around the 13th of next month. That's good news as I'm tired of looking at just the bare chassis and would like to make some more progress on it. What I should have asked her though is will the shipments include just the one that was missed, or the others that are also behind? I don't want any surprises in my bank account if all of sudden they want to charge for four months worth of parts!

Sorry to hear that Carl. Sort of what's happening to me now. I was told it's a coming cataract in that eye but they can do nothing till it fully "blooms". Meanwhile, I have to deal with lopsided vision because if I go and get new glasses, once the cataract fully hits my vision will change yet again in that eye once the cataract is out. What's really annoying is they're not able to tell me how long it'll take for it to form. It was four years ago I had the retinal tear. I was told then a cataract had the potential to take YEARS to grow. Well it's been four, so hopefully soon this thing can come so it can GO!

This'll be neat to see Ismael! BTW, I have YET to see any of these on the road around here! Plenty of Corvettes, but not a C8 in sight.

Reading further in this thread, you did get it checked. Keep an eye (no pun intended) on it though. When they did the bubble implant thing, that had to be the most miserable thing I ever went through. They do it while you're AWAKE and it's the ickiest feeling in the world when they put that thing in. Not to mention you have sleep with your head FACE DOWN and walk around with your head bent over for X amount of time. I hope to NOT have to deal with that ever again!

Be VERY careful! As has been said, that is a sign of a detached or soon to be detached retina! Went through that a few years ago and that bubble implant treatment is NO JOKE. While it did fix the retina to a degree, my eyesight has never come back 100% and it's put a crimp on building. I'd say ASAP get that checked out!

That's the next one on my wish list. I have the Monogram one, but the D'Agostini one is soooo much nicer! In fact, there's a seller on eBay I follow that has all kinds of detail parts for that including a resin rear clip to turn the Monogram one into a convertible. Good stuff!

I was wondering where this topic went! I started my sub to this a few months ago, but Eaglemoss has me on a standstill right now with backordered parts. Seems to me this virus might have set things back a bit. Either which way, I got as far as the complete frame and engine and I'm now waiting for the rest of the front suspension and rear. Bruce, VERY impressive work so far and as far as the paint issues, I notice on the hood there is a bit of orange peel in the clear coat. Not anything a rub out and polish job shouldn't be able to handle though. Down the road I'll start a thread on mine, but there's not much to show except for the bare chassis and engine. Meanwhile, it's given me some time to do more work on that 1/8 scale '67 Shelby which I DO have all the parts for, but the engine is WOEFULLY lacking in detail.

Very nice work! For whatever reason, the 1973-'77 GM midsize colonnade body styles keep getting ignored by the model companies. I'd LOVE to see a '73 Pontiac Grand Am, or even a '73 Chevelle with base, Laguna and SS options in full glue kit form.

I've got one of those X-EL promos lying around somewhere in that EXACT color! Excellent save and those are getting harder and harder to come by now in decent shape. At least you have the interior...........mine is the "empty" one with no interior per the original promos.

Super Sharp Impala and that red interior looks FANTASTIC! Like you mentioned Stephen, our neighborhoods were once littered with cars like this here in the US. Big land yachts like that '59 made it reaaall easy to play hide and seek as they were tall enough for a little kid to get under. Trying to explain to your Mom why your back is all dirty and greasy however was another matter! A younger fellow I work with who just turned 40, we were talking cars one day and I was telling him there was once upon a time where no matter where you looked, you saw a '55, '56, or '57 Chevy in all styles. He was like "WOW! Really??" You couldn't go a few blocks as a kid in the '60's and not see one of those parked somewhere. I built my '59 a few years ago and now I'll have to take a look at it to see if there's any issues with the tires. I do believe I painted the whitewalls on mine before I put them in as I wanted to tone down the "shiny plastic" look of the molded inserts. Now my curiosity is up...............

I'm definitely watching! This car (the sedan) is another one of those "etched" in my childhood memory as we had a close family friend that had one. Actually, I believe hers was a hardtop as I can remember all the windows down and not seeing that center pillar. One detail that I want to mention and it's totally up to you to attempt this.......the wheelbase in the kit is actually for an Ambassador (longer) as there was more real estate between the leading edge of the doors and the trailing edge of the wheel wells. They give you parts for an Ambassador as far as the grille, but the side trim on those is different. Weird as I don't know why Johan went this route (possible reissue losses), but shortening the front fenders and hood is not for everyone.............I'd thought I'd give you a heads up.

That can be one tough kit, but yours turned out terrific! DEFINITELY two thumbs up!