Mercedes 600SEL slammer

[Cpt Tuttle]

Cheap chinese ripoff (LEE) of the Tamiya kit, even copied the box art and instruction sheet. Unfortunately, nothing like Tamiya quality which made me lose my patience and it ended up as a slammer since the body looks quite good at least. The grille was missing so I changed it for a SL unit and the wheels are some aftermarket white metal units, other than that it's pretty much box stock. Paint is Nissan Dark purplish blue pearl and Mercedes Astralsilber.

 

[kruleworld]

sounds like a nightmare. you made it look good tho. like the stance.

[Cpt Tuttle]

On 5/8/2021 at 10:23 AM, kruleworld said:

sounds like a nightmare. you made it look good tho. like the stance.

It sure was. When the backrests of the front and the rear half of the front seats are even, for example, the headrest differ about 1 mm in height, and the dashboard is almost impossible to glue together. To make it worse, it has some really crappy plastic quality that seems to dissolve if you use the slightest amount too much of the glue, yet it sticks together very bad. That's why I did skip the interior etc.

"Thanks, I hate it" is a great way to describe this kit, but thanks for the kind comments.

[PappyD340]

Nice!