kpnuts Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 Hi all i won this on ebay, its an ex MPC kit first thing the instructions are next to useless , on the first page it tells you the colours for airfix paints but there is not one point in the instructions where that colour call out is used ( as you all know I had no intention of building this as should be anyway) but if you wanted to, well, , hard cheese, So heres the box art I'm thinking of a fade paint job either blue to white or blue to red not decided yet. Anyway a start on the engine, it's not a bad kit detail wise. Either this must be huge or the Ferrari 312t must be tiny as this is 1/16 whereas the Ferrari is 1/12
cobraman Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 I'm hooked ! I like this kit. I have just finished the chassis and engine on the MPC version of this kit. I have the body painted and cleared also. Looking forward to following along with yours.
Zippi Posted November 14, 2021 Posted November 14, 2021 That's a big boy. I like it. Ill be keeping an eye on this build.
kpnuts Posted November 14, 2021 Author Posted November 14, 2021 Bit more done to this started adding a bit of detail to the engine (I don't know much about these engines and can't find many useful pics of throttle linkages and such) Those air filters are just placed there. This is the main colour I've gone for.
kpnuts Posted November 20, 2021 Author Posted November 20, 2021 Hi all a bit more paint applied to this one.
kpnuts Posted December 1, 2021 Author Posted December 1, 2021 Spent ages trying to get this decal to settle down, in the end I decided to remove it, and the reason it wouldn't settle down became apparent, never seen that happen before and no idea why.
cobraman Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 That is weird. I assume paint was dry. Did you decal any other area that had this happen ? Mask and spray I guess now ???
kpnuts Posted December 2, 2021 Author Posted December 2, 2021 Yes I've no idea what happened the paint was dry, it happened a bit on the bonnet too.
kpnuts Posted December 28, 2021 Author Posted December 28, 2021 OK so the decals on this went weird so masked it and Sprayed it myself.
kpnuts Posted January 9, 2022 Author Posted January 9, 2022 Hi all more work on the Cobra. I decided to ditch the carbs (too much wrong with them ) The kit comes with fuel injection as an option I thought I would go with that, tbh a don't know which is worse, still I'm stuck with it now, hopefully I can improve on what the kit supplied (still won't be anything like accurate but maybe look interesting.
kpnuts Posted January 16, 2022 Author Posted January 16, 2022 Did some more work on this (leaving the engine for now)
kpnuts Posted January 20, 2022 Author Posted January 20, 2022 More done to this, I can't find any decent pics of the fuel injection system on this so I've invented my own (its only really to fill space as the stacks are too far apart and it looks silly)
Goldfinger24k Posted January 23, 2022 Posted January 23, 2022 On 1/9/2022 at 3:16 PM, kpnuts said: Hi all more work on the Cobra. I decided to ditch the carbs (too much wrong with them ) The kit comes with fuel injection as an option I thought I would go with that, tbh a don't know which is worse, still I'm stuck with it now, hopefully I can improve on what the kit supplied (still won't be anything like accurate but maybe look interesting. I didn't like the way they had the dual quad setup done. After looking at reference photos I noticed that the carbs were oriented the wrong way. The bowls should be front to back, not side to side. Had to modify them a bit to fit that way. It still looked pretty sparse so I did a fuel rail and made the vacuum canisters for each of the carbs. Made up some linkage and a return spring. Put a piece of wire for the air cleaner studs and made "wing nuts" to top off the air cleaners. Overall this kit is a nice kit. Kind of fiddly. I did one when I was a kid (I still have it) and thought I'd like to do another one. It's about 85% done. Stalled on it again because of the extra details I've been doing to it. Maybe I need to post it on here to re-inspire me to get back to it. Keep up the good work!
Keavdog Posted January 23, 2022 Posted January 23, 2022 (edited) I've got the AMT rebox. Scalemates has the AMT instructions with color callouts here: https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/7/0/3/141703-55-instructions.pdf Edited January 23, 2022 by Keavdog
kpnuts Posted January 23, 2022 Author Posted January 23, 2022 That looks mighty good, thanks for the info John
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