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With the 1/8 scale DeAgostini Ford GT40 build stalled due to lateness of parts, I thought I'd try and work on the Eaglemoss 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing that I had sitting around and had parts to build for a bit. It had been a while also since I was getting parts from them (another story) but I thought I'd try and get the rest of the chassis together.

A few months had gone by and then I realized it had been nearly SIX MONTHS since I received anything from them, and that was some rinky-dink little part that really I could have set aside. It came to mind that if I can run across the ENTIRE kit on the 'Bay, I'm going to break the bank and buy it and cancel the sub to Eaglemoss. Meanwhile, I was now getting parts to build the Agora 1/8 Cobra, and I'll get to that a bit later. ;)

Anyway, one day surfing eBay, I happen to see.....you guessed it......a COMPLETE kit of the Mercedes SL on there from a seller in France. I looked over the pics, sent him the money as it did have a BIN, and I got the kit in about 10 days. I then cancelled the sub from Eaglemoss, and I'll tell you that I'll probably NEVER buy anything from them again, as they had lame excuses as to WHY things were held up (COVID was one). I pretty much picked up where I left off with the sub from Eaglemoss, and here are the results. No beauty shots here.......the model is now downstairs and I really didn't want to drag it back upstairs where the lighting is better to take pics on the one shelf. The pics here are just as it was done a few months ago.

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One BIG issue I did run into with this build was with the rear fender "eyebrows". They were missing in the kit and when I checked the auction, they were missing there as well. Well.......I ended up scratchbuilding those and tried to match the paint as best I could. Eaglemoss wouldn't sell any replacements, and I couldn't get upset with the seller as they were not in the pics originally. I suspect they were bad as far as painting, and he never got the replacements for them. I ended up using the full size photo as a "template" and went from there in building them. Not a job for the faint of heart!

But wait.............there's more!

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That is one impressive gullwing! Next best thing to dropping a mil on a 1:1! And those scratch-built eyebrows you did came out perfect, bravo! If $$$ and space we’re no object, I would love to have two of these kits to display, one complete and one with a naked chassis.

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John, the Gullwing Mercedes is probably my all time favorite Mercedes ever made! Next up would probably be the "Pagoda" roof 230-280SL's. Yes, more bookcase building is on order for next year for sure. With parts coming in for the 1/8 Agora '61 Jaguar Convertible and hopefully getting the Ford GT40 done, I'm going to quickly run out of space.

Eaglemoss has had some quality control issues with some of the parts they sent out. This site here was a big help in getting this thing done, and he points out some of the issues he's had in getting his finished. The rear fender eyebrows might have had that issue, and the seller forgot to mention they would be among the missing.

Interesting enough, all of the instructions came in French! ?

Thank goodness I had that site I mentioned to fall back on as some things to me weren't translatable to English.

BTW, because I bought the kit and I had the chassis already done, sometime down the road I do have the parts to make a separate rolling chassis with engine to display next to it. ?

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