baddgass Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Needed something to do while waiting on some parts for the other builds.
Scale-Master Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Have fun! This is a kit where the instructions are very helpful.
RancheroSteve Posted August 11, 2013 Posted August 11, 2013 Have fun. I've got two awaiting me..... Me too - my thought is to do one all opened up with full detail, and another all buttoned up and only detail what shows.
pandamonium2112 Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 Please! could you post some photos of the box content before starting?
Crazy Ed Posted August 13, 2013 Posted August 13, 2013 (edited) Please! could you post some photos of the box content before starting? I'm not Derrick, but these might do. First the bottom of the Box which often gets missed On to the Contents And a sample of what you'll get in the Instructions Edited August 13, 2013 by Crazy Ed
baddgass Posted August 13, 2013 Author Posted August 13, 2013 Thanks Ed for posting the iners. This is a real nice kit lots of detail. I,m going to do a up dated car. So Carbon Fiber and some Braided Line. The body is in black.
Crazy Ed Posted August 19, 2013 Posted August 19, 2013 Hi There Derrick Wonderin'. If you're planning on a Modern version wouldn't you want to put EFI on the Engine instead of Mech Fuel Inj. ?
baddgass Posted August 19, 2013 Author Posted August 19, 2013 Hi There Derrick Wonderin'. If you're planning on a Modern version wouldn't you want to put EFI on the Engine instead of Mech Fuel Inj. ? Well bro. the little up dates will be so Carbon Fiber, Braided Line and some other things, not a lot.
pandamonium2112 Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 Very Nice. I built a pair of the re-release McLarens a while ago. This kit has lot more detail. Looking forward to more progress photos
baddgass Posted August 24, 2013 Author Posted August 24, 2013 Well this is some of the thing I am doing to the kit. Removing to vinyl and adding the A/N and braided lines.
baddgass Posted August 28, 2013 Author Posted August 28, 2013 This is some of the little changes i'm making to the build. Here the old and the new parts with A/N fiting a braided lines.
baddgass Posted August 28, 2013 Author Posted August 28, 2013 This is some of how it is going to look.
RancheroSteve Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 Excellent detailing work -those braided lines and fittings look really good.
Dave Van Posted August 29, 2013 Posted August 29, 2013 The AM McLaren kit is a great little kit. It got somewhat slammed when it came out due to the vinyl braided lines. I build a number of the kits for AM. I was living in Charlotte and knew most of the folks there....so they had me build a few kits for hobby shows and some went to the UK for McLaren home office. You can see on this build the fuel injector lines are missing....as they were on all my builds. The engine cover interfered with them if you used them. It's too bad the kit will never be seen again....although id you really want one you can still find them. This kit was the first kit in a planned series of roadracers......but the only one made. From what I understand the tooling was scrapped after AM went under so a short lived kit for sure. The 'new' AM located in Concord had a box of parts bags, enough to make 3-4 complete kits....they were tossing them so I grabbed them. But still burnt out on all those I built before. NICE to see someone do a great job on one......
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