mfh 1/24 ac a98

[broadspeed]

hello everyone

 

for my first post i ll start off small

 

it's my 1/24 scale MFH  ac a98

a fairly unknown car , but under the skin it is a 289 ac cobra

this was the entry for ac to race at le mans , when shelby did not want to part with a daytona coupe to race under the ac flag ,

so they build a coupe themselves

 

the car sadly crashed , and killed some people  during the race , , after that  the car was dismantled and the body was scrapped

 

in the 80's someone build a new car , with spare parts of the original race car ,

 

 

this is the "new " ac a98

 

some say this car was responsible for the speed limit on UK motorways , but this is a myth , as the speedlimit was put in  3 years after this car did a test run of 180 mph  om the M1 on a quiet sunday morning

 

 

this is what you get , in 1/24 scale  for 140 euro ,, i know that is not much for that sort of money , and you may be right , but the only way i could get a model of this car , because no one makes this model

 

 

 

and after some paint , , decals , and some clearcoat , you have this

 

( yes you are seeing it right ,, there are 2 )

as i am messing about with resin and silicone  sice a few monthes , i tried my hand at making a copy of the body , as it is a resin cast model  i thought it should not be to hard to copy it , to see how the proces would go to cast a body  of a model car

 

so than there where 2

 

 

only problem i had was i was to impatient , so i bend the window frame , because i wanted to demold it to quickly , and the resin wasn't hardened enough

 

better  next time :-)

 

[broadspeed]

 

finished

 

 

 

 

 

[griffsrw]

looks a great model. i have seen this car at goodwood, and it looks fast when it is still.

[broadspeed]

thanks ,  yes it's  a great car ,  with a sad story ,,