kpnuts Posted November 13, 2021 Share 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 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 The color callouts are the letters in square boxes shown in the assembly illustrations. For example, in step 1, the boxed letter "J" indicates those parts (all of them in this case) are to be painted "Blue" (not very specific, I know). You can download the instructions with color callouts here: https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/5/9/9/953599-53-instructions.pdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Smith Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 This build brings back memories. I still have one that I built ages ago. Mine has been converted to RHD and built as a kerb side model. At first mine was displayed with one of the doors positioned wide open and mounted on a base. I came to look in my display cabinet one morning to discover that said door had just fallen off! My guess is that the plastic hinges just got brittle over time and suffered from the constant weight of the door being open.I So it is now displayed with everything closed. I did away with the heavy windscreen frame and scored a much more to scale one directly on to the transparency and used Bare Metal Foil on it. Only other thing I did was replaced the steering wheel inner with one cut from thin sheet aluminium. The rest is as per kit. It makes up into an impressive model when built, but the kit is showing its age a bit refinement wise and benefits from some extra work done on it. Look forward to seeing this build progression as I am sure that KP will do it justice in his inimitable style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 It will be good to see how this goes together, o nearly bought one of these a while back but wasn't sure then the GT40 appeared at a very reasonable price so hot that instead. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted November 20, 2021 Author Share Posted November 20, 2021 Hi all a bit more paint applied to this one. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Very nice and unusual paint scheme. Engine looking good too. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankerman Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 You may find some useful photos here: https://fantasyjunction.com/sold/make/p2 Hope this helps. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kpnuts Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share 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. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 My word not seen that before either. Never had decals and adhesive separate before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Looks like the color layer separating from the clear film, but I've never seen that either. Fortunately, white stripes in different sizes are available from several sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 OK so the decals on this went weird so masked it and Sprayed it myself. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouln Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Much, much better than the decals. Good save, Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Ob yes that definitely looks better, great work. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Do love a good cobra, this looks good be interesting to find out what it actually scales out to? Had a bit of fun with one recently when we drew up next to one, both sat blipping our throttles like teenagers. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 That body looks great painted and good to see the engine coming along nicely too, despite the issues with the FI system. Great work Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Did some more work on this (leaving the engine for now) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share 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) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 20/01/2022 at 21:03, kpnuts said: More done to this, I can't find any decent pics of the fuel injection system Here you go: http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/17149 Agree the engine seems a bit wide. The intake gives that impression anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 Hi all back on this now. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 More done on this one. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted August 7, 2022 Author Share Posted August 7, 2022 More work on this 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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