1/20 1938 Auto Union Type C by Revival - Car Forums and Automotive Chat

lechatnoir82

10-22-2006, 01:33 AM

This is a 1/20 scale Museum Metal Series kit by Revival of Italy, which is pretty rare. I ordered the kit a couple of years ago from Germany, but never got around to working on it, so I figured now was as good a time as any to get to work.

The instructions are pretty complicated, but once you figure them out, its not that bad. The kit is made of white metal, plastic, brass, nickel, rubber, leather, ect. The whole thing is put together using micro screws, nuts and bolts, much like a Pocher, but about 1/4 the size. All and all there are about 160 parts and the whole model is about 8 inches long. To make things more complicated, most of the parts are raw white metal and needed to be machined with a rotary tool to look anything like they are supposed to, none of the bolts seem to line up and need to be micro trimmed to fit, and the assembly diagrams are not in order. Not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0554.jpg
Just to give an example of what the instructions are like

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0553.jpg
The wheels are hand laced, and I think they are the most spectacular part of this kit.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0552.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0549.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0551.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0550.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0548.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0547.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/le-chat-noir/CIMG0542.jpg

I'll have more pictures once I put the rest of it together.