Eagle Weslake, MFH, 1/12

[MarcoSaupe]

It was time, that the car stood on it's own wheels. Therefore, after a couple of hours spent cleaning metal parts, I attached the rear suspension.



Everything whent together smoothly, the parts fit well, the wheels all touch the ground well aligned. You just have to dry fit if all the drilled holes in the parts are wide and deep enough.

[Cookster007]

Really is coming along beautifully!

[MarcoSaupe]

For a change a view of the lower side of the car, where a couple of pipes had to be attached.



I also glued the exhaust pipes together and dry fitted them to the engine, but for the Spa version, those will have to be painted.

[Martini Man]

very nice, thanks for sharing this build.


Paul

[MarcoSaupe]

The exhausts are painted and attached. I used the Tamiya weathering set for the heat stains. The exhausts somehow ended up having different lenghts, but on all the pictures I saw they were either the same length at the back or the inner pipes were symetrically shorter. I cut off the end of one pipe to make the second option. However I still have no clue how you are expected to use the included springs to hold the exhausts, therefore I used pieces of guitar stings for the exhaust mount.



Then I also attached some rivets and etched parts to the nose.

[MarcoSaupe]

Next step was to attach the roll hoop and the windscreen. The latter one is attached with rivets, which should be put in the holes in full length and cut after attaching the screen, to make assembly easier. The holes in the screen have to be drilled at marked points, but maybe it would have been better to just insert the rivet heads and glue the screen from the inside. that way you would not have the drilling holes visible on the inside.

[MarcoSaupe]

The last step, the mesh over the trumpets. It's difficult to assemble, the etched frame has no folding marks for example. But the real mesh is a bit skewed, too, so no problem. Next up: Gallery pics

Thanks for watching and all your comments

[The 5th Horseman]

that's a beautiful model there... great work!! the finish, the exhausts, the wheels and tires...beautiful..
I want to ask you: what are your thoughts on the kit ? would you recommend it ? I have some experience with multi-media but never done a full kit.

[MarcoSaupe]

I want to ask you: what are your thoughts on the kit ? would you recommend it ? I have some experience with multi-media but never done a full kit.

There were no big problems with the kit itself, fit was good, and if you are willing to spend that money on one of your favourite cars I can recommend it, but I think it helps if you already have some experience building MFH kits - knowing to drill out all the pin holes, using drills from 0.1mm onwards, where to dry fit over and over again... On the other hand, while it needs a bit more effort than a plastic kit, it's not any more difficult than the 1/20 MFH kits. Just be patient, doublecheck and dry fit each step and you should be alright.

[kopek]

Marco, did you find the reason for the problem you had with the paint? Hope to use it on the 1/20th.

Been a great build instruction, thanks.

[MarcoSaupe]

did you find the reason for the problem you had with the paint?

I'd guess the colour reacted with the Tamiya primer somehow, maybe the primer was not yet fully dried, the problems were at some of the places were I had multiple layers of primer sprayed on.

[kopek]

Thanks. Will try to avoid the same.