challenging kit?

can somebody tell me a kit that is quite challenging, but the end result looks good/ i've seen some ferrari's that look awesome, but yea.... i don't want old cars (muscle), no offence, just not a fan.... preferably with engine?

my uncle builds fire trucks,....maybe? lol

for a challenge Tamiya's Ferrari Enzo...

for a pain in the ass... Fujimi's Mazda RX8 (no engine), or AMT's Fast and the Furious Eclipse (engine)

the eclipse comes with an engine, and i wouldnt call it challenging, but thats just my thought....

thanks for the info... it's not challenging... but it's fitment problems are numerous i would say

it would be challenging if you made all of the many many corrections to the kit neccesary....

If you're looking for a real challenge and like classic sports racers, no kit compares to Accurate Miniatures McLaren M8B kit. Beyond the impeccable accuracy and stellar fit (if a little fiddly at some points) this kit kit is regarded as the single most detailed plastic kit ever. There are well over 200 pieces, not counting two large molded vinyl trees of parts representing every line or wire in the car.

It's a phenomeonal kit that represents a beast of a car. Too bad Accurate Miniatures isn't producing car kits anymore, from what I understand, choosing instead to concentrate on their absurdly detailed range of unusual WWII aircraft kits. You can still find the McLaren in many shops and on eBay quite easily. It's an intense build.

Also consider Fujimi's Enthusiast series of kits, or the Scale Motorsport/Tamiya Porsche 956 super kit (tons of photoetch and machined aluminum parts to hyper-detail the Tamiya Porscher 956 kit) and (if you can afford them) there's a large range of hyper-detailed multi-media (metal, resin, and other materials) kits of lots of different subjects. Model Factory Hiro, Le Mans Miniatures, Pocher, and Studio 27 are all good examples of these.

I say the eclipse but with scratchbuild work on the engine, and super detailed as well. Its pretty simple to build without any work, but looks horribly wrong. =S

Try out Trucks ! They are challenging, i have build Volvo FH16, its quite challening. BTW The Volvo is Revell kit, Revell (Germany) makes many trucks. :smokin:

If you want something really chalenging, try to scratchbuild a complete model.
See my teardrops trailer, that's chalenging, 2 years of work (on and off, I admit) and still not finished.

All kit can be chalenging, only depends on the amount of details and transformations you do .
But if you really want to improve your skills, you'll see what's you're able to do with scratchbuilding.

Just my 2 cents.

Xav

lol, that 200 peice models sounds fun..... anybody might still sell it?

also, how many peices is the average tamiya/fujimi model, im guessing 50ish?

how many does the enzo ferari have, and is it extremely detailed?

any 1/16 Fujimi Enthousiat kit... I did a Ferrari F40LM, preaty challenging
1/20 F1 car from Tamiya.
1/12 Bike from Tamiya (easy, and fun to make)

Personnally, I would love to get a 1/12 Mini Cooper from Tamiya..

If you're looking for a real challenge and like classic sports racers, no kit compares to Accurate Miniatures McLaren M8B kit. Beyond the impeccable accuracy and stellar fit (if a little fiddly at some points) this kit kit is regarded as the single most detailed plastic kit ever. There are well over 200 pieces, not counting two large molded vinyl trees of parts representing every line or wire in the car.

It's a phenomeonal kit that represents a beast of a car. Too bad Accurate Miniatures isn't producing car kits anymore, from what I understand, choosing instead to concentrate on their absurdly detailed range of unusual WWII aircraft kits. You can still find the McLaren in many shops and on eBay quite easily. It's an intense build.

Also consider Fujimi's Enthusiast series of kits, or the Scale Motorsport/Tamiya Porsche 956 super kit (tons of photoetch and machined aluminum parts to hyper-detail the Tamiya Porscher 956 kit) and (if you can afford them) there's a large range of hyper-detailed multi-media (metal, resin, and other materials) kits of lots of different subjects. Model Factory Hiro, Le Mans Miniatures, Pocher, and Studio 27 are all good examples of these.

I would second the Accuate Miniatures kit. Having built it I an tell you it was a little tough to assemble a few parts but the instructions warn you in advance of where you are going to run into problems and how to solve them. Most people open the box and look at the kit then open the instructions and put the whole thing back into the box. The instructions are a little over whelming.

if you want challenging kit, go and get Revell's 59 Ford Fairlane conv. kit, it has a muilti piece body, all the panels are not connected to the car. and there's no nice frame in the kit, it also has a working convertible hard top, which is a pain in the ass to get working. I fell this is the most challenging kit out there, it has'nt been reissued in 15 years though. but, I have seen some go one Ebay very cheap

Accurate Miniature M8b, Fujimi Enthusiast series (especially Porsche 356 and Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari ones have problems with their tires' dimensions- but that's a challenging problem to solve!) are the most challenging kits I know, and the bests, I feel! :iceslolan :banghead: :cwm27: Excellent if you want to use putty, sandpaper, testfitting and all the other pleasures that make our hobby: not shake n' made Tamiya kits! (buiding an Enzo is so easy compared to that!)...:screwy: :smokin: :rofl:

Well, the choice is yours, now! :p

Here's another for the Accurate Miniatures McLaren. I bought this a while ago, before I was ready for it, and did just as ScaleRaceCars said: opened the box, looked over the parts and instructions, gasped and put it all back in the box. I think I will build it soon, I'm about ready for it, I think. I just want to get some more paint experience under my belt first, because the painting the rather complex surface will be a challenge. It's just fantastic from what I can tell, without having actually build it yet. Anyone here have any pics of it? I know there are a ton on the box and in the instructions, but I'm still curious. I'm also curious on what display options you chose.

lol, if you saw my other post.... about catastrpohic.. you'd know i suck at any model kit... i can't believe i stuffed up my fc that much....