AMT, Bugatti EB 110, any one built or heard of?

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I found this at a fle market today and knew I had to buy it. Only costs 10$, ive never even heard of this car untill today, but looked awesome. Its a V12 Quad Turbo, WHOA!


Look for a progress thread soon.

But has any one built this car in the past?


EDIT
Sorry not built by AMT, but my Monogram, my bad.

I have one that I started but didnt get far before something else made me put it down. I noticed the main chassis pieces show signs of warpage and the engine cover piece was warped badly. I still have some straightening out to do on it. I have seen a built up one at a contest and it looked really good, hence I bought one. I planned to get back to it soon.

nice find on that kit! how is the engine detail?

Looking at the engine on the box it looks excellent, possibly some of the best ive seen out of the box from any car, even Tamiya, then again i've never built any Tamiya Race Cars. But looking at the instructions every thing that comes from the turbo is labeled as an exahaust, so I cant really answer about the detail till I start building it. I will start some time tonight, just getting the body put together for painting tomorow.

From what i can see, nothing is warped, there is a small bit of flash, but nothing bad.

I used to the search button here on AF, and found quite a few people have this kit, but I havent found a single picture of a completed model.

Was $10 a good price for it? Im thinking this might have practically been a steal...

I built a Bburago version. Its a diecast one. The car looks pretty hot and the engine is incredible. I wouldnt mind taking a spin in the real thing.

Nice find.. you could try to make a race car version:

http://www.whatodo.ru/bestcars/cars/bugatti/eb110ss/b-watkin.jpg

http://www.volny.cz/pudl/obrazky/30135e.jpg
http://www.club-tm.ru/Burago/Catalog/bu5535.jpg

http://www.stephantimm.de/Carrerabahn/Scuderia_Timm/In_der_Werkstatt/scti_bugatti_eb1102_a.jpg

More here:
http://gto-racing.nexenservices.com/gtworld_bugattiEB110SLM_hommell.htm

Any more pictures of that model being built?

No offense agaisnt race cars, but they dont really immuse me much, they kinda bore me for some reason.

I searched on google and found plenty of pictures of the street version, a few race versions. I cant believe I have never heard of this car untill today.

Any more pictures of that model being built?

No offense agaisnt race cars, but they dont really immuse me much, they kinda bore me for some reason.

I searched on google and found plenty of pictures of the street version, a few race versions. I cant believe I have never heard of this car untill today.


Dude, where have you been?

This car is known to be one of the greater supercars of the twentieth century!
It's an amazing blend of raw power and gracious design !

you shoud try to make a decent version of the street version if you don't like race cars, it sure will be a hit in my book!

Oli

Dude, where have you been?

This car is known to be one of the greater supercars of the twentieth century!
It's an amazing blend of raw power and gracious design !

you shoud try to make a decent version of the street version if you don't like race cars, it sure will be a hit in my book!

Oli


Hey don't hate too much, its not his fault that Bugatti peters in and out of sociotey. If anyone could hook me up with this kit I'd enjoy that.

The Monogram EB110 kit is one of their better efforts with lots of fiddly detail and a very unique subject. The car itself was an ill-fated attempt by Romano Aritoli to revive the brilliant Bugatti name with what would be the world's fastest, most powerful car ever.

Unfortunately, the EB110 fell 4mph short of the goal of fastest, because the equally ill-fated Jaguar XJ220 had already entered production. However, with 560bhp, it definitely held the power record until the McLaren F1 was introduced.

I remember getting that same kit as a present a long, long time ago. I started messing around with it, but never got far. too much body warp and I had too many other kits that have kept me occupied. Not even sure if I have it anymore.

Hey don't hate too much

Where’s the hate? If you know Oli he was simply being his normal humorous self ;) Some of the younger people around here genuinely don’t know about car the rest of us remember well.

Nice score supratuner. A race car would be very interesting but would require plenty of mods I’d assume. Michael Schumacher used to have a bright yellow road version, probably still does. :)

You know, with an interesting color choice, some flashy 18 or 19" rims, and a way to deal with the 'fakeness' of the headlights (would probably be better with a darker body color) this car could be really quite a head turner.

I am going to paint it some kind of red color, not sure of the name since I have'nt looked at the can of paint in a long time. Its by Plasticolor.

Next I am going to use the Nismo wheels that came with the Tamiya R34 GTR V Spec 2.

I tried fitting several different wheels that i have unter the wheel wells last night, and those are what give me the lowest ride height with out it sitting on the ground. I think im gonna put a B18C5 into the engine bay too... just kidding about that. I couldn't resist it.


The interior should be mostly black along with a few silver parts, possibly a silver dash, or Gunmetal dash.

I think Airfix also made this a while back in 1/24, i just wish Tamiya would too. IMO, just make some subtle modifications, it's already a supercar.

i have one of the airfix kits.
i also have a later revell kit of the same car (that i've started)

the revell kit has more parts/detail;
like the prop shaft that gets covered anyway...
and opening bonnet/boot/engine cover although some of the fittings are a bit off.

the airfix has a nicer detailed engine (with a little flash);
4 really little turbos, proper intakes etc etc.
some on the details on the revell engine are a little big/off.

I have the Revell-Version, too.
Just looked through the parts, haven't started it yet

I'm really liking this kit.

I too am working on this model. Had to CSC it after a crappy yellow paint job with really thick paint. The engine detail is immaculate (4 separate turbos) although a lot of it doesn't show due to the exhaust manifold (see pix below). In fact, the engine detail is so precise that I wonder if Revell reboxed this from another company, or it could be from their German branch. Here are some photos from a build by a German guy named Mikael Skibble, but his website went off the air a few months ago. The last one is a Japanese builder whom I forgot the name.

Hope these pix work, I'm sort of a noob when it comes to posting pix.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28776&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28774&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28775&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28777&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1

Pics work, nice build...
the kit was available by Revell germany too...back in 1991 ;)