Beautiful model! Fantastic take on "OOB" building
I built one quite similar, based on photos from a car in Switzerland. No stripes though; once the next issue of Scale Auto comes out I can show it off. I also built it OOB, also had the cracking issue (only one side, covered w/Scuderia shield). I really did enjoy building the kit as well, I have a second one to build in white w/blue stripes (like the MFH kit I have but probably won't ever build...too much white metal
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