36 cylinders

[gionc]

Frame cleaned with files, paper and wire brush, fitting test with engine: I'll try to follow a whote test with wheels, trackwidth etc..







Also modified steering sistem, hoping to be able to set it to work.





Hex Bolts I handmade me:





The way I'm doing steering leverage to work:



Front leaf spring fit test



... more to come with fitting test, thanks to read, I leave the word to my buddies

[klutz_100]

Can I borrow R40?

[gionc]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Can I borrow R40?

HE isn't the cool girl you mean LOL

[godfather23]

Wow. Great project. This will be one of the most impressive group builds ever!

[CeeElle]

wow. that kit is gorgeous.

[Veyron]

Sucks to have to correct and enhance a $200 kit eh.

Good work nonetheless!

[auw12]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Can I borrow R40?

In that case I want to borrow gio for all my kits left. BTW insane actions as always, how you did the bolts%nuts by your hand? That's a challenge to my imagination buddy!

[360spider]

Gio sets the bar. And sets it HIGH!
Great work buddy. I haven't even started. :-)

[OrangeR]

opcorn: This is mind-blowing stuff... and it's has just started by only one third of the builders.
I'm afraid we'll be spoiled by this thread level but WTH! Bring it on!

[bhop73]

Very awesome! I'm excited to see more.

[Jamme]

Woooowwwwww,
Another Wip from the 3 masters!
Can't wait to see the next stage!
Great Work on that engine and on the chassis.

Cheers,

Jamme

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by Veyron

Sucks to have to correct and enhance a $200 kit

unbelievable job on those camcover details

[gionc]

Thanks guys, ever too gentle BTW mine is something like an experiment since is the first metal stuff I have in hand: as said, fun.

Alex> can't say "can't wait to see your stuff" becouse I'm sure you'll do black my ass LOL
BTW, can't wait to see you and Steve at job on it: pretty fun and interesting do the same thing with different brains but similar knowledge, I'm sure we all will learn something new. Also I never said in public before but I'm happyand proud to be in the team oki no more vaseline, promised LOL

Tang> I treid to search, I guess I seen a tutorial ages ago about doing hex bolts: anyway is pretty easy:

mount a metal (may be also plastic..) pipe on a pin wise (obviously with hex. end, if the end is turnable like the Tamy hand drill, fiss it with tape) and start to keep material with a file: round the pin wise 60° and do the same file passes, round again and again and you'll have a hex. pipe, than cut it in the desired width... oki try, easyest do that explain LOL

[360spider]

Originally Posted by Veyron

Sucks to have to correct and enhance a $200 kit eh.

No more than it sucks to correct and enhance a $10 kit. Its the subject that matters. I wish I could buy this model for $10 or $50, but it just is not possible.

[klutz_100]

This is my 1/3 of the 36 cylinders.

I will be slightly modifying the basic MFH kit to turn it into a representation of s/n 0010M which is currently owned by Jon Shirley, the former Chairman of Microsoft and an avid car collector and racer.




0010 was the sister of 0008M which MFH used as the base for their kit so the changes that I shall be making are more cosmetic than fundamental. The most obvious of them are the extra fog light on the front grille, the distinctive “cheese cutter” number board and different number decals.

Since my build won’t be close to what Gio and Alex will undoubtedly be showing, what I lack in quality I will try and make up for in quantity. Therefore I will be (more or less) simultaneously building a second MFH Lemans kit – the Aston Martin DBR9. This’ll give us all 50 years of Lemans history for half the price LOL



A couple of words about the kit which is a beautiful combination of white metal, resin, photo etch and turned aluminium all nicely packed in a little plastic compartment box.




The quality of the resin casting is super although I have found a couple if tiny air bubbles in very visible places that will be a nuisance to remove. The white metal parts are very detailed but have rough surfaces that need a lot of clean-up. Total parts count for the kit is 382 pieces!

Here’s a little calculation for anyone who says MFH kits are expensive...

166MM: $288 / 382 parts = $0.75 per part
Enzo: $50 / 100 parts = $0.50 per part

So as you can see, Model Factory Hiro kits only cost 25 cents more than a Tamiya kit


First thing was an awful lot of prep work on the white metal.






Most worryingly there is severe “pitting” on the hood and trunk. I am hoping that primer will smooth cover this but I am not very optimistic.



See you later