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Here’s my best-loved book of my youth:
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Though I liked the planes and military vehicles in it best, the picture of this kit also always held my interest:
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That odd six-wheeler just had something attractive about it. I never did buy that particular kit, though chances are this is only because the local shop selling models never carried it, as I did build a few other of these Matchbox 1:32 scale kits. Early last year, I was at a model show in Belgium, where a couple of the vendors had the Tamiya equivalents to that kit. Though I was seriously debating buying the 1:12 scale version, in the end I decided that it was just too big and expensive, so I ended up going for this one instead:
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And now hope to put it together for this group build
In the box, other than the instructions, are these bits:
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And things already started going well after taking the second sprue picture … As I put the rear tyres, vinyl tubes etc. back into their bag, I dropped it and almost everything spilled out onto the floor. Including the screw, which I haven’t managed to find despite searching for it for something like 15 minutes
Luckily the instructions say it’s 2×8 mm, so at least I should be able to get hold of a suitable replacement if I really can’t find it anymore …
The kit has an extensive sheet of etched parts, mainly for the rear wing and various detail bits. You can build it without, by the looks of it, because it gives the impression that there are plastic equivalents to all of them, but if I wanted to do that I would have bought a cheaper one without the etched parts Not having ever built a car kit with such extensive etched parts before (in fact, the last non-military car I built must have been something like thirty years ago …) this will be interesting, I’m sure I suppose I’ll also have to go buy a spraying can of a reasonable blue somewhere.
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Though I liked the planes and military vehicles in it best, the picture of this kit also always held my interest:
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That odd six-wheeler just had something attractive about it. I never did buy that particular kit, though chances are this is only because the local shop selling models never carried it, as I did build a few other of these Matchbox 1:32 scale kits. Early last year, I was at a model show in Belgium, where a couple of the vendors had the Tamiya equivalents to that kit. Though I was seriously debating buying the 1:12 scale version, in the end I decided that it was just too big and expensive, so I ended up going for this one instead:
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And now hope to put it together for this group build
In the box, other than the instructions, are these bits:
View attachment 510234View attachment 510235View attachment 510236
And things already started going well after taking the second sprue picture … As I put the rear tyres, vinyl tubes etc. back into their bag, I dropped it and almost everything spilled out onto the floor. Including the screw, which I haven’t managed to find despite searching for it for something like 15 minutes
Luckily the instructions say it’s 2×8 mm, so at least I should be able to get hold of a suitable replacement if I really can’t find it anymore …The kit has an extensive sheet of etched parts, mainly for the rear wing and various detail bits. You can build it without, by the looks of it, because it gives the impression that there are plastic equivalents to all of them, but if I wanted to do that I would have bought a cheaper one without the etched parts
Not having ever built a car kit with such extensive etched parts before (in fact, the last non-military car I built must have been something like thirty years ago …) this will be interesting, I’m sure I suppose I’ll also have to go buy a spraying can of a reasonable blue somewhere.
Not to worry, I just stuck them together and will paint all of it in one go when the glue is dry.