Airfix 1/16 Cobra

[kpnuts]

Hi all i won this on ebay, its an ex MPC kit first thing the instructions are next to useless , on the first page it tells you the colours for airfix paints but there is not one point in the instructions where that colour call out is used ( as you all know I had no intention of building this as should be anyway) but if you wanted to, well, , hard cheese, 

So heres the box art 



I'm thinking of a fade paint job either blue to white or blue to red not decided yet.

Anyway a start on the engine, it's not a bad kit detail wise.










Either this must be huge or the Ferrari 312t must be tiny as this is 1/16 whereas the Ferrari is 1/12 

[kpnuts]

Bit more done to this started adding a bit of detail to the engine (I don't know much about these engines and can't find many useful pics of throttle linkages and such)







Those air filters are just placed there.

This is the main colour I've gone for.

[kpnuts]

Hi all a bit more paint applied to this one.

[Dave from Pleasanton]

What is the plan for the rear of the car? The body was all a French blue (at least on my screen), but now there seems to be some dark blue and red? Oh yeah, great work so far.

[TooOld]

Paint looks great . . . and interesting . I'm sure the fade will look great when you're finished !

[kpnuts]

Spent ages trying to get this decal to settle down, in the end I decided to remove it, and the reason it wouldn't settle down became apparent, never seen that happen before and no idea why.

[kpnuts]

OK so the decals on this went weird so masked it and Sprayed it myself.

[patw]

I've had the same problem with long stripe decals like that and as you have done, remove, mask up and paint instead. I must say though I do like the paintwork and colours on the rear end!

[kpnuts]

Hi all more work on the Cobra.





I decided to ditch the carbs (too much wrong with them )

The kit comes with fuel injection as an option I thought I would go with that, tbh a don't know which is worse, still I'm stuck with it now, hopefully I can improve on what the kit supplied (still won't be anything like accurate but maybe look interesting.

[jbwelda]

I would say your decal solvent/setting fluid attacked the paint. What kind of paint is that, maybe I missed it? Anyway, nice save, the stripes look way better than decals now.

Why did you ditch the carbs? That fuel injection doesn't look to great itself but maybe when its done it will be hidden under an air cleaner? If you are up to upgrade it once again, I would look for some appropriate Weber carbs with velocity stacks.

jb

[jbwelda]

PS: nice job on the blue to red fade.

jb

[kpnuts]

Did some more work on this (leaving the engine for now)

[kpnuts]

More done to this, I can't find any decent pics of the fuel injection system on this so I've invented my own (its only really to fill space as the stacks are too far apart and it looks silly)

[kpnuts]

Hi all back on this now.

[Dave from Pleasanton]

Looks really good. Pretty sure what you were calling fuel injection are supposed to be Weber carbs.