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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: kpnuts on November 14, 2021, 05:09:24 AM

Title: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on November 14, 2021, 05:09:24 AM

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 

(https://i.ibb.co/cLg1Y98/IMG-8925.jpg)

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.



(https://i.ibb.co/QFcvpcY/IMG-8932.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/34GmFj4/IMG-8935.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/8N714t8/IMG-8933.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/kSHkCrT/IMG-8931.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/4sG4ngX/IMG-8930.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/fSpTp7d/IMG-8929.jpg)

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

(https://i.ibb.co/PC543QP/IMG-8926.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on November 15, 2021, 01:51:12 AM

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)

(https://i.ibb.co/k5g30G5/IMG-8980.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/tqY1qLr/IMG-8983.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/FnhL9QV/IMG-8982.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/55XnBfS/IMG-8981.jpg)

Those air filters are just placed there.

This is the main colour I've gone for.

(https://i.ibb.co/LgpYV8n/IMG-8944.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/LvbkYYD/IMG-8943.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/1bX9dQD/IMG-8942.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on November 20, 2021, 10:50:14 PM

Hi all a bit more paint applied to this one.

(https://i.ibb.co/8KT5bCX/IMG-9083.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/YXG8Cw8/IMG-9082.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/kyJ94YB/IMG-9081.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/pZxH1f2/IMG-9080.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/sVD4j6C/IMG-9079.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on December 02, 2021, 03:48:41 AM

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.
(https://i.ibb.co/2Y5JL6L/IMG-9213.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/HCbD0RT/IMG-9212.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: Old Wombat on December 02, 2021, 09:58:29 AM

Weird! :-\

Never seen paint react under decals like that, either. Has the paint settled down since you took the photo? ???

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on December 02, 2021, 06:06:58 PM

No have to repaint that bit

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on December 29, 2021, 04:33:37 AM

OK so the decals on this went weird so masked it and Sprayed it myself.
(https://i.ibb.co/16HzhTj/IMG-9494.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/YLGxV89/IMG-9495.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/2Y5JL6L/IMG-9213.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/pnmMYtw/IMG-9520.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/nMnWtF0/IMG-9522.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/sgHR5qg/IMG-9521.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on January 10, 2022, 04:13:44 AM

Hi all more work on the Cobra.

(https://i.ibb.co/HH7qQCB/IMG-9621.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/WKgNfTV/IMG-9620.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/PrSGNqC/IMG-9619.jpg)

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.

(https://i.ibb.co/3M9BxFf/IMG-9630.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on January 17, 2022, 04:37:51 AM

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

(https://i.ibb.co/nsFHvd8/IMG-9693.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/C8CVN3G/IMG-9692.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/TLgY8M5/IMG-9690.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/P1L6zB0/IMG-9691.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on January 21, 2022, 05:04:36 AM

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)

(https://i.ibb.co/x7x8Qwd/IMG-9726.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/ZWqDNJy/IMG-9727.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/M5fCFgR/IMG-9730.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/1fSd22W/IMG-9729.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/20z7JWz/IMG-9728.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on June 06, 2022, 02:28:49 AM

Hi all back on this now.

(https://i.ibb.co/9stn8dK/IMG-0879.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/NZ5qnjJ/IMG-0880.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/F3yf7wH/IMG-0881.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/x1xNTYY/IMG-0882.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/ZM3zcpk/IMG-0883.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: apophenia on June 06, 2022, 04:51:42 AM

Cool! These shots give a good idea of just how cramped the footwells would be in the AC Cobra (I'm guessing there'd be a smidge more pedal space in the original AC Ace?).

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on June 14, 2022, 03:26:05 AM

More done on this one.

(https://i.ibb.co/ncdTgZd/IMG-0925.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/vhpzhN7/IMG-0937.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/18TTqdF/IMG-0923.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/rx9nksn/IMG-0922.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/m6Rw27q/IMG-0921.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/X2w1Cr5/IMG-0918.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on August 07, 2022, 11:45:51 PM

More work on this

(https://i.ibb.co/qWxkkYS/IMG-1290.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/4gHMfSC/IMG-1289.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/cvCkfRC/IMG-1286.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/cCGTtRB/IMG-1285.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/RNg0g30/IMG-1283.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/6tdnfmt/IMG-1284.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: kpnuts on August 22, 2022, 02:50:40 AM

Well its done.
(https://i.ibb.co/cDH220F/IMG-1365.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/ryS6qMK/IMG-1366.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/TbCPDL3/IMG-1367.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/d6b1vZR/IMG-1368.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/PxT8z4Y/IMG-1369.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/QKqRB1h/IMG-1370.jpg)

Title: Re: Airfix 1/16 Cobra
Post by: Old Wombat on August 22, 2022, 09:09:08 AM

Baroo-oom! Dub! Dub! Dub! Dub! Dub! Dub! Dub! Dub! 8)

Nice! :smiley: