With multiple body panels molded in clear where the panel involved includes a window, there is no way to paint this except with lots of tape. So while I was at it I figured why not go for a two-tone paint job. Some cleanup still to be done.
What a pleasure to cut plastic bits off a sprue and glue them into place immediately without loads of fiddling! Mind you this is a Heller kit, and so a bit fussy, but an easy day's work got the chassis and engine complete.
Well, with two weeks gone since bravely stating I was going to build the 1/24 Model Factory Hiro kit of the 330 P4 for a competition on October 2, I've barely got the plug wiring done. Granted there are 24 of them, but still, seems my heart hasn't been in it. So the probability of this being done in time is well below 50% and sinking fast.
Of course the fact the plugs are tucked underneath the throttle slides doesn't help, but still.
With just under 4 weeks to go until a local club meet with the theme Ford vs Ferrari, I had to make up my mind and pick a kit from the stash. I boiled the contenders down to three: The old MPC kit of the 1967 Le Mans winning Ford GT Mark IV, or one of two kits of the second-place Ferrari 330 P4, from Fujimi and Model Factory Hiro respectively.
Serious reading of the MFH instruction sheet reveals a small number of major challenges, starting with the exhaust manifolds and including various bits making up the rear tubular subframe. But a lot of it looks to be "straightforward", sort of (I am kowtowing to the Prophet Murphy here), so I opened up all the little baggies and sorted it all into a project box.
OK, Model Factory Hiro kits are extraordinarily detailed. But they also require huge amounts of fiddling, adjusting and general futzing about. I'm glad I finally wrestled this one to the mat, even if I started it in February.
