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.
Now some of you may remember my last post where I ranted at length about the MFH kit of the Porsche 962C, a kit of about the same vintage as their P4 (K133 versus K116). But the Fujimi kit doesn't have a removable engine cover, nor a decent engine, meaning I'd have to build up the Historic Racing Miniatures engine I purchased for it some years ago. Having built HRM's 917K motor, I know the result will be nice but I can also guarantee the fiddle factor just got a lot bigger for this kit.
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.
Of course I could bypass all the issues around choosing between the two P4s by building the Ford, which is reasonably well detailed, but the P4 is one of the sexiest cars on the planet, where the Ford is slabsided and utilitarian -- the SUV of Le Mans cars.
So the MFH kit is the one, and it's all off to the acetone bath next. Gad, that shape... gonna have to not screw it up.
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