Recently I was obliged to buy Model Factory Hiro's 1/12 kit of the 1965 Le Mans winning Ferrari 250 LM. (I already had the 1/24 kit of David Piper's 1968 car). What a monster of a kit!
Clocking in at 2.6 kg, the package includes internal engine components which can be assembled, or not, as they obviously won't show once it's all buttoned up... pistons, connecting rods, a crankshaft made up of built-up sections, valves (!), valve springs (!!), rockers on little rocker shafts (!!!). Puts the Auto-Union cylinder heads to shame.
So while waiting for rivets from MFH to finish up the Jaguar, I started putting the engine bits together. This started with drilling holes through the cylinder head and valve springs to fit the valves and the camshaft bearing caps.
Next I put the wrist pins (cut from 0.8 mm brass rod) through the rods and pistons, which all needed drilling as well.
I am currently attempting to assemble the crankshaft. Stay tuned!
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