The passenger seat was to meet sports car rules, not intended for use!
Yes, actual car photos…
Dean,
I guess I must have somehow misunderstood the product as I was somehow under the impression all you have to do is just put it together as the car is already fully already painted. I also thought the car was mostly metal. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks\
Donnie
ps. this is taken from Model Expo site:
- Premium Die-Cast Metal: Crafted with the finest materials, ensuring durability and a premium feel.
- Pre-Decorated Pieces: All parts come pre-painted,
Donnie,
It would be a good idea to look at my Lotus 72 build log to see what you get. It’s a mix of metal and plastic parts. Some are glued and some are screwed together. In addition, plastic to plastic needs plastic model glue, metal to plastic or metal to metal need CA. Rubber to metal needs silicone glue.
Also the plastic parts are like a plastic model on sprues molded to one color. Not very realistic unless you paint them for extra detail. Even the painted metal parts are one color, they’re just metal. The body is painted and you only need to add a few decals.
On my Lotus 72, I added some kind of paint and detail to almost every part on the kit, whether it was dry brushing, washes, painting bolt heads, etc.
If you put it together with out painting anything it will look like a toy, which would be a shame at the price point it’s selling for! I have seen people do it, but I can’t imagine why? It’s a model, and you can put a model together without painting anything, but it’s not going to look realistic.
Here is a picture of my Lotus 72…
I put some kind of extra detail on every part of the motor and transmission. Even the radiators were molded in black plastic. I dry brushed them silver. So as you can see, it would not look very realistic if I left every silver part the same color and on the black parts left them all black instead of painting the bolt heads, plug boots, etc. I even dry brushed the exhaust to look heat cycled. I scuffed the tires with sandpaper for realism. So even though you could put it together without painting anything, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to add extra detail for realism. I sure am!
Once again see my build log and I show the parts. And I showed how I painted them for extra detail.
For reference, here is a kit someone put together without painting anything…
Also I have shown the parts for this kit at the beginning of this log, not all, but enough to get an idea. There is two boxes of metal parts, and a large box of plastic parts on sprues.
So the “painted” means everything is a base color!
The biggest help is the body is painted.
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