Building the MFH Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo Gr.5 1980 #K668 1/12 scale English

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Building the MFH Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo Gr.5 1980 #K668 1/12 scale

by George Tziafas © Modeler Site

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Model Factory Hiro is well known for manufacturing high-quality model kits with incredible attention to detail, and their fully detailed versions of the Lancia Montecarlo Turbo in 1/12 scale are no exception. The story of this build began about 35 years ago, when my father bought me a blue, battery-powered Lancia Beta Turbo as a surprise gift. This sparked my desire that one day I would acquire a scale model representation of the car that would be as detailed as possible. The dream came true when Model Factory Hiro released three full detailed versions of Montecarlo Turbo, in 1/12 scale, and without further ado the kit was already on my bench. The dream came true when Model Factory Hiro released three full detailed versions of Montecarlo Turbo, in 1/12 scale, and without further ado the kit was already on my bench.

The MFH kit

The kit used represents version B (Code K668), for two cars, as they raced in the 1980 Le Mans 24h. The blue edition with white stripes (flames) has been used for the build. Upon opening the box, you are astonished by the quality of materials and stressed by the number of parts, but everything gets clearer once you meticulously study the instructions and separate contents in various organiser boxes.

As most MFH kits, this scale model is a great starting point for super-detailing, even though many mechanical parts’ subsystems and most of the cabling are missing.

However, this does not mean that you cannot build a beautiful model straight out of the box. In any case, fitting parts of a multimedia kit requires great attention and planning, as we do not deal with a perfect engineering and fitting kit such as Tamiya in this case.

K668 - Ver.B : 1980 LM 24hours Race #51 H.Heyer / B.Darniche / T.Fabi #52 P.Ghinzani / M.Alén / G.Brancatelli

Building

Starting a Hiro kit build is essentially starting a game of chess. Each move affects the next and the slightest mistake may cost in fitting or detailing issues. In addition, as in the famous board game, the more moves (test fits) you are ahead the better you can predict the way they will interact with each other and the less likely it is to be checkmated during the final assembly.

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Incluye más de 120 imágenes, aquí solo mostramos las paginas de texto.