Wow this brings back memories seen Miki on two occasions 1990 and 1994 both on the RAC rally very nice bloke got his autograph twice and he remembered giving me his autograph from 90.
Great review nigel . Thanks for the shout out very much appreciated . My better half may have ordered me this kit for Christmas looks a really nice kit . 1.12 mk2 escort would be nice too
You're welcome Chris. I will build this soon and do some corrections. The front struts coming through the turrets in front of the mounts is a complete joke!!
Hi Nigel and everyone, Great review! It will be great to see you build a car for a change👍. The concept of this kit is basically the same as the old kits, with new molds, It's alright but the sink marks, front grille and ejection pins are a turn down. I'm building a Fiat SB4 "Mefistofele", from Italeri (Protar re-box slightly modified) and it's a lot of fun, specially, adding homemade real wood and metal parts like the dashboard and brass tubing in the engine, etc. I Think that the channel you're referring to is CarModelingTube, he just finished a pair of Alfa Romeo P2 1/12 MFH, gorgeous! Thanks for the Video.
Nigel + for the most part this looks like really nice kit looking forward to see you build this one nice kit to build as an out of the box build in the IMPS in the box stock category
Really nice review Nigel. Looks like you have definite like for the real thing lol. Haven’t built a car kit in ages but do have a 1/12 Porsche 935 Martini by Tamiya in the stash. Looking forward to seeing the Lancia build might get my car building juices flowing. Cheers and take care.
looks really good Nigel thank you. Looks a bit too complicated for me but still might succumb to getting it :) The seat belts were fixed to different parts of the roll cage after the awful crash that claimed Henri Toivenen in the S4, rumours of seat belts failing and the fuel tank being too weak meant Lancia were trying to reclaim thei reputuation.
Interesting.. I didn't know that about the belts. This must be one of the first cars to use the wrap around belts rather than the eyebolts for all six points?
@@NigelsModellingBench I'm not sure about being one of the first, but Lancia were getting stories about them concerning being unsafe rally car's, pictures of crashed 037s show roll cages that haven't held up well, after the crashes in 1986 Lancia had the FIA and press watching them closely.
I like Italeri and I never found anything really bad about those kits, ESCI was bad in everything, Heller have relatively good fit but their parts are warped all the time, in my case.
Below I asked if you had noticed the ribbon included is too wide for some of the PE seatbelt hardware. I watched another inbox review and his PE set was different from mine and the one you’ve shown here. His has the wider seat belt parts. I’m so confused.
Hello Michael. I am also having problems with the seat belts. As you say , the belt ribbon supplied are the wrong width for the PE parts. In fact the PE buckles are also different widths. So I got some 5mm red ribbon from E bay hoping it would solve all my problems, but having made up the first of the 'B' belts following the dimensions on the 'Correction' sheet I also find the lengths quoted are wrong! they are all way too long. I don't know what's going on here, but I think I'm going to have to just put the seats in place and build the belts to suit, ignoring the instructions. Not good for such an expensive (by my standards) kit.
On this car, co driver seat doesnt sit lower, it is different model of sparco seat. Lazy and cheap Italeri saved some money here, KMP said it would fix it hopefully
Thanks for that. Like they used a common sprue for the brakes x2 so we have the same rotation for both sides, or one side is going backwards. Have you seen my revisited video?
@@NigelsModellingBench yes i did, many flaws, many simplified detail, no masks of any kind, no door patern, and one million ejection marks - i think it sums it up. I also made review for one croatian forum, but havent started building it yet
Also, car jack moulded together with roll cage, halda computer together with dashboard, pedals are funny, fire extingushers too, co-drivers-legs kevlar thing on the floor not right
OK, I guess everyone's value of "awful" will vary? I just feel the spindly suspension pivots, ridiculous design on the top mount, sink marks all over the body and skimping on R/H vs L/H brakes is poor considering the cost. I will finish it off but I have remade many of the suspension parts in Aluminium.
Yes, we all have different perspectives. Who else is producing race cars in that scale in styrene? I have no problem greatly appreciated a kit that is seemingly perfect and falls together with ease. I can also appreciate the challenge I have a project that needs a little TLC. That having been said, it does frustrate the heck out of me that the seatbelt material is about twice as wide as the slot it is supposed to enter. Dented compound frustration, I can’t find a single person anywhere that has mentioned it.
Try beeswax for the belts Nigel. Use a soldering iron sparingly to melt it into the material. It’s used by wood ship modellers for rigging rope. Seems to work really well
Nice video Nigel. I did stick through to the end lol. But its not for me. I don't like Italeri kits, and this one looks no different than any others they do. Instructions with vague pictures, and not enough detail to help you build. The stupid sprue connection points you mentioned, plus sink marks and ejection tabs. If I was to do a 1/12 scale car, I would much prefer to do a Tamiya one. Plus I noticed that both of Tamiya's 1/12 Porsche's are £112. A lot cheaper.
@@NigelsModellingBench I wish Tamiya would re-release more of their classic 1/12 racing cars. Only the Brabham BT44B seams to be available at the moment.
If Tamiya was indeed involved in this kit, why would they not take the reins completely and produce this themselves?? That makes absolutely zero sense!!! People would be tearing down the doors to purchase this if it were by Tamiya. I just don't understand the laziness of Tamiya lately. Mediocre releases of new kits, re-releasing kits that didn't really sell well to begin with, lengthy amounts of time passing before releasing all new kits. It's ridiculous
Jadlam packing sucks balls. I got a package with a damaged box, mentioned it on my next order and even though the packing note stated it, a £80 kit came in a unprotected cardboard box again. My last order with them.
Ball suckage may be a little strong?? I've never had a damaged kit from them, but I have another coming tomorrow, so we'll see how that turns up? Certainly not as good as Scale model shop for packaging.
