Preview The Meng 1/12 Ford GT40 MK II 1966 (Large scale plastic model kit ) 

Now, we need a 1/12 Ferrari 330 P3 to go with.

Beautiful kit! love their kits, always great quality.

Once again Meng has been doing their homework, a very excellent kit very methodical the way it's put together👍

everytime andy mentions slide mold, in my head: the lord of the ring orc leader saying: "the age of two plate mold is over, the time of slide mold has come!"

That is a wicked kit!!! I've never built a car model, always tanks and other armoured.....so I've added this to the "To Do List"

Hey Andy - that part you called a ground effect is the firewall between the engine and back of the seats. Nice overview - thanks.

Beautiful kit of the best looking car ever made!

Looks great Andy. Looking forward to this build in the future. 😊

That looks like an awesome kit - hopefully you'll build it soon, Andy.

Amazing design & engineering has gone into this amazing kit

Time to get building them Andy! Can't wait, I just ordered one.

Just placed my order!!!!! Thank You!!!!!

GREAT review Andy! thanks for sharing!!

I just got and started mine. What a hoot! Plastic is a bit brittle; but, snap together! The gauntlet has been thrown.

Amazing kit

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE RACE CAR OF ALL TIME!!!!!! I can’t wait to see it on Saturday. Ken Miles in my opinion is one of the greatest drivers of his time!

Looks a great kit by meng really good detail and it's a gt40 nice video Andy Steve 🇬🇧

Happy New Andy and family and crew, if it3street legal in the USA, I can see that being your daily drive to work and the supermarket, take care and keep safe and well.

Looks like a fantastic kit to build, but at 400 bucks, that's out of my budget. Look forward to seeing you build it Andy.

Amazing looking kit. I will build a 1/12 car one day - I think I just need a bigger house! 😂

Looks like a beautiful kit!!!!!!!!! 👌👌

What a cool kit Andy........great unboxing review!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice Andy

Sweet kit and at a big scale, quite a challenge! I'm actually hoping to get the Tamiya 1/12 scale Brabham F-1 kit in Martini Racing livery.

Very cool kit.

What a beauty!

I just saw that kit In my local hobby shop yesterday

I’m normally a 1:12th F1 car guy, but I so want this. Going to jump on your website now. Hopefully you ship to the UK.

Oh my! I must get one!! I hope its not limited quantities. Usually once sold out the price triples on ebay! Lol 🤣

期待Andy完工!!

I want it now!

I have this and the Trumpeter kit. They both are really detailed. The Meng kit has much less chrome plated parts than the Trumpeter which is a good thing as the real car didn't have much chrome. I am disappointed that the Meng kit didn't include the hood lock cables like the Trumpeter kit does. Decsls are great and include the red trim for the headlights

I hope they do a mark 4 gt40 this looks awesome.

There was a small decal for the New Zealand Club logo just in front of the door that doesn't seems to be on the decals sheet. I guess Indycals will come up with a new set for this car.

Oh good just what i needed, another wallet hammering.

The beast that Caroll Shelby and Ken Miles built. What a beautiful racing car.

nice review

I think all the silver vinyl parts are braided steel lines so the only thing that would need to be painted are the connectors and fittings at the ends. How's the seams on those, it's really hard to remove seam lines from vinyl parts.

kool RJ

What a monster 1/12 scale yikes That’s crazy great video Andy!!!! Cool!!! Any word on the ship headed back to Japan with the container issues? The latest?

Hello Andy, Three Kiwis; Bruce McLaren, Chris Amon (Pronounced A mon not R mon) and Denny Hulme (Pronounced Holme). Looks to be a great kit, hope the scale does the subject justice.

Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh wow !!!!!! I like.

Nice review Andy. Will you be carrying the Trumpeter 1/12 scale version as well?

“Cha-Ching” is the sound of Andy’s cash register. “Frump-Whoosh” is the sucking sound my depleted wallet makes.

I'm surprised they didn't include a 1/12 driver figure. Nice kit though. Have you finished up that R/C wrecker model?

Would love to see you build a WW2 German battleship or something along the lines of that. Mainly to see how you would go about doing the painting portion.

I like it but not worth the money to me, I have the trumpeter and I can probably buy 3 of them for the price that meng wants! I'll have to wait and buy it when it gets cheaper! Lol and great unboxing and review Andy!! I'm glad that you did a video brother!

After seeing your review, I just had to get one. Do you plan to do a build video? Keep up the good work with the videos. Best wishes from the UK. ATB Tim

Hello, been watching your site for while now, do you have to wash the plastic before painting?

Looks like a really nice kit, but $$$$$. Although Andy at $279 has the lowest price I could find on the internet - that is still a lot money. I look forward to seeing Andy's build to see if $279 results in a quality purchase.

Hello Andy I am currently building the Ford GT 40 and have found that the parts tree L and the parts tree H are missing. They are also missing in the unboxing performance. Please check if this is Meng's mistake. Unfortunately, I only noticed it on page 49 in the building instructions when I was looking for part L1. Greetings MAX from Hamburg

Ken miles was tricked out of the LeMans win by Ford hierarchy, all because they wanted a 3 way for. But that wasn't allowed and as Bruce McLaren was 40 yards further up the start line, he was given the win. Shelby wished he had never gone with fords idea, as it would have meant ol'tea bagger would have been the only guy to have won all prestigious 24 HR races.

It looks like a lovely kit although very expensive. For that money it’s a shame that they didn’t include decals for the third car in the (in)famous 1-2-3 finish. From memory it was gold but a similar pattern to the Ken Miles car (including the red flashes) so I don’t think it would have needed a much larger decal sheet.

Is this a slightly cleaned up Trumpeter repopulate? The plastic portion of the seats look a lot like the terrible seats in the Trumpeter kids. Unfortunately, the KA resin upgrade wasn’t much better. Does the KA super detailing kit for the Trumpeter work on this kit as well?

OM Gosh...YESSSSSS

Andy does anyone make the correct shade of blue for this version of the GT40 or will we have to mix our own? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The marketing blunders of Meng are amazing. Meng tooled the exact same kit Trumpeter did just a few years ago going head to head with their $300-$400 model against a $150 model. They could have complemented the Trumpeter version by tooling the gorgeous Ferrari 330 P4 in 1/12 and made a pile of profit. Currently the only P4 available in this scale is the resin MFH kit for $1000 and they have reissued it several times. Though not in the movie, an injected plastic Porsche 917 would be a hit in 1/12 too. Italeri seem to have the only marketing sense for the scale. I understand their 1/12 prewar car kits like the new Alfa and Bugatti 35 are very popular.

That's a kit I would like to build.

That looks awesome and would welcome the opportunity to build it but it is too big for my collection. I REALLY wish someone would offer a retooled 1/24 scale kit. Honestly doesn’t even have to have the opening doors just a quality fitting kit.

Didn’t Trumpeter already make this kit? Re-box of the Trumpeter model?

OK, I'm in. Just what will the retail on this be? It's OK. I'll be sitting down.....

nice channel, just found... greets from germany, you got abo from me!

In youre honest opinion is the kit worth’s the huge sticker price

Hi Andy great video. Im sure it very simple, but what is slide molding. Never heard that term.

I hope the molding quality is better than the Meng Dr.1 Triplane with its warped sprues...(The sprue here with the exhausts on does indeed look warped!).

Am I the only one who heard the music and said damn...he's going to build it?

I wonder how that would stack up against the Trumpeteer version 🤔

Got this kit a couple of weeks ago, I think I like the Trumpeter body better than Meng's. the shape of the headlight openings and front hood/trunk opening seems more accurate on the Trumpeter/Magnifier body as well as the shape of the rear curving under to the rear wheels. The Meng engine is way better than the T/M engine; Meng chassis components, rear axles (u-joints), and tires are better too. The Meng interior is better, especially the seats and dash board. Unfortunately for the cost of theming kit it's especially sad that they didn't get the body right as it's the most prominent part of the kit.

Meng is proud of their models. Probably only uses 50 cents more styrene, why so much more than a 1/24th 😜. I really just want the tires to tuck up under a 69 Mach 1

Salut super top 😉👍👍👍😍🇺🇸

One correction; the doors do not fold up.

Maybe an Idea to let Luca C do this on your channel... he's a model car builder and he did well the last time

Hay Andy...Robin from L.A. What do you think about the Trumpeter 1/12 in this kit...best

"and more slide molding."...."and a lot more slide molding"=$$$😉

Ken Miles won. I'll show myself out....

Now all I need is a mini Christan Bale and Matt Damon to go inside.

Today I'm looking for model U.S.S. New York LPD21 scale 1:350 and check the web suite you have the model.

3 fiddy? Good lawd thats alotta money. Am I gonna buy one?.......yes......unbuilt tamiya Ferrari kit on shelf stares in disgust.

wow have four in all scales but 1/12 how much and how do i get one hahaha thanks scooter d

I'd like to get that kit, but I can't afford it...

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How does this compare to the Trumpeter? saw it today, was tempted, do have an unbuilt Trumpeter. I guess this one is Ford approved. I was a bit hesitant seeing the bag of screws..I don't know why it bugs me(visible screws, say on bottom)..am I alone?..lol

Looks fantastic, but that price is outrageous imho.....

Did you build? I cannot locate the video of the actual build.

That looks like an awesome awesome model car... But why do they want so much money for these cars? Who can afford this these prices? Where do I find the link to model cars on your website?

I know if you have to ask you probably can't afford it but I'm on a fixed income and can remember those races as a kid big fan of those Fords as well as the John Whyer Gulf team too. Here it comes how much?

Fujimi did a batch of mk 2's in 1/24

huh? new? this kit is out for quite a while. or did i miss something?

Not a car modeller or even car guy -they are just A to B tools to me, but as a boomer whose formative years were the 1960s, even I know about THIS car. I can only imagine the excitement car modelling enthusiasts must be feeling in anticipation of the release of this kit. Obvious downer, the price. I wonder how much Ford is charging to licence the (exclusive?) rights to MENG? MENG do gouge IMO. e.g. the relative price of their 1/48 Me 410s at the time of their respective initial releases, especially considering the errors in the kit spinner shapes, prop shapes, oil cooler shape, only an either/or decal option, no crew figurines and although I prefer moulded in detail, the glaring absence of PE. On the other hand, I thought their 1/35 A7V although also relatively expensive at the time, was not unreasonable all things considered about that kit. But this Ford sets a new precedent. Over AUD$450 excluding international shipping on another very competitive online site more conducive to value if shipping to my country! It has to be said, the price of this is 'steep' -understatement. One would have to the definitive car modelling fanatic to buy at that price in my book.

Мне все нравится... Кроме цены!!!!

I wonder how this compares to Trumpeter’s version ?.

Meng. Dang it.

this looks like a great kit pre order sent! btw ken miles was robbed of the win because of bullshit aco rules at the time.

God if only I had $300 to drop on this model

Mengs recent quality will stop me throwing a wad down on this kit. Mengs armour kits are really hit and miss moulding quality wise AND the plastic varies from kit to kit,some is awful,not bought a Meng kit for some time now.Wath reviews and still still the issues

Is this real life?

What the....my wallet just fainted....the f*ck!? 😳😲 With my luck, a Lola T70 Mk III, Ferrari 330P4 and a Porsche 917K will soon follow! 😉😆😂

Ford GT mkll 1966’model race car

Pretty expensive kit. How many years will I have to wait to get it for less than $50?

How much !!