harti20 Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Hi all Long time ago I built Revell's Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut-Coupé (I think, Tamiya's kit was not yet on the market at that time). Although most people tell this was a terrible kit with poor fit the problems I faced during build were mostly self made. Somehow I must have got an exceptionally good copy of this kit. It was only my 4th model after a 20+ year hiatus in model building, so there is a lot I would do different now (hopefully better), but somehow I still like this model. So I decided to take it to the studio's yesterday to take some gallery pictures of it. Best, Urs
Phildaupho Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Great photos of a very good looking model of an amazing car
mustang1989 Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Great build with first class photography to bring it all home. Great work!
89AKurt Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Cool subject, have not seen this model before, the manufacture? Very clean build, silver paint looks good, what did you use?
1959scudetto Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 This is by far the best build of this kit I have seen yet. After reading a lot of negative comments on the quality of this kit, I sold mine (got the minichamps 1/24 die-cast for a very good price)
maltsr Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Excellent build, you've inspired me to dig mine out of the stash.
bbowser Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 4 hours ago, mustang1989 said: Great build with first class photography to bring it all home. Great work! Totally agree, ?!
beeRS Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 That is a beautiful job Urs. The door fit on yours is so much better than the kit of this I had. Did you add real mesh into the hood grille?
Rich Chernosky Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 A tough kit to do and you pulled it off beautifully.
drodg Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 Very nice and I have an unbuilt kit of that somewhere. Great photo shooting also.
harti20 Posted January 6, 2020 Author Posted January 6, 2020 Thank you all for your kind comments 20 hours ago, 89AKurt said: Cool subject, have not seen this model before, the manufacture? Very clean build, silver paint looks good, what did you use? The kit is from Revell. The paint used for the body was Alclad Duraluminium, clearcoated with Alclad Aqua Gloss. 10 hours ago, beeRS said: That is a beautiful job Urs. The door fit on yours is so much better than the kit of this I had. Did you add real mesh into the hood grille? The doors didn't really fit on this one neither. I had to reshape them by dipping the doors in hot water and bend it in shape. Yes, I used a very fine real mesh for the hood grille. A member of another forum sent me a small piece, so unfortunately I can't tell you what it originally was or where you could get it.
89AKurt Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 1 hour ago, harti20 said: [...] The kit is from Revell. The paint used for the body was Alclad Duraluminium, clearcoated with Alclad Aqua Gloss. [...] Thank you. I love Alclad, except for the dull aluminum which pulls from inside corners. The super fine powder is superior to Testors paint.
Bainford Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 Nice build. Such a fantastic car. I had no idea a coupe version was available in scale. I'm going to have to get one of these.
DonW Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 (edited) During testing of the Mercedes W196 F1 car, Rudi Uhlenlhaut , the Mercedes engineer who appropriated one of the two SLR coupes that had been built for his own personal use, was putting in laps quicker than their star driver, Juan Manuel Fangio! I love this car and the model does it full justice. Excellent! Edited January 7, 2020 by DonW more info.
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