Airfix 1/16 Cobra

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all i won this on ebay, its an ex MPC kit first thing the instructions are next to useless , on the first page it tells you the colours for airfix paints but there is not one point in the instructions where that colour call out is used ( as you all know I had no intention of building this as should be anyway) but if you wanted to, well, , hard cheese,

So heres the box art

I'm thinking of a fade paint job either blue to white or blue to red not decided yet.

Anyway a start on the engine, it's not a bad kit detail wise.

Either this must be huge or the Ferrari 312t must be tiny as this is 1/16 whereas the Ferrari is 1/12

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Bit more done to this started adding a bit of detail to the engine (I don't know much about these engines and can't find many useful pics of throttle linkages and such)

Those air filters are just placed there.

This is the main colour I've gone for.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all a bit more paint applied to this one.

 

[minitnkr]

Looks like poorly done sideways Holleys. Interesting fade.
How they should look. This is a different engine, but a typical Ford 2x4 sideways setup. These big Holleys are double feed carbs w/fuel feed to each float assy. Cable linkage usually. They may be some Dominator type of carb. not used by Ford. The second pic is what it should look like.

The 427 Ford Cobra 2x4 setup used, was in-line Holleys w/single float carb up front to clear distributor and used mechanical linkage.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Spent ages trying to get this decal to settle down, in the end I decided to remove it, and the reason it wouldn't settle down became apparent, never seen that happen before and no idea why.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

OK so the decals on this went weird so masked it and Sprayed it myself.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all more work on the Cobra.

I decided to ditch the carbs (too much wrong with them )

The kit comes with fuel injection as an option I thought I would go with that, tbh a don't know which is worse, still I'm stuck with it now, hopefully I can improve on what the kit supplied (still won't be anything like accurate but maybe look interesting.

 

[minitnkr]

Never seen Hilborn on a Cobra, but seen lots of Weber carb. inductions. They usually setup like you illustrate. They may be easier to detail than injection as they have no extra pumps & crap.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Did some more work on this (leaving the engine for now)

 

[Deleted member 3568]

More done to this, I can't find any decent pics of the fuel injection system on this so I've invented my own (its only really to fill space as the stacks are too far apart and it looks silly)

 

[minitnkr]

427 Ford w/Weber carbs in a Cobra.
Might look closer to what you have than Hilborn injection.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all back on this now.

 

[minitnkr]

Looking verrrry good.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

More done on this one.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

More work on this

 

[minitnkr]

Beautiful finishes. Love the fade.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Well its done.

 

[Mark1]

Lovely, had the pleasures of working on an original ac ace a few years back.

 

[Code no 10]

You did a great job painting the blue-to-red transition, Ken.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Thanks guys.