Had a small setback. Eagerly assembled front brakes, drums and uprights and only after realized that you cannot attach uprights to suspension arms when drums are installed over them. So, I had to put those assembles into aceton. Fortunatelly that loosened epoxy glue and I was able to brake parts back apart. But it stripped paint as well of course. Now I need to re-prime and re-paint parts and do assembly in proper order. That exact mischamp made me come back to following assembly order from instructions more closely. Usually for plastic kits I apply my own logic to assembly order time to time. Not for this MFH kit.
Next started actually putting together body elements. Gearbox, rear body items, air box and main monocoque have been glued togther. As well as big side aero flaps. Before I can mate that body assembly and the floor, I needed to get seat ready, becasue I can only put seat in from bottom. Doing seat belts is not my favorite part of build, but I had to finish it. Turned out ok'ish. PE from MFH is nice and mostly accurate, but seat belt material is just ribbons and they are not easy to work with.
I love this car and kit is cool. But number of panel do not want to go together. Fit is not perfect and there are enoying gaps. I guess I have not done my test fitting properly at the start. Well, more lessons to learn. Wish there was 1/20 kit of MP4/23 available.
