Nope, it's a future release from Pocher, completely unrelated. They do quality, unlike Eaglemoss who are in business of despair and stress-induced hair loss.

It would take a really Bad Wolf to scare me off this one. Whatever kit it is, I'll build it. I am not attached to my hair that much.

Hm? What's that, my boy?

Oh, my giddy aunt! When I say run, run. ...RUN!

Now listen to me.

Hello-o-o-o. Are you listening to me? Would you like a jelly baby?

You're in luck I keep extensive notes.

Issue 1. Hood and grille. The chrome is fraying from the grille already, it is also splorched with a multitude of different lacquer in diverse places.

Issue 3. The dashboard. Several preglued elements of the dash board are in the wrong places making fitting the whole thing together impossible. 300SL decal is half ripped off at delivery. Steering wheel is contaminated with splotches of wrong colour in several places.

Replacement issue 3. Preglued elements are in the right places, but were glued at an angle making fittnig the whole thing together impossible. Steering wheel has several holes in its rubbery surface.

Replacement replacement issue 3. Preglued elements are in the right places. The impossibly thin material warps upon being screwed to its backplate. Steering wheel is ok. The 300SL decal autoremoves itself from the dashboard a week later.

Issue 4. First parts of the engine. Several end connectors of tubing are preglued at a wrong angle making the tubes look like an utter mess. Tubes break when trying to correct this and had to be spotwelded together again with CA.

Issue 5. The bumper. Contaminated with two big fingerprints in gray paint. Luckily removable without destroying the chrome too much. Instructions consistently advice you to use the wrong screws during the whole build step.

Issue 7. Exhaust manifold. Extremely thick moldlines all along the prepainted exhaust pipes. Paint scratched off in several places. Corrected with silver fineliner. Pipes impossible to fit to cylinder head so they don't wobble (they're actually a tiny bit bigger than the grooves they are supposed to fit into).

Issue 8. Heatshield. Chrome scratched in several places, drops of other colour all over.

My notes start to fall apart here. At this point I'm a nervous wreck and a fuming volcano whenever I pick up this kit.

Issue 9 or maybe 10. Installation of heatshield blocks access to screws you need to fit engine halves together. At least until someone invents a screwdriver that can screw in screws at a 90° angle (I know they make those) with about 5mm room to fit the screwdriver into (they don't make those).

Issue 11 to 13. Everything went better than expected. Which means I've started to ignore the engine halves not fitting together correctly and the fact that the whole engine turned into a wibbly wobbly mess since not a single part can be successfully attached firmly.

Issue 14 or somewhere around here. The main framework arrives. It's warped. Holes for the screws are filled to the brim with lacquer. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. Staring into the abyss, I laugh. It is not a friendly laugh. It is the laugh of a broken man, his soul laid bare for all to tread upon. It is the laughter of a defeated man, his fighting spirit extinguished.

I drop the kit into the garbage bin, a single tear falling from my eye. I turn and laugh again. It is a happy laugh.