Hi all got this for my birthday, I'm well impressed, the instruction manual is a thing of beauty I've never seen one like it before. 

It is full of history and information also loads of beautiful pictures of the cars this engine was in.

The actual instructions make up about a third of the manual and are also beautifully printed and clear to follow.

The box is huge, good quality and stuffed to the brimm with high quality plastic.

I'm intending to build this as half see through rather than completely see through as is intended with the kit

So I've started the crankshaft and pistons








I've built the casings of the half I'm going to paint, we have a machine at work called a vapour blaster which we use to clean engine parts which I'm hoping to use to give these parts a cast look (it uses tiny glass beads and is only supposed to remove 30 microns on metal parts will try it on a piece of sprue first)

Its a great kit company started in 2016 so all new tooling (its a German company) they make loads of famous engines im interested in the mustang v8 and the Porsche 2 liter flat 6 (already asked for the 1/2 BMW r90s engine for Xmas

Great looking kit you've got there Ken and your doing a great job.
Malc.

Hi all one of the advantages of having a 547 engine completely dismantled at work is loads of reference material, for instance this main drive gear should have 6 30 mm holes in it, 1/3 equates to 10 mm 



I also took the half I'm painting aluminium to work to vapour blast it (for a cast effect)





And the first coat of the casting effect

They do a 1/4 mustang v8

Hi Ken,

Looking good and a great bit of spraying to.

Regards

Trev

Looking good Ken,

I like the way you are doing the half and half version so you can see the workings on one side and the castings on the other. Well Done.




Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Hi all started on the exhaust down pipes (dosent really show in the pics)

I tried an experiment with metal effects on the exhaust as I didn't want it to look the same as the engine and im really pleased with the look of them.

Got the exhaust on and more experimental metal effects, a word of warning to anyone building this kit and painting parts of it the black shiny plastic is of a different type of plastic to the rest of the kit I sprayed the cowl for the fan (with the same type of paint used everywhere else) the plastic on the cowl has crazed and cracked (and that's even with using plastic safe primer) im hoping a layer of filler sanded down then sprayed over will fix it.