Okay, so against my better judgement, I decided to complete the majority construction of the lower hill before painting. It remains to be seen how this will work as you will soon see, there’s plenty of detail that might be hard to get at.
Anyway, This kit has workable suspension. And it actually does work. The only problem I have with this is you don’t have a choice, its workable suspension or nothing i’m afraid. Now, Meng use an elegant torsion bar mechanism to achieve this - but the real vehicle doesn’t, hence why the internal fixings for the torsion arms aren’t offset against each other. I know this has confused some modellers blogging this build on other forums.
The springs themselves are beautifully slide moulded and actually operate as springs. Although the plastic is pretty soft and I’m not sure what kind of rebound memory they would have if compressed too much. Same goes for the torsion arms really - which is why I said it might disappoint some that you only have the option for this workable set up.
And this is what the first one looks like when installed.
And the internal anchor points.
This part of construction was a little time consuming but everything fit very well. No issues here.