With those under your belt it should be a doddle, whatever way you elect to build it. Next to scratch-building SciFi stuff of your own imaginings, those old multi-option car kits are the best choice for a no pressure, no wrong way, fun build. You can even build it as “Non-OOB” using only what’s in the box, just by using some bits in a different way to what the instructions would have you. And that’s without grinding the plastic from the inside until it is paper thin in areas that would rust, and poking holes through, or simply giving it a “Rat Rod” paint job. There’s only one rule: Have Fun!
Interesting. At 1.43 on the first video is the plain “wire” grill I was talking about scratch-building: it doesn’t appear in the instructions or on the box back… At least they didn’t mould it in red.
I secured a posting to German back in 1977; I took advantage of the tax-free car purchase options available to soldiers then serving in the land of milk and honey – as we impoverished Brits then saw it all. I (foolishly perhaps) bought a Mini 1275GT – hardly the car for continental motoring, but I was a fan and had always enjoyed the nippiness and manouevrability.
However, around a year later I clapped eyes on a Posche 914, parked outside the Pay Office (owned by a German civilian employee). God, how I yearned for one; I was convinced that that car would change my fortunes on the social front, there was just no comparison between that and my Mini. But I couldn’t afford it, yet it always lurked somewhere in the back of my brain. Thinking back then, I could have afforded one if I hadn’t been so intent on turning Deutschmarks into urine, but that was the way with young soldiers back then.
Anyway, in a moment of eBay-madness, this appeared today, and is probably the nearest I’ll ever get to a 914 (the real things go for fairly hefty amounts these days, even if one could find one):
