Jaguar XJR-9 LeMans by CDW - Model Factory Hiro - 1:43 Scale

[CDW]

The Jaguar XJR-9 by MFH in 1:43 scale. This introduction shows what is inside the box. Next I must go through the parts cleaning and careful parts inventory stages. It’s my intention to do this with all my MFH kits primarily to insure my kits are complete with no missing parts. I am seeing a trend both from personal experience as well as commentary by others to suggest missing parts are a common problem. I would rather get all that cleaning, sorting, organizing, and inventory out of the way as soon as possible.

[CDW]

I am going to try cleaning my cast metal parts on this kit with a sonic cleaner using a light detergent solution this time rather than the magnetic tumbler, just to see what kind of results I get. 

For resin parts, which this particular kit does not have, the sonic cleaner is the only practical alternative because the magnetic tumbler drum is not large enough to accept the large resin body parts of 1:12 MFH kits. It will be important to keep the heat function turned off when cleaning the resin so as not to warp the parts.

[Jack12477]

I'm in

[DocRob]

Very nice Craig, love the Jaguar in this livery, but prefer the version with open rear wheel wells. 
I hadn´t any missing parts in my two kits (Crocker and Cobra), but haven´t checked all the others. As I do the checking along cleaning and sorting, I will do it only before I start with a new build. I don´t have the space and assorting boxes, to keep all the parts of all the MFH kits checked, when they arrive here.

I usually print out the inventory pages from the MFH site and check against them. These pages are also very helpful during the build for identifying parts.

Cheers Rob

[CDW]

3 minutes ago, DocRob said:

Very nice Craig, love the Jaguar in this livery, but prefer the version with open rear wheel wells. 
I hadn´t any missing parts in my two kits (Crocker and Cobra), but haven´t checked all the others. As I do the checking along cleaning and sorting, I will do it only before I start with a new build. I don´t have the space and assorting boxes, to keep all the parts of all the MFH kits checked, when they arrive here.

I usually print out the inventory pages from the MFH site and check against them. These pages are also very helpful during the build for identifying parts.

Cheers Rob

I bought this kit from a shop in Germany. This was the only version of the kit in stock. Not sure when or if MFH has released other versions to include the open wheel version.

Will be sure to look for the inventory pages on the MFH site. I need to explore their site more fully.

[Canute]

Most of the castings look fairly crisp, with no marks/flash from the molds. These are pewter cast?

Edited Friday at 04:27 PM by Canute

[CDW]

1 minute ago, Canute said:

The most of the castings look fairly crisp, with no marks/flash from the molds. These are pewter cast?

From what I've read, their parts are white metal with a low melting temperature, but that's about all I know.

[Old Collingwood]

What a Cool looking   project,  im in.

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

Interesting looking model.  I'm following.   BTW, could the rear well covers be removed?