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Well here we go the Aoshima’s The Road Warrior Mad Max V8 Interceptor. To begin with the box art is pretty straight forward, just the car, now I'm not sure what they have the Mad Max title as this kit can only be built as the Road Warrior version, not the clean Mad Max version. But the box is not what we’re interested in now is it? The first thing out of the box are the instructions, these are very clear, written in Japanese(?) and english, and the illustrations are easy to read. All the parts are safely enclosed in their own plastic bags with nothin separated from the sprues. The kit itself is all molded in black styrene and a good quality styrene at that. The details are all clear and what looks like a deformity on the roof for the car body is nothing but the reflection of light, there is little to no engine detailing, other than the supercharger and blower, as the hood is molded as one part of the body. The undercarriage detail is most around the wheel wells and the back of the car, not much else, it does, however come with the little bomb that Max has mounted by the fuel tank. Now as I’m planning on doing some extra detailing on this kit I’ll be cutting the driver’s door out and removing the front end bumper and flair to match the movie damage. There is one major inaccuracy I’ve found: the interior door panel on the driver’s door is gone, this kit is modeled with the door in terror panel intact. Well what’s one more little bit of cutting and modeling eh? The few chrome pieces are molded well and very clean. The clear ‘glass’ pieces are well molded and crystal clear. I’ll have to cut out the dryer and passenger windows as those are always down in the film. The wheels are all rubber and have rally clean tread marks included is the ‘spare’ tire that is mounted in the back cargo area. As this kit is ment to be built as the wasteland version of Max’s V8 the external fuel tanks and extra jerry cans are included. There aren't a lot of decals just the MFM markings and gauge faces. These is the extra bonus of a DinkiDi dog food can, that’s a nice bit of detail. One last thing, I got this kit from my wife as a gift for my birthday, about 2 weeks later Aoshima re-released the kit with an extra detail kit, I sent them an email inquiring what the extras would cost to make my kit match the re-release and the sent me the pieces free of charge! Talk about some great customer service! The extra details include photo-etch louvre covers for the headlights, replacement wire shelving for the back cargo area, crowbars, windshield wipers, the leather strap for the driver’s door, bolt cutters, a length of chain, and to top it all off 2 fold up boxes of DinkiDi dog food! Well there you go the kit is un-boxed and ready for the project to begin!
So check back soon I’ll be starting the build log with the next post. And as always: Keep Building!
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AuthorHi there, I'm Chris and welcome to my workbench. I've been building models since i was 6 or 7 years old. I thought it would be fun to share some of my projects! Archives
May 2017
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