This one could be built up in just a few hours as it's all a prepainted kit. Some of it is snap together, some requires screws to assemble and a limited portion of the build needs to be glued together. There are numerous opportunities for detailing and tweaking on this kit and I'm doing my dead level best to take advantage of those. This is a SUPER base kit to work with and with some aftermarket additions and replacements, has LOTS of potential.

Progress continues on with this finicky steering linkage. There are mere pins that hold the steerable linkage in place with NO backings. I had to fabricate my own out of spare styrene to keep the pins in place. I ended up having to use a slightly larger sized needle on one side to be able to pose the front wheels in any kind of alignment as the OOB pins had the wheels toed in slightly.

Radiator and headlights were a bit of a trick too but managed to get everything lined up nice n square. The one thing I did NOT like about this kit was those stoopid "dots" in the middle of the headlights with the locating pegs sticking out of the rear of the lens. I simply cannot stand that feature on auto builds as it gives such a "toy" look. I sanded the rears of the lens and while there is a small half circle in the lens now, at least there's not a visible "peg" and they have a more modern clear appearance now.

On the sprue:

With the radiator/ grill and headlight bars in place. I also mocked up the car body for kicks.

Here's after quite a bit of progress with getting the radiator hoses installed, headers and piping installed and the distributor and wiring installed, routed and hooked up. It's made quite a bit of difference in the progress so I figured I'd share it.