Trying something new, I made a bunch of bolts out of ordinary straight pins. I used the indexing ability of the watchmaker's lathe and an fine file. The bolts turned out fairly convincing here on the rear of the gearbox.
Note that the top of the engine is a gold or champagne color. This part came that way in the kit and I left it. Many parts in the kit, oddly are re-painted, partially in some cases, with a handful of colors. It's odd. But the color and finish is good so I left it. The rest of the engine I painted after stripping the chrome. Yes there was way, way too much chrome.
These exhaust pipes are cast "white metal" that I painted. I obtained them as add-ons for the Trumpeter version of this kit. They work fine after a small amount of clear up. As far as I can tell my no-name GT40 is identical to the Trumpeter version.
The exhaust pipes are also a metal replacement for the plastic parts. It was a pain getting all 8 of them in place. I put that aside and did some of the details on the engine first instead as shown in the next post.
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