I recently completed the Polar Lights 1/25 Back to the Future Time Machine. A beautiful kit, almost no fit problems (it’s designed as a snap kit), and good detail. I replace the kit windscreen with clear styrene so that the side windows would be ‘down’, allowing more visibility into the detailed interior. I also had to create the ‘DMC’ logo for the grille, since it is notably absent from the kit. Enough talk, here are the pics:
BTW, the caption on the case reads, “Are you tellin’ me you built a time machine - out of a DeLorean!?” – Marty McFly. This was a present for my father-in-law, who loves the Back to the Future movies.
She looks great!!
I built the Aoshima hover version, and it really is worth picking up!
No fit problems at all! There’s also 1:18 scale die cast pre-buit versions of them out there(pre-built----YUK!) that don’t look too bad(not by Aoshima though). They even have a street legal non time machine Delorean available too.
I finally gave up waiting on a re-release of the hover version of this car and went ahead and picked this kit up! Boy am i glad that i did. It comes with parts to make either the original version or the version with the Mr. Fusion core [which appears for the first time at the end of the first movie]and includes both the “OUTATIME” and the “bar code” license plates. If I pick up another one i’ll kit bash a hover version. Since the head lights are crome how do you make them more “realistic”.
The great thing about this kit is that the body is electroplated with an artificial stainless steel finish. [The Polar Lights web site even quotes it as such, funny they don’t state it on the box or I would have baought it sooner!] I have heard people complain about the “micro scratches” in the surface but what they don’t seem to realize is that it is supposed to look that way. A real Delorean isn’t painted [though there are a few that were] it is raw stainless steel and doesn’t rust. The “micro scratches” are in a swirl pattern to immitate what you would find on true stainless steel.The plate is a little too bright though, but it shoudn’t be hard to “dull” it down a tad…
Great job. I guess the kit doesn’t look too bad after all. I shyed away from it when I saw no “official” DMC logos on the kit. Maybe I can find it for cheap at WalMart or Target…
The kit only sells for $9.98 at Wal Mart [along with the Ecto 1 and the Mystery Machine] but you had better hurry because I last saw these kits on the clearance aisle for $7 at Wal Mart and now they are gone from the Wal Marts in my area because I waited too long. I had to pay $15 for my DMC at Hobby Lobby but it was still well worh it.[;)]