Real Scooby Eaglemoss BTTF DeLorean

Unfortunatly this collection is NOT available over here in Austria, and other as with the DeAgo Falcon, I am also NOT allowed to do a subscription in Germany and have sent over.

So, being both, a BTTF fan since age of 10 and I instantly fell in love with the DeLorean when Doc Brown has the car rolling out of the van. I know the real life DMC is kind of a sitting duck, but it still my favourite car, unfortunatly too hard to get hands on one over here at reasonable prices.... one day you will be mine

Anyway the next locigal stop was the EM UK shop where I started buying the first 10 issues and they arrived today. So my DeLorean garage is opened



I will start building the coming days. There are no plans for any mods yet. Maybe add some color details where needed, little weathering maybe and time will tell, maybe that custom carpet most are using already.

#1 / 130

Rear Mask Housing - Metal
Bumper, Light and Plate - Plastic





#2 / 130

Fender - Metal
Light, Stipe - Plastic




#3 / 130

Tire - Rubber
Inner Wheel - Metal
Inner Wheel Front - Plastic





#4 / 130

Mr. Fusion Mounting Plate - Metal
Mr. Fusion, Reactor top - Plastic




#5 / 130

everything metal except the brake clamp
There is a pretty strong magnet in the middle of the disc inside, so the wheels can be flipped out into flying position

#6 / 130

same materials as #5




#7 / 130

everything Metal
Covers - Rubber




#8 /130

Framenose - Metal
Framecovers, Bar - Plastic




#9 / 130

same material as #3




#10 / 130

Frame - Metal

The fenders look good. I am not familiar with this companies products. I imagine a fair amount of plastic, but are the fenders metal?

The fender is metal and features the brushed look, just hard to see on the photo.

EDIT : updated with a little parts infos

Since I finished #10, I had the feeling that there is something wrong but couldn´t tell what exactly

Suddenly today during lunch break it hit me like Thors Hammer. The frame of a DMC-12 is actualy light grey to nearly white
So when I went home after work, I stopped by the local Hobbystore for a can of light grey metal primer.
At home I un-build everything again and colored the frame. While I waited, and I am sure Doc Brown didn´t build the timemachine into a factorynew DMC, I started to weather up the front suspensions



EDIT: thought a parts count would be interresting

At this stage I am up to 181 parts yet, including every used screw. NOT counting extra screw.

Second order from Eaglemoss UK arrived today. #11 -19



With a quick look through the parts, the chasis should be finished ...for now. Back Suspensions and Wheels.
First parts of the engine, and I think I noticed an extra tool too. I can never have enough tweezers
Will start building on weekend, as there are still a few more frame-parts I need to recolor from black to light grey.

#11 / 130

Engine support Indside covers - Plastic
everything else - Metal





#12 / 130

Brake, Track Rod Shell - Plastic
Track Rod Sleeve - Rubber
everythiing else - Metal





# 13 / 130

same as front wheels





# 14 / 130

same as #12





# 15 / 130

another wheel ... duh ! :eek



And finaly mounted to the chasis



I will weather up the back suspension sometime later toady or the next days

Now lets start building the engine :cool

#16 / 130

Gears Housing - Metal
Oil Pump, Pan, Support Mounts - Plastic
Support Mount Sleeves - Rubber





#17 / 130

Engine parts - Metal
Pan, Starter - Plastic





#18 / 130

Engine parts - Metal
Intakes, Filters - Plastic





#19 / 130

Engine Top - Metal
Water Piping - Plastic




Thats it for this time
Parts count so far : 333

New order is out already so, continueation should follow soon

As I am waiting for my next delivery, wich should arrive by end of this week, I got this one today. And shame over me, when I opened my postbox today, it took me a few seconds to realize what this small package with hand written "To not open until 1985" was.

It still a few issues away, but I already ordered some custom stickers, from already community-wellknown Mr. Mike Lane and he does an AWESOME job on them.

I got his Decal Set I, updated Dashboard and his Carpet Sets.



Decal Set I comes with:
Time Circuit Display Side Covers - choose either plain grey or stainless brushed look. Both sides feature the row of bolts
Time Circuit Display Front - again either plain grey or stainless brushed look. The print-labels now feature the corrected red color instead of the blue ones delievery by EM
Middle Console Covers and details - the main reason why I got this set because the EM supplied sticker for the switch box just says "1-2-3-4-5-6"
updated Plate stickers - updated to the right desgin as the EM supplied ones are all wrong.

The Dashboard Set comes with:
Updated Dashboard Display - EM supplied is missing a few details, the DMC logo is upside down, saying DWC. Also the light leak issue should be fixed with this one
Display Glass Cover - EM is missing this at all, so its a nice addition by Mike


The Carpet Sets cover the footwells and center console ( issues #38-41 ) and the bulkhead behind the seats and door sills ( issue #52-55 )



Mike offers some more custom sticker sets, like Barcode Plate complete with conversion to magnetic revmoveable plate to switch between "Outatime" and Barcode or a Fr. Fusion Cover Set to hide the big screw holes.
Although these look nice too, I quitted on them as I will display the finished model in 1985 first appearance mode, eventually 1955 "Hook" mode if EM supplies the Hook and parts to mount it.
I already wonder what else he might comes up with, might consider doing the heaven too.
If you are building this and also want to **** up the interrior a little, best way to get in contact with Mike would be email : deloreanmods@gmail.com or you dig him up on Facebook : Mike Lane ( cartoony avatar )

Can´t await to get to the point where to add these

Hallo again, as expected above, order #3 arrived



This time with french magazines, as most of this bulk are currently Out-Of-Stock at the Eaglemoss UK store.

#20 / 130

all parts - plastic





#21 / 130

all parts - plastic





#22 / 130

all parts - plastic

Very important info to anyone who also just stated the build on this model.
In this issue, we are introduced to a new kind of screws, labeld "MM".
Be very, very, VERY extra carefull with these, as they are pretty fragile, and break if too much pressure is used to drive them into their holes. Almost as if those screws were made of glass.
Also it help to put a drop of glue on the pegs where the hoses go, otherwise you get frustrated in later stages when they constantly keep coming off





#23 / 130

Chasis mounting clamps - metal
everything else - plastic





#24 / 130

all parts - plastic
running belts - rubber bands





#25 / 130

mounting support side parts - metal
mounting support front, exhaust pipes - plastic





#26 / 130

all parts - plastic
sleeves - rubber



Thats it with the engine so far. I was a little irritaded by the end pipes of the exhaust pointing down. But after a short research it made sense. On the real-life DMC, they are pointing backwards as you would expect, on Doc´s timemachine, they go downwards, because the lightstripes, that come down at the back, are mounted to some boxes on the underside at the place where they would conflict with the exhaust end. So, everythings fine, no modding needed here

There are still a few steps left to do for this issue, but I want to apply some weathering to the engine before I install it into the chasis.
Let see what the weekend brings

Parts count sa far : 493

And here we are again, just finished the final steps for issue #26, the marriage of engine with the chasis

But first..... bye, bye shiny engine ! welcome used engine ( inspired by my own cars one )





Now my wallet gets a short rest.... until March

Bulk order #4 arrived last friday and today I found some time to work on it


#27 / 130

mounting brackets - metal
horn, radiator parts - plastic





#28 / 130

all parts - plastic





#29 / 130

bottom plate - metal
frame middle section - plastic





#30 / 130

all parts - plastic





#31 / 130

rear protector plates - plastic





#32 / 130

fuel tank - plastic





#33 / 130

fuel tank cover - plastic

#34 / 130

luggage compartment frame - metal
container - plastic





#35 / 130

front wheel arches - metal





and to end this session I weathered up all the new parts again

Parts count so far : 602

Couldn´t resist any longer, so I put out a small order to finaly finish up the chasis-bottom. Now my wallet gets a rest before starting on the interior


#36 / 130

all parts - plastic





#37 / 130

rear wheel arches - metal





#38 / 130

engine heat shield - plastic
wires, stickers
support posts - plastic ( besides being pretty useless during building, I guess they are meant to make the car hover when you want to display in flying mode )





#39 / 130

interior floor - plastic
wires




Parts count so far ( I do not count the supportblocks ) : 663

Enjoying the updates Scooby , and the builds really progressing at a good pace .

Can’t believe you’re up to 663 parts already , and you’re not even a 1/3 of the way through ! :facepalm
Are you counting the aftermarket parts and screws as well ? ... Now you’ve got me wondering how many parts made up the Deago MF !?:lol

:cheersGed

thank you ged

Pace will slow down when I am up-to-date with the UK release
As for my partscount, I do count every single used screw, no extra screws. After market parts will get their own counter

I did a count on the DeAgo Falcon somewhere else, and I came up to about roughly 2900 parts, counting every used screw, frameconnectors ... build as delivered with no mods

Hello again

Got another "smaller" shipment yesterday and I just finished the build.

#40 / 130

everything plastic
wire with a contact switch for the brake lights

build with the floor from #39 I also added my first custom parts. 4 parts of interior carpets





#41 / 130

everything plastic
Gear Switch Sleeve - rubber





#42 / 130

everything plastic
wires with LEDs
deco-wire

Added a few custom stickers. Side of the time-box to get the row of bolts. Front masks of the time-box with correct colored labels





# 43 / 130

everything plastic
wires with switches

Added some more custom stickers. Both sides of the switchbox and a tiny "caution, High Voltage" label





# 44 / 130

everything plastic





# 45 / 130

everything plastic
wires with LEDs

added a custom dashboard display including front glass cover. I forgot to take a comparsion photo, but the orignal one supplied by EM, was kind of "simplified", missing a few details and the DMC logo is printed upside-down. Also no glass front EM.
The custom one has the correct DMC logo, a few more minor and sharper details and also is lasercut on the backside. The one supplied by EM has no cover on the back so light leak due bad printing is possible, as I already saw in other builds.



Don´t know if it is meant that way, but all interrior parts wich would be covered in leather on a reallife DeLorean, ( dashboard, mid-console... ) are NOT casted in grey plastic. All parts so far, are colored black plastic. Them being colored grey, takes out the shine of the plastic and also adds a almost rubberish/leatherlike feel to them.

Parts count so far : 759
custom parts : 14

New delivery arrived and already build

# 45 / 130

everything plastic
wire with LEDs





# 47 / 130

steering rod and wheel - metal
everything else - plastic






# 48 / 130

deco wires

The delivered ties : They are meant to bundle up the wires at different spots. Altough they are pretty small one, scale up by factor 8, they would be huge in real life, and they just look out of place. So I picked up a ,25 black flowerwire from the local plant-store and that looks WAAAAAY better now






# 49 / 130

deco wires
seatbelts - cloth with already attached plastic parts



This "wiring"-step is pretty fiddly. Although all of the wires are leaded and the kind of keep the shape, I might add a drop of glue here and there as some curves are still to much for them and they are pretty loose



# 50 / 130

seat core - metal
twisters, back and bottom - plastic
covers - rubber
5mm foam padding





And we´re done again

Parts count so far : 863
custom parts : 14

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