Stage 1: engine

The Revell user guide starts the building process from the engine so I decided to do the same.

first I decided to cut out all the parts that are needed for the engine. I managed to get some blood out of my thumb with a knife when doing this so let's try to be more careful from now on.

Here is a picture of all the parts needed for the engine.

Engine and gearbox were originally fixed together but I decided to cut them away from each other. My plan is to hide a small electric motor inside the engine housing and get an axle out from the gearbox.

Here is the idea that I am planning.

I also found an old cell phone from my shelves and decided to try if I can use the vibration motor to make the cooling propeller run.

After some (careful) knife usage I was able to hide the vibration motor inside the V8 block.