Eaglemoss 1/8 Spy who loved me Lotus Esprit

Kai Rowe

I'm surprised nobody else has posted about this,but yes,Eaglemoss are testing the Lotus Esprit in 1/8 scale in the Northwest of The United Kingdom(Liverpool/North Wales).Very early days,but it seems you can either build it as the Road car or the submarine.Im excited about it as a companion piece for the DB5 which Ive owned and enjoyed for a number of years now.There was a group on Facebook about it which mysteriously disappeared after a few days.

jared_nomak

Hey I'd be interested in with 2 of them
Ross

007JBDCMWR

Live on eaglemoss site for subscription...

Hopefully theyll carry on after this and do the ams from OHMS and CR / QOS

ppw3o6r

https://www.eaglemoss.com/en-gb/model-making/build-james-bonds-lotus-esprit/

jared_nomak

How many issues will it likely be
Ross

007JBDCMWR

The db5 was about 70, so a year and a half.
I didnt start it until every part had arrived... Enjoyable week of building

007JBDCMWR

Worth it tho

MML

One thing to note. I believe this is a test run for now - it may not go full-run for a while yet. Just bear that in mind.
Test runs only last a few issues to gauge interest.

Here's the facebook group: (I hope this link works!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1945750669045805

I'm currently in the middle of Eaglemoss' Delorean time machine. The overall quality is a massive improvement over the DB5, which was very toy-like in places. I had to mod the hell out of that before I was happy with it.

The Esprit looks on a par with the Delorean in terms of quality, going by the photos. I'm definitely signing up.

Commandant

007JBDCMWR wrote:

Worth it tho

Looks very nice.
Good job!

Thunderbird 2

James Bond car collection, Build your own DB5, The Star Trek Starships collection, Build your own Boatus, and De Agostini have now launched Build Your Own Thunderbird 2.

They are trying to bankrupt us!!

Jag

After the DB5 and James Bond Car Collection I told myself: no more partworks! However, if this one makes it to Australia, I want to build both versions...

jared_nomak

So you could end up without a complete car if a test run only

ben

Is it possible for somebody from the US to get in on this?

000-7

Looks like this project has become reality.... as I've received confirmation email this afternoon from Eaglemoss.

No confirmation of actual number of issues, but suspect (as a binder holds 16 issues) it will be 80.
The DB5 was 86 in total, but had a lot more gadgets and hence more parts.

When I subscribed, the initial confirmation number was in excess of 1100.
Although the actual subscription number is less than 100.
Be interested to hear of others?

Apparently due to receive parts "within 21 days"....
And will be very interested to compare quality with that of DB5

jared_nomak

120 issues it's going to be
Ross

007JBDCMWR

Yep same email confirmation
If its anything like the db5 we'll have to overcome building "snags" along the way... Be useful to share here as well as the site that will no doubt spring up.
I plan to get all parts first before starting
Anyone doing the same make sure you check your parts packets tho, as some (steering wheel / windscreen surround etc) arrived damaged (like 99%) during the db5 run