Pack 11 - Stage 81. The headlights.

[Mark, The Master Modeller]

Stage 81 gives us the headlights.  We did assemble a left headlight in stage 1, but the manufacturers have made some improvements so that headlight will be disassembled and remade with some new parts.

Take the right small headlight lens and small housing and push the two parts together.

Take the LED headlight and feed it up through the hole in the main headlight housing.

Push this into the back of the reflector of the small housing.

Fit the small housing into the main housing.

Secure it with a screw from underneath.

Push the headlight bezel into the main headlight housing.

Push the main headlight lens onto the reflector.

Fix the main headlight into the housing from the rear and secure it with a screw.  Push the other LED into the back of the reflector.

The completed headlight assembly looks like this from the front.

Take the left headlight from stage 1 and disassemble it.  The only tricky part is getting the small lens off the small housing.  This can be done my pushing on the pin on the edge of the lens from the back with a cocktail stick or similar.

Keep the main headlight, its bezel and the small headlight lens.  The two headlight housings can be discarded.

Push the small lens onto the new small housing.

Feed the LED through the new main housing and push it into the back of the small headlight housing.

Fit the small housing in position.

Add the bezel.

Fit the main headlight and LED.

The completed headlight assembly looks like this.

Take a headlight screen and fit it to the front body.  Make sure it sits flush with the outside of the body.

Put the headlight assembly in place and fix it with 2 screws.

Repeat with the other side.

They should look like this from the top.

Finally, add the headlight protective film to both headlights.  It will have a few wrinkles, just as the real car did.  

Personally, I'm not overly keen on how these look.  I know they are authentic, but I may remove mine after the build is completed for a showroom look.  I'll see how they look on the completed model.

This completes the stage.