tim boyd

 

 

 

Correct.  Never any opening doors.

Interestingly, on the original and the reissue instruction sheet, Step 4 of Section 7 "Final Assemblies", upper right corner of page, reads "NOTE: Rear doors may be trimmed out of body and hinged with cloth tape".   TB

 

Thanks for the pics and review comments, Tim. I am REALLY liking the roll feature, too. Hopefully Photobucket copies that feature from fotki. 

 

The smooth roof on all of these issues (except the GMC-branded A-TEAM version IIRC) is the biggest disappointment for me. It would've been great to see the roof ribs engraved in the tooling, but I can understand why Round 2 wouldn't want to do that.

Thanks Casey! 

I'm not an expert on 3rd gen Chevy vans, but I know that at some point (around 1977 IIRC) a bodyside strengthening rib was added to the metal stampings for the van bodysides.  It runs about a foot or so above the separately engraved bodyside rub stripes on early 3rd gen Chevy vans.  I wonder if the roof rib engraving you mention was added as well at that time, or was it a feature of all 3rd Gen Chevy minivans?  

TIM

I've just posted a full review of the kit contents of Round 2's reissue of this 1971 Chevy G30 "Rescue Van", along with a comparison to the original 1971 "T516" issue of the kit.  28 photos and commentary at the link (you may want to use the "roll" feature view the pictures and text as one continuous presentation).

Thanks for looking...TIM    http://public.fotki....chevy-rescue-v/

Art....just ran across this thread this morning. Your chassis detailing is just stunning.  Great work....really looking forward to seeing it completed!   TIM 

Is it going to be molded in the red color? I hope not...

 

saw a half assembled test shot Darryl Gassaway had with him at NNL, it looked pretty nice though not really my cuppa.

 

jb

JB - if you are referring to the test shot I showed, the red styrene was used just for test shot purposes.  

The actual kit should be a more neutral color, presumably similar to that used in previous Galaxie kits...TIM