'70 Grande Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I've never had much success building a kit with opening doors like the recently reissued 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit has. I've never been happy with the way the opening doors worked or looked on any of my completed, opening-doors builds, no matter the subject matter.My question is this: it looks to me like the "fit" of the doors on this 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit is somewhat "loose" meaning glueing the doors shut on a build of it would leave some fairly large gaps and just not look right. Has anybody tried glueing the doors shut on their build of this 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit, and what did the end-result look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I've never had much success building a kit with opening doors like the recently reissued 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit has. I've never been happy with the way the opening doors worked or looked on any of my completed, opening-doors builds, no matter the subject matter.My question is this: it looks to me like the "fit" of the doors on this 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit is somewhat "loose" meaning glueing the doors shut on a build of it would leave some fairly large gaps and just not look right. Has anybody tried glueing the doors shut on their build of this 1/25 Round-2/AMT '63 Studebaker Avanti kit, and what did the end-result look like?I would suggest using some easy-tac or something similar on the exterior, and then use some very thin strip from behind, glue it is, followed by some putty if need be to tighten up the gaps a little.This is a case of "pictures would be a big help."Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'70 Grande Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) This is a case of "pictures would be a big help." Agreed, Charlie. I don't own this Avanti kit; just hoping someone on this forum who does own the Avanti kit might post some pics so I can determine if the door fit issues would be bad enough to deter me from buying it. Edited September 30, 2016 by '70 Grande Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 Having built this kit MANY years ago, and having the doors working, I can tell you that indeed it will have shut lines that are too wide to appear correct. I don't have the model anymore (lost in a flood), but what bothered me more than the shut lines were the hinges themselves. I'm not a fan of plastic hinges and if I were to build this again, I'd replace 'em with brass ones which would last practically forever.Having said that, one cure for fixing gaps that are too big in a model is to simply increase the size of the doors. You can do that by adding some .020 styrene sheet around the perimeter of the doors, and then file and sand it to the contours of such. I'm doing this very thing on my Shelby build now, and I have some pics of my Turbine Car build here which show how to do this (scroll down a bit to see several pics with text).Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'70 Grande Posted October 1, 2016 Author Share Posted October 1, 2016 Thanks Mr. Obsessive. Your Chrysler Turbine build was extremely helpful. Now I just gotta find me an Avanti kit and get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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