Welly '65 GTO with Snake-Fu

[Snake45]

Had this one for more than 10 years. It never looked quite right to me but I didn't figure out why until I started checking into what was wrong with the Polar Lights '64 GTO. It's the same problem: The C pillars are too thick, with the front edge of the C pillar coming down at a too-steep angle.

I laid some masking tape on the sides of an AMT '65 GTO roof, which looks right (about the only thing on that kit that does anymore) and placed these on the Welly roof. You can see immediately what the problem is.

So I filed the front edge of the C pillars back. This took a couple of evenings in front of the TV. I didn't file all the way back to the tape, but I did match the angle. I was worried about how to match or mate or fix the drip rail at the top edge of the roof. Finally decided to make the drip rails out of .030” sheet styrene, so I only filed .030” past the drip rail. Then I superglued pieces of .030” styrene onto the leading edges of the C pillars, and then carefully shaved/filed/sanded the rail thickness down to match the upper drip rails.

So it's not perfect, but it looks hella better than it did. And IMHO it looks better than anything you can build out of a reissued AMT kit box. Standard Snake-Fu applied, of course. Oh, and it's a little small, maybe 1/26 or so. As always, comments welcome. 

 

Edited September 19, 2018 by Snake45

[Gramps46]

Well done and looks good.  Creative solution to the drip rail too.

[randyc]

Good approach to fixing it.  I just can't make myself love this car.   None of the ones I've seen, diecast or plastic.   But nice to see how you fix issues.