Revell '70 AAR Cuda

[maxwell48098]

Notice that the tire decals are for BF Goodrich tires which were never used by Chrysler on any vehicles of this era.  Their main tire company was Goodyear, as shown on the image of the 1:1 vehicle.  And the tires were bias ply Polyglas line tires, and not radials.

 

[Can-Con]

44 minutes ago, maxwell48098 said:

Notice that the tire decals are for BF Goodrich tires which were never used by Chrysler on any vehicles of this era.  Their main tire company was Goodyear, as shown on the image of the 1:1 vehicle.  And the tires were bias ply Polyglas line tires, and not radials.

 

Unless you're planning to spend the extra money to have the European release shipped to you. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Those decals are not on the sheet in the north american release.

[Ron Hamilton]

On 7/28/2019 at 4:10 PM, Hawk312 said:

I finally got my hands on one, and will share some info here. 

First, here is the body. It is quite nice! Very little prep work needed other than scribing some lines and light sanding. Some of you may have seen the body inaccuracies and correction discussion in the Revell 2019 thread. I decided to let the wife and kids know I wouldn`t be going with them on our vacation week to Disney, and instead decided to stay home and work in paintbrush on this detailed image with corrections illustrated:

I have made these changes to the body. The front fenders had about a scale 1" cut down or so, not much:

 

 

 

The color is actually Krylon Mambo Pink from the can.  I have a can of Testor`s Panther Pink, and they are *very* close in color. 

By the way, for you younger builders, *do not* follow my example for painting this body, as best practices we definitely not followed:

• No primer on the body. Just some light sanding, and then spraying the Krylon color directly on the bare plastic.
• KRYLON 
• Followed by Rustoleum clear. 
• The Krylon was not fully cured before the clear was sprayed. 

I am actually surprised it came out half decent. 

 

Thank you David for the information. I have yet to build any of the variations of this kit, so it is very helpful.

[tim boyd]

On 7/28/2019 at 4:10 PM, Hawk312 said:

I finally got my hands on one, and will share some info here. 

First, here is the body. It is quite nice! Very little prep work needed other than scribing some lines and light sanding. Some of you may have seen the body inaccuracies and correction discussion in the Revell 2019 thread. I decided to let the wife and kids know I wouldn`t be going with them on our vacation week to Disney, and instead decided to stay home and work in paintbrush on this detailed image with corrections illustrated:

I have made these changes to the body. The front fenders had about a scale 1" cut down or so, not much:

 

 

 

The color is actually Krylon Mambo Pink from the can.  I have a can of Testor`s Panther Pink, and they are *very* close in color. 

By the way, for you younger builders, *do not* follow my example for painting this body, as best practices we definitely not followed:

• No primer on the body. Just some light sanding, and then spraying the Krylon color directly on the bare plastic.
• KRYLON 
• Followed by Rustoleum clear. 
• The Krylon was not fully cured before the clear was sprayed. 

I am actually surprised it came out half decent. 

 

I've made the front fender "reduction" and some other minor changes to my body as well.  Not painted yet, but already looks much, much better.  Thanks for posting....TIM

[cruz]

I built this version a few years back, definitely building the AAR version......

[drodg]

On 12/2/2019 at 10:07 PM, cruz said:

I built this version a few years back, definitely building the AAR version......

Loved that when you built it.  I think I used it as a guide for my build along with Tim Boyd's build.