Mounting tires on rear wheels on the 1/25 Revell Peterbilt 359 and Kenworth W900 Aerodyne snap kits

[Force]

I see now and then people who hasn't followed or even read the instructions on how to mount the tires on the rear wheels on the Revell Peterbilt 359 and Kenworth W900 Aerodyne snap kits.
If you do it wrong it looks horrible and if you do it right it looks a lot better...not perfect as these wheels are way too shallow to be realistic...but it is what it is.
Here is how you are supposed to do it, the wheel rim goes inside the tire so the outermost lip on the rim is inside the tire, so the rims are not only pushed through the tire like on most of the kits, if you do the outermost lip on the rim shows and it shouldn't.

Here is a blown up picture from the instructions on how to do it.

And here is how it should look if you have done it right.

 

And if it looks like this you have done it wrong.



The right way looks a lot better, doesn't it.
Easy as pie.

The pictures are not mine except for the blown up instruction picture, the others are borrowed from a couple of threads on this forum.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Force

[Dave Van]

I like these snapper kits. But done right or wrong I don't like the tire/wheel system Revell used.  But still I have a few......Thanks!