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Been waiting for this bad boy. Id be shocked if it isn’t already built from all the movement during shipping when you open it….lol

Replacement body for revell 65 Chevy impala Foose came in, but damaged and can’t use it. So $15 down the drain should have just got a full kit. Both sides are the same. It was packaged good just poor choice of packaging.

Mold line cleaning

You can use the back side on a xacto blade at an angle to clean up flash etc. I use a ceramic blade though as it’s safer, and can’t damage the plastic by accidentally gouging it. Seamlines and moldlines is different though. The SMS tool is pricey as is the blades, but one blade will outlast 100 pack of xacto blades far as sharpness goes.

I hear ya. I think next time if it’s a rough kit I’ll give it a swirl. But the current kit 57 Chevy bel air 100 anniversary edition by AMT that I’m dabbling in is fantastic. Even the instructions are the best I’ve seen by AMT. Only issue I found with the kit so far was when test fitting the trunk - it sat little higher than the body so had to sand it down until whole thing was flush. But besides the flash it looks like a newly tooled kit, and the chrome is the best I’ve seen so far from AMT.

Besides for base coats. Its good practice to use grey primer to see any imperfections on the model that you may of missed. Only need light coat or two of grey primer to see what u missed. Happens all the time though! You think u cleaned all the mold lines etc and it looks good, and you go to primer and BOOOOOOOM…..Small piece of flash or mold line or dent or something laughing at you.

Yeah that’ll never happen with Tamiya, but would be awesome though. Id buy with no hesitation.

That’s true, but my priorities are different than those dedicated accomplished builders. I like the car reason I asked if there were any others out there, but not enough to care that much to spend months on it. I could do it if I wanted too, but that road from start to finish wouldn’t be fun for me. It’s a decent kit, but maybe I got a lemon as I seem to get all the time with AMT - even though I do have a lot of quality AMT kits. I threw away a few though except the tires and rims, cause bodies missing trim work etc etc. I don’t mind cleaning flash and few other things, but I buy kits I like to build them not fix bad engineering or ridiculous mold issues from out dated molds that should be put to rest. It’s my own ignorance getting kits when I was new, and not knowing how old something is.

The body of kit is good, but the front end is horrible and doesn’t match the real car at all. The grill inserts fit, but with big gaps. The front trim isn’t even even or align, and the hood is ill fitting with a gap on right side. Other than that the tires are great along with the rims. I knew the responses that was gonna come, but was just curious if there was anything else out there is all. Doesn’t matter how much u polish a turd - a turd is still a turd. Thanks for the help.

Is AMT the only one that does that model? It’s trash, and was hoping there was another company out there that happened to do one?

I might prep a scrap body etc and try it again see how it does without doing a heavy coat. Just got to….dig it out the trash.

It was the perfect match clear of there’s acrylic lacquer. I paid $18 for it, but I’m not blaming the product but myself. The last cost was just way too heavy I think. I guess it’s best to just do light coat after light coat 10 mins in between until it finally turns to gloss. I’m just scared to use it again, and prob would never use it over decals as it’s too hot. I’ll just stick with 2k something I’m good at, and just have someone watch my son for bout a hour while I use it. I probably should have heated the can up though as it was spitting a little hear and there, and wasn’t a fine mist. I just suck at rattle cans lol.

It was scalefinishes, but it wasn’t the paint that was the issue. It’s my own my fault though I didn’t know that dupli color was that hot. I couldn’t fix the damage it did so I had to order a body off eBay. I guess I should have kept doing light coats building it up, but I’m sticking with 2K. There is a new 2k that James selling at scalefinishes called honey clear (Like 2K without most of the harmful Chemicals) that I wanna try. Haven’t ordered it yet as I need some custom paint done, but he hasn’t answered my email in almost two weeks. I guess he still backed up with orders after the emergency situation he had to deal with.

What I accomplished today was destroying my paint job using dupli color clear. Did about 4 coats each one light to medium with 10 mins between coats. I than decided to do a heavy coat at the end, and it made dark patches in the color, and made small scratches on the hood, and the trunk, and some on each side of the body. It’s hard to explain, but looks like someone took a blade to it. I guess I went too heavy as I suck with rattle cans. So $20 down the drain cause the can going in the trash, and $10 bottle of stripper wasted, and now hours of work tryna fix all the issues it created. My gut told me not to get it as I do 2K with no issues, but I was willing to try something different cause of my son.

There’s all different types of methods to sanding in small areas etc. Here is a example in the pic. Some areas though aren’t worth trying to polish etc cause you’ll never really notice or see it, and you’re asking for burn through.

It’s the 65 impala Foose version. The glass is all separate on this one. One of the other issues with the kit was the lower radiator hose doesn’t reach where it’s suppose too. Luckily you won’t even be able to see it once everything is in. Even the upper hose is different in the kit than what the instructions show - which they show installing it wrong also. Even the air conditioner line one end suppose to fit in a hole in the radiator wall, but the hole doesn’t exist so it just hangs under the battery lol.

Very clean man ??. Not sure if it’s how the pic took, but looks like you could polish it some more or is that the look you’re going for?

No it’s spazstix. It’s been awhile since I’ve chromed anything so I think I went a tiny tiny bit heavy.

Got some chrome done today.

When I went back today they still had a lot left, and still had few others along with the caddie surfing shark. I was really hoping the body would be better, but I’m probably just gonna sand down the molding on both sides all the way around when ever I decide to get around to building it.

Picked up another one of these at Ollie’s. It’s no better than the first one with the left side being the worst. I’ll come up with an idea for the van, but least got more rims and dope tires. I outlined the issue i been talking about. That side molding it’s literally non existent on the door lol.

Ah okay I can get that at Walmarts. Thanks brotha

What kind of tacky glue? I always test fit everything just with no glue. In this case it wasn’t a fit issue, but an angle issue lol. But now all that’s left is the steering wheel to get installed, and the shifter, and with that the interior will be 100% done. Once I’m done with this car for my friend I got another one lined up and with a plan. Just got to dig it out the stash.

True, and based on how the instructions are I doubt I’m the only one that’s made this mistake lol. It’s hard to explain how it’s suppose to be positioned - it’s a feel thing while making sure it’s angled properly. It’s just bad engineering, but this is why I prefer all in one dashboards instead of multiple parts. But it does make detailing a lot easier depending on the kit.