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Great job so far. The issue with the toe in on the front is actually caused by the upper control arms. When gluing the wheel wells first it is hard to see but they actually have hard time snapping into place on one side which causes them to pull the hubs and create either a toe in or toe out situation. Once popped in properly everything is squared off. I had the same issue as you and it took me some head scratching to figure it out. I have painted my body, but haven't taken pictures yet. What color are you going with?

Good work so far. One problem I encountered with glueing the wheel wells to the floor plate before assembly of the chassis was the axles. Their boots will not pass through the cutouts in the wells. What I did was to glue them to the engine, then cut them off right outside the boot. I glued the other end to the hub and threaded it through when assembling suspension. This way the axles met the boots on the sides of the engine and you can't tell they were ever cut. To do this tho, I put the engine in before I assembled the suspension.

So? I understand if in one boxing they include the floor mats and the carbon roof and in the other they include the stripes. Having different options for the license plates in two different markets also makes sense. But both sheets should have the essentials you need to complete the model, like the headlight decals, the headrest decals and the center console controls. And the last one is comprised of two decals that together are a quarter of the size of one of the four optional screens, which is an overkill. Essentially in the US kit you have enough decals for three kits, but none of them are complete, which is just dumb.

I noticed the Z51 option also. But that has nothing to do with the issue. All of the C8 Vettes, no matter their trim level, have the same controls on the center console. Same buttons in the same location. Not just there, but on the doors etc. They all have the same headlights and both kits come with the same seats. If you look at your sheet, there are no decals for the headlights, no decals for the controls in the center console and no decals for the mesh portion of the clear part of the rear hood. Also no white decals with the yellow labels which we have all seen on cars, warning us about air bags. All of these are present on the Euro sheet.

No. They are for the same car. It even is printed on the sheet that it is for a C8 Coupe.

Yeah. Your point is...? And it is missing a lot, while it has spares galore for no reason. And it is a similar situation on the Euro decals. They have quite few pieces completely missing from this sheet, but no options or spares at all. Which means that it has nothing to do with costs or money. If anything, developing two completely different decal sheets is more expensive.

That thing is massive. Looks very well made.

I get that. But even if you don't care about accuracy or proportions and detail, still if there is an option that comes together easier and delivers better results, why would you cause yourself the frustration of the crude poorly fitting molds of the old thing. I truly enjoy "Gone With The Wind", the first James Bonds and some of the ridiculous black and white movies. But I'm not gonna watch them on a 50 year old TV set without remote or play them on a Beta Max tapes. I don't understand certain things in the hobby, no matter how hard I try to make sense of them. Like the same people who would vote for the 9812th variation of a '53 Ford pick up truck over a brand new model, just because the previous 9811 variations did not have the extra slot on a hubcap or whatever other minute detail, are the ones cheering on the reissues of old outdated kits which have numerous better alternatives with the argument of the joyfulness in building them over proportions.

That would not surprise me at all. The C4 was probably the worst built quality Vette ever. I almost died in mine.

Sweet model. There is something "noble" in a way of that color combo. I think it suits the model perfectly.

Mean looking machine! Black and yellow is a really hard to beat color combo.

Green is far from the first color that comes to mind when I think of a '57 Chevy, but this looks really, really cool. Your flames are perfectly executed also. Smooth as glass finish must have taken quite a bit of sanding to eliminate the separation line. It goes to proove that a rather straight forward build can look a real winner without bunch of details and mods. I love seeing models like this.

Great job, man. Body looks really smooth and everything flows as if factory. I am not a fan of the porthole however. It is beautifully executed, but it is like a Thunderbird trademark and it is out of place on a chevy in my personal opinion. It's like putting Buick portholes on a Mustang.

Considering how obsolete this kit is in comparison to the Revell '32 offerings, I really don't understand why would anyone want to cause them self the suffering of building this pile of disproportionate plastic blob.

Let me quote myself and eat my own words. And perhaps someone who's in the inner circles of the industry could explain this to me. Yes TB, I'm looking at you. LOL So The decal sheets between the Euro and US versions have waaaayyyyy more differences than I thought. And they are significant as both are missing some essential pieces. The Euro decals have a carbon roof decal, daylight running lights decals, all center console control decals, floor mat decals and engine hood "mesh" decals. At the same time, the Euro version is missing any headrest decals and does not offer any options other than the mindblowing number of license plates. The US decal sheet is the exact opposite. It has no carbon fiber decals, no headlight decals, no airbag warning labels, no decals for the center console controls at all and no floor mats. Meanwhile it has three (or sometimes more) color options for pretty much everything AND spares. Four different screen options for each display, which would give 16 different combinations, but no center console controls?! That just makes no sense! Three different engine cover options plus three different engine cover emblems, but no mesh decal for the clear hood piece? Four different stingray emblems for the rear hood, two different wheel center caps and three different headrest decals all with spares, but no headlight decals?! Is this a major brain fart on Revell's behalf or is there some kind of reasoning behind it?

I hear you. When the LEGO Titanic came out, I absolutely had to have it. It was the biggest LEGO set ever at the time and it is 5 feet long. $700 and limited to one purchase per person, because people were reselling them for double that. I got it and it took quite some time to build it. I had to convince my wife to buy a whole new console table in the living room to display it. On top of her being furious about the money I spend "on a stupid toy". LOL. I admire the woman for keeping up with my sheet sometimes. LOL

Pretty sharp build. I love the color.

Because of your comments I took a closer look at the two different decal sheets. And it makes less and less sense every time I look. So, the US decals have: *+ a choice of two different stripes - white and black *+ five different color choices for a center stripe for the steering wheel *+ Choice of three different colors of headrest emblems with a spare each + Choice of four different dash displays and four center screen displays + Choice of two different brake caliper markings with two spares each + Choice of no less than four different stingray emblems for the rear hatch +Choice of two different third brake lights with a spare each + Choice of two different center caps with a spare each + Choice of three different engine cover decals The items with * are not present on the Euro decal at all. Meanwhile, the Euro decal has: *+ Daylight running lights *+ Carbon fiber roof decals *+ Foot rest/ pedals decals *+ Engine cover "mesh" decals *+ Weird (and cheap) looking floor mats *+ all center console buttons decals *+ airbag warning decals All of these items are missing from the US decal sheet. At the same time the Euro decal has no spares and no multiple color options. No choice for screens, no choice for brakes, no choice for engine cover, no choice for center caps, no choice for emblems. But ten different license plate options!?! Meanwhile the US sheet has a bunch of choices for everything and spares, but it is missing essential pieces like the center console decals and the lights. The decal for the center piece between the seat shoulders is completely different between the two also. I really don't get it.

I am really baffled by the drastic differences in decal sheets between the US and Euro kits. I am really curious what's Revell's reasoning behind this?

Amazing work. Are you going to have it at the ACME show?

Very nice work so far. When I saw your first picture, before I read your description, I was going to ask what paint did you use to create the effect of the running lights strips. Then I saw you said it is a decal. It looks very realistic. Unfortunately the decal sheet in the US market model I am working with does not include these decals and those lines will have to be painted. I really don't understand why would Revell do this.

You are absolutely right. I was just thinking about that right after I uploaded my post. When I consider prepping and priming parts, then spraying a black coat and then chrome by Alclad for example, all the airbrush cleaning and drying times, the $30 for a can doesn't seem so bad after all. Besides, I never managed to achieve that good of a chrome effect with Alclad as I did with the Revell spray. So, until something better comes along, this is going to be my go-to solution.

Looks amazing. My problem with projects like this is simply space. I have ran out of display space in my house years ago. And what's the point making a model like this if it can not be displayed. I watched the video. They really went above and beyond on this model it seems. Included all the LEDs too. My wife laughs that if we were to win the lottery the underground space dedicated to my hobbies would probably dwarf the living space in our house. I would need a large basement just for my LEGO desires. Then one for my die cast collections and then a third for my plastic models.

Whaaaaat? 1/72 scale Millennium Falcon? That thing would be the size of a kitchen table.

You can use acrylics pretty much over anything. But you pretty much can't use anything over acrylics.