Round2 Sock it to me

[62rebel]

Working on this one in between other projects, I find that the clear/orange metallic plastic is somewhat resistant to taking paint.... Even cleaned meticulously, nothing seems to stick well and my usual mek solvent seems to be unable to make a good bond between parts. Testors in the red tube seems to be the only stuff capable of bonding it. 

 

 

[Dave Darby]

That's the Katch the Kat issue. Only something like one in each master carton is molded in the metallic colot. Kinda surprized you want to paint it. I've seen them go for upwards of 50 bucks.

[62rebel]

I painted the inside of the body silver, but in truth, all that did was highlight the poor condition of the mold. Some parts have large extrusions that would be quite a pain to remove. Somewhere down the line in twenty or thirty years, it will turn up as a gluebomb and someone will question why a builder painted a supposedly rare clear bodied kit.......

[edboys]

Would be nice if the name of the kit was mentioned here. Just saying. 

[sfhess]

Would be nice if the name of the kit was mentioned here. Just saying. 

AMT 62 Corvette kit, molded on clear metalflake orange.

 

[gtx6970]

I tried to paint mine in  a color similar to the  molded clear orange car.

 

Its one of my favorites to date . A very simple , and obviously proportionally challenged kit.

But it looks killer in the display case .

[Bob Ellis]

The kit is not that bad. When AMT released the annual kit in 1967 as a Trophy Series, they ruined the headlights. They removed the bezels and the appropriately sized clear lights.  Whatever money they saved was not worth it.

[chadrob30]

Would be nice if the name of the kit was mentioned here. Just saying. 

LOL, the name of the kit is Sock It To Me.