Revell (Monogram) Miami Vice "Daytona"

[Jonathan]

I received this kit for Christmas from my brother-in-law.  The wheels in this kit are great, and I can see buying another kit just for those.

As you probably know, the kit is a model of a kit car - the Daytona on Miami Vice was based on a Corvette and not an actual Ferrari.  The Monogram kit reflects this fact.  There are also shots of the clear-nosed Daytona and solid-nosed Daytona from the show.  Out of the box, the kit builds the solid-nosed version.  I guess that's the right term.  Anywho ....

 

The hood does sit correctly; I just bumped it prior to taking the picture. 

 

A little polish left in the door line.  Oops.

 

 

The kit comes with the correct ZAQ-178 license plate; but I messed it up.  So, I reverted to the "spare".  I may fix that eventually.   The tail lights look funky, too.  That actually bugs me and may be corrected before going into the case.

 

Thanks for looking.

[jefropas]

I always liked this car way more than their Testarossa, nice!

Jeff

[Dann Tier]

Beautiful build!!!, Did this kit come with the rear fender turn signal decals?.....mine didn't. I agree about those wheels...i'd take those all day long before ever going to flat photo-etch ones.

[Jonathan]

1 hour ago, Dann Tier said:

Beautiful build!!!, Did this kit come with the rear fender turn signal decals?.....mine didn't. I agree about those wheels...i'd take those all day long before ever going to flat photo-etch ones.

Thanks.  The kit did come w/ the decals; although the instructions would have you install the decals in the character line; which I think is how they appear on the real car.  The decals are too large to go there, and I thought they looked better above (or below) the character line anyway. 

[Jonathan]

Looking at the pictures, I'm definitely going to fix the rear lights. 

[Dann Tier]

Still looks awesome....any way you do it!!

[Jonathan]

I could just park it correctly on the shelf.

[slusher]

Really nice model!

[shaunmza]

I remember watching this show as a kid, I loved that car, your build looks great.

[spencer1984]

Looks good, nice work! Like Jeff, I always preferred this to the look of this one over the Testarossa