Has anyone built this?

[El Roberto]

It's a Linberg Chrysler Atlantic  snap kit.   The car is really beautiful, just wondering how the kit is.

[olsbooks]

While not familiar with this specific kit, my experience with Lindberg has been the quality is lacking.  That does not mean they are junk.  Just expect lots of time in clean up and in .addressing alignment/fitment. I  for one consider them jewels in the rough...it takes work but the finished product (if done well) provides a great deal of personal satisfaction.  Sweat equity.

Know that going in and they can turn out very well. 

 

Peace

[El Roberto]

4 hours ago, olsbooks said:

While not familiar with this specific kit, my experience with Lindberg has been the quality is lacking.  That does not mean they are junk.  Just expect lots of time in clean up and in .addressing alignment/fitment. I  for one consider them jewels in the rough...it takes work but the finished product (if done well) provides a great deal of personal satisfaction.  Sweat equity.

Know that going in and they can turn out very well. 

 

Peace

I've built a couple of Lindbergs and I agree about the quality.  I don't have a big issue with the fit as long as it is correctable without completely sawing the body apart and redesigning it.

[stitchdup]

Its not a bad kit, the interior is pretty nicely done though decals would be better than the stickers they included. It needs lowered to get rid of the 4x4 stance, but it has some strong possibilities

[Ace-Garageguy]

I have several, bought at times they were really cheap, mostly intending to hack them into something else, but one to build stock as a historical styling reference.

The kit quality is actually quite good, and everything fits well...including the doors, which are molded separately from the body; though not hinged, the doors can be made functional with some effort.

Lindberg quality is indeed all over the board, influenced primarily by what time in history the tooling was made, and what crew did the work.

The Atlantic has a very low parts count, typical of a promotional item, and appears to have been done by the same tooling crew that did the Dodge Copperhead show-car released by AMT, and the PT Cruiser promos and kits.

The impression of the model when built out-of-the-box is of a high quality promo, with good fit and highly polished exterior surfaces.

 

Edited November 21, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[olsbooks]

Good point Ace. 

I just picked up their Stutz Racer.  Night and day difference compared to the Dodge L700's.   While not much in the area of super detail or parts count,  expecting the worst it is proving a pleasant surprise.

Peace.

[Oldcarfan27]

On 11/21/2018 at 3:08 PM, olsbooks said:

Good point Ace. 

I just picked up their Stutz Racer.  Night and day difference compared to the Dodge L700's.   While not much in the area of super detail or parts count,  expecting the worst it is proving a pleasant surprise.

Peace.

The L700 was originally an IMC kit from the 60s - Lindberg just acquired the tool and ran it. They didn't design it.

That was also the case with many tools they've bought from defunct model companies like Pyro, Palmer, Hawk, Aurora, Life Like, IMC, etc. That may be why their quality is all over the map!

Edited November 23, 2018 by Oldcarfan27

[Tom Geiger]

And important to note that Lindberg is no longer a company, just one of the many defunct brands owned by Round 2.  So there are no comparisons to be made if Lindberg, MPC or AMT is doing a better job releaseling kits today, because they are all controlled by the same team.

[Dave Van]

There are many different Lindberg eras.......and kits under the lindberg brand come from Lindberg, IMC, Pyro, AMT and others, So you can't make a blanket statement  on all the kits that is 100% correct.

[Deuces]

Has anyone here had a problem with the L-700 tanker model???....