oldscool Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) Here she is. Painted with Tamiya Light Blue pearl and unpainted seats and door panels. Good fitting, well engineered kit. Pros: Hood actually fits well. Easy final assembly. Thin, optically clear windshield and backlight. Cons: Very little attachment surface for windshield. Chrome rubbed off from handling. Decal whitewalls.(why when they have done better in the past) Two piece rear view mirrors. No attachment points for entire rear of chassis, it just floats up and down inside the body. I made my own. Track width appears too narrow in the rear. Edited July 16, 2020 by oldscool
'70 Grande Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 A stunning build! That paint color and its application look excellent! Makes me want to dig out my in-progress build of this same kit and return it to my workbench.
Snake45 Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Very nice! I need to build one of these sometime soon! Well done and model on!
Hard_2_Handle_454 Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Nice! I was planning on starting mine this week.
bisc63 Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Looks good! Beautiful color. You gonna foil that chrome strip down the center of the hood?!
Spottedlaurel Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Looks fantastic, a really clean build. The glass thing is annoying, I'm going to suffer that on one of my kits that's nearing completion. It's as if the people who engineered it had never acually built a kit, maybe someone was very proud of themselves for saving some plastic?
oldscool Posted July 16, 2020 Author Posted July 16, 2020 6 hours ago, bisc63 said: Looks good! Beautiful color. You gonna foil that chrome strip down the center of the hood?! It's so thin that I am afraid of making a mess. Same with the narrow strips along the rocker panels. So thin that they are hardly noticeable anyway.
fivesuns Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 I love 66 Impalas. I had a lot of trouble with rear end on the one I did. It did not turn out as well as yours. Your paint color selection is great.
espo Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 Beautiful looking build, like it's siting on the showroom floor. You right about those mirrors.. They're a bear to even glue the face to the stem and that part is the wrong size anyway.
Classicgas Posted July 16, 2020 Posted July 16, 2020 21 hours ago, '70 Grande said: A stunning build! That paint color and its application look excellent! Makes me want to dig out my in-progress build of this same kit and return it to my workbench. X2!!
Bills72sj Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Sweet build. My dad had a light yellow one when I was a kid. I was 3 on the tree. The starter went out so he made us kids get out and push start it a number of times. He also showed me how to shaft gears without pushing in the clutch pedal.
Slimguy Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Gorgeous build Gerald. That Tamiya light blue paint looks really fine on this car...the last two photos really show how stunning that paint looks. Thanks for posting this.
Deuces ll Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 That's beautiful!..... ?? Can't wait to get started on my "street burner" kit.... ?
Nazz Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 Very nice. I like the way you did the chrome treatment down the side with the black in the middle!
Slotto Posted July 18, 2020 Posted July 18, 2020 Perfect execution. Gotta get me some of that Tamiya paint
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