Dodge Viper RT/10?

[LL3 Model Worx]

I started on my Cannonball entry yesterday a Monogram RT/10 

My question is, does this kit not come with a back glass or the upper center brake light, or is my kit just missing parts ? 

Doesn't show in the instructions that I can see, but has locator pins in the top of the "roof" so it seems something is/was supposed to go there.

I will say that overall the kit looks fairly nice and is obviously a repurposed Snap kit... the rear drive tail light is a little wonky and some of the mold lines on the body  take some serious sanding/shaping but comes out decent.

Never dealt with this kit before... all help appreciated.

 

[spencer1984]

A little bit of guessing here since I don't have that particular release, but the rear window in the first generation Viper was removable and kit/diecast makers usually leave it out as well. Do you have a photo of the pins? Wondering if they may be a remnant of the GTS tooling.

[Joe Handley]

I you're talking about the roadster, no, I don't remember that it did, though if it is the GTS Coupe, it should have the rear window with the brake light detail molded in, IIRC.

[LL3 Model Worx]

 

5 hours ago, spencer1984 said:

A little bit of guessing here since I don't have that particular release, but the rear window in the first generation Viper was removable and kit/diecast makers usually leave it out as well. Do you have a photo of the pins? Wondering if they may be a remnant of the GTS tooling.

 

5 hours ago, Joe Handley said:

I you're talking about the roadster, no, I don't remember that it did, though if it is the GTS Coupe, it should have the rear window with the brake light detail molded in, IIRC.

Thanks, I'll snap a photo when I get home.

It's the roadster not the GTS... and I knew it had a removable window, just couldn't figure out why the pins were there and the brake light is missing.

[Joe Handley]

19 minutes ago, LL3 Model Worx said:

 

 

Thanks, I'll snap a photo when I get home.

It's the roadster not the GTS... and I knew it had a removable window, just couldn't figure out why the pins were there and the brake light is missing.

It's been too long since I looked at the roadster kit, but it should have a 3rd brake light since those were on all cars and starting to appear on light duty trucks by then.  If I remember correctly, the rear window ons the roadsters were removable and separate from the top and door curtains that the early Viper RT/10 roadsters had. 

[LL3 Model Worx]

10 hours ago, spencer1984 said:

A little bit of guessing here since I don't have that particular release, but the rear window in the first generation Viper was removable and kit/diecast makers usually leave it out as well. Do you have a photo of the pins? Wondering if they may be a remnant of the GTS tooling.

 

4 hours ago, Joe Handley said:

It's been too long since I looked at the roadster kit, but it should have a 3rd brake light since those were on all cars and starting to appear on light duty trucks by then.  If I remember correctly, the rear window ons the roadsters were removable and separate from the top and door curtains that the early Viper RT/10 roadsters had. 

Definitely no brake light, but has the cutaway for it, or so it seems.

[spencer1984]

I did some further checking, and it looks like you should have a part #16 that forms the inside of the roll bar and fits those two pins. And yes, it should sandwich a brake light (referenced as part #81) between the inner and outer halves of the bar. So if you don't have those, it looks like you've got an incomplete kit.

[LL3 Model Worx]

I've got an incomplete kit ? oh well I guess.