Funny Car kit quality.

[D.Pack]

Hi all.

The 90's Monogram funny cars, Sentry and Raybestos Oldsmobile.

How is the kit's quality?

That long bodyshape, is it prone to warping and needs to be fixed? Like Mono's T Bird nascars which I also build.

Am sure the old kit decals will be unusable too or just yellowed, but the old Slixx decals, are they also tough to work with?

Not much choice, just Pisano and Rug Doctor cars.

[into the blue]

The Monogram funny car is a great kit. It's 1/24 scale but both chassis and track width are narrower than the 1/25 early revell kit. The bad news is I checked my stash. The mustang body was great the avenger was really good as well, but both my Oldsmobiles one red one white had the same little twist.

 

[Force]

When the Monogram "modern era" Funny Car kits came back in 1984-85 when the Don Prudhomme's Pepsi-Wendy's and Dale Pulde's Miller High Life Trans Am Funny Cars came, they were pretty much state of the art and quite correct, then the evloution of the real race cars passed them under the late 80's and 90's as the progress and development was fast back then, so the later kits has to be updated some to be more correct.
Monogram and later Revell did some updates with new bodies and some other small things but never enough to keep up with what the racers did because they did so much in a short period of time and the race cars evolved with new different and improved different looking engine parts and other things wich the kits never got.
If they had updated the chassis and engine parts back then it would be quite representative even today as not much has changed visually in the last 20 years, but the bodies are changed often so they would have to be done to keep up even if chassis and engines are right.

Same with the "modern era" Top Fuel kits from Revell, they were state of the art when they first came back in the late 80's, the first kit in the series was Don Garlits Swamp Rat XXX in 1987-88,  then it was retooled to Joe Amato's Valvoline, Gary Ormsby's Castrol GTX dragsters in 1990-91 as the dragsters had changed, and later Revell did some updates to larger front wheels, slightly different body and the last issues were Kenny Bernstein's Budweiser King and Tony Schumacher's Army dragsters in 2002 wich was updated most...but never enough to keep up...if Revell had done the necessary updates to the kits back then they would pretty much be up to date even now 20 years later as very few things has been changed visually on the real race cars after that other than a larger wind screen and the DSR canopy some uses today.

But with that said, they are quite good kits and I have several of them, I think I have at least one kit of every body style they issued until they stopped doing them.

[D.Pack]

7 hours ago, into the blue said:

The Monogram funny car is a great kit. It's 1/24 scale but both chassis and track width are narrower than the 1/25 early revell kit. The bad news is I checked my stash. The mustang body was great the avenger was really good as well, but both my Oldsmobiles one red one white had the same little twist.

 

Thanks for replies. A bodyshell twist is my main concern.

Here in UK these Oldsmobile kits average £50, so a lot to spend for a kit needing the hot water bath to fix the bodyshell.

I can straighten my Nascar shells to almost perfect, but they cost only £25. And I have ruined one out of four. Doh!

So with the above info,something for me to consider if buying. Though the Castrol car is my favourite scheme, I don't see any for sale (in UK) at moment.

[Force]

3 hours ago, D.Pack said:

Thanks for replies. A bodyshell twist is my main concern.

Here in UK these Oldsmobile kits average £50, so a lot to spend for a kit needing the hot water bath to fix the bodyshell.

I can straighten my Nascar shells to almost perfect, but they cost only £25. And I have ruined one out of four. Doh!

So with the above info,something for me to consider if buying. Though the Castrol car is my favourite scheme, I don't see any for sale (in UK) at moment.

I have 3 of those...you can see on my screen name who I route for.
I don't think any of my funny car kits have twisted bodies, they looks to be straight.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Force