Jada '67 Camaros

[Snake45]

Bought and Snake-Fu'ed these several months ago, and took the pics, but just hadn't had the motivation to write 'em up. 

Bought these both at Walmart. I knew going in that they were probably too big (common for Jadas) and they are. I think they actually scale to around 1/22 or something. Also, the Rally Sport grilles are in upside down, giving them a very weird look--until you get used to it, and then you can kinda see it as a "custom" feature. (There's no easy way to really FIX the problem that I can see--the metal bodies are made to take the grilles upside-down.) But I'm a sucker for First Gen Camaros, and otherwise the body proportions and shapes looked pretty darn good. 

Here's the stock-ish one: 

 

...and here's the "monster" one, supposedly from some Fast N Furious movie or something: 

 

Here they are together: 

 

I decided to just have fun with the things, and if nothing else, the grandkids could play with them when they came over and leave my GOOD diecasts alone. 

I REALLY wanted to move the front wheels of the Monster in a little bit, but they simply would NOT budge off their axles no matter what I tried. Ah shucks oh well--I left 'em alone. 

I forget what all I did on these, the normal Snake-Fu trim cleanup and sanding the tire treads and so forth, but IMHO the biggest improvement came from just masking off the lower body blackout trim and laying that on with a common rattlecan. That REALLY trimmed up those fat-looking bodies and made 'em actually look like First Gen Camaros. 

Thanks for looking, and as always, comments of any kind are welcome. 

 

[spencer1984]

Amazing what the addition of the lower bands can do, that looks so much better. The wheels on the yellow one look much better with the extra paint, too. Nice upgrades!

[Gramps46]

Well done! Thank you for sharing.l

[oldcarfan]

Nice work! I really like some of Jada's offerings, but my scale OCD won't let me. I wish they or someone would offer the F&F cars in a true 1/24th scale, especially the Escort MK. II.

[Snake45]

49 minutes ago, oldcarfan said:

Nice work! I really like some of Jada's offerings, but my scale OCD won't let me. I wish they or someone would offer the F&F cars in a true 1/24th scale, especially the Escort MK. II.

I feel your "scale OCD" pain; I suffered from it myself for years. Then I freed my mind and I now have enough 1/22 Jadas to merit their own shelf. 

Their '67 El Camino is true 1/24 scale--I measured it very carefully (see my detailed review in this forum). I believe a few others are, too--I'll have to check my notes and tell you which ones, if you're interested. 

[oldcarfan]

It looks true to scale except maybe the rear wheelwells may be modified a little to fit those huge tires.