NOBLNG Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 (edited) The hood to cowl area on these AMT Chevys is really bad! The lower windshield trim and cowl are not correct, but the worst part visually is outer corners of the hood.🥴 I finally found a decent picture of the area. I first made a pattern from tape of the contour that I want then glued a chunk of evergreen on with Tamiya cement. Then I filed the inside and outside down close to level with the hood surface. Then replace the pattern tape and file away everything that doesn’t look like a’51 Chevy hood.🙂 A little shaping of the back edge and a bit of scraping of the cowl corners gets a pretty good fit. I added a short chunk of .040” half round just forward of the door trim to try and blend it in a bit, since I don’t want to tackle fixing the cowl.🤯 Edited April 30 by NOBLNG 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldriginal86 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Nice attention to detail. Most of us would have never noticed. I’ve never built this kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Nice fix. Amazing to me that it was done that way by the kit designer, for absolutely no apparent reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobss396 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I'm doing one now as a stock car, the hood will stay as-is. Opening up the rear wheel wells, I noticed that one side of the body is thicker than the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 10 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Nice fix. Amazing to me that it was done that way by the kit designer, for absolutely no apparent reason. Yeah, it almost looks like a short-shot was designed into the kit.🙄 Actually, the whole cockpit is too square and the windshield too flat.😡 It should have more of a bathtub shape. The doors and trim should begin a sweeping curve that flows into the windshield trim. Oh well…the hood fix at least gets rid of that exposed firewall/cowl area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrucha Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Good tip. I never noticed that issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 When I get around to doing the next one, I will scrape away more material from the cowl so that the new hood corner can remain a little thicker. 🧐 I had to file this one fairly thin to get it to fit nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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