2022 Corvette Stingray (Revell 1/25 scale)

[bh1701]

My latest completion is this 2022 Corvette Stingray. The exterior color is Rapid Blue (from Scale Finishes). It was a well engineered kit, but I did run into my share of challenges building this kit (some of these were unfortunately self inflicted!).

Painting the taillights and headlights was one of those challenges.

The biggest challenge was getting the front of the interior and cowl to fit snugly to the body. I followed the instructions and glued the cowl piece (where the windshield wipers are) to the dashboard. When I tried to glue the interior in, I could not get the cowl piece to fit flush with the underside of the hood. There was quite a gap visible! I made some adjustments and finally got it to fit pretty much as it should.

After watching a couple of "build" videos, I learned that it was better to glue to cowl separately to the underside of the body first, and then the interior will fit perfectly when you glue it in. There is a raised line under the hood that the cowl fits up against. If you follow the instructions and glue the cowl to the dashboard, there isn't anything to indicate exactly where it fits - so you are basically making a guess on where to glue it. I obviously guessed wrong.

I also glued the rear hatch into place. I had one corner that did not want to sit flush with the body. It was also going to be very hard to open the hatch since it fit very tightly into the body. You really can't see much of the engine when the hatch is open; you can see the same amount of engine through the window in the hatch.

I made a few other tweaks to the kit to get parts to fit together better. I think I won most of the battles and the completed model looks very good.

Bart

 

The almost completed engine. The engine cover has not been attached yet.

Tiny little decals on the brake pads!

[Hard_2_Handle_454]

Looks good.  I know what you mean about the engine.  I did the same thing with mine as I ran into the same problem with one side not wanting to sit down.  I didn't have any problems with the windshield; though I will agree painting the headlights/tail lights/ and windows sucked.

[PappyD340]

In spite of the issues you did a darn good job, looks fantastic!

[Tom99]

Nice work.

[Mike 1017]

Great Color -Combo

[Jim B]

Beautiful Corvette.  Very well done.

[espo]

Great looking paint finish and body trim. The interior colors look good. Thank you for the heads up on the interior mounting issues. 

[charger74]

Very well done 👍🏻👍🏻

[ChrisR]

Nice.