1995 Corvette Indy Pace Car

[Rich Chernosky]

Another Covette off the assembly line.   This is Monogram's 95 Corvette Indy Pace car version. Color on this was supposed to be a red/purple metallic and white livery. My choice  for this was Colors by Boyd  Kandy Scarlet over and antique gold base. Tamiya TS26 white for the bottom.  Kit was pretty complicated  and there were problems especially with the decals. But perserverance, careful planning and careful use of swear words overcame these. More details in picture captions.

Chassis was very well detailed and the assembly was complex. Making the steering work required more engineering than usual. Front roll bar had to be re-located due to the steering so is more than likely incorrect. But its there. 

Engine compartment is completly fill with components. Monogram did a nice jopb on this so it was worthy of a pic. 

Car on its wheels. Body fit was excellent and the stance correct.  Hood snapped down nice and tight...something that doesn't usually happen. 

Rear veiw had some nice detail. I re-worked the tailpipes. 

Other side and the decal problem is obvious.  Some of the worst decals I have ever had to work with. I used a product call Looks Like Glass and gave them several coats to get them to release off the paper. The dcript on the side is yellowed, probably due to the age of the kit. Most, once applied stayed down and looked OK. Don't know if a replacement set was available for this obscure kit.  Thanks for looking and comments welcome.

A really horrible pictrure and hard to get right but a very cool feature on the model. This is the pre-painted strobe light bar. Its on the inside of the roll hoop behind some glass which makes it hard to photo.  But worth mentioning. 

 

[Jim B]

Great looking Corvette. Well done. 

[slusher]

Beautiful Corvette!

[Dragonhawk1066]

Well done!