Mold factory mistake. Ugh!!!

[Sledsel]

I decided to get a new project going. Don't know why because I got a ton going anyway. Well I had read about warpage on this Camaro kit so I pulled everything out to check and all was good. Then I started looking at the body. On the passenger side the mold sprue was cut off from the molding process and unfortunately cut too short. I have checked and measured and I need to add about a 1/16th of an inch to the front of the quarter panel / rocker. Very frustrating because I was hoping not to be fixing things like this. I really don't think it's worth asking for a new body.

Has anybody else run into this?

Pictures show the different shapes of the wheel openings.

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Sledsel

[Old Buckaroo]

Yes, these body's have some defects - wait till you look at the passenger fender rear. Easy fix though by gluing in some styrene and reshaping it. 

As we use to say in the body shops "You cant look at both sides at the same time" !

Edited 8 hours ago by Old Buckaroo

[Sledsel]

9 minutes ago, Old Buckaroo said:

Yes, these body's have some defects - wait till you look at the passenger fender rear. Easy fix though by gluing in some styrene and reshaping it. 

As we use to say in the body shops "You cant look at both sides at the same time" !

Yup, I see it on mine also. I may go rocker molding delete on this as I did with the '72 Nova. Thanks for the heads up. seeing this after paint would have made me crazy!!!

Edited 8 hours ago by Sledsel

[peteski]

These newly released kits are molded in orange plastic?! Yuck!