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I purchased a so-called Modelhaus resin wagon body for Revell Caprice/Impala SS models. I am not sure if it was or not, but it needed far too much work up front to work and look right. I have had more than a few Jimmy Flintstone bodies, and they are not bad at all. This thing was horrible. I said if I could take the part of the sedan body that is the same as the wagon, and the wagon specific part of the resin body that would be my best bet. So after much deliberation, I stuck it back in the box for a couple years. Yesterday I decided to see if I could cut the resin body up without destroying it beyond use. I think I did an ok job. I still have some sanding to do to get the two to mate up as they should. On the real car, the back is wider starting at the C-pillar, so the back doors bow outward a bit. This seems to be about the same with the model. The gap on the roof will come together once the doors line up with the quarters.

My big question is: Should I use Superglue to mate the two parts together, or is there another glue better suited for what I am looking to do?

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I'd say super glue too. 

sounds like your skeptical about it being a Modelhaus body. I would be too as I've never seen anything done by Modelhaus that WASN'T top quality.

Looks like the tail light trim is molded to the body? All the Modelhaus ones I've seen don't have that. 

Seems that now that they're out of business their kits have become like "original Vette 327s" transplanted to other cars back in the '70s and '80s, about 10 times more then ever were actually made.🙄😉

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That should work. I also want to mention that I never spray the accelerator on anything, I use micro-brushes to apply it to the glued areas. I little goes a long way.

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