Revell Snap Tite '57 Belair

[Fisher61]

I've been kind of lazy lately and needed something easy to do and maybe it would get me motivated again! I bought this cheap at Michaels with a 50% off coupon beings they didn't really have anything else I needed on the shelf. It's a very low parts count snap kit, but has one of the best looking bodies and interior out of the bunch, so I thought I'd throw a little foil and paint detail at it. I polished the red plastic body, painted the interior red and paint detailed the one piece molded detail chassis. I added turn signal and gear shift stalks to the column, parts box rear view mirror.

Thanks for looking !

[plasticfrog]

Looks AWESOME!! love how you did the chassis..are you using the rims in it too?

[Fisher61]

Looks AWESOME!! love how you did the chassis..are you using the rims in it too?

Thanks Jason. I swapped the wheels with an older issue that had the wide whitwalls and stock hubcaps.

[Scale-Master]

Your detailing has brought it to life.

I built one of those too, except for the sink marks in the body it was a blast to build. I took the easy way on mine, looks like you invested a bit more, nice work.

[charlie8575]

That really does look good. Nice work.

Charlie Larkin

[Modlbldr]

That Chevy is looking great. What did you use to polish the body? I am rebuilding a 1/8 32 Ford roadster that my cousin built years ago. Doing it for him. I will have to polish the body too instead of painting. Are you interested in trading off those wheels and tires from your 57 kit? I'd like to get a set of them.

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[Fisher61]

That Chevy is looking great. What did you use to polish the body? I am rebuilding a 1/8 32 Ford roadster that my cousin built years ago. Doing it for him. I will have to polish the body too instead of painting. Are you interested in trading off those wheels and tires from your 57 kit? I'd like to get a set of them.

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Thanks Tom! I just used some 3M polish followed by some Turtle Wax, nothing to aggressive. Sorry, I've already put the wheels to use, I swapped them with an older build snap '57 that's black, It's going to be disassembled and get the same treatment as this one. Those wheels look great on a black car.

[Modlbldr]

Thanks for the reply. I've got some Tamiya Fine and Finish polish that I'm going to try. I'll probably end up using all of both tubes since it's that HUGE 1/8 scale.

Those wheels look really good on 60's Fords too, like the 65-67 Galaxies.

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