Pesky Hood Hinges? Help!

[Hattley]

I’m working on a 1960 Impala by Revell and more often than not my kits with the opening hoods and trunks are a bust. Those pesky hinges never seem to line up properly and/or doesn’t allow for proper opening and closing. Any suggestions?

[Jon Cole]

I don't have that kit here in front of me, but I did find a photo of the '59... which your kit is based upon, I believe...

It appears that those hinges are for 'static' display... used if you want to leave the hood in the open position permanently. I don't think they were ever meant to have any sort of actual function. Many builders will display with the hood off the car for easier viewing.

[Hattley]

Thanks for taking time out to reply. That's it, you may be right. Fishy thought...

[MILD]

I bluffed it a bit with my hinges on this model. I glued them to the hood and left them unattached at the body. This way I can display hood down, hood up (using a support strut to hold in place) or hood off.

It doesn't really answer the question, but I believe they were intended to be used as such? The underside of the hood did have the area for them to be glued to marked- if I remember correctly there is a the outline of where they should go for alignment purposes.

[The Modeling Hermit]

I don't very often go to the extra work of having operational hoods, but when I do, I use the bent wire method. I think somebody has a tutorial on this site someplace. If I'm not concerned with an operational hood; I remove those pesky little protrudences (I think I just made a new word). That seems to solve the problem, at least to my satisfaction.