Zoom Zoom Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Our club has a group build of the recently reissued MPC '76 Caprice kit. I was looking over a couple of them this weekend, and found damage on both bodies. Looks like the ejector pin on the driver's side of the body mold (underside of cowl) is pushing up too aggressively/too far when the body is popped out of the mold. This causes the cowl and upper fender to be warped, and affects the top of the driver's side front fender and even to the side where the stress causes what looks like a sink mark on one of the fender creases. The other day I looked at one of the previous reissues from when RC2 was in charge (maroon/black box, gray plastic), and I noticed the same issue, but not quite as bad as the current issue. Has anyone else noticed this? I would assume it will make proper hood fit difficult. I have an original that has no problems at all in this area. One would think this kind of issue would have been dealt with in test-shot phase, but ???
paul alflen Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 JUST BOUGHT THIS KIT FROM HOBBY LOBBY. I WILL CHECK IT TONIGHT!
charlie8575 Posted July 4, 2011 Posted July 4, 2011 I noticed a similar type of issue with one of the fender lines on my similar-vintage (+/- 2005) '66 Mercury. It's going to take a bit of doing with some thin styrene to make the fender line right again. I'm trying to figure out how to do it now. More first-rate quality control... Charlie Larkin
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