Here is my victim for this GB, Revells very basic 1/25 kit of the iconic 57 Bel Air
There's very little inside the box but hopefully a bit of modification and a fancy lick of paint will elevate it.
The option of transfers or stickers, although I'll probably use neither.
Some lovely red plastic for the interior.
Body, chassis, windows and a few bits & bobs
All of the badges and the rear number plate plinth are moulded into the body, so the first job was to scrape/file/sand those off, along with the door locks
Then came the roof chop. Using a JLC razor saw with shims between the two blades gave me a repeatable cut of around 3mm, which would translate to around 3 inches on the real thing
That gave me this. Clearly the rear pillar needs work, but after some warming & bending the fronts have been adjusted to account for the slight difference in width between body and roof
There's very little inside the box but hopefully a bit of modification and a fancy lick of paint will elevate it.
The option of transfers or stickers, although I'll probably use neither.
Some lovely red plastic for the interior.
Body, chassis, windows and a few bits & bobs
All of the badges and the rear number plate plinth are moulded into the body, so the first job was to scrape/file/sand those off, along with the door locks
Then came the roof chop. Using a JLC razor saw with shims between the two blades gave me a repeatable cut of around 3mm, which would translate to around 3 inches on the real thing
That gave me this. Clearly the rear pillar needs work, but after some warming & bending the fronts have been adjusted to account for the slight difference in width between body and roof
