The question I want to ask is, "Are the manufacturers making better kits than they were 25 years ago, or are they just making them cheaper?"
This kit was produced in 1987, and for a lot of reasons, it's better than the kits of today that I've built. First of all, the body and chassis are solid and heavy plastic. The pieces fit together remarkably well, and even though the "chrome" isn't as shiny, it was easy to match with a "steel" metallic paint by Vallejo that I used. The only part that was poorly plated (the grill) was easy to strip and solidly cast so that it was easy to repaint with Alclad.
Granted, I would like to have had a better way to "glass" the windows (that's the last time I use PSA by Micro-Mark... this stuff doesn't dry as quickly as we are led to believe, and if you apply enough to actually hold a window in place, chances are good it'll still be soft and will smear all over the place - 4 of my windows had to be discarded...) but very little else needed any "modern tooling"!
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1014434.aspx
Jos Verstappen Sebastian Vettel Gilles Villeneuve Jacques Villeneuve Jacques Villeneuve Sr Luigi Villoresi Emilio de Villota
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