The frame, axels, exhaust, and all of that was a real pain to assemble. Lots of dry fitting required and even then it is easy to add something in the wrong order. The instructions also have mistakes on them such as mislabeled parts. Since it isn’t going to be seen I have decided to leave the engine and associated bits and pieces off. I will throw them into my spare parts collection.
I hope to have more work done soon.
Thank you everyone that has hung on here and is tolerant off my absence.
I got some more work done on my entry. I can say that I am not too impressed with the Roden model. Poor fitting pieces and other similar issues. There is a major seam line that I am going to have to spend time filling and sanding, and filling and sanding, and filling and sanding, and…well…you get the idea. Would have made more sense to have the upper part of the body cast as one piece instead of two.
Well, I got most of the construction finished up. Going to leave it in sections until I have finished painting it. Now I just need to continue with the filling and sanding. I really don’t recommend this model to anyone. The fit of some of the pieces is terrible and there are seams lines that don’t need to exist such as those on the roof and front fenders. And as I mentioned before…the instructions have a lot of errors. However, even with the complaints I have, it should end up working out okay for what I am building it to represent. Guess we will see.
Lots of things going on in the House of Harv lately, so my project has been getting neglected. However I did get some putty applied to those seam lines yesterday. I am not impressed with this model at all. Luckily it is going to represent a well used and abused vehicle…so it doesn’t have to be showroom fresh.
Maybe I am too picky or just too lazy of a modeler…but I really don’t want to spend hours filling and sanding and refilling and sanding again and again on a model.
Hope you kept all your pictures of the sprues - you could write up a review about it and warn us all away from it, or at least let people know what they’re getting into if they buy it.
Very disappointing. I’ve never been a car guy but few moms have built, long ago. If I recall correctly, isn’t that old school molding with two halves? Seems to me that it would have been easier to mold the bottom part of the body and put the roof over it. There’s a natural seam line between the windshield and the front hood.
Not a lazy modeler at all. This may be a golden age of modeling in terms of quality from some manufacturers, and the subjects available, and yet we figure by now manufacturers would be smarter with how they create the components for a kit.
Moulding that car in two halves isn’t even old-school - as a kid I was building car models where the body shell was one piece, and that was in the early 1970s! I think some of those old AMY kits dated to the late '50s…
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