I've actually been working on this off and on all week, and finally finished it up tonight. Using this nice gallery as a painting reference, because the instructions were very.. wrong.. especially the interior, I think it came out pretty good. I decided to not go with Italian Red. I went with.. erm some sparkly black color? ![Whistling [:-^]](/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif)
I actually was trying for the grey color that is shown in that gallery when I bought this paint (one of the model master lacquer spray cans) but ended up liking this better. The sparkly bits are hard to see in the pics, but it looks even better in person. Oh, and someone at Revell needs to learn what 1:1 means. In the instructions it had a "1:1 Template" for the mesh cutting.. yeah it was about 3/4 size, and it showed the mesh for each little side grille was about 2x bigger than the one in the hood.. but its not
Things I love about this kit:
Wheels roll/front ones are steerable
Convertible top actually opens and closes
Hood opens a decent amount without having to be ripped off the car
Pretty easy to assemble, one of the best Revell kits I've done in a while
Things I hated about this kit:
The dash. It's well detailed, looks nice, but instead of doing like MOST kits and sitting in the interior pan and then being inserted up into the body, they decided to make half the dash sit in the pan and the other half slide into little slots in the body.. and they didn't line up right when I put it together.. no matter what I did.. so there's kinda a noticeable gap along the passenger side where the glove compartment is.
The hood doesn't quite close right either.
All those tiny ![Censored [censored]](/emoticons/icon_smile_censored.gif)
decals that went on the wheels. Even after drying/sealed in they flaked off when I bumped the wheel -_-;
Kit I Used: Ferrari Superamerica, Revell kit 85-2034 from 2007. I bought it on a whim from someone I bought a few more kits from and am pretty happy with it. And while the kit I built it from was a normal "Revell" box, with "Revell-Monogram" under the copyright date, some of the ones I found when tryin to find a image to post here of the box was a "Revell of Germany" box.. makes me wonder if its just a re-packing or a re-casting.
