Post by Grandpabeast on Mar 7, 2022 1:35:26 GMT -7
When I was a kid I was drawn to the Revell Street Demons line-up and ended up buying them all. I only built three of them back then and this was one of them. It's funny how when the hobby follows us into adulthood we see how much we either overlooked or just how bad the kits were back then. But hey, we were having fun back then right? lol . I took this project on in January of 2015 and although this kit sucks, I've had a great amount of fun with it and learning opportunities left and right over the course of the 8-1/2 months it took to build it. Although I was drawn to this car as a kid (and still am), as an adult I didn't care for the gasser stance for a "street" car and wanted something a little more jazzed up and to have some fun with it. Sooooooo, I created a dropped down party mobile. I mean .............with all that room in the back the possibilities were endless. I started out with my eyes being a lot bigger than 1.) my ability and 2.) what there was room for back there. Over the course of the build while my vision/ goal was always the same, I had to modify the ideas somewhat and my abilities got a tune up but I'm very happy with the end result.
I won't go over every detail of the build but I will say that there were 7 different kits and a lot of aftermarket involved in its making. What really blew me away was the fact that there weren't any headlight bezels/ buckets (and there still aren't to this day with the latest release of this kit!!! ) and the hood hinge cut outs at the back of the engine compartment just make you wonder what the engineers of this kit were thinking. I did manage to french some headlight bezels in and take care of the monstrous hood hinge openings. I guess back then accuracy just wasn't in the cards and scale models were considered a "toy" back then so not much in the way of effort went beyond the basic shapes of bodies and parts.
The kit:
The model:
427 Dual Quad
and then there's what's inside:
An older build but still one of my nicest pro streets .
work bench 07-26-2018 008 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 009 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 010 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 011 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 012 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 013 by David Keim, on Flickr
workbench 06-22-18 015 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 015 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 016 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 023 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 024 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 025 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 026 by David Keim, on Flickr
I won't go over every detail of the build but I will say that there were 7 different kits and a lot of aftermarket involved in its making. What really blew me away was the fact that there weren't any headlight bezels/ buckets (and there still aren't to this day with the latest release of this kit!!! ) and the hood hinge cut outs at the back of the engine compartment just make you wonder what the engineers of this kit were thinking. I did manage to french some headlight bezels in and take care of the monstrous hood hinge openings. I guess back then accuracy just wasn't in the cards and scale models were considered a "toy" back then so not much in the way of effort went beyond the basic shapes of bodies and parts.
The kit:
The model:
427 Dual Quad
and then there's what's inside:
An older build but still one of my nicest pro streets .
work bench 07-26-2018 008 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 009 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 010 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 011 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 012 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 013 by David Keim, on Flickr
workbench 06-22-18 015 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 015 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 016 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 023 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 024 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 025 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 07-26-2018 026 by David Keim, on Flickr