With Memorial Day coming soon, I looked in the newspaper and saw that two competing craft shops had a 50% off coupon. Entering one, I noticed my son eyeing the scale model cars so I told him the upper limit and he chose Revell's Snaptite '57 Chevy Bel Air kit.
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Looking inside, I found four sprues, a bag of metal axles, four screws, four rubber like tires, a sheet of peel and stick markings, and the instruction sheet. All items were individually wrapped to prevent scuffing. The body is molded in high gloss red, there is one sprue each of clear and chrome plated parts. The other two trees are in white.
I looked over the instructions and saw an error on step one. The part numbers and descriptions are correct but the image is not:
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On to the build! My son had assembled the model within two hours. According to him, he had fun cutting and sanding the pieces. The stickers were a bit tricky as they were easy to install backwards.
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There are things that could be painted to make the model more realistic but my son wanted to finish it quickly so we skipped any painting. Here is the result:
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In the end, my son was very pleased and the metal axles meant there was play value after the build was over. It is recommended for youngsters.
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir00.jpg
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Looking inside, I found four sprues, a bag of metal axles, four screws, four rubber like tires, a sheet of peel and stick markings, and the instruction sheet. All items were individually wrapped to prevent scuffing. The body is molded in high gloss red, there is one sprue each of clear and chrome plated parts. The other two trees are in white.
I looked over the instructions and saw an error on step one. The part numbers and descriptions are correct but the image is not:
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir00a.jpg
On to the build! My son had assembled the model within two hours. According to him, he had fun cutting and sanding the pieces. The stickers were a bit tricky as they were easy to install backwards.
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/SaulBuilds57Chevy01.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/SaulBuilds57Chevy10.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/SaulBuilds57Chevy15.jpg
There are things that could be painted to make the model more realistic but my son wanted to finish it quickly so we skipped any painting. Here is the result:
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir01.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir02.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir03.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir04.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir05.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir06.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir07.jpg
/gallery/albums/userpics/10065/Revell57ChevyBelAir08.jpg
In the end, my son was very pleased and the metal axles meant there was play value after the build was over. It is recommended for youngsters.