I've been doing little bits to this for the past 3 days, I'm getting a little side tracked (again!) from my Scaleautostyle stuff so don't expect there to be a regular report on this build.
However I'm going to show you what I've done so far coz i know a couple of you have this kit and i hope that you may find this useful. My plan was to do this straight out of the box as a bit of a breather from all the customizing, but it seems i can't help myself!!!
The bodykit looks good enough o-of-b but it does look a little chunky and can be improved upon. There are a few fitment issues, which make it more like an AMT kit and these need a little work.
So, first up are the sides. As you see in the pic, it sticks out a little and doesn't look at all realistic, Bri G mentioned he was going to sand down his but i'm opting for a different approach which is how most of my transkits will fit. I've tacked the side in position with tape making sure to align the sill with the door panel line.
With it now securely in position I scribed the edges onto the car.
This piece was then removed.
In order to fit the bodykit sides now, I constructed a lip which will glue to the inside of the model. This was made from 3 layers of 10thou plastic card, the first layer deepens the sides slightly, the second is for the lower part of the door to stick to and the third provides a fastening for the top half. This is quite hard to explain, but what this achieves is a more realistic fit of the bodykit in relation to the lines of the car and pushes out the top half of the sides slightly more than the bottom half.
The result is alot more pleasing i think!
The next issue here is that the sides are actually not long enough to cover the middle of the car. To improve this i added two layers of 10thou card to either side of the bodykit i.e twice on each side piece. By using 10thou and not 20 it will conform the curves better and not lose shape. This is a before and after pic.
The headlights fit very poorly as seen in first pic. Here they are dry fitted to see what areas need filing. 10thou card was placed at selected areas, trimmed when dry then filed to allow a better fit as seen in 3rd pic
Thats all for now!