Revell 1:24 BMW 507 Cabriolet

[mattbacon]

I haven't seen many positive write-ups of this kit -- and I'm not sure why not. It's an early 90s kit, and not up to Tamiya's latest standards, but it IS very well detailed and fits together pretty well. It needs some work to get the bonnet to close properly (and in mine there's some tin can on the underside of the bonnet lid and a strong magnet atop the firewall), but that's about it. There's a fair bit of flash to be cleaned off (sometimes on delicate parts), and a lot of the chrome parts needed stripping, cleaning up and re-doing, but nothing a sharp knife and ten minutes couldn't fix. I'd also recommend stripping the chrome off the windscreen frame, mirror and sun visor frames, gluing them together into a single sturdy assembly, and then rechroming them. I think the under bonnet and underside detailing is excellent (and taught me some new things about different types of car suspension) and, with the cockpit, it all responds very well to simple detail painting.

..and now with the hard top:




If I'm honest, I'm not really happy with the hard top. I just don't have the scratching skills to do the windows and glazing justice. My advice is that if you want a hardtop version, find an issue of the kit which has one included -- and if anyone's got one that they're NOT going to use, I'd happily take it of their hands to have another go!

bestest,
M.

[mattbacon]

And a few with the next car Albrecht Goertz designed...




The lineage that got me started on this latest "two-fer" build:


bestest,
M.

[fredjevogel]

Your BMW looks great,I love these classic beauties,well build perfect color combination!

[Veyron]

Very nice!

[Kjenjak]

Very nice indeed. I like what you did on the interior. I'd rather keep it without the hardtop.

[eugene78]

Good to see another 507 here! Well done overall, but I must say I don't like the hardtop, it just doesn't have the elegance of the real one -- I guess the problem is that it's too tall. Revell's hardtop from the Coupe kit is much better, perhaps worth buying a kit for (I too wish I had one).

Regarding the quality of the kit -- I guess your copy was better than mine, because in my case casting quality was simply horrible. Some smaller parts had to be thrown away and remade from scratch, while others needed hours of cleaning. In terms of accuracy and detailing the kit is very good indeed.