Trying my hand at building Kenny Schrader's Rookie ride from 1985.
Here I've mangled together one of the two Thunderbirds in the 1985 Monogram Rookie of the Year Combo set (6368). This is certainly not my best work; but I suppose it's not my most horrible, either. A few "gotchas", at least for me: The front wheels do not fall into the center of the wheel arch, the mount points for both the front and rear suspension parts are not well defined, and the firewall doesn't quite line up with the rest of the chassis. However, I've seen this old 'bird built very well by others, so I suspect the faults are all my own. Painted with Tamiya sprays. Chrome stripped and painted with Tamiya silver acrylic. I hope to build another, and apply what I learned here. |