This is a Fisher Model & Pattern resin kit from the mid '90s. The castings are quite nice. It also has white metal & aluminum parts and a nice sheet of photo-etch. I really like the note at the top of the very informative instructions: “This kit is not suitable for children or adults with bad attitudes.”
The parts are cast well but like many resin kits there are some pinholes to clean up in the body but they are not in difficult places to deal with and none are on the main surfaces.
I scribed the panel lines a bit deeper while I did the standard clean-up. Still a bit more work before it’s ready to paint.
Now that all the parts have been dry-fitted, a base coat of white primer was applied to the body…
The Sunoco Blue is a mix of Testors Dark Blue and Dark Red.
Even though the tires are resin they look great on the finished models. The wheels have cast white metal outer rims and on the other Fisher kits I’ve built they polish up fine and look great.
I noticed one of the fronts had a small defect where the mold didn’t fully fill that was too deep to polish out.
I soldered it up, filed it smooth and repolished it.
The gap has to be clean, sometimes it has to be made a little bigger to get a good solder joint. (I cleaned this one out with a knife.) Use lower temperature solder to lessen the risk of melting the part and use soldering paste.
