OK, I am not a complete new guy to modeling, I am not saying that I am a good builder, but I have built enough to know how things should go together. Decided to build my first car after reading good reviews about this kit.
I can’t even get the engine built! I have never seen anything like it. The block halves fit, and the oil pan and one other part fit, but nothing else I have picked up fits, and there are tabs and pins where there should not be anything. It is making me feel like I have never built a kit before, I am just lost. Here are the instructions for the engine assembly.
Part #537 has a locating slot, and it fits as one would expect. Part #540 just kind of sits on top of it, resting on the grooves, with no solid mounting point at all. Part #538 is anybody’s guess, there are not locating tabs/pins, and it just hangs out over the block like so:
The valve cover, part #531, has tabs and pins on it, but there is nothing on part #538 for it to fit on to!
The last Revel I built was the F-5, one of my favorite aircraft, and it was just plain crude, really a poor kit. This may be the last Revel I ever buy, 2 in a row now that have been a disappointment, though the fit on the F-5 was far better than this.
So I don’t know if this is just a rant, or if someone can see that I am doing something really dumb that is creating the problems for me. The F-5 is only the second kit I have not finished, and I do not want this one to join that unfortunate group if I can help it.
I may move on to the chassis and see if it goes together any better.