I know!
This is a problem we don’t hear of to often now. I acquired a Glue Bomb at this weekend’s Train Show. A car I have been looking for for a while. Jimmy Clark’s Lotus as driven at the “Indy” 500. Molded im BRG. Now the body is coming apart ok. The wheels hadn’t been glued together that well though, I had another problem.
They popped in off easy enough. BUT! When I attempted to pop them from said wheels the wheels stuck in a melty sticky mess. To the tyres! Now the tyres didn’t have so much as a scar on them. When I examined them closer the edges of the rims and part of the inner wheel depth as well as the back halves stuck and were like taffy when I finally got them apart.
In doing so and trying to seperate them from the car i shattered the Existing suspension components. Now, this normally doesn’t faze me.But the parts that broke were the Front Suspension shattered at the trailing arms and the King pins which totally disintergrated! The back was the same.
Now , bear in mind the only reason I took a chance was this was the original small Box kit minus the instructions. decals were on right but barely salvageable. But, more can be gotten for this 1/25 little wonder. Is there anywhere I can find missing parts that I need? There’s only one small scar from the tyres melting the plastic on the body, and that is a small spot where the rear suspension leaves the body on one side. I can fix that easy enough.
I had to ask because I can remake the parts from scratch if I have patterns. I can also codge something from Wire and Plastic. But I just thought I would ask. Heck it only cost me a buck and the only thing wrong with the engine is the exhausts were wrong because the original builder left the Cylinder heads off, They are still on the parts tree!