My name is Jan and I’m new to modeling. I bought myself a couple of plastic car models and when I was trying to assemble them I had noticed that some of the plastic parts after assembling and during assembly have a tendency to make the model not sit flat on all four wheels. I noticed during assembly that some of the parts do not lay flat. Is there something I can do the correct this problem? I thought I would try to hold it over the burner for a little bit to soften up the plastic but that didn’t seem to help. I would love to indulge myself into more modeling but would like to solve this problem. Can anyone help?
I really don’t know much about car kits. However one idea you might look into is the fit of the parts before gluing. It maybe there is some piece of flash styrene from the injector pin marks or some piece of debris causing your misalienment.
However, I am mostly an aircraft guy. I’ll defer to the expert car guys here[;)]
Like others said, take a look in the auto forum, others proably encountered the same problem.
When I want to fix up an aligment problem, I use a hair dry. It enables me to apply the heat more precisely. Like this little alignment problem that I fixed:
But be carefull about how warm the air is, or this may happen:
Thank you everyone for your advice and direction. I look forward to communicating in the future. I’m almost positive I can learn something from all of you.
