My boss recently began dabbling with plastic model cars, and it kind of gave me a hankering. I wanted to see if plastic models would be a fun activity I could share with my seven year-old daughter. As a youngster I did a couple of these and had fond memories.
My daughter seemed interested in trying it, so we went to Discount Drug Mart and I told her to pick out a Level 1 kit. She narrowed it down to a purple convertible and a police car, and asked me which I thought she should select. (Secretly I'd been hoping for the police car...) I explained to her that if she enjoys the level 1 kit, we'd move on to level 2 and there were no police cars outside level one, but there were plenty of convertibles.
So we bought the 1/25 SnapTite® '05 Chevy® Impala™ Police Car Plastic Model Kit.
Here's how it went.......
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| This kit says it has 40+ parts. Not sure why they couldn't count them for us... |
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| Yep. That's a shotgun between the seats! |
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| This part was weird. The instructions said to tape the side mirrors in place and then snap the bottom on. At some point the right mirror was broken. I glued it on later. |
A sprue cutter and file would have helped remove and touch-up the pieces. I used a utility knife, wire cutters, and sometimes I got sloppy and just twisted pieces off the sprue. Again, the method for putting on the side mirrors was sloppy and one broke.
Level 1 was easy. The end product was more toy-like in appearance than replica. It might be fun to re-do this kit with a nice paint job.
