2010 Ford Shelby GT500 85-2623 Revell 1/12 Review

RoR SnapShot Review 20111207* – 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 85-2623 Revell 1/12 Review
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A SnapShot Review by Mike Krueger

The 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 was one of the best models that I have had a chance to build in the past few years.  After doing some investigation, I found that the Shelby was designed and had tooling made by Revell of Germany, which would be why the model is so nice.  Because of this, the kit coats around $55.00 to purchase.

Upon inspection of all the pieces, I found that every piece was extremely perfect and didn’t need any scale removal.  The only items that had any mold lines on them, was the body and hood.  That was easily removed by using some 400 grit wet and dry sandpaper.  After removal of the mold lines, I recommend sealing the body and hood with a primer sealer.  On every one of the models I complete, I use primer because I use all automotive paint by PPG.  If you do this, you will have no problem with crazing.

  

001) -The rest of the Shelby went together without a problem.  I just followed the instructions step by step, which is pretty abnormal for me, but seeing as this was a kit I was building for a review, I made sure to follow the instructions to see if there were any problems with their instructions.  There were no problems except for the attachment of the air filter system.  I needed to remove the locating pin from the bottom of the air filter, and then it fit without any further complications.

 

The instructions start out with motor assembly, then chassis, and then interior.  It probably took about six hours to assemble each step per the instructions.  I recommend assembling each step as a sub – assembly.  I found that this was the easiest method.  With everything I build, I assemble everything as a sub-assembly and detail each sub-assembly.

  

002) – My most favorite part of the whole kit was building and assembling the chassis, probably because the chassis is so detailed.  Because of this, it made it extremely fun to assembly and paint.  You will see this by the photo of the chassis.  I even added a touch of the sixties by painting the pumpkin on the rear end a rust color.  All rear end pumpkins in the sixties were painted this color.  I used a combination of Testors, Tamiya, and automotive paints to detail the chassis.

 

003) – Assembly of the motor was pretty much the same as the chassis.  There is so much detail to work with, it unreal.  I assembled the whole motor except for the oil filter before I painted the motor assembly.  Again, the motor was so detailed that I could paint a lot of the bolt heads and added body paint colors to the valve covers.  I again used a combination of Testors, Tamiya, and automotive paints to detail the motor.

 

004) – With the motor and chassis finished, I then turned my attention to the interior.  I pieced the interior together except the dashboard.  By gluing in the dash board last, it allows you to detail and add the decals with working around the seats.  I used Testors light gray interior texture paint for the main interior pieces and blue texture paint for the seat and dashboard inserts.

 

005) – My favorite part of every model kit I build was the next step.  Painting and detailing the body of the GT500 was extremely fun.  I used PPG Maui Blue for the main body color and used PPG Medium blue for the stripes.  I didn’t like how all decal stripes, never quite do the job.  You always see through the white decals, so I taped out the stripes on the GT500 and painted them.  Always use 3M thin line tape when doing this process.  If you don’t, you will end up with thick edges along the tape edge. 

 

006) – After applying the basecoat and the stripes, I used thinned out flat black Testors paint in all the lines of the doors and trunk.  I then sealed the body in with PPG urethane clear.          

 

Like I stated at the beginning, the 2010 Shelby GT500 was one of the best models that I have had a chance to build in the past few years.  You can really detail the GT500 and because of that, it was an extremely fun kit to build.  I hope you all have a chance to build the Ford Shelby GT500 in 1:12 scale.

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Until next time,
Mike Krueger  

About the author: Mike Krueger is an accomplished model builder and freelance writer that has had numerous reviews published in Scale Auto Magazine. When he’s not creating another masterpiece you can find him enjoying custom street rods too. Like most builders he’s more than willing to share the secrets that he’s learned and graciously agreed to post this fabulous 1:12 scale Ford Shelby GT500 review for Right On Replicas.      

 

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