Lancia Stratos
This is an Esci kit from about 30 years ago, fortunately it is from one of the earlier production runs, so the molds were not too worn at the of it being made. But it still has some issues with flash, sink marks and unevenly molded parts and poor engraving. (Some of the parts are short shots, but luckily they’re not ones I need.) It also appears to have been intended to be issued as a motorized version at some point too, so the interior and engine detail is lacking. So I’ll build it essentially as a curbside.


First I went about cleaning it up with 320 and 400 grit sandpaper and a scriber. I was able to sand out some of the sink marks, but about a half dozen were too deep to just sand away.

Then it was on to filler to take care of the deeper sink marks. First round of priming shows some decent progress, and where I need more filler. I also had to cut open the rear quarter vents in the engine cover since one side had screen engraving and the other didn’t, and they were not symmetrical.


Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/997374.aspx
Oswald Karch Narain Karthikeyan Ukyo Katayama Ken Kavanagh Rupert Keegan