The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1997
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
1997Research From
Notifications
Clear all
Forum 43
3
Posts
3
Users
3
Reactions
1,546
Views
Topic starter
13/12/2022 10:37 am
My latest acquisition from the DeAgostini muscle car series arrived this morning.
Quite striking in its all-yellow livery, and generally speaking it is up to the usual standard of body accuracy and detailing, including the body graphics and raised-lettering tyres.
Unfortunately it has one glaring bad point, and if this was an expensive model I would be seriously complaining.
To explain . . . There is a non-rally version with a black vinyl roof.
However, for me one of the nice styling features of this Olds (and its Buick GS sister car) is the way the roof flows smoothly down into the body sides without any break or step at the base of the roof, which is why I chose the non-vinyl roof version. But Ixo have cast a really crude and obvious line on the body, presumably as a guide for positioning the vinyl roof . . .
. . . and once you've noticed it, you can't take your eyes off it. Looks really bad, and a real shame on an otherwise nice model. If anybody fancies an Ixo Cutlass, I'd suggest getting the vinyl roof version.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
13/12/2022 10:42 am
I have both of these versions and to be honest I never spotted the casting line. I certainly should have. Nonetheless for the price I can live with it.
13/12/2022 11:00 am
Ouch! That sucks!