Belkits VW Polo R WRC 2016
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MunkyslutThat looks fantastic! Decals are very impressive……… were they a nightmare?
Davidthank you all. I usually like to work with decals, it was not too bad, but they were difficult to bend to the surface.
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this was my 3rd Belkits model, after the excellent C3 and i20. This was a bit less straightforward build than the other two - I doomed my white body painting with grey Tamiya primer, struggled through a set of brittle decals and dealt with some non-fitting parts. The finished product is acceptable though, while not on the standard of the newer releases. The decals are particularly difficult to work with, they just break and crack, and seems to be resistant to even a bucket of softener. The windshield piece didn't fit as expected - the rear window is lower than the frame and interferes with the tail lights piece. I ended up cutting the chrome lights off their console and mounted with PVA. The wing is expected to fit between the body and the glass but simply there is no space for it, in retrospect I should have filed a groove to the clear piece. Somehow managed the wing into place but that's a very weak joint.
