Pewter02WS6 said:
i am sorry but i have to disagree. although they might not be 100% accurate, they are pretty darn close. i certainly appreciate their efforts instead of slapping a set of 5 star or cragars that were used on a million of their other castings. i dont get how you think these wheels are so far off from the stock ones.
Do you have on of those 442's in hand? if you looked at the style of rim, its not correct, look like aftermarket rims painted green IMHO
Found this picture from american racing, the rims look almost like these, except the small gap between the spokes is filled
Pewter02WS6 said:
i certainly don't expect to see JL make an exact wheel replica for each casting but it would be nice if they didn't use the same two wheels thousands of times. i also believe it would have been possible for them to make a few new wheels over the past few years since they have been producing more detailed castings.
O i understand that aspect to, its not that JL is using the same cragers over and over again, its just that they need to make more castings of wheels, but then your still going to get the "those wheels don't belong on that car" syndrome no matter what you do
Pewter02WS6 said:
i can live with the gaps. of course they are going to look huge due to scale. i would take opening features with a gap any day. the gaps on the shelby collectibles doors look huge but i still love the feature. my problem is with fitment where it prevents the hood from closing or opening correctly. i have a few of the gold series 442s where i can't get the hood to close and sit flush like it should. i have the same problem with a few of my firebird and charger castings as well. i also have some of those very same castings that do close and fit well. i just feel they should be consistent. the same thing applies for certain castings on being able to open them all the way. some castings i can open the hood all the way and they will stay up. others won't stay up and others will only open 1/2 way.
Ever have a gap on your brand new car?.. but anyways, again, givin the size, a small speck of dirt, or even a little extra paint build up will be inhanced 64 times over, so maybe in mockups and trial runs it is good, but when the machine starts werling these things out, small things can get in there and disrupt stuff like fitments, and stuff of that sort.
And im sorty, but i don't expect a company to look at 2000-5000 individual hoods to make sure they open an close, times that by 6 per release, thats 12000-30000 different fitment issues to look at... it doesnt suprise me a few get by.
Now granted, don't think i just bought stocks in RC2 or anythiong of the sorts (stocks, pfft, legalizzed goverment controlled gambling if you ask me). But the complaints i'm reading here, are not JL Specific (maybe the rims) But I see all of these same problems across all of my diecast cars... well... except jada... because it doesnt even have an opening hood... but it does have the bent axles... *shrug*