{"id":1738,"date":"2011-12-09T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:42:03","slug":"1959-chevy-impala-convertible-revell-kit-85-4944-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"1959 Chevy Impala Convertible Revell Kit # 85-4944 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twttr_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/?p=1738&text=1959 Chevy Impala Convertible Revell Kit # 85-4944 Review\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here if you like this article.\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/twitter-plugin\/images\/twitt.gif\" alt=\"Twitt\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">RoR Step-by-Step Review 20111209* \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1959 Chevy Impala Convertible <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Revell Kit # 85-4944 Review <\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Fig 000 by dougcole2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29474631@N04\/6483214687\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7172\/6483214687_a7927dcc60.jpg\" alt=\"Fig 000\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005EFZYUW\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rightonreplic-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B005EFZYUW\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click Here to Buy This Kit<\/span><\/a><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rightonreplic-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005EFZYUW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">See the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/?p=1732\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Step-by-Step Review<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Stephanie and Marty Oberman <a title=\"Stephanie and Marty Oberman by dougcole2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29474631@N04\/6140356800\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6200\/6140356800_b7891c5d83_t.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie and Marty Oberman\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I remember building this kit some years ago, so I somewhat knew what to expect from it despite my rather foggy memory. The last issue came in a rather low, long box as opposed to the re-issue&#8217;s normal-shaped box. The &#8217;59 Impala spun off the &#8217;60 Impala, also packaged in the unusual box. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">For the modeler: I wondered how they would retrofit the parts trees for this box. It seems Revell pulled it off quite nicely. The instruction sheet contains a glossary of part numbers with their corresponding identifications. Dealing with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pretzel Logic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, scratch building a radio mast, custom foiling the taillights, use of metalizers and a preponderance of clamping issues are fully explored in this review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/?p=1563\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Donations Humbly Accepted<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">*All Registered trademarks are the property of their respective brands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-7543364-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  This is a Step-by-Step build and comparison review by Marty &#038; Stephanie Oberman of the Revell\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 1\/25 59 Chevy Impala Convertible 2n1  Revell Kit # 85-4944 for Right On Replicas, LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[995,993,992,988,989,998,997,996,987,991,990,994,223,210],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kit-reviews","tag-85-4944","tag-1959-chevy-impala-convertible-kit","tag-1959-chevy-impala-convertible-review","tag-59-chevy-impala-convertible-model-kit","tag-59-chevy-impala-convertible-model-review","tag-85-4944-kit","tag-85-4944-review","tag-996","tag-59-chevy-impala-convertible-review","tag-revell-1959-chevy-impala-convertible-review","tag-revell-59-chevy-impala-convertible","tag-revell-59-chevy-impala-convertible-model","tag-rightonreplicas","tag-ror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rightonreplicas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}