Malibu wrote:Hi,
those anybody know what exactly went wrong with this model?
Stephan
The lump of metal within the window's aperture was created during the casting process of the bare metal components. These fresh castings are placed into large rotating drums and 'Tumbled' making all the castings fall about crashing in to each other, causing the surplus metal and the metal that now makes up the injection channels (often called 'Sprues'), to brake free from the wanted areas of the castings.
On the example shown by "Fixer" this piece of surplus metal has proven to be more robust than usual and has gone through the whole manufacturing process without anyone removing it. Had the protrusion been facing inwards, into the body, then the glazing moulding would not have gone in and somebody would surely have had the model rectified.
GHOSTHUNTER.
