Reviews : AMT 1968 Camaro Z/28

I rated this kit as good because it is old but it’s a good foundation. I built this kit twice, once stock and the as a street custom. To start out you get eight very nice pad printed white letter tires and the wheels are good. The body is molded very nicely and the fit of the front and rear floor pans (valances) were so good one I didn’t bother sanding one and the other got minor sanding. The parts do have some flash, one of my kits was pretty clean and the other had quite a bit more but cleaned up well. The interior is a bit soft on details but with some brush or marker detailing comes out pretty respectable. I’d say the engine is the weakest link of the kit, built as stock it’s not terrible but going the custom route it looks more Toyish. The headers are multi piece so good luck getting them to align perfectly. The dual carbs are little more than plastic bumps and the velocity stacks don’t look too realistic. I decided not to use the side pipes because I felt CA glue would fail with the slightest bump as there’s no real attachment slots or pins for them. The decals in this kit were too fragile. They easily flaked apart and just flat out broke making the bend on the spoiler. My final take on this kit is as a stock version it builds into a nice representation but would benefit from after market decals. As a custom street version it would benefit from a resin engine and whatever else you could add to detail up.

I had a nice time building this kit. Enough details that it looks good when finished and easy enough that a beginner can build. The instructions were easy to follow with clear drawings. It come with decals for gauges which is always a nice addition, plus black and white Rally stripes. I wanted red stripes to go with the charcoal body that I painted it, so I painted the stripes on. The kit comes with 2 styles of wheels, a nice and detailed interior and a couple options for the engine. I added some extra details like seat belts that I got from Hobbylinc, and a lot of engine details that has gotten a lot of compliments. There is a video on youTube under Pappy Tinkers showing it all off. I don't know if I can post links here for that though so I will and post some pictures as well. https://youtu.be/-5mtII3Elm4

It's a pretty accurate looking kit, and the final product looks decent, and it has a nice selection of custom parts with it. The decal sheet was also pretty decent for choices. Now for the drawbacks... There was a lot of flash on the parts trees, but no biggie there. The bigger criticisms I have are that there's no exterior side mirror in the kit, so I scavenged one from my spare parts of other kits. The big flaw was that the front and rear roll pans were severely bowed in backwards. Luckily, just gluing them into place tweaked them into the proper shape. The badging on the exterior was pretty shallow too, so that was hard to detail. Found the engine bay rather lacking in detail, and the instructions leave parts out, so consult the pics of the professionally built ones on the box. Just a very so-so kit.

Got this as a Christmas present from my little brother a year ago; not fond of the Camaro (always liked the Firebirds better..). But when your brother thinks enough about you ..... As I remember, the only real problem I had with the kit was the stripe decals. Brittle, and wouldn't lay down. (I hadn't discovered setting solutions yet..) Lessons learned - I used craft acrylic, and didn't know I needed to thin it first (brushed on) - I wasn't happy with the results.... I hadn't yet learned about gloss coats either. Take your time - it does come out to be a nice addition.

Every Once in a while you overlook something good, repeatedly lol, well that's this, a true oldie but goodie, the only thing this needs is for the interior to have seperate side panels, I like the gauge decals, & speaking of decals be careful if you use the stripes, they tend to be brittle, be careful. THis goes together really nice, very little if any flash, very few moldseams, with some supervision a less experienced builder could use this kit to move up from snap kits .. This builds up into a very NICE pretty much stock Z/28, this beast looks right..

This is an older mold from AMT that has been updated with a nice decal sheet, and two very nice sets of pad-printed tires. Some of the details, such as the door panels, are a little shallow but still workable. There is some excess flash to be removed, but not overly troublesome. The parts fit is generally pretty good and overall it is a pretty fun kit to build. It's also about the only '68 Camaro available in kit form, so a plus there, lol. It does represent a 1968 Camaro pretty well in my opinion, so I do highly recommend it.

The kit I got has tons of extra plastic on all the parts. It's a lot of work trimming and sanding all the parts except the body and the chrome. I put it to the side and will do a little at a time while I work on another model

I've been wanting to get all the early model Camaro kits and this 68 was the last piece of the puzzle and now I have done it I have all the 60's model years and all the Split Bumper kits produced. Now to build them all.

there was a lot of plastic to trim off nothing fit properly had to dill my own holes cut things to make them fit right because they were warped or just not pressed right it was the worst kit that i have ever done

I love the car but the model kit is poor quality and not a lot fit well together. Most every part needs trimming first. Okay at best, looks nice when done. It may try your patience though.

Average kit with lots of extra details. That being said there was a lot of plastic that had to be cut and sanded off. Still turned out great but lots of extra work involved in prep work.

My favorite to build, ton of parts and all good fitting, nice small block engine to build up, Chrome the diamond spoke wheels included cause they are dished wheels very nice kit.

I have built many AMT models, and haven't seen any bad one yet. So that one is not exclusion. Great attention to details. Nice decals. Love clear and chrome parts.

I received my order so quickly! Quicker then other places I've shopped at! The box arrived in excellent shape!

aside from alittle extra flashing which when removed looks more like a camaro. so far great kit

Awesome camaro. One of the good AMT kits. Nice detail. Nice decal sheet.

This was a great build and I enjoyed every step of the process.

good fitting parts, extras, what more could ya want ?