Okay, new arrival made it! And the experiment, which involved thickening the spindles the wheels attach to, seems to have been a success, so I'll make that change to other models printed in color going forward.

That puts this ’78 242 GT into a long tradition of my design advances being made on Volvos. My first car designed to snap together was the other weird ’78 two-door Volvo, the 262C Bertone. #WeirdCarMastodon #164scale

Other Volvo milestones: my first car ever (760 Turbo wagon), and my first car printed as a kit, with everything printed as one piece with all the individual parts connected by sprues (V60 T8)