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[Exotics_Builder]

Mystery solved. 

 

 

Thanks, Gerry.

 

 

Everybody paying attention?

 

 

 

 

Also the reason why it looked flat on the panel from my photos and I thought it was metallic.  An interesting approach.  Plus some decent detail photos on that site for those interested.

[Longbox55]

Thanks for finding that. On the site and the show, there was no mention on exactly what was done for the stripe. That does explain why it didn't really look like a separate peice, and at some angles, it wasn't as shiney. Now the real trick is going to be replicating it accurately in 1/25 scale.

[Draggon]

 

As I said above, I have never seen this version of Rudy's Street Roadster Show and Go car.  I'm not too inspired by the updated paint scheme, but what interests me here is that in this version, Rudy swapped on new, narrow and deep Cragar S/S wheels.  

 

 

Glenn, thanks a bunch for posting that photo!   

 

Here's a link to about 20 more pictures of the car...   http://public.fotki....g-do/page6.html

 

 

 Yore welcome Tim, glad to share info. I dig your '32 as much as Rudy's Beauty, and I agree that the Cragars sorta make the car!  I might add that I think  this might be your best model. 

Edited by Draggon, 02 February 2013 - 06:43 PM.

[Phildaupho]

I was disappointed to learn that there would be no beam axle with the Rat Roadster. That being said, there are many beam axles in other kits that can be adapted. My favorite is the beam axle and hairpins in the AMT '41 Woodie I used on a traditional Deuce. I also adapted the quick-change with mono-leaf transverse spring from the same kit.
The kit has not yet arrived at my LHS here in Victoria BC Canada but I am looking forward to it. Every two years Victoria has one of the biggest Deuce Days anywhere with hundreds of '32's from all over North America on display around the Inner Harbor in mid July. The car modelling community has two Deuce model displays scheduled - one at an in door car show the first weekend of June and another at the host hotel for Deuce Days.

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[zaina]

Did anyone notice the fact that this kit doesn't have a master cylinder? Or am I just not seeing it in the box or the instructions?

[Casey]

Did anyone notice the fact that this kit doesn't have a master cylinder? Or am I just not seeing it in the box or the instructions?

 

Is it mounted under the floor, on the frame x-member?

[zaina]

The tab is there just like all the other dueces to mount it but there is no master cylinder

[Brett Barrow]

Did anyone notice the fact that this kit doesn't have a master cylinder? Or am I just not seeing it in the box or the instructions?

Noticed that.  The tab is still there, but no master cylinder.  Probably interfered with the new exhaust routing? 

[azers]

Im gonna try that on my 1:1 rod. Eliminate the mastercylinder because the exhaust is in the way. Lol.

[Greg Myers]

OKAY, I got one of these bad boys. Now what do I do ?

[Michigan Madman]

Im gonna try that on my 1:1 rod. Eliminate the mastercylinder because the exhaust is in the way. Lol.

Don't. The 'Fred Flintstone Braking Method' isn't quite as effective as you've been led to believe.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Master cylinder? We don't need no stinking master cylinder. Dang parts-counters.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Hey, give 'em a brake.

 

*ducking*

[azers]

Theres a new market. Asbestos soled shoes. Hahaha.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

'Cause the marketing tie-in with GearZ is apt to draw in more casual modelers.

 

And if you have a pool of more casual modelers, why sink the money into masters for a 100% kit when you can save it with amortized masters for the majority, develop new masters just for the most obvious unique bits, get an 85%-correct model, and figure the remaining 15% probably won't even get noticed by anyone except the lunatic fringe?

 

Further proof, by the way, that a critical drubbing means shag-all to Revell's bottom line, or else we wouldn't keep seeing examples of this "meh, good enough" paradigm.  And to be fair, they did try harder on the other three 2012 new tools.

 

**EDIT** - woopsie, guess we lost the question about why Revell would cut new steel just to produce a kit with so many discrepancies.

Edited by Chuck Kourouklis, 05 February 2013 - 04:23 PM.

[Casey]

**EDIT** - woopsie, guess we lost the question about why Revell would cut new steel just to produce a kit with so many discrepancies.

 

I saw who dun it...should we out him?   

[Chuck Kourouklis]

That's above my pay grade, Case.

 

[Casey]

OK, OK, back to the Rat Roaster. I have yet to have my kit delivered, so I am curious if the instruction sheet shows the master cylinder at all or not. I wish Revell would have the instruction sheets available online once the kit appears on their 'site. It would make things much easier. 

[Harry P.]

**EDIT** - woopsie, guess we lost the question about why Revell would cut new steel just to produce a kit with so many discrepancies.

 

Yeah, that was me. I figured better not to make waves. But since you saw my post and answered, well, waves made! 

 

But to get back to your comment about drawing in more casual modelers, Chuck...

 

Since this is an all-new kit, wouldn't it have been just as easy to get it right than to get it wrong? Seriously... the excuses about why they cut this corner and that corner and why they left out this part and that part just doesn't make sense when you're talking about a new kit and not a re-release. Why not just make the freakin' thing right and satisfy both the "casual" modeler and the "lunatic fringe?"

[Draggon]

I just cked my instructions and there is no master cylinder.