Mark

Modelhaus sold a copy of the Modified Stocker piece. Not sure if theirs was changed from the original in any way.

Don't think so. If someone did, they'd probably have done the cab too (with the one-piece curved windshield).

The Modified Stocker Galaxie bucket still has the doglegs for the convertible boot.

Sure did. The Sizzler package (looked sort of like a 340 Demon) could be had with the six, as could the base model.

They may have been copies of the '64 Galaxie Modified Stocker unit. The stock kit is entirely different and does not have that interior.

That's a later kit. To keep the price in check, they went to the one-piece box with the printing directly on the cardboard. Does it still include a decal sheet? Considering the low price, which dictated the simple tooling design which in turn forced the use of multiple piece bodies, most of those kits are actually quite well executed.

RustOleum is too busy manufacturing a half dozen different "chrome" spray paints in different brands, all with vacuum metalized caps on the cans that don't come close to resembling what is actually in the cans...

I'd bet that the passenger car versions built in the Soviet Union back in the day all used the same (commercial version) running boards. They do interchange on the 1:1 cars and light trucks. Occasionally you'll see over-restored trucks with the rubber covered car running boards.

Paint, being one of the last things you do on a model (besides final assembly), isn't the place to experiment, at least on the model itself. Better to test first on something expendable. Like Ed Roth once said, "don't mutilate unless its cheap!" Not that you can't use cheap paint...you just have to test first. There are videos all over YouTube dealing with airbrushing cheap craft paints, and every so often you can turn up automotive touch-up spray cans at the closeout stores. You only need to experiment beforehand to see what works with what. Every so often though, you'll still hear about someone who took two or three steps backward on a project after just grabbing the first spray can within reach and blasting away...

Hopefully they'll issue this one with other body styles later on. I've got a couple of the Monogram kits (including a stock one) so I don’t need another phaeton. A pickup, now that's another story...

I don't know if the last one pictured can be moved off-center to the steering column, but it does have the "spinner" off to the left. The driver could grab that small handle and turn the wheel like a crank. My older brother bought one of those to flip on eBay about fifteen years ago. It was a GM accessory for a '40 or '41 Chevy. It needed a complete restoration but was all there; a lowrider guy paid around $1,000 for it nevertheless.

The "fat man" steering wheel is an early variation on a tilt wheel. You could reposition the wheel off-center so that an overweight person could sit in the drivers' seat without having the lower part of the wheels rim squeezing him. The earliest ones were aftermarket items, but there were factory accessory ones later on. Some of the lowrider guys like to add as many of the accessories as they can find--but only the factory ones, not generic aftermarket stuff. There aren't any available in kits that I'm aware of, but some of the lowrider model builders are all-in on 3D print items. Something ought to turn up there.

Because.

The Hellcat Charger will have an entirely new body, with the flares molded as part of it.

The motorcycle parts packs no longer exist. Atlantis has confirmed that they did not get them.