Richard Bartrop

Especially nice job on the top chop. I'm always impressed when people can pull that off on later model tops.

Original art isn't cheap, and whatever the shortcomings of some of their kits. they did have some very nice box art.

For small lenses, shavings of clear red sprue dissolved in liquid cement, in a heavy foil mould. Here's what I used to make Studebaker taillights for a custom '36 Ford.

I totally get the appeal of the printed book. I collect art books and graphic novels, and my favourite car publication is still my complete set of Automobile Quarterlies. They're a joy to experience in a way that data on a screen just doesn't do. However, sometimes it's just the data you want, and for what most magazine publishers are offering for what they're charging, I don't need the experience of the printed page that badly.

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A couple of thoughts about that: 1) How compatible are those parts with the block from the Revel '40 & '48 ford flatheads, which has the proper transmission? 2) Saw off the automatic, and replace it with one of the shortie transmissions from the Atlantis Part Pack kits?

I'll definitely be getting it just for that very nice flathead.

Too bad if the wires wheels aren't there. Hopefully, they'll at least be an option.

Nice! The Pyro kits build up surprisingly well.

As always, the H.A.M.B. is a gold mine of info on the subject. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-history-of-flames.321688/ Here's a photo of a flamed racer from before the war., George Rubsch's Skip it. The photo that some claim is the inspiration for flame paint jobs. Taken in 1938 at Gilmore Stadium.

I was looking right at AC's and went "Nah, it couldn't be..."

I would definitely buy one of those if it came as a styrene kit. If the dies can't be found, I imagine the biggest hurdles would finding an original that's still straight enough to do a decent scan, and of course, if the all important numbers work.

Boxed up so you get 4-5 Parts Packs at a price you'd never be able to get them individually. We're talking about a family pack of discount grails here. I guess some people just can't handle good news.

Their Gold Cup classics are beautiful kits. The rest rest vary widely in quality.

THough I still say if the biggest gripe is the box art, that says some very good things about the kit.

Talking up all the extra parts, and the Parts Pack originals would help a lot, I think. Atlantis did not do themselves any favours by not saying anything about the nice roadster chassis that came in the Mooneyes kit.

I stand corrected, but you get the idea.

One of the companies that sold detail parts for model cars used to sell resistors as scale fuel filters

It's not the Mooneyes dragster. It looks like what was originally sold as a fully chromed chassis. Not really missing the chrome, and I am hoping they include extra chassis parts like their previous Parts Pack offerings. Again, if kit bashing is your thing, stock up on as many of these as you can.

At this point, they should just bring back the land yacht. Lots of room for batteries, no driveshaft tunnel, so you can really do the living room on wheels, and nobody wants it to make noise anyhow.

What would be nice is if they could include the parts for making a Cosworth Vega.

Nice! I got to see Harrah's back in the '70s, a couple of years before Bill Harrah died and they got rid of 80% of the collection. That was pretty spectacular.

Here's a Sotheby's listing for a 2011 sale of the Harrah's speedster, which the Monogram kit is based on. The colours are listed as Salmon, and Chocolate Brown. https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo11/monterey/lots/r242-1930-packard-734-speedster-boattail-runabout/192334

Nicely done!

Motor Trend does have that Hot Rod archive that goes back to 1948. Maybe browsing through that will provide some answers?