Chuck Kourouklis

Me, I'm just admiring the Bill Coulter team graphics. 🙂

That WAS you! Great review! X2.

All I can think of is how much better the truly AMT '66 442 was than this one.

Occurred to me too...

I'd kinda applaud the separate hood and engine plate approach as a win-win: it makes engine additions easier for builders in the near term and it does the same for manufacturers down the line, as demonstrated by the Nova wagon. It's a 60-year-old approach that's freshened a little for context in this age of LIDAR cloning. My druthers, I'da liked at least a lower front suspension piece covering up the axles on that '68 Coronet - 'cording to me, it would have had everything it really needed with just that one addition - but full suspension detail apparently isn't so important to everyone else, based on what they're producing. Engines are more the deal-breaker based on what we U. S. consumers have been conditioned to expect. But even so, what we've got coming beats the hell outta none. I'll just go to Revell for my detail fix. 😁

Plus there are scads of material from previous kits to bash, 'cept for the Bronco (and have you SEEN the rat's nest under one of those hoods?) Kinda diggin' the notion that the SS454 I dig back out of the stash might get clear headlight lenses now. 'Druthers, I like engines, but these will be just fine. And as for those Goats, don't forget how the Chevy II wagon retool started... 😎

VERY cool! It'll be interesting to see this "meet" this

By a factor of about 20. 😶 Yup, saw that one too.

Yeah, pile me on, too. I don't dislike the Monogram Satellite, but its greenhouse has always seemed just a little squashed and the grille, that wee bit tall. I've either never had the MPC or it's been years, but it sure seems better overall in pics. Meantime, I'm scoping out the online auction sites for this '68 like "where IS it, WHEREIZZIIIIIIIT..."

Aww. I hate to see any of 'em there. Except the IIs.

Do I understand correctly that Shelby American spent some time in court reminding her that the latest Eleanor was a GT500 first?

WOW, so like an interstellar Dutch Oven? 😁

**hardtop came first for the '65 Impala...** I'll just show myself out.

Well. There are those of us with eclectic tastes (AMT's new Charger, Revell's '71 Mustang and Tamiya's GMA T50 all have me crazy stoked in nearly equal measure), and some of us are nearly as enthusiastic about plastic model kits for their own sake as we are about the subjects they capture. Which is why I, by way of f'rinstance, will gladly snap up a convertible or two in anticipation of the hardtop I'd prefer. There's one I want more - but I still want 'em both. Something else appealing about a convertible model, even though I wouldn't own a 1:1 ragtop? No roof to paint and polish! That can knock 30-40% off your body finishing time.

"had" being the operative word... 😁

Guess I'm an outlier, then. 😁 I think overall it might be the most accurate '57 Chevy in a plastic kit. Better even than Revell's own snapper as mastered from the Monogram 1/12 kit patterns. The front wheel arches are too rounded in that kit, and the roofline follows the rear DLO curvature too closely, instead of crowning just a bit over the heads of the rear seat passengers. Not only is this kit superior in both of those areas... its top achievement, I think, is the front bumper; the closest ever in a plastic kit, it's molded in such a way that the parting lines are at the rear edges of the sides that wrap around to the wheels, instead of just marring those surfaces square in the middle as most every predecessor did. I even think it's just about a fit on the AMT new-tool kit, which would spackle over a number of sins in that one. I don't recall engine halves being overly difficult, but the custom wheel option was evidently thrown in without much of an eye for fit. I had to grind a LOT off their mounting bosses just to get them inside the fenders. Otherwise, pretty trouble-free.

Welp, got the Dragon M3 a couple-four years or so back... wasn't so $$$ as I recall.

Oooh, a Tamiya Volvo hath charms to overpower a wavering commitment to frugality... (meaning yeah, I mighta done a similar favor for everyone on the wagons)

Line to thank me for the Corrado reissue starts here. It was a pricey original and missing the decal sheet, but I just HAD to have it...

Goat & 'Stang sooner, Sod Buster later. 442, might just wait for the '66 to come back out - far better than the Lindberg '67.

mmmmmmmm-MM. Cain't wait...

Oh, no. Glass houses 'n all, Bruh. 😎

Yup. I'd really rather the hardtop myself, so I'm gonna express my disapproval by nabbing a couple convertibles first. That'll show 'em.

Arduns look so awesome. 😎 Yours especially!

HUZZAH! Another My Favorite Headache (credit: @Keyser) Looking forward to this one... 😁