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Looks good. A good old fashion AMT classic kit. I like it.

Despite that, it apparently worked well for Salvador Dali. If the story is true. I've seen his paintings.

Been using Testor's window glue for years. For 99% of what need it works fine.

With those two center spark plugs being so hard to get at. I gentully broke out each spark plug free. Then I glued the plug wires to the the plugs. Next I'll be glueing the spark plugs back into their places. Much easier than trying to get the wires/vinyl tubes in that confined area by themselves. Good suggestion about the toothpicks Adam. I've been using a small nail instead. The best bet with MPC's Honda 750. Attach the vinyl tubing to the spark plus before enclosing the engine into the frame. I don't know what they were thinking when they wrote steps 8 and 9 in the instructions back in the early 70's. But, installing them later, like they indicated, did not work for me.

Sorry about that Tony.

Continuing with our discussion Snake, a rare car is the 1972 Continental Mk IV without the opera window. Which was optional that year. (I can't remember if it was optional or standard equipment for '73 or not.) You were required to take a vinyl roof on the '72 Mk IV. But not the opera window. And I think the car looks much better without it. Without the opera window you got a nice little Continental star in its place. Very clean looking. As mentioned vinyl roofs were optional on Thunderbirds in 1972 and '73. But you'll rarely find one without the option either year. As noted, if you ordered the vinyl roof on the '72 you got Landau S bars. Order a vinyl roof on the '73 you got the opera window. So few '72 and '73 Birds were built without vinyl roofs, that starting in May of '73, all Thunderbird came standard with the vinyl roof and opera windows. Tough to find, but if you've ever seen a '72 or '73 Thunderbird without the vinyl roof, they too look very clean to me. They just carry a nice moderate sized Thunderbird emblem on the C pillar. Again I'm not a big fan of vinyl roofs overall. On some cars in the late 70's you were offered a Landau vinyl roof over the rear half of the roof as standard equipment. In that case, at least with Fords and Mercurys, you could option to have a full vinyl roof at no extra charge. That would have been a case where I would have opted to go with the full vinyl roof. I like the looks of a good solid looking "C" pillar on a car. For example, in general in the early 30's I like a 3-window coupe better than a 5-window. There are exceptions to every rule. I like the thin C pillar on late 50's Dodges and Plymouths. I love GM's flattop 4-door hardtops of '59 and '60. In general, the thicker the "C" pillar the better I like it. But, the area needs to be kept clean overall. Another example a clean look in the area of the "C" pillar I like, is the design of the second generation GM "F" body cars. Camaro and Firebird. Though I like the '70 through '74 rear window better. The '75 and later second gen "F" bodies look good too. I think you can see why I don't like the fuel fillers on that first Mach 1 concept car. Clutters an area that looks better clean. Yet, at the same time I like the vent louvers used on the '65 through '68 Mustang fastbacks. And I do like the replacement window Shelby put in on the '66 GT350s. As noted, there are exceptions to just about every rule.

One of the few exceptions I have on "C" pillar windows. I prefer the stock Mustang louvers better. But, the Shelby window looked okay too. I like them better than the vent setup Shelby chose to go with on the '67 and '68 GT350s and GT500s. Snake, I'm just not a big fan, in general, of extra things on car roofs. I love the blind corner roof design of the '66, '69, and '71 Thunderbird 2-door Landaus for example. But I hate the Landau "S" bar you had to take on the '69. At least in '66 on the Town Hardtop and again on the '71 2-door Landau you could get that roof style without the bars. And I love both the '72 and '73 Thunderbirds without the vinyl roof roof options. No "S" bar in '72. And no opera window in '73. If you passed on ordering the vinyl roof. Speaking of vinyl roofs. In general that is something with few exceptions, I always disliked. There are a couple of exceptions to the rule there though. I feel the '77, '78, and '79 Thunderbirds look better with the two piece vinyl roof, than without. And if I had to take a vinyl roof on some other cars, I kind of like the style that covers the forward half of the roof, starting at (or ending, depending on how you look at it) at "C" pillar right above the rear corner of rear quarter window on two-doors. But in general I dislike vinyl roofs. Especially the "landau" style that covered the rear part of the roof. Then combine that with an opera window. Ugh! So many decent looking cars in the mid to late 70's were ruined by that trend.

The above on Salvador Dali is exactly what I was hoping for in starting this thread. Not personal opinions on how bad cashiers are at counting out money. Thank you TJ, you got the idea.

Sad that they're site is permanently down. I got my last order in a little over a month ago. Thanks to Carol and Don for the great service they have provided over the years. I've always been happy with everything I've ever ordered from them. i hope someone steps in to take over their business. I'm worried that someone will buy it, thinking they have a gold mine on their hands, and screw it up. Besides quality, service was always a stronge point of buying from Modelhaus. Carol and Don did a great job. It will take more than just money/buying their company, to make it work.

The above answers on the other thread on this model, what's in the box. It looks like Mr. Hall can stop wondering about the tires.

I'm willing to bet, Round 2 will be giving us better tires than just the old hard plastic ones. The hard plastic ones may still be there, but I'm sure a nice set of vinyl or rubber (what ever they're made of) will be there too. That's the way it's been done in other Round 2 reissues were the hard plastic tires were originally in the kit.

Is it affordable? I can not tell from their home page on the link you gave us?

Yea I hate "C" pillar portholes. That and good old 70's "C" pillar opera windows. Even on the Thunderbirds. Including the two-sweaters. On the Mach 1 concept car, they maybe fuel fillers, but they still look like portholes and ugly. Later versions of the kit with the fuel fillers on the deck lid look a lot better. (To me.)

Yes! Vega!

Other than the porthole in the "C" pillar of the original and second version of this car, I like it. And wouldn't mind seeing it back on the market.

Where did you get your information about the kit be produced or not produced in the first place? I get the impression from your posts, that you may have an inside line on what's going on over at Round 2. And since you said you were pretty sure they canceled it. I thought maybe you might know why? I'm not really all that interested in the Honda ATC90 myself. If they were to reissue it, I'd probably buy one. But, there are other old MPC non car kits I'd like to see more. Like the two Schwinn bicycle kits. Or the old Ski-Doo kits. But like I say, I'll probably buy the Honda ATC90 if they ever put it out again. I wouldn't mind seeing it come back.

I just got done watching all three videos above. To be honest, I understood very little of what I was seeing. It looks exciting. But, how can I truly use it in my hobby of model car building? Or how can a manufacture use use it in providing me parts in this hobby now? And for home use? We have one member in our local model car club who is having custom made parts being made by a 3-D printer for a large scale model car he is building. The last few months he has been bringing in some impressive stuff to show us. I've been blown away by what I've seen. But, is this practical from the adverage model builder right now? Or the adverage consumer in general? He has to have someone make the parts for him. He is presently unable to do it himself at home. We're looking at the future. I can see where it will be practical for fairly large manufactures to use something like we were shown in the above videos, in the near future. But, I can not see a way, yet, of making it practical for home use, for the type of things I would like to make. I hope I'm wrong. It would be cool to cast entire kits or parts at home. One last thing. I'm curious about what the guy in the last video said about doing 3-D printing in metal in the near future. Plastic is one thing. Other materials is another interesting step forward. Printing things on a molecular level, arranging atoms, could really change things. I wonder how far away that is? And how that will change the world? Again, pretty exciting.

No problems for me with the above link. If the link does work for you, its well worth going to. Wow! Great bits of history.

Why?

Don't ask many adults to either.

By far my favorite paint. Worth the extra price of every can to me. I like their bottled paint too. Tamiya makes great paint.

Dito. You've hit the nail on the head. (And not the Buick Nailhead. Which I'm still happy with in the roadster kit.)

Nice job, on a very cool kit of one of great looking cars of all time. I've always loved Chrysler's Turbine, and JoHan's detailed kit of the car. One of my favorite kits. Have built several over the years. And I still have an unbuilt one waiting in the wings. It's in mint condition, other than its missing all of the glass for some reason? And the kit was sealed when I got it!

That's what I was going to say.

Very nice.