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Despite not knowing the language. I assume it's German. I liked the review. And kit looks pretty good to me.

I personally never liked that optional ribbed back panel. I was very glad that Ertl did not put on this kit when it first came out. The one option I wish they would have included in with the kit was the vented hood. That and a 390. '67 is my all time favorite of the Mustangs. The trouble is, I built a very nice one when Ertl first introduced this kit several years ago. So, do I really what another one? Maybe... I really do like the retro style box art shown above.

I already pre-ordered one from them a few days ago.

My dad had a plain brown Mutt II coupe, with the 4 popper under hood. He bought it new in 1977. Not a great car. But, not a bad one either. No worst than other cars of the era. But, you can see what I mean about Mutt IIs getting no respect. The first response to me bringing them up, is someone telling me what piece of BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH they are. All cars in that era were piece of BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. Don't ask me about how many times I had my first brand new car, a '77 Plymouth Volare, was in the shop it's first year. A lot more than my dad's Mutt II. Despite both of those cars being junk. I still like the looks of both the Mutt IIs and the early Volares (and it's sister the Aspens). And I'm glad to have a couple of Mutt IIs and Plymouth Volare model in my collection.

Everybody likes to put Mutt IIs down. But, I've always liked them. They were the right car at the right time. They kept the Mustang franchise going in tough times. And in particular, I liked the Cobra II version. Right from the first time I saw it. Below arrived in today's mail. It's Greenlight's 1/43 scale 1976 Mustang II Cobra II. In blue no less. The color I've always wanted one in.

I'd love to see the Craftsman '60 Nomad come back. I love the type of cars that were offered in the Craftsman series back then. Mainly the type of cars your parents might buy in real life. And you'd spend many fond years of riding around in the backseat of. Or driving yourself when you got old enough.

Nice job. I've always like the looks of the Club de Mer.

Holy smokes. Unusual subject and stunning. And thanks for showing us how you did it. I'm impressed.

For all of the troubles you had, it sure turned out nice.

A nice cleaner shoebox. I like it.

All I can say, is Wow! A nice bird.

Stunning!

Wow! It looks great.

Very nice. I like it.

Very nice. A beautiful build.

I like it. Nice job.

Falcon? I have a couple I can share. Beside the four shown here, I also have a '60 promo I rescued and restored, hidden away where it's not all that accessible.

A lovely T. I did one similar a few years back, only using the stuff that came in the box, and painted flat black. A fun and classic old kit, that like yours, builds beautifully. Very nice Tim.

It obviously stirs excitement for me. I love the common cars. The type regular people bought more of in real life. The kits you listed above Steve, are on my "want" list too. But, so was the early, 1st gen Chevy II wagon. I'm delighted to see a new version of this car in kit form. I've already ordered a curbside. And when the more detailed comes out, I'll be ordering one of those too.

I just clicked into your link above Tim. And I've even more excited by this kit than I was before. In my opinion, Round 2 has done this one right. I hope this kit is a big success, so we can see more like it in the future. If this was just a minor revamp on the old kit, I would be happy with just the one I have on order. But, after seeing the detail in the new kit, two things come to mind. It's going to be a shame building the kit as curbside. Hiding all of that great new under hood detail. Second, I'll be buying the more detailed version of the kit, when it too comes out. Normally I'm happy with just a curbside kit. But looking at what seeing of this curbside kit, I'm looking forward to seeing and building the more detailed version too. I love the UFO decals and New Mexico plates. I will be using those on my curbside build. I also like the squirrel. I have no idea of how I would use it in any of my builds. I've never found a use for any of the past animals from early 60's AMT kits. Yet I like little trinkets like that where almost always in those old kits. So I'm glad Round 2 is giving us a squirrel with this kit.

It would look pretty good stuck on runway here at the Minneapolis... I mean Lincoln airport.

Where did you get a Forbidden Planet blaster?

Thank you, gentleman.

Recently Round 2/Polar Lights brought an all new model of the Galileo Shuttlecraft from Star Trek TOS. Naturally, I had to pick one up. But, I had never built the original TOS Galileo that AMT came out with back in 1975. So I decided I wanted to build the old kit, before tackling the new one. Now, I knew ahead of time, everything that was wrong about AMT's old shuttlecraft kit. And for those reasons Round 2 has never reissued it, and instead tooled up a new one. But still it's part of Star Trek and modeling history, and I've wanting to build one since it first came out back in '75. A local St. Paul hobby shop, Scale Model Supplies, still had a couple of AMT/Ertl's last reissue in stock. Last released back in 1991. For this, the TOS 25th Anniversary, Ertl reissued the original AMT shuttle as the Galileo II and opened up the front windows. So I bought one and built it. Before anybody brings up any criticism that the colors I choose to paint this kit are all wrong. I what you to know that I know that. The kit was painted according to recommendations in the instruction sheet. Not what is prototypical, or correct for a TOS shuttlecraft. But since this kit is off in other ways, and I will be building a "correct" Polar Lights version in the future, I decided to stick with the instructions recommendations. In for a penny, in for a pound. The kit is a piece of poop. Glueing seats in, getting landing legs to stay on were a pain. But a nice coat of paint and the decals put on, it doesn't look too bad. I'm happy with the end results.

Great info on the Bond movie cars. Thanks Rex. And no need to apologize for the "information overload." I for one, love thrive this type of stuff, and find it fascinating. How this will effect my build of the new AMT kit, I'm not sure? I'll plan on building mine straight out of the box. Painting most of the chrome grille corral (frame) flat black, other than the outer edge. By the way, I'm mot seeing the point in the grille frame as shown in the instructions. It looks better than that. Again, thanks for the info Rex.