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Your welcome. And I too am glad to see it out again. The 1932 Chrysler Imperial has always been a nice looking car. A true classic according to the Classic Car Club of America.

Very nice. ?

Sorry. I do plan on building the Chrysler too.

In today's mail. A lovely looking car. But, I bought it mainly for the extras. Especially the motorcycle.

Very cool. I like it.

It looks pretty good. A very nice job.

I too have both kits. I've done a little work on the Revell sedan. I hope mine turn out half a nice as yours.

It looks nice. I'm impressed.

Just got back from looking at your preview you link above. As I figured, I'll be enjoying the book a lot. Despite the emphasis on "drag racing," it looks like you cover just about everything even remotely related to the subject. There is enough there for even those of us with a light interest in the subject.

By the way. Happy birthday Snake.

Just put my order in on Amazon.

Any book on model cars written by Mr. Boyd, is an automatic addition to my library. Even though the subject in this case does not interest me a lot, I'm sure it's going to well done and very authoritative, like his other books. Even with my low interest in drag racing, I've built a few over the years. So I'm sure I'll enjoy this book too.

The box is dated 1976. A simple, but very nice kit.

Finished this one last night. Monogram's 1/24 Mercedes-Benz 450SL, from 1976. A very nice simple curbside kit. I hope you like it.

I first built the Gunze Sangyo 1/32 scale '63 Thunderbird, and the other three at were issued by Revell back in the 1980's, in the 80's. About 10 or 15 years ago I got my hands on and built another '63 Thunderbird, this time from a Gunner Sangyo box. I liked these kits. I keep thinking I may have to hunt down another of one their '59 Ford retractables. I had a tough time building it and getting the top to work correctly. If I run across one cheap enough I may try it again. It would be fun to display along it with the 1/25 scale Revell retractable I'm almost finished with.

Very cool. I like it.

Thank you guys.

I too remember and liked Chris' build on HPIguys Workshop.

This kit is Moebius' interpretation of the old old Strombcker Convair Manned Nuclear Interplanetary Vehicle kit. In this case, Moebius refers to it as the Convair NEV (Nuclear Exploratory Vehicle). Based on designs by Krafft Ehricke in the late 1950's. It's similar in size to original Strombecker kit put out in 1959. Despite being basically the same size, Strombecker claimed a scale of 1:91 scale, where Moebius claims 1:144. Which seems more reasonable to me. The other main difference between the two kits is the length of the necks between the engine/fuel tanks and the crew compartment. The Moebius kit being a little shorter. That and the decals. I was delighted that Moebius decided to put out this kit a few years back. I love these speculative designs of possible spacecraft from the 1950's and early '60s. And since the Strombecker version came out in only once in 1959, when I was only one year old, I never got a chance to get my hands on an original. Being that the kit is put out by Moebius, everything fixes prefect and went together well. The one problem the old Strombecker kits seem to have, is the neck starts to bend with weight of the crew compartment on the end. From what I'm seeing so far, it looks like the Moebius kit should not have same problem By the way, it should be noted that Krafft Ehricke design for this vehicle was one major influences on the design of 2001: A Space Odyssey's Discovery spacecraft. I recently added the book 2001: The Science (Volume 2), the Scientists, Influences & Designs from the Frederick I. Ordway III Estate, by Adam K. Johnson. It not only confirms this information. But, it's my understanding that the author, Mr. Johnson has soon influence on Moebius issuing this kit.

Built from the recent Atlantis reissue of Revell's old Convair Space Shuttlecraft. Originally designed by rocket engineer Krafft Ehricke, and first put out by Revell as a kit in 1959. A nice kit. A little primitive by today's standards. But, everything fit together fairly well. I like it.

That doesn't make sense to me. I understand that diecast toy market is bigger. But, why can they tool things up so much faster?

Maybe Tim or someone else can explain this one to me. How come it takes so long to develop new plastic kits, yet diecast models and toys appear so much quicker? The post-war Power Wagon brings that to point. About 15 years ago, maybe more, I picked up a very nice 1/25 or 1/24 scale Dodge Power Wagon die cast put out by Matchbox. Why do we see so many great car and trucks, mainly diecast, in 1/18 or 1/64 scales, coming out all of time? Cars and trucks I would love to see as plastic kits. Yet it takes forever for a kit too appear? Greenlight and M2 in particular, keep putting out really cool, reasonably accurate new diecast toy cars and trucks all of the time. Round 2 in 1/18 scale, and 1/64 in their Johnny Lighting and Auto World series too.

I agree 100% with the comment above. Since the Pegasus take over of Moebius, I don't see much new in the way of car kits coming from them. Where's the early to mid '60s Chevy IIs they were talking about before the merger?

I too would love to have a Dodge truck from the '62-'71 vintage. But, with how fast Moebius has been with coming out with the Chevy II kits since changing hands, I'm not holding my breath. I get the impression the new owners of Moebius have little to no interests in pursuing model kits of cars or trucks.

I'm wondering virus he's referring too? It can't be the Corona, that's only been going on for the last six or seven months, or so. How long has he delayed his model? How many years? They must have a virus on Hawaii that we don't have here on the mainland?