Luc Janssens

Dresden blue?! should've renamed that Dresden torch red.

On the top of my list are these two... Jo-han 69-70 Cadillac De Ville Mpc '72 Impala And likely to remain there, unless I bring some serious green or get lucky...cuz an all new kit of these subjects is very unlikely...

Didn't the Amt/Ertl 2000ish designed '68 El Camino kit materialize, due to the track record of the '69 annual? About the '67 Fairlane, that would be a "relatively easy" project, based on the '90s designed '66, hopefully when found interesting enough, they take into account the redesign of the greenhouse too, Oh and make it a GTA just like the one featured in the book by randy Lefffingwell about the former Otis Chandler collection....

Never underestimate the nostalgia factor, which flashes over much if not all the negative from the past, human nature...

But it's not realy a kit, but rather an un-assembled toy, aimed at kids....just like the '15 Mustang and Audi R8. Yeah, I would like the last gen Crown Vic too, but like you said, for many a police car is a police car, whatever the make and model....

Bentley.... http://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=10149 Photo courtesy from Modellversium

a MkII you mean, the only first gen 1/24th scale Capri that I know of is the one by Doyusha

The Dodge has merit, dunno 'bout the Turbine. If I were king I would scan the Dodge body and related parts, to use in the design of a compete new kit series of Chryslers "forward look" Know of a couple great engineers who could help Dave with such a project. ;^)

The reason we don't have many plastic model kits of bread and butter automobiles here in Europe, is that we didn't have manufacturers commissioning promo's, also Europe wasn't a single market back then, but a bunch of countries with a lot of different rules, views and legislation, within part of a continent, called Western Europe. And then add 1/32 scale and nationalism (everything foreign is bad, domestic is the best) in the mix, and we ended up with virtually nothing... Anyway good thing Revell Germany kicked down those stupid barriers, seeing potential in the young-timer segment, think we have to thank the European Ed Sexton for this, he goes by the name Ulli Taubert. Now if only Airfix would let go of 1/32 scale...

Therefor the ;^)

My dad had the coupe version, also a 1.9, a beautifull car that was, BTW how's the rust on the fenders just above the headlamps?

Wonder why ;^)

If the tooling is here and doesn't need rework, maybe it's more cost effective to keep it here for production.

I knew you would come through

Very understandable reaction Dave. But if you would take a photo, you're fully in control and can make one, which does the kit justice. Just my 2 cents. Best regards Luc

Question for the model kit engineers on board, would it be helpful in kit design, using a wire mesh panel (painted black for a light car, white or yellow for a dark one) when shooting a body of a vintage car. Or would it interfere with the camera lens, just wondering... Edit; The wire mesh panel can be custom made in aluminum and coated with some sort of soft plastic, so one can't damage the vehicle, one is getting data from. or

I'm content when you don't notice the mistakes or tooling/design compromises, without taking a caliper, ruler, making templates or use some other measuring device. I still remember as a early teen; un-boxing the Airfix/Mpc General Lee kit, and noticing the wrong backlite and hoping Monogram would release a '69 Charger as the next kit in their 1/24th scale Muscle car series....

Please see link for details...http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blog/testshots-vorgestellt-vw-golf-gti-von-revell-im-massstab-124/2014/ Photo courtesy of DPMV

Totally unnecessary, because the curb spot is the best spot, you can park with the wheels a few inches from the curb and have wide area to open the passenger door, or the driver-side door from the car in the second spot. Unless it's grass, full of dog feces, then I back in (letting the passenger out before I park) ;^)

Seems Tamiya has a better customer service in the US then in Europe, tried to obtain the clear parts for their BMW 635 CSI kit and both the Belgian as the German distributors, were unable to help me.

Didn't know that they had several Masters, which is not likely cuz they cost a ton of money. But I doubt we will ever know the reason why it happened...internal kitchen...

Think Revell in the Venice years had some great Ideas, but where was their tooling done? 'Bout the second statement you make, well if the weekend modelers were not so discriminative palmer and that other brand still would be current model kit makers. ;^)

Dunno, maybe sometimes the tooling model is so much off, that they don't have the budget and time-frame to fix all the errors, let alone start from scratch?! For instance when the wheelbase is off, not only the body needs to be retooled, but also the chassis, suspension parts, exhaust, interference with other parts need to be checked, interior, firewall, etc.. Then the translation form tooling model to first shot can also go bad for reasons Murphy only knows, remember the B-pillar from the Moebius Ford P/U? Maybe we should call it the Walmart legacy.. Cutting costs so much that decisions were made which now seem irreversible due to laying the eggs in just one basket, so that there's no turning back without a major investment in technology, human capital and production slots. Think the complaining of board members is like poring salt in an already open wound. just my opinion...and open for debate...

Masters and tooling are also done overseas, dunno if the production is done by the same vendor(s) as the one who's contracted to do the tooling-model and cutting the dies.

I remember a conversation I had with friends; who almost 10 years ago, owned a large mail-order/distributor/aftermarket company in MO, in which they said, that when calling Revell-Monogram for orders etc, one could hear the machines and handing of tools in the tool-shop, later when tooling went Orient the phone line was static free. With that I wish to say, that it's much easier to follow up on something that's done in house, then when sending a box stuffed with drawings and photographs to a vendor a few thousand miles away, Sidenote: If i would sent the recipe to make Belgian chocolate to a Chinese food factory, will they be able to create those delicious Belgian Chocolates and sell them in Belgium by the truckloads?) Maybe in time with raising labor costs in China, plus the shipping factor (cost and lost time) and also the advancement of 3D scanning and rapid prototyping technology, this part of R&D could be ready for in-sourcing again, but the question then is do we still have craftsmen who can do the job and if so, can a small niche the hobby industry is, attract such people, when there's much more earnings to be found, in industrial applications, so who knows maybe some Chinese craftsmen will have to come stateside and be part of the American dream, just as the Chinese railroad-workers many generations ago... I have a dream...Ha! R&D nothing as exiting but also nerve-wrecking ;^)