Luc Janssens

Hello all, Was at a friend yesterday and he gave me a flyer of this French company which produces diecasts of vintage trucks in 1/24th scale. http://www.maqmadon.com/ I thought to spread the news Also interesting is that you can buy this seperate....

Built one as a teen and being a ex Monogram kit it goes together without any problems, The only thing I recall is that you have to spread the rear quarter panels a bit to install the rear valance (use leftover sprue cut to lenght and remove when the glue has dried)

It's still the same site, though they refined the search feature and proposals nomenclature, somewhat. Yes...also a plethora of subjects, of which many duplicates, so IMHO it still needs some more massaging, also in the voting process.(if the displayed numbers are factual, not fictional, as in why let the competition use the data) Is it useful in it's current form, I doubt it, but it's nice to have a place to voice or post your idea.

More buying power means, truckloads of funds coming in, which can be a lubricant for licensing negotiations , makes a larger R&D team possible, which leads to shorter development times, etc, etc....

Because there are far more people and kids who like models, but don't want to build, don't think Diecast kits were a success either. And creative kids use Lego and the like, to express themselves, maybe due to the fact that building a model kit, is a one way street, once build it just sits there and deteriorate over time (mom cleaning) Lego can be disassembled and the parts can be used to build something else, dunno just guessing

I think the licensing and tooling costs, stamps this proposal paper as not lucrative. If it had a great ROI percentage then it would've been tooled up yesterday

Just bought these from that auction site, spread the word....

I like the mainland Europe version

Think the question to ask is, is it worth to pull the '68-'69 tool from production, to rework it.

I would kill for this in 1/24th scale, sadly the new helmsmen at Airfix, keep holding on to the 1/32nd scale for their automotive kits. The Brits and tradition I guess ;^)

Too bad, do thanks for checking Francis!

Chrome headlamps, or bucket with clear lenses?

Think he told it, or I heard it a day or so before the HH party at Dean's museum, back in '03

Probably as a "size" reference

What bothers me with that kit is that the chrome headlamp buckets aren't buckets but flat. In that respect I find the Revell/Monogram kit better and cheapo to buy on the secondary market.

Was browsing the German Wettringer hobby forum and discovered this.... http://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=34363 Couldn't hot link the photo's from their site, but found this one at Scalemates, thus picture courtesy of them. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/184984-zd-progress-moscow-no-12-amo-typ-f-15

Here actual info, no nonsense!

IMHO this generation deserves all new tooling, but if the numbers don't warrant the investment, I will be content with a retool of the faux Mpc '71 Mustang in the original configuration of the tool, meaning the '71 anual kit, with one suggestion for a upgrade, meaning chrome headlamp buckets with clear lenses, a pet peeve of mine ;^)

Test shot from the new BMW i8 kit, by Revell Germany Photo's courtesy: Robert Fuchs, DPMV Germany For more photo's please click on link below http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blog/testshots-vorgestellt-bmw-i8-von-revell-124/2015/

Mine the '62, like you see hare in the pics, and also the '69-70 DeVille's, Photo taken by me, somewhere north of Seattle just off Interstate 5, in the summer of 1999.

They will need to change the shipping routes then, Asia, Europe (via Suez) and then the US (East coast) That way we in Europe get the Revell US kits first too LOL

makes sense, to me Revell USA stopped existing after the move to the Monogram plants (Morton Grove and Des Plaines) The Monogram brand was worldwide synonym for quality model kits, Revell up to that point was hit or mis.

Do hope Revell sends you a final shot, or an production sign-off copy of this new kit, so that you can present it's contents on the various boards and maybe turn it, into an online build You're retired, so what else can you do to keep you from boredom! Best Regards Luc

Maybe your build inspired them?!

Thanks guys, but I'm only the messenger, Andreas Eichendorff from IPMS Germany did all the work, kudos to him for a job well done and then some... BTW there's more Steffen Arndt posted more pics from the event... http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2015/Bilder_AT/Bilder_AT_1.htm