Luc Janssens

thanks for the tip! here's the decal sheet! Photo courtesy of Roy Sörenson via FB

Art, Do the licensors give their approval based on the tooling model or on the test shots and box-art mockup? Thanks Luc

Good one, but understandable since the US is such a large country. In the summer of '93 during my first visit to the USA (CA, AZ, UT, NV) our King Boudewijn died and my brother and I didn't know about it, until we returned home. Luc

As you all know by now, the Kats at Amt, redid the grille on the '60 Ford Ranchero. Not only did they backdate it to 1960 specs, but they went the extra mile creating chrome headlamp buckets with clear lenses, a move I can only applaud and also a pet peeve of mine, which has been addressed, for which I thank the R&D team at Round2. Now my question to you all, would you like to see this modification continued and even extended into the regular (non restored) re-issues too, or don't you care? Thanks in advance for your input Best Regards Luc

Fully agree on the Monogram kits, I've build the whole Muscle car series in the 80s, easy to build and look great on the shelf, because unlike the older kits from Amt and Mpc they do have clear headlamps. You still can pick these up relatively cheap on ebay or swap-meets, those who haven't been reissued by Revell in the past 5 years or so. Happy building!

If you're wanting a '60s Cadillac, Jo-han is the only way to go, too bad really other manufacturers aren't picking up where Jo-Han ended, are Cadillac slow selling kits then? I don't mind having these....

IIRC you need a Blazer kit, for the grille when building the extreme S10 kit

Didn't they turn that into a race car? Mark B will know for sure, but I'm thinking that it will take a lot of funds to turn it back into a factory stock vehicle.

a Mpc '79 Dodge pickup with extra's, which I've parked with a friend for a thorough parts inventory, before sending across that big puddle called the Atlantic.

Yeah it's cool model, have one in the stash too, only one thing wrong with mine, stress cracks in the backlite.

Photo courtesy of Wettringer Modellbau Forum. Here's what's inside the box.... http://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=548126#post548126

Yes! I do assume that that will be a licensing challenge LOL

Lassen Projects did a vintage Unimog and was planning another one, but sadly there initial kit tanked...maybe his idea came to early.

It's a European spec kit, so the kit doesn't represent anything which was sold in the US via the official dealer network.

Great job Tim! ..the concerns I had seeing the test shots are wiped away with your build of the production kit. the guys at Revell did a great job, convey it to them, next time your in contact with the R&D crew. Hope to have my copy next month.

Did he actually design the kits, or did he make a concept drawing, on which engineers then made an exploded view deciding on parts breakdown and then blueprints with actual dimensions, to which the tooling model was build. Wondering...

Maybe it's to test the waters, just a guess. fact is since the takeover by Hobbico, lost more of American content makes it into the European lineup

Though it was a big step in the right direction, I think the successors like the '55 Chevy 'vert were better, why?.. Well my biggest gripe is the promo like front clip, with missing engraving under the headlamps of which the surrounds include the end-caps of the front fenders. IMHO it would've been better if they molded the lower bumper separate from the grille and the headlamp buckets as separate parts too, but again that's my humble opinion Photo courtesy of Rosenblum TV

I'd love to see it back too, maybe they need to add some bling bling and release it in a California Wheels wrapper.

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Didn't know, thanks for the feedback!

But what about the grille-less fenders?

All new state of the art 1/25 scale kits from: 1 -'67 Pontiac GTO 2 -'68-'69 Chevy Chevelle 3 -'68 Dodge Coronet. 4 -'70 Pontiac GTO 5 -'70-'81 Firebird (that tooling may wear out fast LOL) Those who didn't make it to my top 5.. 6 -'71 Ford Mustang 7 -'67-'68 Mercury Cougar 8 -'81 Chevy Malibu 9 -'72 Plymouth Roadrunner 10-'69-"70 Cadillac DeVille

Could be that's it's an updated '70 proof body. Is it spot welded or put together with rivets?

That's an old Esci kit, I didn't guy it because they left out the hardtop, stupid marketing. About the Monogram Blue Thunder Chevy, I think it never materialized, maybe because in the show they used an S10 Blazer.