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  1. Luc Janssens
    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!
  2. Luc Janssens
    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....
  3. Luc Janssens
    IIRC you need a Blazer kit, for the grille when building the extreme S10 kit
  4. Luc Janssens
    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.
  5. Luc Janssens
    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.
  6. Luc Janssens
    Yeah it's cool model, have one in the stash too, only one thing wrong with mine, stress cracks in the backlite.
  7. Luc Janssens
    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
  8. Luc Janssens
    Yes! I do assume that that will be a licensing challenge LOL
  9. Luc Janssens
    Lassen Projects did a vintage Unimog and was planning another one, but sadly there initial kit tanked...maybe his idea came to early.
  10. Luc Janssens
    It's a European spec kit, so the kit doesn't represent anything which was sold in the US via the official dealer network.
  11. Luc Janssens
    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.
  12. Luc Janssens
    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...
  13. Luc Janssens
    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
  14. Luc Janssens
    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
  15. Luc Janssens
    I'd love to see it back too, maybe they need to add some bling bling and release it in a California Wheels wrapper.
  16. Luc Janssens
    More: http://revell-news.de/display.php?M=56539&C=aae492cd1a2110055200a0f903bdeb4b&S=203&L=21&N=87
  17. Luc Janssens
    Didn't know, thanks for the feedback!
  18. Luc Janssens
    But what about the grille-less fenders?
  19. Luc Janssens
    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
  20. Luc Janssens
    Could be that's it's an updated '70 proof body. Is it spot welded or put together with rivets?
  21. Luc Janssens
    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.
  22. Luc Janssens
    True, but I also read a comment by a former Amt engineer that it was the most expensive kit to run (production wise) at the time. Maybe the old Mpc tools are almost Jo-Han like LOL
  23. Luc Janssens
    I know, I've been looking for a decent affordable built up to replicate it, for quite some time now, but I'm a patient guy. ;^)
  24. Luc Janssens
    Does it still exist? The re-issue of the '71 was last seen as a Mpc/Ertl release in the mid to late 80s, IIRC; A racing variant was announced a decade or so later, but never materialized, anyone an idea what happened? Sure they could copy a vintage kit, but if they are making that kinda investment, improving it in my book would be the way to go, if only to remove the chrome headlamps (my pet peeve ;^)
  25. Luc Janssens
    Airfix is releasing a brand new kit of a Hawker Typhoon in June! ;^) http://www.airfix.com/news/airfix-new-for-2014-hawker-typhoon-124/
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