Luc Janssens

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.

More: http://revell-news.de/display.php?M=56539&C=aae492cd1a2110055200a0f903bdeb4b&S=203&L=21&N=87

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.

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

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. ;^)

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 ;^)

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/

No it's been confirmed by Tom Carter that it will be based on the Duster tool.

What Rob said, new tool based on their in 2009 released all new T1 Samba kit. http://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=23187&highlight=Revell+samba

Picked up this kit yesterday, http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blog/neuheiten-vorgestellt-vw-t1-transporter-von-revell-im-masstab-124/2013/

Roadrunner on their 2000ish '71 Charger tooling? What could be carried over and what parts would need to be newly designed? Please when answering take your time to collect data and don't guess, maybe info like this can be dispensed to the right people at Round2 Thanks and enjoy your weekend! Best regards Luc

Maybe also because of sticker shock as the Revell version here (Belgium) of that kit has a MSRP of 70 Euro ($95). But now I see them priced at a local Toy chain store for 55 Euro ($74)

I doubt it, think the tooling was altered, first for the SVO and then for the '83 'vert, then the Monkees mobile, then the '89, 90,91 and '92 annuals, and then a '93 Cobra...

It's a very exiting technology but unless you're part of a big toy manufacturer which can spread the investment over several product-lines, it's far too expensive for such a niche market as ours, some die hard modelers would pay premium for model kits, but doubt that the weekend modeller will follow and those guys still buy the bulk of the kits.