Luc Janssens

Wonder how the roof on 1/24 snap-tite kit is....

Well if one seeks more exposure to get more middle aged men into this hobby, this one might be the ticked. Cus think that side effect from the pandemic has passed, besides the movie fits into that age bracket as well I think, also maybe time to bring back the A- team van as wel, most rather remember it from the TV series than from that movie, same goes for the TV series CHiP's. 😉 Cheers Luc

If they would do the Bluesmobile, the chassis with drive-train and floorpan including wheelwells would be a great starting point to add the already available 3D printed bodies, no?!

Hi all, Is the Lindberg six cilinder engine from the ‘64 Dodge a good choice to make the Moebius ‘65 Coronet a low line model? Also anyone who has a photo on how the upholstery of the front bench seat looks like? TIA Luc

Under the SSP program IIRC.

Hmm...maybe cuz in another tread it said; no engine and rolling wheels. Which for a non factory convertible, makes sense, a one trick pony by default and nothing of which the tooling can be used to spawn several planned versions. Edit: just learned that there were indeed factory Eldo's ragtops in 84 and 85. But anyway think beyond the show the intetest for a model of this car would be slim. Hopefully the New York Toy Show brings us more news. Cheers.

Which is? Curious by nature.

Thanks Christian, but think those were announced a few years prior, no? Like the Ford RS200, think even that one was delayed. Due to the 2 projects they were going to announce at Nürnberg. Slightly confused 😉

That's one of the things I'm not fond of, yes it mimicks the original kit, yet when it was tooled, sliding parts in model kit tooling were not yet implemented, nostalgia only go so far. IMHO it makes the build, especially the painting more difficult, where the parts breakdown of a kit should help the builder in presenting a decent end result and then I'm not talking about warped parts. But who am I.

Here a review by Frank Richter on Modellversium Photo courtesy of Frank Richter and Modellversium https://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=14243 As you can see the only difference is the decal sheet and the box. The instruction sheet will likely be the same except that, Revell in Germany doesn't include a partslist and also that the consumer service address will be Bunde instead of NJ. The difference in price is most likely due to the rerouting this version had to go through before ending in your neck of the woods, cuz China sends bagged shots to Poland where they are packaged in the typical Revell Euro boxes with Italian sourced decals and I asume the instruction sheet is local sourced too. Hope that clears up this issue. Cheers Luc

Well....gonna add this one to the pile, a car which in the UK got notorious under it's license plate 40RA, if anyone from Airfix is lurking?!

I hope, that if Round-2 is looking into re-doing the '66 they include the never kitted '67, which IMHO slightly better looking.

James, Did you find any info on Belkits? (Yeah I know, an odd question coming from a Belgian 😉 ) Cus think they were going to announce two new kits at Nürnberg. Cheers Luc

What Cadillac engine does the Revell '49 Mercury custom and Woody have?

Built one when they were first released, sadly it didn't survive, but still have an unbuild Lorinzer version

Would be nice indeed, only remember the old Otaki racing variant.

Tim, did it feature in Scale Auto?

Just learned that it will be a 1/24th scale model kit. More italeri news here.... https://www.italeri.com/en/article/843?fbclid=IwY2xjawH4QThleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRcepEwbMgCdAeZr6nNahgRBZs8LAjeNTWiJecWqHqPU8sOxM-X3073EPA_aem_aQEsFaY1jgHvzldGG3JMOw

Guess we will know for certain when Revell announces their 2025 product lineup at the Nürnberg trade show, since they didn't made it public on January 1st. like they did in the past decade or so...

Most likely a compromise to keep the T-top version available. Cuz otherwise IMHO that is, they would've had to work on the core of the tool, the area wich forms the "headliner" part of the body, which mean retooling the clear T-top clear panels too if they want to release this version again in the future. Bottom line is, it's 45 year old tooling.

Don't think so, cuz the core of the tool as evidenced on the underside of the roof still shows the contours and they didn't weld off the T-top glass from the clear shot. Anyway just MHO

And here is HPIGUYS review.

Indeed, and about more model kits news, maybe at the N.Y. Toy show in March?

Just came across this. Which seems like the cover of the 2025 Italeri catalog.

The latest Revell (Europe) newsletter mentions CW08.