Luc Janssens
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Revell 1968 Chevelle now in stock and shipping
Luc Janssens replied to Brett Barrow's topic in Car Kit News & Reviews
It's official now I hate you guys! (but in a good way) On the bright side Revell Germany will release it here too (March I think), the Chevelle that is, the Mustang I'm not sure...maybe they will announce it on Jan. 1st. -
it's a hornet's nest, I'm sure the minute some entity admits they have the tooling, they will get a not so nice mail from a lawyer. Anything Jo-Han is toxic, one is better off, tooling up new kits of the very same subject, if viable...so stuff like B-Body Plymouths, etc... Just my 2 cents
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Indeed postage went thru the roof, factor in customs fees (they include shipping in their calculation of the value of parcel) and that eBay bargain became very pricey. Gift parcels get the same customs treatment, a big sign that our greedy government needs mo money! The main reason my US Ebay purchases went to zero this year. Local swap meets and hobby stores now...
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Maybe a late '70s Olds Cutlass would fit that category too, but one can't say cuz there's no money trail from that one, because it was never kitted The power of nostalgia, ha!
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IIRC it doesn't need much to turn this kit in an earlier version, cuz the front clip is glued to the old front.
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Still, remember when they first came out, a guy (think his name was Francois, but everyone called him Ludo) built one and showed at a monthly meeting at Verlindens Model World shop, it was beautiful, Lost contact with him, but know that he later started building automotive display models for Tamiya Europe, remember seeing them at the Tamiya stand in Nürnberg. I too built on back in the day, but it's landfill now...maybe just maybe there's still a polaroid pic of it somewhere... Anyway...beautiful build Jonathan!
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Oh well...
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Wonder if the C-Pillar area left to right is symmetrical now, cuz the kit I have shows a serious misalignment of the side cavities to the roof cavity. I can't make it out on the video, only see big parting lines.
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Terrible Box Art
Luc Janssens replied to Junkman's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
It was the box-art that sold me their Plymouth NYPD kit, But soon regretted that I didn't open the box in the hobby store before buying it, the Mpc kit is much better. IMHO Round2 can milk the Monaco tool a bit more, by looking at what Yodel marketed, some new wheels, hubcaps, light bars and decals of prominent worldwide know agencies. -
Pic seems from the mid to late '90s..
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Hmm the skeleton view shows there's much work to get the suspension accurate. maybe a job for Fireball models?!
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Alternative closed trailer, I'd suggest the ones Galaxie LTD released....available as pull-along and goose-neck.
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Too bad, IMHO besides great box-art, it's always good to show how the finished product can look like when built (by a professional ) Anyway.. again thanks for the heads-up Mike!
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Just took this photo of the ones in my collection, but realized after I shelved them all again, I forgot to add the Thunderstruck kit, DOH! Anyway, I'm glad I was able to find them all before the collector prices went way up there, now I couldn't spend the money. So the kit will be a long box sweptside, can't wait what the boyz did in the form of decal artwork....
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As Rob hinted at above, I wonder if it's the leaf springs and axle parts which were lost when the Ram Tuff version was created. Casey: IIRC the molded-in on the chassis bed floor isn't as wide as on the earlier sweptside models, most likely changed due to the uteline beds, starting with the Warlock. Mike: good to hear, hopefuly the powers at Round2, soon will give premission for you to show your (box-art) build (asuming you did one)
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yes!
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But the big difference was (is) inside the box, cuz the actual model is a '79! Wonder where those inserts are (hood, grille, and cowlpnl) It's the only one still missing in my collection of mpc Dodge trucks, but can't push myself buying one
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That's what I'm hoping for too.
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Most likely because the side trim is gone, and would be hard to re-engrave cuz then the utelines can't be released again. Also there's "talk" that the bed "could" be a short bed, instead of the standard bed, could be the reason too that the box-art is labeled as "preliminary" by Casey. Anyway just thinking out loud, we won't know for sure, till the kit hits the marketplace or a online preview is released by the folks at Round2
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Like the box-art very much, it was kinda like an instant flashback, me as a 10-year-old again going thru new automotive brochures..... Darn that nostalgia sales pitch really works
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Keeping as is, 10-15 years ago I made the mistake of disassembling some of my old builds, and they're still disassembled in boxes, instead of on a display shelf where they used to be.
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So went to my parrents today and it was quite a search on the attic to find the model, anyway as I wrote originally built in '77 or 78, then after a few year playing with it, it got a color coat and decals I probably got from a defective kit at Verlindens shop model world...this one and an old Monogram 4x4 Van are the oldest built models I still have.
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It seemed to work for Revell USA. Take the recent '66 Chevy Suburban kit f.or example, which is based on the 90s designed '65-'66 Pickup, or the '66 Impala which is also based on the '90's '65 tool. Okay, production costs are higher, but investment costs are much much lower, plus you have what looks like an all-new product. Also with clever engineering, I'm sure a tool base can be designed which also holds a couple of wheelsets, or combined with the clear parts inserts (with separate raw material feeds) so that "waste" in production time is reduced, just thinking out loud (Bill Engwer please correct or enlighten me if I'm wrong) , my past job at GM was in part eliminating waste in production time. Just thinking out loud. Luc
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Everything has a cost and a projected return on investment, be it in resto, resto-mod, modified siblings or all new tooling. Right now they're riding the nostalgia train, it's working for them, but personally, I'd like them to have a plan-B as well, I know they can pull it off, they have the right people on board or access to, I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of the Head honcho Ok'ing it Luc
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Indeed but are labor costs really an issue in China? I remember Round-2 having to run the tool of Amt/Ertl '60 Ford Starliner twice, but each time in a different configuration to crank out a 2'n 1 kit of this subject, and back in the Ertl days, I was told the '70 Coronet was the most expensive tool production wise due to its set-up, yet they did it and still do, but now in China. Anyway...that's why I'm a big supporter of having a cluster of smaller tools to form a certain subject, each tool having either model specific or common pieces. Luc
