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  1. Luc Janssens
    Indeed Tim.
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    Revell (Germany) is releasing the same Chevelle, but their own wrapper in our neck of the woods, February 2019, so no high shipping, nor custom duties! The Boss 302, one could write Revell Germany, to consider carrying US kits in their online shop.
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    A quote from a friend who at the time worked at Revell-Monogram, "money came in by the truckloads" Also, the masters were early '80s Monogram designed, their dominant scale from automotive kits was 1/24, Revell was 1/25th (a scale preference they both kept after the merger until the '59 Cadillac)....therefore the choice to do the Shelby and Mach-1 in that scale. Why they chose to release them as Revell 1/25 instead of Monogram branded 1/24th scale kits, pure marketing....maybe to test the waters, compare sales date, on what scale generated the biggest sales, and maybe it proved that the North American market favored 1/25th. Maybe Dave Van, can add more info, as he knows Bob Johnson, a Monogram model kit designer at the time...
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    Bill, you don't by chance have the Mach- kit as that was the first sibling from the Shelby kit, which obviously had it's DNA taken from the Monogram '70 Mustangs. So don't think the Shelby tool was converted, but that the Mach-1 inserts were changed or parts added....so if anyone here can do a comparison between the 302 and the Mach-1...Thanks
  5. Luc Janssens
    Is it a completely new body too?
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    The info presented was published by an UK mail order company, is it correct....maybe at the time of publication, we will know for certain Jan 1st.
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    Hmm.... on that same list is a '70 AAR 'Cuda. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4874/44161220870_219eae3d27_b.jpg
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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?!
  20. Luc Janssens
    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!
  22. Luc Janssens
    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)
  24. Luc Janssens
    yes!
  25. Luc Janssens
    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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