Bob Ellis

Monogram originally called this kit a Satellite. Presumably because they couldn't use Roadrunner of GTX?

Take the new Revell '58 Corvette re-issue and turn it into a '60?

Nice work on that '59. Don't let it get too close to the snow. '57-59 Fords disolve in the winter.

Nice clean work. I think chrome foil too. I like the crossover pipe on the exhaust. People forget about H pipes.

I did not realize that the MPC has such a funky side panel. I think that leaves the multi-piece Revell in 1st place for detail and fidelity to actual shape.

Don, when the above SMP/AMT '60 Corvette kit came back from the dead about 1974-5 as one of the Street Rods kit, it had some custom parts. It had the lake pipes, mirrors and spot lights. It didn't have the hardtop which is the one piece that changes the convertible to a hardtop, other than a box. The 1974-5 issue didn't have skirts as I remember. About the only thing that differs a SMP '60 from a '59 is that it had an engine in the kit. First year for SMP and AMT. If I am wrong, correct me.

It was a '59, then they called it a '60, but I needed a '61 for RT 66. You can see my conversion progress. This blue Revell '60 was built in about 1975 when the box shown was sold. The picture was taken about 1977. Can't take a newer picture because the car is now gone. I had to find stock Vette wheel covers, but I thought this kit built a very nice model.

Prices are up, on some kits. Seems like last year it went for about a 1/3 of that price.

Life is a mixed bag, and so is comparing the past , present and future of this hobby. The models were cheap back in the '60s, compared to now. But nobody make as much money back then as they do now. Dick Radditz made about $60,000 pitching for the Red Sox back in 1965. And he was paid well. Model kits were modified promotional models back in the '60s. Nobody would accept that level of detail in today's kits. More scratch building back then. It isn't just inflation that pushed the price of the kits up. It is volume of sales (economies of scale, no pun intended) and promo business helped pay to design the basic kits 50 years ago. The kits today are very nice. Less extra custom and additional parts, but fit and detailed better than the old kits. There will always be models. I doubt 3D printing will kill kit manufacturing. Prices will rise, but who knows how much.

So, if you modify the Del Rio kit, to a 4 door, it becomes a Country Sedan?

Probably the least desirable is the ex-SMP/AMT '60 repackaged into a 1959 in the '70s during the Street Rods kits. Very much promo properties. It's funny; Revell called their old '59 a '60, and AMT called their old SMP '60 a '59.

It doesn't matter how well you build those Revell '56s with opening doors, they all have that funny sag from the roof to the door. I thought mine was the only one like that.

Only 2 choices; look for AMT or use what you have. I think the MPC is better. Its sort of a Pinto chassis, and the AMT MPC situation for that is the same.

Dave Van, where is this '57 Ford wagon?

I built a Revell '60 Corvette multi-piece and it went together very well. I find the detail on the parts can be better on Muti piece bodies because it pops out of the tool easier and they can have higher relief than one piece. Seems like they need tapering to to release and the shape suffers from that. I am making a 61 right now using a Revell '60 Multi piece and an AMT '62 rear.

Looks great. Now you are going to give Revell ideas about how to reissue that kit.

I always liked those Johan Coupe Devilles. Looks good

Not so much the old MPC Round2 Charger tool is tired, but it suffered great mutilation as a NASCAR K&K Insurance race car. When it came back as Duke's Charger it still had Charger 500 roof. Maybe it could be fixed. Wonder if the '70 parts still exist. Like the correct interior.

Revell did the diecast Bullet Charger. Maybe that is why they started with 68/69?

Nice 32

Tonio, it looks great.

According to card readers..... Deuce of Spades.—A removal, or possibly death.

Greg , that is exactly what I was talking about. US playing Cards made special decks of 52 spades.

The Deuce of Spades is a play on the words, Ace of Spades, which is slang for death. The used to throw decks of cards with 52 Ace of Spades down on the Viet Cong from the air. Does that mean a new Uncertain-T kit has met the Ace of Spades?

I bought Modelhaus bumpers to fix my Revell Imperial. Hope they fit.