Richard Bartrop

Definitely looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

Except that 1/32 is bigger than 1/35, and would have accommodated batteries even better

I never understood why armour kits went with 1/35 instead of a more compatible 1/32, but here we are. Open wheel racers tend to be tiny little things pared to most street legal cars, so maybe that's a factor behind going 1/20. 1/12 racing cars make as much sense as any other 1/12 car. Sometimes you want a big, elaborate model. In any case, it looks like a handsome subject.

I'd like to see 1/20 as well, but 1/24 or 1/25 really isn't a deal breaker.

Yes, the diagonal was the big giveaway for me. I googled "Streamlined Volvo", and there it was.

I have one that I still haven't summoned up the nerve to build. My hat is off to you.

I've been making my way through the Peter Gunn series, and Grabowski's car made an appearrance in one episode, along with Grabowski himself. I don't think the car itself has ever been offered in kit form, though there is a diecast, but the individual parts can be found in a few kits if you feel up to kit bashing it

I never used them. The pinstriping on the real cars is so fine as to be effectively invisible on a 1/25 model.

An informative article, but I can almost hear the other forum members growling through clenched teeth, "They're not toys..."

Monogram's '56 Thunderbird.

There's another advantage to the adhesive emblems. You can change the model and trim without having to retool the entire body.

My ignorance of Ford trucks seemed to have worked in my favour. I saw the Mercedes trucks, and the diamond shape of the whited out logo and immediately started searching Hansa-Lloyd products. When that didn't work, It occured to me that it looked kinda sorta like a Ford, so I checked out German Ford products. Interesting bit of a background about the Ruhr, and how both Ford and GM ended up supplying trucks for both sides in WW2. Something neither company likes to talk about.

Yes, it's the car show version. It does have an outside mounted spare, just like the stock version, but it does have fender skirts.

The last issue of the Monogram '36, which came out under the Revel brand, a laSalle grille and surround were included in the kit, along with a set of custom headlights

I think it's safe to say that it's the best 1941 Plymouth kit on the market today.

The Hotchkiss Gregoire has a flat four hanging out front, so it's basically like a modern Subaru.

Yes, Colani is another one like that.

Gregoire is like Voisin, where you're not entirely sure whether you're looking at genius, or madness.

I know about Gregoire from perusing Automobile Quarterly, and it looked like one of his, so a trip to Google to detail the details. Jean-Albert Grégoire was an interesting guy. He was an early promoter of front wheel drive. and there's actually some neat engineering under that sheet metal. Supposedly, they handled very well.

I suppose it's like the collector comics that remain forever unread in their sealed plastic bags because opening them would destroy the value. This one sold for $5.3 million, so dropping a thousand bucks on a model kit is strictly small time.

Funny or not, I'd still snap one up if they even made a 1/24 kit.

I saw this one yesterday.

I remember eagerly awaiting Round 2's Imperial kit, and it was over two years before I saw it on the shelves here.

Funny thing, Pegaso was the the first thing that sprang to mind when you said that, and then I went "Nah, it couldn't be them."