StevenGuthmiller

I don't see any issue with the OP asking us of our opinions on this or any other subject. If he's truly curious about what other members of the forum think, ask away. What the rest of us do with it from there is up to us. If a member feels like it's a ridiculous or irrelevant question, it "should" be a very simple decision to just not participate. Steve

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I'll be checking that out. I can always use new glass for my vintage kits. Even if I have the originals, new thinner glass always looks better. Steve

I will concede that point. The examples that I posted were no doubt extreme. They were just designed to illustrate that in the end, it's all about personal tastes. It's just what we, as individuals find personally appealing. None of us are right, or wrong. My main reason for posting a response for your original post was primarily in response to your "get off of my lawn crowd" statement. I don't believe that because an individual respects the history and purity of the original vehicle, it makes us automotive neanderthals. We just feel that for the most part, the manufacturers did a pretty good job getting it right the first time. I suppose that you could call us purists. Steve

Everyone has differing opinions on nearly everything in life. It doesn't mean that discussions have to become petulant. That's up to the individual. Steve

Doing well. Thank you Joe! Steve

Perfect amount of metallic! It should look very correct and in scale once it's cleared. Steve

Our opinions are what were asked for by the OP. Steve

It also depends a great deal on what your paint stand is made of. If it's metal, I agree, just soak it in lacquer thinner. If it's plastic, you can probably still use lacquer thinner, but just wipe it down, don't soak it. The others are right, Super Clean works great for removing paint from model bodies, but for a heavy build up, it likely won't do much short of soaking it for a couple of weeks. Craig is technically correct about lacquers resistance to Super Clean. The secret there lies in the primer. If there is primer under the lacquer, the Super Clean will dissolve it making the lacquer slide off in sheets. I use it all of the time on lacquer and as long as there is primer under it, it works very well. But in this circumstance, it's probably not going to be the answer. This is part of the reason why I prefer the "disposable" paint stand. Steve

That's fine. Everybody has their own tastes. If that's your thing, go for it. It's just my feeling that when Ford produced the Mustang, it was designed to look good, and be driven,.......a lot. Those examples might look great sitting on a show floor or on a trailer, but if any of them see more than a couple of hundred miles a year, I would be really surprised. As Joe stated in the above post, I have to imagine some of these cars pictured must ride like a lumber truck with virtually no rubber and almost no suspension travel. Believe me, I know. I have a 2005 Honda S-2000 with 17" wheels and low profile tires, and the suspension is very tight as you would expect for a sports car. It looks great, but it rides like my kid's Radio Flyer wagon. It reminds me of my motorcycling days when we would take long road trips which would occasionally include a stop at the Sturgis motorcycle rally. We would put over 3,000 miles on our bikes in around a week's time and see great swaths of our country on those trips. The guys with the custom hard tails would unload them from the trailers every morning, wipe them down with a diaper, and ride them up and down main street a few times before returning them to the trailer to be dragged home again. They looked nice, but that's about all that they were good for. Steve

Or maybe for the "teeny bopper" crowd, these would be more to their liking. But wait! There's more! Yeah, I vote 14s! Steve

That was my exact thought! Steve

And this looks even better. Steve

While I don't necessarily agree with your overall philosophy about stock versus aftermarket, and I really have no love for the wheels on the first 2, I agree completely about the last 2. Those highly styled, brightly polished or plated wheels just look absolutely "cheap" and in turn cheapen the look of the entire car. Does anyone remember those cut-rate generic chrome wheel covers that you used to be able to buy through JC Whitney, and the like. many years ago? These things look no better and just as cheap. Steve

I agree, I have no problem at all with Round 2 resurrecting this kit. I'm not one of the naysayers that think that it's a waste of time and resources. I just am doing my best to understand why, if a considerable amount of work was involved to bring this kit back, and completely new tooling was necessary, why they would go with a kit that is quite likely to not sell all that well, and a curbside kit to boot. I might very well be wrong, but I don't really see a lot of outcry for more wagon kits, and absolutely not for more promo style kits. Yes there is a segment of the hobby that wants more wagons and 4 doors, but I don't think that necessarily translates into an all around successful kit. You could say that I'm all for it, but I'm just curious as to why they are thinking that this one is going to be a winner. Steve

I agree. The newest pickup model I have is a '72 Chevy. Might go as new as the late 70s, but absolutely no interest after that. Steve

The wheels on the first Mustang look good. Pretty much a Shelby style wheel. Don't care for the blacked out wheel treatment as on the second Mustang. Never cared for that style at all, even on newer cars. The truck? Blech!! Would look a thousand times better with a vintage style wheel. Just my opinions. Steve

To me, those type of tire and wheel combos only detract from the appearance of the car, especially on anything from the 50s through the 70s. They draw all of the attention towards themselves and away from the car. In my opinion, wheels should compliment the car. All too often they do anything but. Big thumbs down for me. If I "must" use after market wheels and tires, I use only those that were available around the time that the car was made. Modern wheels on an old car, regardless of size, always look way out of place to me. Steve

Well, that's a start. Steve

In a heart beat!!!!! Steve

Yeah, I was pretty sure that I had seen this several times elsewhere. Just wasn't sure where. This is the first time I've had a chance to fiddle with it. I don't believe that I've done a car with round markers before, so I hadn't thought about it much until now. Steve

Thanks Tim. I have no reason to disbelieve what you're saying, it just seems a little weird to me that they would go to the extent of creating a completely new mold for a '63 Nova wagon body, and a promo style one at that. My guess is that there are dozens of kits that they have in their possession that would be much more attractive to their constituents to do this with. I can think of a lot of AMT and MPC kits that have had the bodies destroyed to make different versions of the kit, so I'm not sure why they would start with this one. But I digress. If this is the case that they have taken it upon themselves to resurrect some of these long lost kits by creating new stock bodies for them, all that I can say is "hooray"! We should be able to expect some very cool old stuff from them in the coming years. Where's my '66 Buick Grand Sport?!!!!! Steve

I spent a limited amount of time there, but now that it's going away, I have to chuckle a little thinking of some of the members there who incessantly bad mouthed the MCM forum and claimed that they would never return. Seems that their options are beginning to dwindle a bit. Steve

I guarantee you, you'll never do without it again! Steve

Talk is cheap! Steve