Mark

What's the difference? As long as the cap stays with the can, you're good.

Chrome-Tech

I had that kit, as I remember it did have decals, but not great ones. Depending on your skill level with printing your own decals, you could probably do better.

Around here, the reset has only started. Only two new (to HL) kits so far, AMT Ford Cruising Van and 1/32 scale '60 Thunderbird. And yes, more diecast, cutting into the kit space on the shelves just a bit.

Yes, but that's not a dirt bike.

I believe Academy displayed one or more of the Grand Sport kits at a trade show or IPMS convention earlier this year, which would indicate that they have the tool for those kits.

Only Revell did a trailer for their dirt bikes back in the day. The MPC bikes were always an accessory item in another kit (Dodge pickup and van, '72 Chevy stepside pickup).

You answered your own question. By leaving off the color info, the same label can be used on all of the cans.

The bigger the skull and cross bones are on the package, the better it works!

MPC had a lemon-scented cement. "Smells like lemon, sticks like crazy", they said. "Smells like lemon, sticks like lemon" we said. Even now, if you break apart cemented parts, you can still get a whiff of lemon.

The Phantom Vicky setup may or may not work with stock fenders, if that matters. Look at the Revell/Monogram '37 Ford setup too; it's very close to the aftermarket setup R&D Unique made in cast metal many years ago, and sold for use with their cast metal frames.

The AMT '66 kit was issued first as a funny car, obviously patterned on the Plymouth Dealers '65. Don Emmons was a consultant to AMT around that time, I would bet that he looked back to a model article he wrote for Rod & Custom where he built a mid-engine Barracuda from a stock '65 kit. Those AMT early funny car kits were $1.50 or $1.70 items as opposed to $2.00 for most of their other car kits, hence the simplified construction and plastic tires. The Hemi Under Glass boxing came a bit later, maybe around the time MPC issued the '68 version of their kit.

The AMT '64 Chevelle wagon is a four-door like the '65. Jimmy Flintstone does a nice '65 two-door wagon body. I bought one awhile back, now I know why I bought that Gear Hustler El Camino reissue when Hobby Lobby blew them out. The dashboards are AMT '40 Ford units. Ertl tooled some newer/trendy bits for the coupe and sedan delivery kits. Round 2 took that stuff out of their reissues, I think.

Offy, looks like the one from the Monogram mid-Fifties Indy car. Very simple kit, but very good rendition of a Kurtis Kraft car of that era.

I'd like to see the '71 styling shrunk down a bit and built on the '70 Monte Carlo/Grand Prix platform. That said, the '66-'69 body looks better with that rear window treatment than I would have thought.

If you're waiting to read about it here, you're going to end up reading about what WAS cleared out...

There is an MPC version of that same (Polyglas GT) tire, it is shorter and narrower. The sidewall lettering is larger than that on the bigger tire, so you wouldn't want to paint the lettering anyway. Ertl used the two tires together in a number of kits where big/little tires were needed. The MPC tire is solid, not hollow like the AMT version.

It's only in that one issue of the Camaro. It's not in any of the Camaro convertibles, nor is it in the later Fast & Furious issues of the hardtop.

Try it with other decals first, but I'd guess that the masking tape will peel the decals. In the areas where the decals will be, the tape will be pulling against clearcoat which is applied over the decal. Which bond will be stronger, the clearcoat to the decal, or the decal to the paint underneath?

MPC's '68 Firebird kit did include the OHC six (as did their '67, and most of their '69 kits). The engine should slide into a Revell '68.

The summer reset usually takes longer. The empty spaces remain empty longer, summer is probably slow for them when it comes to model kit sales. One store here does now have the AMT '77 Ford Cruising Van and 1/32 scale '60 Thunderbird.

The engine in the original kits is a big-block, the first MPC Vega with it was the Street Funny in '71. The Jenkins kit had the gutted interior but still had the stock chassis with molded-in exhaust detail and radiused rear wheel openings with no flare. The '74 Bruce Larson kit had the modified chassis and bigger wheel tubs in the interior, same hood (incorrect for '74, the scoop didn't work with the later front end), same big-block engine and automatic transmission.

I'd concentrate on the interior more than the chassis or engine. Several of the USA Oldies kits had upholstery pattern detail from later years. The Chrysler is one of them.

But the heads on the red engine would suggest a Hemi at first glance. The cam cover that extends the block and heads at the front isn't there. MPC used the Cougar's chassis under other funny cars, including one Dodge. But I don't think they used that engine block in the Dodge. Why they put a Torqueflite transmission behind a Ford engine is baffling.

The one molded in red is from the MPC Mercury Cougar funny car kit. It's meant to be an Overhead Cam Ford engine. Why it has a Torqueflite transmission is a mystery, but that's how it is in the kit. The other engine is a Ford FE big-block. Looks like it is from a Monogram kit based on that upper hose being molded as part of one of the halves. Not sure which kit it is from, but the dark blue color would point towards their Tom Daniel Paddy Wagon kit.