Snake45

Just for giggles, I've been putting together a "Whatever Happened to...." list of the molds of the AMT and MPC annual kits 1964-72, starting with the lists Uncle Scott put together and posted here a couple months ago. I'm only about halfway through the list, but am already amazed at how many of them can be accounted for, and how many still exist today, either in much-modified form or in some cases, virtually unchanged after all these years. As a general rule of thumb, I'm finding that if the molds still existed (i.e., the kit was reissued) in the '80s, they still exist today. There are questions, of course. Two that I have at the moment (and there WILL be more as I go) are, what happened to the molds for MPC's '70 GTO and '71 Road Runner? Both were, near as I can tell, last reissued in the late '80s. The Road Runner seems to have dropped off the face of the earth since then while many of its contemporaries have been reissued several times. As for the '70 GTO, it didn't become the '72, did it? I have reissues of both from the '80s, and I seem to recall them both being on the LHS shelf at the same time, or at nearly the same time. The '72 GTO has been reissued several times since then but the '70 has been MIA ever since. Any chance we could see either one from R2 again?

Soon? I've been doing that for several years now!

Yeah, it kinda does. What made me mention that kit, in fact.

When a woman says her new car "handles like a dream," that's exactly what she means--it's easy to park.

Just watched the first half of The Highwaymen, Netflix movie about Bonnie & Clyde. It takes place in 1934. Quite a few Model A sedans and trucks, many of which are VERY worn and even derelict. Dahell? The oldest of these would have been, what, six years old? Some of them look as you might expect to see them in the '50s or '60s.

They're 1/24. Might share the chassis with the later '65, and I think I've heard that the body eventually became the '78 and so on, which is why the TD Vette hasn't been reissued in decades.

Got it today. Here it is with the glue bomb. The new one is fairly cleanly built, missing only the front and rear nerf bars and the rear license plate. The GB is missing wheels, tires, side pipes, rocker trim, and the glass and rear louvers are roached, BUT it has the nerf bars and license plate, so it looks like game on! Actually I'm thinking about seeing if that blue paint will take a polish. If so, I might just leave it alone as a survivor while I get a few other projects out of the way. I can do a full rebuild on it later. BTW, I have a grand total of about $50, including shipping, in BOTH of these. Not horrible.

Thanks! Thanks so much, that's what I was going for. Thanks!

Don't forget that the '70 Roadrunner or GTX is 1/24 while the AMT '68 Roadrunner (and the resin 4-door body made to work with it) will be 1/25. Don't be surprised if the front and rear ends are too wide to swap onto the resin body.

Was looking for something else completely and found one random pic of the other AMT Cobra I built, in the late '80s or early '90s. Model Master BRG. Completely OOB except for the wire wheels from a '65 Riviera. I need to get this one out and take good pics of it sometime.

You did great! That Mono P-39 was one of Monogram's first, if not THE first, of their "serious" model airplanes, and you're right, it still holds up today. I've never built one, but I believe I have two or three copies in the Snakepile. I want to do one in Russian markings, just because that's where they did their best work. Only P-39 I've built is the 1/72 Heller. Did it in NMF with a 4-blade prop to match a pic I found of one that way being flown by the Navy, for some forgotten reason. That's a pretty nice little kit too.

Good for you! We could be friends. Kinda like the word "justice." Putting any adjective in front of it other than maybe "swift" or "equal" makes it something less than justice--i.e., not justice at all.

Very clean, very sharp build! One could build a whole series of these '63 Z11s with big names on 'em--Sox, Nicholson, Strickler & Jenkins, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other notables. Model on!

Fabulous rebuild! Well done and model on!

Glad to have it aboard! I'll add it to the list for the next update. GITTER DONE!

Not really. I only have a couple Lou Reed albums. I think I have Berlin, and I know I have Rock and Roll Animal. Gotta love that live "Sweet Jane." Speaking of which, for a while there I was collecting covers of "Sweet Jane." In addition to LR's, my favorite versions were Mott the Hoople's and Brownsville Station's. (BTW, I consider Mott's All the Young Dudes to be one of the very finest albums of the whole rock n roll era. I will fight anyone who says different. )

You are correct, but it was being used as, "It costed $57 in 1961."

I had to google that. Evidently you had some sort of problem with computer equipment, or something....

That is some world-class work for 1965! Amazing!

Well I've never seen a SOHC in Competition Orange either! The Logghe chassis was built to whatever length you specified. I'm asking what this one is. Would it be possible to measure it axle-to-axle in millimeters? That would pretty much give me the number I need. Thanks!

Since you're not going for factory stock, don't worry about it--just enjoy the color for what it is.

Wasn't really looking for one, but just in checking what they were going for now, ran into an exceptionally good "Buy-It-Now" price on an MPC '71 Road Runner that had just been listed, bad box but otherwise new and complete and unbuilt. So I did, before someone else did.

In six and a half decades, I've never heard the past tense of the verb "cost" as anything other than "cost." In the last 24 hours, I've encountered a new word, "costed," three times--once on TV and twice in one edition of a new magazine. Also getting tired of hearing about "unchartered" territory, waters, etc. The word is uncharted, folks. Also, the past tense of "sink" is "sank." Not "sunk." Saw it misused not just once but twice in subtitles for a major motion picture the other night (Midway). "Exponentially" seems to be the new "literally." When you hear it, it's just used for the sake of using a big word, and doesn't mean that at all. (And there's a prominent political person who uses it frequently, and cannot even pronounce it, saying "expodentially," which I don't believe is even an actual word.)

VERY cool! You might be interested to know that I probably started my "survivor resto" phase back in 2016 with a JoHan Maverick, specifically, this one, before & after the Snake-Fu. I hope you get as much pleasure and pride from yours as I got from mine.

Different and therefore interesting! Model on!