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Ah, ok. My mistake

Yes, they do have a lot of great kits from the 90s that could be reissued. They made a lot of good kits back then.

The 1st gen Ford Falcon was produced in Argentina (I may remember wrong there) untill the early 90s with different front and rear end treatments. Would be great if someone still had the original tri-five chevy tooling somewhere.

Maybe this is the wrong category but Revell is releasing another 1:24 old tractor:

Same thing here. I have had an idea of making a Kombi by combining parts from Revells Samaba and Panel but that is an espensive build as it requires both kits. Much better with one that is already a Kombi out of the box.

I just noticed this when going trough the pictures: 1:24 VW Type 2 kombi from Ebbro. I wonder if that is a collaboration with Revell or if they have made new molds on their own. Very nice to see a more standard version of the splitwindow bus and not just the samba and the panelvan. And Heller is present:

One can always hope I for one is going to get this new reissue as I don't have any of the older release sweptline long bed kits but only the LRE kit. I'm currently working on one to build as a 74 D100 Utiline. The prices for the old issues are way out there. I did get my hands on a set of resin cast grilles on Ebay some time ago so I can build a 72-73 look one if I want to aswell.

The first Russian GAZ was based on Ford model A, that is correct. The VAZ Lada was a Fiat 124. There is many more. There have been many examples of cars shipped as CKD kits to factories around the world. They made Dodges here in Norway back in the 1930s and the Chevys in Denmark and Fords in Sweden.

That is about dead on, they have changed some of the taxes in later years but that is ofcourse on new cars. They are still taxed trough the roof. Then there is the road tolls, wich may soon be replaced with road pricing where every car has a GPS tracker so that one is taxed according to where and when you drive. The fuel costs about somewhere between 15 and 16 kroner pr litre (about 1,8$ US pr) and that is about 6,8$ US for one US Gallon. I did read somewhere the other day that if the taxes where removed from the fuelcost it would be about 7 kroner pr litre. So around half of what it is today. And you guys in the US pay about 3$ pr gallon right? The only ones that get away with it is the electric car people. There is no purchase tax on them, normally purchase tax is 25%. There is no taxes at all when buying an electric car. Then they have less road tax pr year, they don't have to pay road tolls or parking and can drive in the bus lanes. They also get lower rates on the loans so that it much cheaper pr. month than a "fossile car". The most sold car in Norway is the Nissan Leaf and Tesla is also very high up there. But what is most annoying is that the electric car people are acting like some religous fanatics trying to convert anyone they see and treating anyone that like "fossile cars" as a heathen.

They could just do the same thing that is on the doorstep here in the worlds outpost and ban private car ownership all togheter. One of the parties that is in our current goverment was playing that card in the last election. A total ban from 2030 or so. Ofcourse, that will never happen. One can't just make more than half the population criminals over night. But, I don't see my self living here in a future where I am not allowed to own my own cars any more. Ideally I would be like Jay Leno, warehouses full of cars and employing mechanics to take care of them. That will never happen either...

Wow, you did a really great job on this one. I got the original Ice Patrol kit on my shelf (Chevy pickup) and that one has the correct decals but I never thought it could end up this good. I must build mine some day too.

I bought a Munsters Monster truck not that long ago: http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2015/08/the-munsters-go-racing-in-125-scale.html AMTs GMT 400 Chevy long bed kit with added monstertruck stuff. Is it the same as the USA-1 kit but with different decals maybe?

I like the trailer and one can never have to many VW beetle kits They are timing the realease of the 69 Chevelle, just as Revell has released their brand new one.

So far, I have not gotten my hands on any 1:25th Poly but I might go for the 3d printed one. My benchtime is very limited so I have not yet started and Sweptline projects (I got 5 resin kits so far including the one from Modelhaus) but I will take detailed pictures of my own 1:1 Poly engine as I need to pull it out of the truck in the not to distant future as it needs a little work (hardend valveseats, new gaskets and who knows what else I might find). I did buy the correct hubcaps not long ago (Parts by Parks dog dish hubcap set 6018 Late 50s Mopar) so all I need is the poly engine and the NP435 gearbox (that one I can get from Fireball Modelworks upgrade set for the Ford F250)

Can I nominate a C and a D? If one wants to "strike a pose" at a car-show, why not arrive in something a little different? And ,to me atleast, a stock model A would be sufficiently different to drive than a modern day car so no real need to build "just another" hot rod. Building one so that it drives like a modernday car could be cool, but then one whould be able to drive it every day. And here where I live one would be crazy to drive something like this on the roadconditions we got on days like today. The temperature is just above freezing and we got rain that turns in to snow as the elevation gets just a little higher and LOADS of salt on the roads. Around here, it is best to have a daily driver in the winter that one hates and there is nothing better to hate than a modern day econobox.

We are worlds apart, here we did not get proper daylight, it is raining and warm for the season (about 4 degrees C or 35ish F) but because the sun is hiding behind the rainy clouds we got "daylight" from about 11 in the morning until about 3 in the afternoon. That is a full 4 hours of daylight....and since it is raining and nasty outside it is best to stay inside.

I will contact Jeff about the grille. Now I know that it exist I can add another kit on my already very long list of planned projects. Considering my current speed, the Moeboius kit will have been issued and gone out of production and maybe even reissued by the time I get this project going

The year I finish it is what counts but if the build has been on my bench for say 20+ years I will not disclose of the fact. In 2012 I finished 10 models but most of them had been on my bench for anything from 1-7/8 years. If I finish all my started projects in 2019 I will have a record year, I could easily finish 20 models at least

Revell did a very nice ca 1990 Cadillac Brougham lowrider kit.

Yes, I have tried something similar at times aswell but I still got a message from google that they have made a recap of my month and I had travelled to so many places and spent such amount of time in a car. Some of those places I have gone to I have not had the phone turned because it was out of power and I did not have chargingpossibilities untill later on so how the thing knew where I have been is strange. Haha, The Prisoner. Now that is a strange tv-series. I have tried to see it many times but I just can't make it trough and I usually love movies and tv shows from era. But it is very true, we are all just a number.

If I ran Revell I would be sure what my customer base is and what that customer base wants and then I would put all effort in to making the bast possible product for the best possible price for the customer. I would also try and use as much PR/advertisments and product tie-ins as possible. Make the LOGO and the NAME familiar to as many people as possible and get it placed on everything I could. From my Norwegian standpoint I would get a deal with our new global GOD wich is Elon Musk and I would make 1:1 figurinekits of him so that people can kneel and prey before Oh-Holy-Mighty every day and I would be sure that the Revell logo would go on anything that is Tesla related. Dirty old farts that want to have dirty plastic kits of the dirty old fossilecars they used to drive in the old dirty days will not be tolarated. We will only make green, organic, fairtrade and sustainable products in the future. Mostly digital 3d model kits of Tesla products for the customers device and fullscale figurine kits of Oh-Holy-Great-One with sustainable, organic foldaway shrine. Oh, yeah....if you wondered what I was on about. I am one of you old farts that are waiting to be rounded up in a pen and shot at dawn togheter with all the dirty old cars and modelkits. Plastics are quikly going out of flavour with the modern world and our lifestyle does not fit in anymore.

I'm not really after building a 3500HD, more something like this one: https://www.carsforgrab.com/2000_Chevrolet_GMT400_Fredericksburg_VA_10315988.veh I do have several old gluebombs of that pickup kit plus one unbuilt 454SS and a unbuilt monstertruck (Munsters Monstertruck) that I bought at a show now in Sepember. I'm more in to working trucks than show vehicles and I bought the monstertruck kit to use the wheels and axles on something else (a really monsterous monster truck, 6 axles, 12 wheels and an inline 12 cylinder Diesel). I got to do something fun with the rest of the kit aswell.

Here is a shorter version of Fred Dibnahs work: And, in case you are without fear of heights:

From what we have seen so far it looks like the side mouldings are not separate parts so that means that one has to sand it away. No big deal really but a littlebit more work to do before one can paint.

Lots of great pictures, nice to see how much more colors the cars had before. Today they are mostly black, white or grey.