Allen Wrench
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Very sharp! BTW, the Revell '58 and '59 Vette kits have the dual-carb setup.
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KOOL BUILD!! I love this frame! Did you know that AMT issued that chassis as a sand dragster? It was called the Sand Kat. Molded in yellow with a cardboard "sand" display stand. Very rare... AMT also made a sand dragster out of the Don Garlits WynnsJammer frame, slightly modified with a rear engine set up. I have that kit, too. The parts are pretty trashed, off the trees, some gloo, but it's the box that's cool...it has the same cardboard display stand.... -RRR
P.S. Why do pix NOT load in the order in which they were chosen????
AMT also released sand dragster kits based on the '25 Model T, the Barris Surf Woody and the Drag-U-La. All were produced during a period when AMT was struggling financially and didn't have money for new tooling, so its kit designers were forced to look for creative ways to utilize existing tools.
By the way, Vince, very cool model! Here's hoping Round 2 brings the Piranha back at some point!
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So you're saying even if I don't have an internet setup on the phone, there is still a connection? So they can be monitoring you at any time. I only use it for calls, don't even do texting (actually don't know how to and no interest in learning. Was wondering what that flight mode thing was since this is the 1st phone I've seen with it. Think I might just continue with taking the battery out if I'm not using it, only make 5 or 6 calls a month on the average anyway.
And yes, when I'm not using the computer, I turn off and unplug everything...and if I'm just doing photo editing and don't need the internet most times I unplug the modem.
To quote the lady in the commercial: "That's not how ANY of this works!"
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Jim, your build is outstanding!
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Great work! I love the subdued color scheme, the use of hairpin radius rods, the blacked-out grill insert ... everything, really.
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Excellent work, Dennis!
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The Foose F-100 and Eldorod are both gorgeous vehicles, IMO. I will happily buy and build both of those kits.
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Nooo! The dopey Trick Wheels are still in it!!!!
Come on Revell, it is not like I wanted you to also make it a solid front nose! Just some decent wheels!
That's exactly how I feel. I would have bought a couple of these had Revell tooled some period-correct wheels. No correct wheels, no sale!
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The box art on this release is excellent.
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I'm building the Fifty kit right now. Very nice kit; I like it very much. Here are a few of my observations:
1. The ride height issues are due to the thickness of the chassis-interior stack and possibly the engine bay insert. I mocked up the body only to the completed chassis; the stance looked spot-on to me. With the interior and engine bay insert in place, there's an unsightly gap between the front tires and the tops of the wheel arches.
2. The rear suspension is ridiculously over-complicated with no real visual payoff. Plus, the intent of having it broken down into so many pieces is betrayed by the molded-in driveshaft and the clunky, toy-like tie rod. I would have preferred for Round 2 to have invested such effort where it would have mattered more visually, such as providing separate chrome inserts for the side-view mirrors, plating the exhaust tips, etc.
3. There is no texturing of any kind on the interior or engine parts.
4. Rather than strip and repaint the wheels, I toned down the chrome with a couple of airbrushed coats of Tamiya Smoke acrylic. I'm happy with the way they look.
5. The kit's orange hood decals are incorrectly shaped. The "Camaro" logos for the engine cover are absent from the decal sheet. And, in this day and age, there's really no excuse for Round 2 not including decals for the side marker lights and third brake light.
6. The glass unit, with the tampo-printed black borders and defroster lines, looks great.
7. Duplicolor GM Storm Grey looks like a close match to the Fifty's factory hue.
8. There have been allusions to these AMT Camaro kits being "Tamiya-like." Well, sorry, but, based on my experience with this kit, that's simply not the case. In fact, calling this kit "Tamiya-like" is a bit like calling my 80-year-old grandmother "Beyonce-like" because she and Beyonce both happen to be females. That's just fact and it's not a slam on Round 2 or on this kit, which, if you'll recall, I said I really like. It's just not at all "Tamiya-like;" and referring to it in the same breath as a Tamiya offering is pure hyperbole. Round 2 has a long way to go if it wants to reach that standard. And, indeed, I hope Round 2 uses this kit as a springboard for refinement and improvement to any new-tool kits it might see fit to do in the future.
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If you have a Harbor Freight Tools store in your area, you can go in there and and come out with both a compressor and an airbrush for about $80. After that, your only real expenses are paint and thinner. Consider that vs. the cost and the hassle of having to buy propellant refills for those Preval guns and the airbrush sure looks like the better play to me.
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So calling an inferior product "junk" is now a triggering mechanism on this forum.
Got it.
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Why would you get upset over someone referring to a product as "junk" or "garbage" unless you were the manufacturer of said product or had some other type of vested interest in it? That simply makes no sense to me. It's an opinion, nothing more, and Mr. Turner is certainly entitled to express it.
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The only good thing I can say about Squadron putties is that they are better than Testors Contour Putty, and that is damning them with the faintest praise I can muster because that Testors junk is the absolute worst.
I personally place Squadron putties in the same category as I do Testors tube glue ...
"I'll take 'Model products that are no longer found on my work bench because I've found alternatives that work much better' for $1,000, Alex."
I see nothing inefficient about mixing up small amounts of catalyzed putty for small jobs; I do it all the time. Very easy to do with the Bondo two-part putty that comes in a tube.
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Super nice job! I've always been fond of that car.
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I just like this one a ton. Is that real wood on the bed floor?
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Steve Cosbie, aka intimid8tor, Jeremy Poges, aka Plastic_passion, Paul Gardner, aka gardnerpag44, and Robert Hart, aka droogie, are all first--rate gentlemen to deal with.
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The rumor (and I do stress the word rumor here) was that the reason the tooling was destoyed was that Revell wanted to move it to another facility. Seems entirely feasible to me that the contractor could have taken the matter to the government and the government intervened on the contractor's behalf.
As far as the CAD files for the tooling being in Illinois, that's probably true, but perhaps Revell doesn't believe the ROI would justify recreating it.
If the information about the kits being discontinued did, in fact, come from Stevens, that certainly would lend it credibility.
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According to a post that has appeared in several Facebook model groups, Stevens International has revealed that Revell has discontinued both the '29 roadster and '30 coupe kits due to the tooling being destroyed by either Revell's Chinese contractor or the Chinese government, and that the kits remaining on the shelves will be the last ones.
Be nice if someone could confirm this.
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Outstanding!
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I've done deals recently with Matt Trotta, Vince Nelson, J.C. Recliner and Dave Branson. All of them perfect.
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Dave, other than the wheels and tires, are there any other new parts in this kit?
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Looks good. Very glad the sink mark problem has been dealt with. My only nit would be that it would have been nice if Round 2 would have included the engine accessories from the stree machine version of this kit, but that's not a deal-breaker.
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Clean and gorgeous!
Moebius future kit prototypes from November, 2017 NNL Motor City...
in Car Kit News & Reviews
Posted · Edited by Allen Wrench
Moebius is displaying 3D-printed mockups of a '66 Ford pickup and '64 Nova two-door sedan at its booth in Detroit. Looks as though the Nova will have both stock and gasser versions.
You're welcome.