RSchnell

I got mine off Amazon. Had it here in a week from Germany. All in was $52!

I'll be dipped! Interesting! I will say that lady was scooting on down the sidewalk. I barely had time to grab my camera. I took those pics in Daytona Beach, FL where there are a good number of retirees.

I've pretty much given up on Hobby Town for the reasons you stated. There's only a couple left around me and they charge full retail for what limited plastic kit stock they have. I'll drive the extra 35 miles and visit a real LHS. Better prices, get greeted by name when I walk in the door!

Not sure what this little blue thing is, but found it interesting. Saw this pair of '57 Chevs while out running errands.

I've often wondered if they're not going to end up pricing themselves out of business. I don't mind paying for a kit & have paid $100 or more for aircraft kits- but that's for a new tool high parts count/multiple options kit with quality decals and so forth. Not a reissue of a kit from the 60s with minimal parts count and questionable accuracy.

Stopped in the local Ollie's today to pick up a couple things & noticed the kits were decimated. This is all that's left of probably 500 kits this store had. Plenty of 2009/2010 Corvettes still!

Looks like an old American LaFrance "Pioneer". An interesting collection of equipment in the background!

There's 2 main styles of Model A rear fenders. Coupe, Roadster, Pickup use one style and Sedan fenders which the Woody uses. The sedan fenders have a section cut out as shown compared to the Coupe/Roadster fenders. Wonder if you could use the fenders from the old Monogram '30 Coupe or Cabriolet kits? I think those are 1/24 scale tho.

I just checked the dates on the 2 kits I got and they are the July 2020 run. One thing I failed to add in my prior post was that the kits were randomly placed throughout the store. Some were mixed in with the toys & games at the front of the store, some in the aisle with puzzles and board games, and the rest on an end cap towards the back of the store. I'm sure it was planned this way to have people circulate through the whole store. Tempted to go back Monday & see if the vultures left anything!

The local Ollies had a bunch of newer Vettes, Diamond Reo, plated tanker, 55 Chevy Pickup, Escalade, Gremlin, '62 T-bird and one Cutlass that I grabbed along with a Tbird kit. May check back tomorrow to see if any stragglers were set out.

I checked my local Ollie's a bit ago. The only thing new I saw was a stack of the orange KW's and a couple of the big Lindberg battleship kits. I'll check back later in the week. It makes you wonder how many of these Round 2 kits actually sell through normal channels. I can't imagine Round 2 making a big profit if they're wholesaling kits to the clearance guys like Ollie's.

My first was the Industrial band Ministry in 94 or 95. Insanely loud- and was still insanely loud when I saw them again in 2008. Best by far was Rammstein in 2012. The sound was perfect as was the overall production. Janes Addiction when they toured with Nine Inch Nails in 2009 would be a close second.

'53 Ford

I started out as a kid building cars, went into aircraft & real space. Only in the past year have I returned to cars. It's always seemed to me that cars have been the lesser built of the two genres at least from my perspective.

I'd be all over that as well.

Looks like Atlantis has some upcoming car & truck kits....... Just saw this posted on their FB page.

Pretty much confirms what I heard down here too. 2 different gals at two different stores told me it would be 'in the sale rotation'. Be nice if they'd get some fresh never before stocked inventory!

Went to the beach for a few days and found the VW Camper waiting on me when I got home along with the Zvezda GAZ. Basically a Russian version of a '34 Ford. The Ford pickup is from the LHS and the Suburban was a straggler I found in Ollie's Thursday.

Saw this Kaiser for sale in a neighborhood.

It's likely a real ad. In a prior life I owned a restoration shop specializing in pre-ww2 cars. Nickel era (roughly 1918-1925) cars don't bring big money compared to earlier brass cars or later cars of the 30s. Parts availability and the fact that most cars from this era are most happy at 35mph detract from the fun of ownership. There is a glut of this era of cars coming on the market and it's only going to get worse!

I see him often at the larger shows here. I've never watched his show- he's arrogant & cocky in real life, not much fun to be around.

Those look great! Even better they put Florida license plates on the decal sheet. Mine is supposed to be here Tuesday- not sure if I can wait that long after seeing those sprue shots! I suspect this will be a good selling kit.

If memory seves, i think you have some Ford tractor paint. They used those colors and the MIJ prefix sounds like a tractor parts prefix.

Very sharp! Nice clean build!

I'd buy 6-8 of this if it ever came to reality. I'm a big fan of 50s Ford products & had a '56 Montclair HT for a while.