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On 4/24/2025 at 10:58 AM, Hemifever said:
Thanks all for the kind comments. Kevin, the carbs are from Fireball. Roger, the fuel lines are from Pro Tech, .018 from regulator to the carbs. They are copper core, which I usually strip out so they will fit snug into the fittings. The A/N fittings are from RB Motion, they come anodized,.031. I've used RB Motions products for close to twenty years, in fact all the carb linkage was done using their products, great stuff, but be warned, it takes forever to receive an order and usually he doesn't answer emails.
Wow....really well done Dennis! I have long planned a build of the '74 cy '65 Belvy Super Stock, but like you, have found conflicting info on things such as the four-bar vs. non-four bar rear suspension. Kudos for going your own way. TB
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Very, very cool! Great job too on the "marbled" look on the cockpit side panels...TB
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Bill....interested in seeing this one progress when you have the time!
I did one nearly three decades (!) ago....removed the cab back seat reinforcement rib....used (I think) the AMT '34 Ford pickup bed with the side moldings filed off (to reset the bed to the shorter '32 Ford frame from the Revell hot rod series), etc, etc.
Good luck with yours...TB
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Very, very cool! TB
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Ran across this thread again while looking for Dennis' latest projects....certainly among the finest '27T Turtledeck models I've ever seen.
Well worth another look, guys. And kudos to DL for doing the right thing vis-a-vis selling it to help give his wife a wedding and a new home. Big picture priorities well sorted here. TB
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13 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:
Like there's great value in helping people out who, in the case of the above discussion, didn't realize the Elky roof issues had been resolved
Update - upon very close inspection (body now out of the clear plastic baggy) I see just a hint of sink marks on both B-pillars. Comparing it to the original 1988 issue, it is about 15% of the size of the original sink marks; in reality, just about undetectable. If you paint the engraved vinyl roof with a flat/matte finish to the paint (as you should) I doubt anyone would notice it on a built model this time. That's what I plan to do....will report back when done.
Best...TB
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4 hours ago, DJMar said:
Well there goes the "collector's value" of all the '68 El Camino street machine kits I have in the stash! 🤣 I wonder if they fixed the sink marks in the b-pillars/sail panels of this one?
Yes...it's fixed, along with the frame which no longer has a slight warpage as did the original (at least my originals). This is a really good kit. Hope the new box art and decal livery draws more attention to it and more builders get to enjoy putting it together....TB
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On 4/27/2025 at 2:13 PM, stavanzer said:
I wonder how much demand there really is for the Astro One?
I'm not sure that there really is that big a market for the kit.
For those who don't know what the Astro One looks like....
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Fascinating....been going through my entire volume of the recently discontinued Hemmings Classic Cars, and found a letter to the Editor in one issue responding to an article in a prior issue on the Astro 1.
The writer, who said he was a former GM designer on the project, conveyed that the Astro 1 was originally designed for a company in "Midland, Texas"....[err that would be Chaparral Race Cars, right?]...to be entered in the 24 hours of LeMans and powered by a DOHC (IIRC) racing version of the Corvair boxer six.
The program was eventually cancelled, and according to the writer, the [Chaparral] white car was repainted red, relieved of its experimental engine, and placed on the auto show circuit. As past auto industry rumors go, that's a pretty juicy one...TB
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Tom,...I have a set (unfortunately, only one) but I cannot recall exactly where I got them. I think it was probably the gentleman in western Canada who did decal sets for many of the famous late 1960s to early 1970s drag racing subjects. Would sure like t get a second set in case the first ones do not go on correctly....so looking forward to hearing your STS response TB
ps - nice progress on your build, too!
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8 hours ago, Fat Brian said:
I hope they do revisit his one eventually, and 27 turtle deck body, a track nose, and a flathead would be a neat variation for that tool.
What Brian said. I also mentioned a '27T turtledeck for the Channeled chassis in the kit to my colleagues at Revell but that was prior to the bankruptcy and new owners. Doubt there would be much appetite for that today...TB
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5 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:
Long Nose Mustang is great - always wanted one innaday, but it was not a widely circulated kit.
S-Truck is interesting, but not really in my wheelhouse, save a turn as a frame donor for an early Chevy pickup ('49?)
Glad to see Round 2 pursuing their product plan - the longnose has been part of their plan for some time now.
Bob, my impression was that the LongNose was a very popular kit, at least based on what i saw at the MPC Contests back in the day. I remember looking across the entry tables at 1000+ entries at the 1970 Detroit Autorama MPC Contest and seeing multiples and multiples of three kits = the Monogram BadMan, the AMT Manx Dune Buggy, and that LongNose Mustang. Of course, my memories may not be 100% accurate these days! TB
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Hi Claude....like you I had a 1/1 Turbo Coupe...a 1984 with the bright gold clearcoat color I actually got pushed into production (also the silverish blue c/c that year), along with both an '87 and '88 TC. I consider the '83.5 and '84 TC to be a modern classic...and the start of a Ford Motor Company run on the industry that lasted through the rest of the 80s and turned much of the automotive market upside down, particularly so at GM.
Anyway, also like you I have pondered a 1/25th pro-touring type TC based on the Monogram Pro Stock, but as usual you've gone way beyond I or most of the rest of us had in mind for such a project. Lovin' it and kudos from this corner....TB
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1 hour ago, Brutalform said:
Not yet Tim. I got involved with a Kenworth and a NASCAR build, and set that one aside for now. I plan on getting back to it real soon though. Now it’s time for the build, as the cutting, and patch work is completed on it.
Tom....cool! Bring it on whenever you are ready...cheers...TB
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On 2/27/2025 at 8:00 PM, Brutalform said:
I guess it’s time to break out the Butcher Leal California Flash Plymouth. From the pictures I’ve found of this car, it seems to have been mini tubbed? Or was it always like this from the first times it’s been raced? But, anyway, I plan on building the version with the big tires on the rear. Still not sure if I want to paint the car white, and mask off for the orange, or just use the decals. I started to hack the rear floor pan, and removing the fuel tank, to move the springs inward to fit a set of Futurattraction slicks.
I too have long wanted to build the "revell" livery version of this car and have been building a reference file for several years.
The Revell livery car was a different car than the original 1965 A990 based car that Butch ran in the mid 1960s. This car was specifically built by Ron Butler to campaign in the Super Stock ranks during the 1974 season because the NHRA had essentialy decreed that the prior season's Hemi Darts and Dusters could no longer competitively run in Pro Stock. So Mother Mopar boycotted the Pro Stock world in 1974 and several o their drivers campaigned Super Stock instead.
This car supposedly had every trick in the book and was "the most feared car in Super Stock Eliminator" according to quotes attributed to the long loved and lost Super Stock and Drag illustrated mag. Some of the references I have seen suggested that it had a four bar rear that year (unclear whether that had leaf springs too or not), one source even suggested the top was slightly chopped and leaned forward with the windshield leaned backward, along with the front end being slightly narrowed widthwise ( I take those latter suggestions with a very big degree of skepticism). Some also suggest the axles were moved ever so slightly frontward and/or even rearward. Whatever, it was a very successful car that year.
However, what also intrigues me is the Revell livery. It was there for a reason. You can find what I believe that reason was in my book "Collecting Drag Racing Model Kits" or alternatively, in one of Hank Borger's very last columns in Car Model magazine after it was taken over by Tonto Publishing. I remain amazed that this info is not more widely known in the model kit drag racing community...TIM
PS Tom - did you finish your model and if so, is it posted in the under-glass section. Would sure like to check it out! TB
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21 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:
And I fall back to Tim's terrific story of a few years ago about adding detail kit parts to the snap together '14 (?) Mustang promo.
Believe it or not, actually my Mustang GT convertible was a kitbash of the original Revell 2005 Mustang GT full detail kit. The how-to appeared in Scale Auto around 2008. It was an exact copy of my 1/1 at the time other than the wheels/tires from the Revell F150 Harley kit. Revell's curbside Mustang GT convertible came out around 2010 or so...and I never did a project on that kit....jTB
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3 hours ago, peteski said:
Yes, nothing specific but there are some clues. Copyright 2000. Made/Printed in USA. I think that in the year 2000 many domestic kits manufacturers had their kits molded in China. But this one is fully produced in USA. Which model companies were still manufacturing kits in USA at that time?
Another possibility (if no other manufacturer ever sold these kits under their name) that these kits might have been contracted out to some domestic plastic injection molding company for mold design and parts molding. That would (despite what is said about Testors) mean they actually produced their own plastic kits.
I also wonder if anybody on this forum knows the noted model kit designer Dave Carlock or the box art model builder Carl Thurow. Maybe they could recall some info about these kits origins.
@Tom Geiger and @tim boyd do you guys know the above mentioned modelers or even some history of these kits?
Pete,,,,I might have met Dave Carlock in the mid-late 1970s when I was doing contract work for AMT, but not sure. I do recall he was a well respected member of the AMT team.
Sorry I can't contribute more here....TB
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On 4/8/2025 at 10:10 PM, Speedpro said:
This is one of my side builds that gets a little work every now and then. My thoughts when I started it were to take each part and modify it in some way. In this case it turned out to be "Take 2-3 scale inches out of the part in some way" and see what comes out of it. I'v got a few things done and some pics to share.
The first thing I did when the build started was chop the top 2 inches. Unfortunately, no pictures were taken during this modification. Wasn't looking for a huge change, just enough to make a small change.
So the next mod was for the body. Plan is to take 2-3 inch wedge cut out of the body. The interior side panel's and fire wall were taped to the body. The side panel will be used for locating the first cut. If you look at the second picture you can see the blade cutting through both the body and door panel at the same time. It was important that the cut is perfect separating the top of the door panel from the bottom part of it that has the pleats. The next cut took out 2-3 scale inches tappering from front to back. Things were cleaned up and the body was glued back together. No putty here, just ca glues to fill all gaps. You can see by the cut line, It was a challenge at times. The top is not attached yet.
Next time we will fill the top.............
Thanks for looking.
Paul...can't wait to see where you take this project. Knowing your modeling and design capabilities, combined with starting with one of the very best hot rod kits ever, this one has great potential! Onward!!!! TIM
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15 hours ago, 250 Testa Rossa said:
With all of the 1963 Corvette kits that have been released over the years, there really hasn't been a good kit of this car that hasn't been up to par with the real thing. AMT has done a decent one over the years which is still available. Revell did a SnapTite '63 Corvette at one time. Historic Racing Miniatures did a resin transkit for the Revell '67 Corvette which included a proper 327 with the Rochester fuel injection, a couple different sets of knockoff wheels, Z06 drum brakes, and even a proper interior which also included parts for the coveted N03 "Tanker". Is there any possibility that Revell would do a proper 1/25th scale 1963 Corvette split window in the coming years? Just a thought.
I think that there is a good deal of merit in this idea. Revell's Snap Tite can make a pretty sharp curbside (convertible version shown below), but a full detail kit, with all the specs articulated in Maxx's original post, would be a terrific basis for a newly tooled model kit.
However, as a retired 1/1 scale marketer and one who has been consulted on future kit ideas by the most of the domestic kitmakers at various times in the past, I have to admit that I am sometimes disappointed in what appears to be a mediocre market response to all-new kits of topics previously committed to 1/25 scale and still sold being sold by competitive kitmakers - e.g. the ancient 1963 Corvette kit sold by Round 2 as mentioned in this thread. So, as a kiltmaker, the discussion becomes "should I commit the effort (funding, headcount, development time, et al) and the future revenue stream to...":
a) a world class 1/24th or 1/25th scale '63 Covette kit, recognizing that the hobby store shelves have other offerings of this subject, and many hardcore modelers like us already have multiples of those old kits in our stash...or
b) an all-new tool of a subject that was once sold as an annual kit but never reissued (e.g. a 1968 or 69 AMC Javelin, for instance), or
c) an all-new topic that has never seen any kind of 1/24th-25th scale styrene assembly kit (1962-64 Ferrari Berlinetta Lusso)
...and for all of the above - ONLY engineered with the investment for a full detail kit including a stand-alone and complete engine and transmission - Asian kit makers, that means you.
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Those are the types of debates any responsible kitmaker is going to have today. And a decision that I am glad I don't have to make myself.
Best...TB
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On 7/23/2024 at 9:27 AM, vamach1 said:
Posting for those that avoid Facebook and since there’s no website available to order there are only two ways to buy his great products - in person at a meeting or show, or by mailing him a check or money order.
If you are a hot rod builder or pre/post WWII old school dirt track racer builder, be sure to check out item P-96, which I believe is Norm's all-new 1936 "Wide Five" wheels. He cast then from a perfect original part from the earliest of the original Trophy Series kits - not many of those had the parts correctly formed with the deeply inset half-circles around the outer rim, so AMT quickly changed the mode to smooth them over, meaning 98% of those out you out there have the kit with incorrect wheels.
UPDATE - Steve PM'ed me that the above order number is out of date; the new one for the original, fully formed Ford Wide Five wheels, he says, is actually P-195 and this is the one with the new wheels as I described above. Should have ventured down to my model cave and double checked first...thanks Steve for the heads-up...TB
Norm's are the wheels you need. Tell him I sent you with your order if you wish....Best...TIM
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On 1/15/2023 at 11:28 PM, Dennis Lacy said:
UPDATE!
Had a great afternoon at the bench today catching up on podcasts and getting some more solid work done on the companion RPU.
One more small task on the cab was filling in the hood ledge at the top/center of the firewall like I did on the Closed Cab.
Up front I grabbed a pair of the small headlights from Revell’s ‘29 Roadster / ‘30 Coupe, mounted them directly to the fenders and filled the mounting holes for the old headlight bar just like the Closed Cab.
Next I turned my attention to the bed and back end. Here is where things deviate considerably from the Closed Cab as I decided to make a solid, smooth tailgate and bed cover from .040” Evergreen sheet.
On the inner edges of the bed mounting rails made from strips of .040” square rod were installed to support the cover.
A 3/16” wide strip was added to the bottom front edge of the cover to fill the gap at the front of the bed when installed.
Continuing with the smooth theme I made a rear filler panel to span between the bed support rails and flush mounted a pair of taillight lenses found in most of Revell’s ‘32 Ford series. Underneath, a rectangular filler panel was fit. Both were made from .040” Evergreen sheet.
Here’s the truck mocked up again with today’s additions. I couldn’t be happier with the look which is extremely appropriate for a late 80’s / early 90’s billet / smooth street rod. Like I said last week about the interior, I wish I could go back and do the Closed Cab like this!
Until next Sunday…
Dennis....ran across this project while I was looking for Tim Slesak's post in your long running thread here....Did this project get finished and I missed it? I have to say those low angle three quarter shots have just about the most killer stance I think I have ever seen in a 1//1 or scale A rod....hope all is well....TIM
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15 hours ago, Tim W. SoCal said:
YEP! May the kit-bashing commence!!! I ordered one each of the '29 Model A Roadster and the '30 Model A Coupe kits just for this purpose, a Roadster Pickup with the injected Buick Nailhead from the '30 Model A Coupe kit and a Closed Cab Pickup with the blown Small Block Chevy and the Halibrand Wheels from the '29 Model A Roadster kit.
What Tim W. said above!!! TB
PS - Here's an example of his point. This is a kitbashed MCM cover car from a couple of years back...and I may have used the original MPC Model A roadster pickup cab instead of the Revell kit counterpart (to avoid dealing with the Revell kit the opening doors), but it shows the potential for a kitbashed model based on the newish Revell Model A Hot Rod Roadster and 5WC chassis combined with the body off this new Revell reissue of the Model A Roadster PIckup/Closed Cab Pickup kit...TB
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15 hours ago, Rob Hall said:
It's too bad they didn't reissue the standard bed version of this kit. As it is, it's the wrong wheelbase for a dually (duallies of that generation were longbed only).
Exactly right. This kit was simply an effort by Revell, back around 1981 or so when they were really struggling, to get another round of factory production off the otherwise factory stock F150 shortbed, which in itself was not a very good replica. Not sure why today's Revell...which generally has been pretty savvy with its kit introductions these days, would choose this tooling for a reissue, but heh...if it helps to generate revenue for some other kit we'd really like to see...well then...
Buy it and build it with that knowledge and enjoy it if the subject interests you. Just realize that it is not a replica of anything that ever came out of a Ford factory in that form... TB
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6 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:
This is completely unlike previous issues. But, I think we're in trouble when Canada Post is beating out the USPS for deliveries.
Still not here in my environs here in the Detroit suburbs.
However, I am concluding that this is just the latest example of mail service here that has really declined big time in punctuality the last two or three months. It is taking first class mail up to two weeks to show up here after the mailing date. Really???!!! Phone bills arriving just two days before the due date? Year-end tax statements showing up two or three weeks after the financial house reported they were mailed? And of, course magazines showing up weeks after newsstand arrival.
I've always experienced a wide variety of delivery dates of MCM...sometimes very soon after your Forum annoucement....mostly about the same time others report seeing them in the mail box...and occasionally some days later than most. Something is very different this time...and I do not think it has to do with MCM.... TB
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When I was promoted to my first (of many later) jobs at Ford Division headquarters in 1982, a much higher level Ford exec there heard I was interested in model cars and wanted to sell me his entire collection of promos, mostly Fords. I was not then, and not now, a collector of Promos.
I referred him to the famous (for us modelers back then) Automotive Miniatures store in a Detroit suburb, but he wasn't interested. Then he offered me such a low price for it all that I said, what the hey, and bought it. Yes, one of the cars was a red 1969 Mustang promo. I recall selling that one alone to Herb and Bill at Automotive Miniatures shortly thereafter for the then outrageous price of $90....and they quickly retailed if for more, I understand. That more than paid me back for the cost of buying the entire collection, which I recall being around 15-20 units. That $90 in 1982, btw, is equivalent to $295 today.
So even back then, as Jim suggests above, 1969 Mustang promos were apparently very, very rare and very highly valued even when less than 10 to 13 years old. BTW, sold most of the rest of the collection just a few years ago to one of the premier old kit vendors. One of those cars was a pretty mediocre condition 1964 1/2 Mustang Indy Pace Car (I rean a picture of it in one of my books). He didn't give me an individual value on that one, but I am sure it was one of the more desirable pieces I sold that day, and another payoff for that 1982 transaction nearly four decades later...TB
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Big, big smile! Sure understand when you said you had fun with this build. Way to go Walter! TIM