Chuck Kourouklis

Well, I'll just toss in this profile of the Heller kit... Has issues of its own but I like it far better. Cross-pollination with the Revell kit and a Ukrainian 3D-printed wheel and tire set might net you something good in 1/24, though it's definitely the Heller body I'd use. But the biggest omissions in this thread so far are the heaps of praise for Brian's E-Type! That, good Sir, is a STUNNER.

Thanks, Matt & Brian! It's sort of an augmented stock build you're looking at. The engine was refinished according to DeAgostini's own suggestions, as even they seemed aware of the one-silver-fits-all for metallic-finished parts. The exhaust was given the Alclad treatment, and the suspension arms were corrected in finish. The headliner was given some textured paint and an overcoat inside its perimeter surfaces. The body was given a few coats of older-formula U-Pol, lightly thinned and airbrushed, with a cut and buff thereafter. I'm afraid the problem with the Revell kit goes a bit deeper than the coupe's windshield height. There's just something in the transition of the bonnet to the cowl that makes it seem too high at that point, reinforcing the sense of a downward cant from the cowl forward that just isn't there on the 1:1. Convertible suffers from that too, and the wheel and tire package does the kit no favors.

Waitin' in the Warehouse, as they say...

My God, I swear Hasegawa could announce the release of a half-scale dented can of Sapporo and I'd be like OoOoOoOoooooh...

Well. I wouldn't have figured the Altaya/DeAgostini 1:8 to be part of the discussion, but here's more if you like. COVID build. Not strictly fair, but on comparison of proportions alone, this shows what a dog's breakfast that new Revell kit really is - and I say this hastening to point out that every Revell automotive release since has been superior. Sometimes, vastly so.

I'd be overjoyed for a 1/24 from Tamiya. If ever, it'll probably be at least a while after Revell's most recent little present in that punchbowl...

Comes to that, Michael, everything below the beltline is a bit flattened, pancaked and "diecasty" - I was just being a little selective in the battles. 🙂 We've been cautioned that the worst thing we can do is use another kit as reference to determine accuracy, a premise I'd call a pretty fragrant bovine dump. Fact is, if the reference kit is more accurate, you can certainly use it for comparison. As you observe, the Jo-Han '70 coupe shows exactly where Revell goes astray in proportions. Similar deal in Revell's latest hardtop conversion of a late '70s T-top F-car, the drip rail is all wrong. Revell's "eyeball" team is constantly bumbling it - good thing they're leaning harder on their "LIDAR" team these days. The '71 Mustang shows just how brilliant those kits can be.

Having a SERIOUS shut-up-and-take-my-money moment over here...

^^LOVE it!^^ Wonder if they took any bets on which would swap ends first... (and actually, I think I'd like ALL those little JL cars - the '70/'71 Sport Fury?? Only American subject there without an immediate plastic kit antecedent... or is it? 😮)

Probably low, tbh - But I'd really really R R E E A A L L Y Y like one.

Yup, just taking the first tour thru mine, too. Positive first impressions (not quite '71 Mustang-positive, but pretty close).

'64's a first-gen, right? I'd be down for that...

Mine is every bit the beauty indicated by the video. *chef's kiss*

Heh. Had my druthers, it'd be 1/24, in colored plastic so I could visualize the finished model more easily before I painted it, and... yes, brandishing a complete engine. I've long maintained that there's no objective way to discredit an otherwise complete and well-designed curbside kit for keeping its hood closed. But do I want a powertrain just as traditional American-market kits have CONDITIONED ME to do, since before I was even born? Oh yes. Btw, I don't mind such a lame, boring subject, myself - I'm sure I could admire some of the more "interesting" ones in its review mirrors. 😎

I've only been puling for one of those forever now...