Chuck Kourouklis

Oh, even 'cross the pond over here, I can appreciate what an icon the 72 is, and that livery just kills (literally, if you consider the sponsor ?). It'd be mean in pea soup green, but that black and gold is flat intimidating in a way I can't recall other F1s matching - certainly my favorite. Just a little surprised Pocher's going where ground has already been broken in this scale. Having the plastic, I can't quite justify this subject choice in multimedia after gleefully snapping up the Lamborghinis. But I do hope the appeal is just as you say and they sell a few tons' worth.

YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZ! I'm, uh, kinda excited by that one. ?

Got an Entex boxing of same! Very cool. If past is prologue, Pocher does indeed mean 1/8 scale, and diecast parts indicate it will have nothing to do with this old Edai tooling. I'm also perplexed about the subject choice, but the smart money is this Pocher kit is all new.

I would've certainly rather had chrome reflectors myself, but with the general opacity of kit headlight lenses, a little Molotow chrome or compass-cut foil will work just about as well. If features like chrome reflectors would have raised tooling expenses enough to ding the LIDAR scanning budget, I'm glad they went the way they did. This is the best, closest-looking body shell Revell has done in an age, and the model appears to sit just right, too. Compare it with the flat-railed Olds 442 hardtop and you can see the difference scanning makes. ?

Pretty sure he typoed from "351" or just crossed mental rolodex cards. ? I'll say this: blow up the pic of the parts and you see two distinct radiator fan shrouds down to the left...

I actually like the nailhead/coupe combo better than the original arrangement. ? Academic, anyway, 'cause swapping engines in the same basic tooling wouldn't be a problem at all.

Your lips to God's ears on the late-model Mustang. Ford just keeps throwing out opportunities, so maybe Revell will finally bring out a half-decent S650 by around 2025 or so. I'm liking these flatroof cars better and better in my dotage, though, so I'll be happy to snatch up a '71 or two (or three with powertrain variations)...

DB5? Well well. Count me among the cautiously optimistic. Just hope it's done more to new-tool 911 standards than E-Type Jag. Better late than never on a C8, too, looks priced beyond an easy-click anyway. Man, the boxart '71 Mustang looks fantastic.

Yup, tooling cut from entirely virgin steel. Made it more galling to me than I've yet admitted publicly that so much of the '96 patterns carried through plainly clashing with the subject, though in the end, I guess it was just cheaper that way. Flip side of it all is, with the elimination of such a specific reference and some worthy new parts, this version should be MUCH more agreeable. All I might have picked out of a gift horse's teeth would be the beam axle that should have come with the Roaster. Beside's Tim's general observations that this tooling is considerably more refined, I also have to land squarely on his page this time about the SBC, even if it is a fact of life in hot-rodded Fords. Maybe it was needed for a representation of the Rat Roaster (however INCOMPLETE AND NOMINAL), but why in the '29-'30 tooling, say? Can't have too many flatheads, and a nice new Ardun-headed version, maybe with an intake we haven't seen before, woulda been just the ticket. Oh well. Second-guess in one hand, you know what in the other, see which fills first...

Re master cylinder, nope, never had it from its Roaster origins. I might have mentioned this in my extremely restrained and sanitized review of the original Roaster in the other publication.

I think the hood's been warped in each of the five of these I've had - maybe that first issue from 1980 as the Turbo was the cleanest. Haven't checked this one yet, but I have high hopes the gray plastic will take a little better to the hot water treatment...

Me, I'm just so delighted about the apparent proportional accuracy of this kit that I'll be happy to take Dremel tips and saws to anything needing a little pip under the hood.

I think it's inevitable, though, Jason. Manufacturers are showing an increasing tendency to hook you with a "B" version first, then follow up with the "A", at least in terms of general interest. Tamiya sure seems to be on that track with aircraft. 1/32 birdcage F-4 Corsair first, then the bubble top. 1/48 P-38F Lightning, then the J. And now that Tamiya has an F-35A on the way, the number one question is, "what about the C?" Bit less than a year away, I'd suppose.

One-use, but they did wring two versions out of the architectural differences under the skin. Sure liked mine...

We'll have to see, but I think it was just the one tire manufacturer being gratuitous about it all. Ain't we got "Wide Oval" tampos on some Revell tires lately? Hope springs eternal...

Right? And you know how easy that was to solve? Those were Chevy SSR tires, particularly the bigger rear ones. All ya gotta do for a much more agreeable look is use the lower-profile front SSR tires stretched around the rims. Meaning, all Revell had to do was supply those tires for something a lot better right out of the box. Then again, these are the guys who apparently brought the TRX tires back for the latest '67 Corvette reissue, so surprise, surprise. Those front SSR tires just happen to be used as the custom rubber in a number of "California Wheels" cars, so if you have one or a few of those, you might be able to fix your Challenger without wasting a kit.

True all that, but another way to look at it might be that the Mach E isn't near the betrayal of concept the '74 - '78 II was. At least the Mach E performs, and if it's gotta be an SUV, it could look worse. That gussied-up Pinto didn't even look like the front and rear halves were designed by the same committee.

Yeah yeah. ? Think it's pretty clear I was coming more from the angle of a revised reissue bringing a kit closer to what it should have been in the first place, but I did leave a pet hatch's worth of ambiguity open, didn't I?

Yup, looks a good deal more successful a model than the Rat Roaster, being less beholden to a specific subject and therefore landing less wide of the mark.

Was about to ring in with the Revell Thunderbolts, some of my favorites ever - but I see that's been covered. And yes, the new-tool Revell Willys was a nice follow-up to the original, very buildable. Like the Revell 1/16 slingshot dragsters too. Mayyybee the Lindberg 1/8 "Exterminator"? Some cute options on that one...

That's Jacked, man. ?

NON-SMOKED CLEAR PARTS! Thank you, Luc! Man, I might want TWO now! If only they'd done that with the 1/16 928...

Based on what else I've seen in the $1200 range, I'd characterize that almost as a bargain... ?

It's not complete engine detail, just the bottom and forward-facing side - essentially whatever you can see of it through the grille. I'll place my order, a bit more because Hasegawa than subject this time. Revell stack-up will be interesting too.

Welp, my choice of plates is decided.