Chuck Kourouklis

I don't know about the rest o' y'all, but I LOVE this kit forensics stuff. ?

THERE it is...

Old Tamiya 1/24 always seemed a bit "puffy" to me. This kit has it cold. I'm happy. Would I really LOVE Hasegawa to get on a couple-four BMW E9 variations, especially now that they're rediscovered separate interior door cards? Sure. But I'll certainly have this. ?

KNEW it was going to have a destroyer set of decals.

HA. Like that one, Sean. ?

Re managing expectations, Airfix lately has an approach to this, and I wonder if it wouldn't be a bad idea for everyone else to adopt. They slap two dates on one of the box sides: 1) the current date of release and 2) the year the tooling was designed.

Interesting question. I think it might have been 'cause the '71-'73 went out of its way to look big. Every line on the car seems purposefully directed to emphasize length and mass. Front and rear overhangs gotta be some of the longest ever on a 'Stang...

It would be the Tamiya kit. The '99 is strong and Revell's 197s are good too. I love the AMT "new (now 28-year-old) tool" '67 beyond all reason (see avatar), but there are just too many eccentricities and minor gaffes in it to slide. But if this one isn't a bear to build, I might end up giving it my personal crown - and I can think of at least one august writer in the hobby who's going to love this - because of its engine bay.

The bar isn't super-high. But when the dust settles - if the rest of this kit lives up to what we can see in James's shots - this may very well prove to be the best bi-scale plastic Mustang kit we've had so far.

Exactly right, Jens. I think you and Craig are in the hunt. This coupe shares with the convertibles the characteristic of a slightly flattened, "pancaked" look all around. We've long been cautioned against comparing one kit with another as a reference standard, but when one of those kits is plainly more correct, it will illuminate exactly where the other goes astray. In other words, don't have a JoHan '70 anywhere around when you first grok this one. But this is a modification of tooling 13 years old, with a necessarily backward glance. Revell's '71 Mustang looks like a more encouraging harbinger of what's ahead.

Oh, is yours also silver? If so, even it at a smaller size does a better job stating the case than the larger shot a few posts above, with everything important in the shadows. That's the one I was talking about.

Here we go again, and here we go again with the "here-we-go-again"s. Yup. The silver car shot a few posts above doesn't really settle a danm thing, but this picture might: Recognize those thick rings around the lenses as a grille feature, and it all ought to look quite a bit better. The rest is making a VERY strong first impression, as well it should from the late-20th century scaling techniques finally adopted for it. I'm ready to bet it'll leave a nice, SportsRoof-shaped crater where any previous '71-'73 tooling has been. The drip rails on that 442, tho...

Yup, Edai/Entex/Revell kit, 1/8 scale. Pocher Aventadors and Huracans started 'round $700 a few years back. I'd figure maybe a bit more for a 2022 release. Lotta money. O t o h, 1/8 subscription kits generally run about twice that.

x2. Major diggage for that Mach 1. ?

"Not factory stock", Steve said, though...

Fun comparison for the new one, too!

Hiya, keyser! Just got the scratch for my li'l itch: Would you believe $15 from a yard sale? ? You shouldn't. ? o. m. G., tho - worth every penny.

'66 Skylark has been bandied about, too...

Interior, oh, okay. 'Cause there's an argument to be made that the original kit was so wide of the Rat Roaster, it couldn't have violated any licensing if it wanted to.

Cool! Thankya Steve. ? Very happy to hear the GH Imperial is tabula rasa and I don't know that Round 2 has missed any particular windows on it. The Batmobile might indicate not - is Black Beauty as iconic? Guess we'll see. As so many here have already, I would bring up the Bluesmobile Monaco - would that be one for your team or Sci-Fi? Either department would be operating more on a pop culture subject if they took this on, but perhaps there's enough pattern groundwork in the diecast to make it feasible? It does keep coming up...

Welp, I'm in. For leading the critics brigade until we started matching the toxicity of all the True Believers, ain't it funny how I'm always on board for these new releases? ? Course, the problem is, this release put the original AMT '64 on my radar and gave me an unbearable itch at exactly the WRONG time. So if Round2 ever announces they're "cloning" that original '64 kit... uh, you can probably thank me.

Definitely the balls in their bearing, that's fer sure.

I was just diggin' "NEW TOOLED PARTS" - what, anything besides the hood? Oh YEAH - the hood trim pieces on the chrome tree. Guess that qualifies. ? (and yes, a non-chambered exhaust woulda made this just that bit more worthwhile)

Ah, the fins. Gotcha.

Absolutely no kit? I seem to recall the covers in this being reasonably close...