Chuck Kourouklis

Yup. Been around the virtual block a few times, ain't found no 1:1 '65 matches the Moebius firewall so far. Did find one kit part that looks a li'l more like the 1:1 piece, though (and oh, y'all 're gonna LOVE this)- Yes, Virginia, there's actually a use for your Trumpeter Falcon kit. Welded braces, too!

Point taken, Tim, but the non-factual "facts" tend to work themselves out pretty neatly, don't they? And I gotta say, the notion of a 7-point distributor for the '30A prob'ly wouldn'ta gained much traction if another 7-point distributor hadn't actually made it to production beforehand. Meantime, the Kit That Must Not Be Named didn't get any less hacked-up from photo preview to HS shelf, now, did it? I'll stop bringing that one up when others stop pretending history isn't littered with examples like these to justify the controversy. So here we come right back to regurgitating arguments I've had pretty comprehensively flattened at the link below. For over three years now. We talk of people "getting hurt" by these discussions as if that's a granted fact, when really, the only ones who seem to be "getting hurt" are those who take it upon themselves to get all uptight about these discussions in the first place! I'm sure manufacturers previewing their wares find it a little frustrating, particularly when they've noted the problems themselves and had to let them pass because development cycles and budgets have gotten out of hand - but the new product KEEPS COMING, doesn't it? So WHO EXACTLY is "getting hurt" again? In the end, it all comes right back to one car modeler trying to dictate insanely arbitrary standards to the other about what is and is not appropriate to discuss among observations that are ultimately topical - whether he likes it or not.

Scott. The question cuts straight back to you: Is it talking about this problem that big a deal? Come on, man. Discussing a kit's deviations from the subject is a major part of what these forums are all about. It's legitimate to discuss. That's a hard fact, and it's not going away no matter who rails against it. Seems to be a small problem, I've duly noted it, and I appreciate it being mentioned. Will probably do my own follow-up research. Won't stop me from snatching up a few of these, either.

Yup. This was THE thing for Moebius to do. Looks stupid kool. Bring us an A/FX (or similar) variation on the '65 Comet, and we're golden...

Actually, it's a little worse even than all that - Revell has in its own inventory tires from the '77 Smokey & The Bandit Firebird, a generic Eagle-flavored radial that's perhaps a jot narrow but otherwise much better-suited for this model, if only the wheels were tooled for 'em - they're just a bit loose, but they'll also work if you're willing either to trash the Firebird kit or find other rubber for it. Then again, Chief Joe's got good wares. Might even be able to dial 'em in exactly for the Olds, huh? Firebird tires woulda been a much less jarring in-box solution than the bias-plies, but what do I know - I'm just a consumer.

Does indeed come with the 'Cuda bias-plies. Moebius '65 Belvedere tires actually look like new tires that might be found on one of these, so I'm wondering about a straight swap - Polyglas GTs will be a little less anachronistic on the Belvedere and they're only a tiny bit large for the wheels. Moebius radials should be good and snug on the Olds.

What's funny is that my own shot is a little ambiguous too: In the end, though, I think the spacing of the points proves it's got 8, if nothing else does.

Been an unrepentant parts geek since childhood, but I gotta agree - the RIGHT LOOK is far more important than a gajillion-piece breakdown.

A few more shots from the same show for anyone who likes: It does look as if they're using the '70 'Cuda tires. For the streamlined, slightly retro-flavored parts breakdown, though, detail looks very good.

Want a more straight-on profile shot? I wondered a bit at first, but the more I look, the more I'm thinkin' "a few swipes of a file", as one Mr Boyd is fond of saying.

A few more from NNL West Yesterday:

Got a couple of the 1/16 288s, pretty nice aside from the wrong-sized Pirelli/wheel combo. Love the EM-series 1/24. But a kit developed from this tooling? Oh, that'd be something else ENTIRELY.

Oh yeah. Decaling that LaFerrari is all c.f. Then there's the carbon fiber…

We're so overdue for just about any streetable McLaren with a bit of detail, I'm stoked any which way. Happens that I like the look of the 570 best, though, so aces!

Was just thinking the Merit looks serviceable, but yeah, I can get with that Heller.

Excellent, and thank you, Christian. I wanna get after a number of these, actually. There are a few vintage Heller subjects I'd like to get after, like the Delahaye, Talbot Lago street car, Delage, and the Bugatti T50. Figures the E-Types are all around after I got a few off online auctions.

Yeah, sorry. With Duff on this one. Just what can't be solved with a straight parts-swapping from the Satellite, just like Steve said? You don't even need to be one o' them Nobel Laureate "REEEEAAAL MODELERS" to accomplish something that bone-headed.

Guess a bit of this may have to do with what exactly is going on with those struts. This is apparently from a different design team, but I can tell you the damped and spring-loaded hinges of the Aventador prop some beefy die cast door skins up pretty well.

OH, so the Lawman's back on track? And we have a 2016 Camaro on the way? Alrighty then! Thanks for letting Nuremberg know.

^^ Li'l curious myself.

Seams or no seams, I'm ALL over it. Got my preorder in with scaleautoworks.com as of a couple days ago.

No, Casey, don't think the instructions are mistaken on the heads and valve covers. The pieces look very deliberately depicted that way, and they aren't the only differences between exploded plan instruction sheet. Total parts count in the plan is 72; in the kit, it's apparently 91. It seems we've gained a bunch of separate lenses up front, reflectors for the side view mirrors, a separate brake booster and another segment in the exhaust, axle pins, a steering column, front quarter cladding, and some other separate under-hood ancillary in trade for those separate valve covers. Backwards and forwards become a little more relative this way in the big picture, but parts counts in the 90s - low 100s for a level 3 of 5 make a certain sort of sense. Now as for the scale: in a flyer that takes care to differentiate the 1/24 of the Duallie and the Chevy SS stock cars, I find it highly unlikely the Olds is misprinted as a 1/25. For what must be easily my seventh or eighth time pointing this out online, history is littered with examples of different-scale offerings from a root set of masters between Revell and Monogram - 1/12 Camaros and '57 Bel Airs down to 1/25, 1/24 '70 Mustangs to 1/25 '69s, 1/24 '64 GTO chassis to 1/25 Chevelle, 1/24 '87 street/Glidden Thunderbird to 1/25 Matt & Debbie Hay T-Bird, et cetera et cetera ad nauseam infinitumque. Revell knows its audience at least this well: a misplaced exhaust port here and a 10% roof chop on a supposed factory car there can make it out the door not only with relative sales impunity, but also with a built-in squad of loyalists ready to lynch anyone who dares breathe word of those flaws. But venture even to dream of a new non-NASCAR kit in 1/24 instead of God's Own Decreed 1/25, and there will be pitchforks, torches, and maybe even a little brain-eating at the door in Elk Grove Village. So 10:1, anyone here, just about any amount, that the new 4-4-2 WILL not only be listed 1/25 on the box, but also noticeably, verifiably smaller than the comparable Monogram SS or GN in practice, I promise you, could we just PUT THAT TO REST, pretty please with body-painted Sports Illustrated girls on top.

Hmm. Skill 3, but 95 parts. Maybe we aren't looking at snappers after all...

That hasn't been Pocher's m o so far and there's nothing in the product description to indicate they're going to go by installments. One U S dealer has started preorders on it as if it's a single contained unit. I suppose there's nothing to prohibit Pocher adopting the subscription model if they decided it was viable, though...

NOTHING DIRECTED AT YOU, Skip. What I meant was, now that the model has debuted with a build diary on the US ModelSpace site, I hope that's because there's a plan in place to sell it in the U S and NOT leave us all high and dry after the tease. It's cool. We're all just a bunch o' li'l Fonzies here. All reined in, so to speak.