Chuck Kourouklis

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.

Well, I really hope there ain't any knob-blockery goin' on for the US market on that model, 'cause a build diary spontaneously appeared on the US forum: The Big 500

EXCELLENT call, Matt. I was thinking it had a bit of a subscription "look" to it, and I may have been cued by the seams between the body work and the rear roll pan on the Kyosho/DeAgostini 1/8 Countach (check closely around the perimeter just below the rear fascia):. The SL also has a few exposed screw heads that I think Pocher would have worked harder to hide had they designed the kit, based on the Aventador, anyway. But yes, I'd expect a one-box deal and maybe Pocher-designed instruction booklet with this.

Yup, exactly. I pointed that out in a discussion over this kit outside this forum. Riiight over that rear fender in this view: Don't think it's gonna stop me, just gotta figure out the filler and paint matching.

On Buicks - there were a few kits after the sixties, gents. Monogram Grand National/GNX anybody? AMT new-tool '66 Riviera ring any bells? Surprised the GS-X wasn't one of the first mentioned. In addition to the '60s survivor tooling, btw.

Really? 3 on their 5-scale? Aw man...

With you on the vintage selections, Matija. Would LOVE to see a pagoda-roof SL. AMG GT is a pretty fantastic consolation, though. Very much looking forward to that. Not to go too far off topic, but while we're in that general pagoda-roof era, if Revell Germany has a workable license with BMW, we need a state-of-the-art 3.0CS and a 1600/2002 yesterday.

X2 on that one.

Kool beans! I half-wonder if the flyer model might not have cobbled an IMC body shell to mock up the coupe, but Revell's not really in that sort of habit and the release seems close. Also - 1) Revell already has about 70% of the work done in its own previous '48 tooling. 2) I know there have been published reviewers so can't-find-their-cheeks-with-both-hands-and-a-GPS clueless as to claim Revell has run MPC tooling, but don't be confused - IMC tooling was most recently run by Lindberg and Lindberg models are now being released under Round2's aegis. So Revell running an IMC kit? Verrrry unlikely. Special Edition for the Olds, huh? Wonder how that jives with the simplified model in the plan circulating earlier. The model in the flyer don't look half-bad...

ART ANDERSON'S PICS: Just a straight copy of the image right into the reply window, Art. Thanks to you and Bill for the wheel tips, btw.