Chuck Kourouklis

Yup. Last of Craig's shots:

I'll take one. Gotta find their Renault 4, too.

X2. REALLY good work, Ron. Revell's business model of starting with an over-promising "Special Edition" and then releasing an over-delivering version five or six years later is purest smh material, but damned if it ain't gonna work on me - gotta have it for that 442 grille now.

This'n's just about my favorite from the "Mueller/Montgomery Era". What, a flimsy excuse to get another one? Gosh darn...

Bummer. Got their Focus and GT, liked 'em from the looks. The GT in particular comes across as my kind of headache.

Funny you mention that Bill, 'cause I've also entertained such an idea - though I tend to favor the latest Revell Black Widow/Sedan/Convertible tooling for wheel arch transplants. One thing I'd certainly do is replace AMT's front bumper with the latest Revell piece, which not only looks closer and skips the lateral parting lines, but just about fits the AMT shell.

There are signal light blanks on the corners of the bumper, which maybe you're just presumed to paint white, but yup, no lenses on tree or instruction sheet (actually, translucent strips for these probably wouldn't be bad to include on the decal sheet). And you're absolutely right, Bill. Maybe a black script outline taken from a photo, printed onto clear decal stock and applied over a script-shaped piece of foil, might be an interim solution for thems what cain't hold out for MCG.

Well, have a look at Tim's shot of the front bumper on the tree - and you can see little blank areas for those signal lights. Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like there might be some light detail engraving there. See your point about the headlight bezels; that's one well within my tolerance levels, personally, but maybe not for others. Noticed that body color strip right off, but that may come down to painting. While the hood "brow" trim may be molded a bit thick for scale, the foil job on those areas definitely exaggerates the effect on the boxcover model. I loved that AMT Catalina at first, but I found the body withering a bit under scrutiny, mostly in a certain slab-sided aspect along the flanks, lower belt line to rocker specifically. There's a whiff of that about this Ventura too, but what I think I'm seeing I'm hard-pressed to confirm till I have the actual shell in hand - it certainly seems better overall than the AMT kit.

Thanks for another great overview. Tim - this is the one I really want Moebius to nail, and your pics give me cause to remain hopeful on that front. And as for the ever-pathetic and pitiful stirring of the pot over "rivet-counters" before ANY criticism in this thread - 'cause y'all just gotta have somebody in a bad-guy role, apparently - I've only had your number for what, 2 1/2 years now? (That'd be #9, specifically, in the link below)

Wasn't there supposed to be a 1/16 Bus? No mention of scale that I can make out, so I guess it's the 1/24 in Lufthansa livery. F40 must be the old Monogram snapper. Don't need to be able to read German very well to see confirmation that the Ferrari SWB is the Italeri kit.

I like mine well enough - sure as shootin' it beats nothing at all! I noticed that the axle bricks have been uniform across the Aventador, Veyron, and P1, and wondered what compromises might result - thought perhaps they might play with wheel offsets to bring things closer to scale. Eh, well. They fudge the discrepancies pretty nicely.

P1 is not only super-duper obvious, but a sorely missed boat if they don't go thru with it. Guess we'll have to content ourselves with this... But yes, the P1is really a hyper car. And McLaren does make supercars that might fit the profile - 650S? 570? Wouldn't kick either of those off my bench. Aston DB10 from "Spectre" for a dark horse?

Great overview as always, Tim. Just fine with the choices Moebius made on this one - I'll dogpile with everyone else on the parts box angle (or mix 'n match with current and future Satellites for that matter).

VERY kool, and here's what grabs me from that shot: this body shell has always had a big ol' kink in the belt line right at the C-pillar that I'm not making out in this photo! Wonder if the builder leveled that or Round2 did...

Man, I could swear once upon a time Arii had a poly washer set with some rubber BFGs that would have had about the right pattern - like the ones Marc Nellis has at the bottom of this post, iIrc: Ma's Resin thread from a few years back Of course, you lose a bit of period sidewall profile, but you also get rather less of the bias-ply look Revell's Blue Streak tires give you (for anyone who might have noticed that, and not a huge deal at any rate). Also, if Revell-Monogram's decal stock were still that practically cellophane-stiffness material from decades back, I'd be right with Chris in his recommendation to remove the molded scripts before using them. But since around 2000, R/M's been using a much more flexible and compliant, solution-compatible carrier. So with that in mind, I'll offer the counterpoint that if you want a bit of 3D detail under those decals, they might just conform to the raised script with a bit of setter/softener - or at least, you don't really need to knock the molded scripts all the way down for the decals. As you might have seen at "On The Bench", the engine isn't so badly compromised in detail; its chief problem is that it comes across neither fish nor fowl as a 351. It looks like it has the Cleveland timing chain housing cast to the front of the block, but the rounded trapezoidal head design of the Windsor/Fairlane 221 family. The Boss 302 used Cleveland heads modified for a Windsor block, but whether the reverse is at all typical of a built 351, I have no idea. In my prep for block sanding, there appears to be no pigment leaching of any kind thru a few coats of Tamiya Fine White and a mist coat of Tamiya Fine Gray primers. It looks pinkish ONLY where backlighting the translucency of the red plastic comes into play.

I see what you did there. Or, y'know, don't see it.

E X X c e l l l l e n t! My ol' Italeri is buildable but kinda pillaged and loose. It'll be very nice to nab this one afresh.

Good show! Going by just about ANY recent Revell USA pattern involving new tooling, I think I'd put 10:1 on it being 1:25. As others have said repeatedly, all-new, no relation to die-cast Donks, retro/simplified design as in the S&H Torino. I'll reiterate, we only have what - nearly 30 years of Revell/Monogram re-scaling to 1/25 from patterns used for 1/24? Long as the thing looks right. And if it does, a quarter-mile comp version down the line would be pretty awesome.

So it ain't just me. Looks a little Denny's or maybe truck-stoppish but real tasty just the same.

HAH! Whatever way, it's the same to me.

And I'd like to take a moment to thank everybody for keeping it smooth and civil. Tip of the hat and much obliged to all of you.

Yup. Mentioned before, little more so with the MPC '72, the wheelbase disparity.

Heh. Jo-Han bumper has tabs that interfere with the solid area in the Revell body shell so I can't get it right in. It does look feasible with a bit of trimming, though.

Meantime, best mockup I can manage between the Jo-Han '72 and the S & H bumper: Putting the bumper at about the level as centered as I could, the gaps are about like this.

Yeah, that'd be slick for a build taking a lot longer than 24 hours! Very nicely done.