Chuck Kourouklis

I can see why the sedan would lead the discussion, but wasn't that first red 5-window box model cobbled from an Aurora kit? For anyone who might not know, the actual body shell in the rod version is represented by the boxcover for the green stock model - ridiculously better.

I'm down! (never particularly gave a rat's about scale, comes to it...)

I didn't even know I wanted an asphalt modified, and that kit is distracting the blablabla outta me right now. I DO know I want some of these. ?

VERY cool! This sucker deserves the hype.

Four-figure Pocher-parts geek that I am, I can only say "True dat!" 'Specially since I'm ground to a halt right now on some 100-part kits...

It's just so freakin' good I want two Bosses even in anticipation of the other versions coming, and the German boxing and decals are going some way to justifying that...

Aaaaaannnnnd off I go (again)...

Stay patient, and you can eventually find a Meng Z4 more in the 50 USD / 45 Euro / 38 Quid range. Very agreeable at that price point, I think. What it all means for the R8, though, I have no idea. The Meng 1/35 British MKV heavy male WWI tank started in the $100 range and you can find them now at just over $60. Those have complete engines, interiors and something like 400 parts in the tracks alone. Except for being accurate, nicely molded, and a clean build if Bob's experience is any indication, I have no idea how to rationalize the BMW at the same price point. It'll be ver-ry interesting to see where the Audi lands...

Yeah, I think your hood treatment is the way to go, Rex. I'm also pondering a bit how tricky it might be to match silver paint to that inside border decal. Photocopying the black decal and trimming tight around that inside border should give you just the right template for a mask.

So, after washing it with all the acid I could in less than 24 hours of possession so far, you've pretty much seen already what issues I could come up with: the non-prototypical distributor base molded to the intake, pretty quick to grind off the intake ducting molded under the hood, with very little ghosting if mine is any indication a wee little bit of surface rippling right at the beltline-fender transition on the passenger-side C-pillar, as Tim observed in his review; it creates a crease so subtle the light has to hit it exactly right to expose it. You'll have to be delicate and strategic, but otherwise it shouldn't take anyone too long to file that out, if you even see it. I'm also catching a bit of routine parts warping - mostly in the floorpan/engine bay aprons working against an ideal fit into the body shell, that sort of thing - which is why God created hot water. That's. IT. Every other aspect of the kit is game-changing, delivering at or beyond what the preview pictures have shown; counting rivets will only deepen your appreciation for what Revell's accomplished this time. So if a Sportsroof '71 is your thing and you're impressed by those shots, get it. Mail ordering, buttering up your local plastic pusher, bribery with donuts or torches and pitchforks, whatever's necessary. Btw, interesting how greatness can be forecast by preview photos just as easily as mediocrity, huh? Mindful as I am lately about belaboring things, this brings us to a point that's been waiting a while to be made, and a grand sweeping tip of the hat to Revell for opening the door (I'm running out of these, I promise): We were on the 27th page before this kit went out wide, with few if any observations about "X pages and the kit hasn't even been released yet." And all those wicked hobby nabobs flocking to criticize a model indiscriminately, just out of some feverish bone-deep compulsion TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMETHING - suuuure. Where were they, again? I think these 28 pages have given the latest baldfaced, unimaginative LIE to that entire concept. I'm bookmarking the thing for nose-rubbing proof. This thread isn't a disaster because the kit isn't. Full stop.

Yup! I think you’re looking at ‘em right there.

Btw, that distributor pass-through for the intake: it appears that's there in the model entirely to give the distributor a foothold. Pretty sure you can just trim that off. So you might want to make sure the top seam between block halves is filled and smoothed over, at least at the forward edge. The timing chain housing, integrated in the 1:1 block, is molded separately here, with a separate timing cover to put on that. A little drilling and pinning for the distributor shaft once the basic block and timing housing are together, and it seems to me the chief peccadillo with the engine should be solved.

8 days from order to shipped, via Carrera. IMMENSELY strong first impressions.

I was speaking more to accounting for the second radiator shroud in the Revell kit - but that's some nice reference. ?

Bond car's a Mach 1 429CJ, right?

Aaaannnnd off I go... ?

I'll just add it here instead of amending my last post: one of the more interesting segments of the modelfactoryhiro.com website was the "Mr Hiro's Hobby" segment, where he'd share progress photos on the kits he himself built - Pocher Classics kits in the main, of all things, and he finished them very nicely. Looks like he passed in the middle of his take on the '34 Rolls Torpedo Cabriolet. Sad to consider he's no longer around to finish it.

Con Dios indeed. WOW. 63 is young, and that's a loss.

*chef's kiss* That's as nice as I've ever seen that kit done (or many others, come to think of it). BRAVO!

Did I mention Barbatos has great videos? I tend not to mind a wide-ranging thread myself, but one disadvantage has come up in this one. Even though Claes has basically declared it, I still have to ask, to be absolutely certain: that IS the Revell chrome you have on that Imperial grille/bumper, right? 'Cause those results are most emphatically not bad.

Love Barbatos. Great vids.

It was a kinda GM-looking Mustang. I've certainly grown MUCH fonder of it over the years, though. Nothing like its immediate successor to put everything into perspective...

BRONCO! yay. ?

Wheels from the AMT '67 Shelby, mill from Revell's '69 Boss 2... ?? (or a 2-bbl 351 like the actual survivor - I forget, does the mainstreamer version of the Starsky & Hutch Torino have an intake to pilfer for that [and is it the right 351 series?])