Chuck Kourouklis

Truth to be told, I had difficulty telling one '50s chrome mastodon from another until I started paying attention to them...

WHOAH, glad I saw this. Proweld has long been my weapon of choice. Bondene, Weld #3, Tamiya thin, are these all comparable in viscosity, so's you can use 'em with that glass-hypo needle applicator?

Oh yeah, Stu. The top fender expanses still seem a wee bit broad, but those arches look a lot better.

What Scott said, re the fender arches. Gentlemen, with all due respect, I'd really like to see what manufacturer has stopped making new model kits because of nitpicking - if anybody has an actual example, I'm all ears. Now some manufacturers have been prodded to improve their products - like the Lindberg '61 Impala, or the Pro Modeler '69 Charger, or Revell doing a new-tool 1/25 '69 Camaro instead of recycling Monogram's old dog, or Moebius tweaking the '53 Hudson - but seriously, to stop developing the new products your business thrives on out of a hissy fit over nitpicking? Revell/Monogram hasn't done business well-nigh these 70 years by being that stupid. The irony here is that this new 'Cuda is coming about in great part because Revell/Monogram's last two were so lambasted. You guys are in this hobby with the expectation that you will have a miniature that looks as close to its prototype as possible. There's no need to be cautious, circumspect or apologetic about that. In fact, it's those who attack the nit-pickers who have a far more limiting and inhibiting effect on this hobby than the nit-pickers themselves.

Funky carb setup, but the kit has distinct molded fuel lines for whichever you choose. Overall one of the best y-blocks/312s ever in scale. Haphazard bagging, but the body shell mold seems to have had an extra polishing on this one, for whatever reason. Probably luck of the draw for warps, but my floorpan, chassis, and interior mock-up snicked right into the body without any adjustment. And the body shell in this one is the single 2012 Revell kit that comes closest to absolutely nailing the 1:1 in every detail and proportion. The door/window frame deviations and rear quarter crease eccentricities are so slight they're barely worth mentioning, and just about everything else looks like it's down cold. Absolutely Revell's best this year, imho, and by a fair margin.

^This.^

Absolutely, Sir, jives pretty well with what else I'm hearing. Thanks again, and I hope your pursuit of info is just as fruitful - if I see anything I can help answer for you, I'll be sure to pitch in.

Woooow. EXCELLENT, and thank you very much for those pics, Larry! I can tell you that the Promolite body keeps the backlight the same, and I'm guessing this is because the difference isn't glaring and it makes it easier to use the Revell window pieces. Tom did redo the drip molding arc over the vent wings in a manner superior to Revell's, and he molded the actual vent wing frame into the body so you don't have to use Revell's somewhat fussy pieces there. It's a very high-quality conversion. I'm looking to gather as much input as I can on how the floorpan was factory-finished - bare steel with black undercoat spatter? - and I was wondering if you might have some info to add there. Thanks for all the info! NICE RIDES.

Oh yeah! What's more, 109 parts with separate doors and at least a fair-looking attempt at an engine. Be ready for seat lowers molded to the floor and some other interesting design touches...

Notice how they've backdated the model year on the Mustang LX? This was to address the seats and 10-hole wheels, which were fine for a '92 SSP, but not so much for the consumer 5.0 cars. Pay no attention to the retouched 4-cylinder hatch in the catalogue shot...

Ayuh, I c'n diggit. Just note that the doors glue open or shut, 'less you wanna make your own hinges. Other'n that, I like me some hyena Ferraris...

Hmm, good question. I'll probably snap one up though, for better or worse. One step closer to the one I REALLY want, the 288 GTO...

YEAH, man! Don'cha just hate it when all those YAY-sayers come crashing the party, slathering premature praise on a kit from lousy pictures?? Oh. WAIT...

Hardtop glass is definitely out. The others - hmm, interesting...

Oh MAN - even I didn't need that visual.

Hey Mark! Get a load of how our avatars stack! 302 '70 hardtop, no power steering, metric speedo, was my first car...

I'm diggin' it. Of all the '12 releases, this is the one looking closest to target, to me.

An educated guess, I'd say Tim, based on the apparent presence of hardtop glass in some iterations of the preproduction samples... Hmm. Yeah. A gasser for the next version would be very cool.

Well, I don't know how far it stretches feasibility that somebody said "yeah, advanced kit, advanced modelers can file these lines/fix this fit/correct these arches/do a sedan conversion to legitimize the decals." But comes to this... *boom* The bull's eye blown out by that one is probably three miles down the road.

The People's Republic of SF?? WOOOOOOOOO! Perhaps you might guess why I'm DIGGIN' that, Chief! Excellent. Thanks for the proof.

X2! 1/24?? Jaw-dropping.

Thought this was a good assessment, glad to see you brought it over here.

Right. 'Cause of course, nobody who's pointed out these problems before has ever EVER fixed them...

Yup. It'll still need smoothing, but after a small chisel's done the heavy lifting, you could go to one of those narrow sanding strips for cleanup and possibly avoid the script entirely.

Well, looking it over, the effect presents a bit worse in shots than it does in person. It won't be a huge ordeal to straighten the gas cap lines and the fender seams are actually pretty well placed for you to knock 'em down and know it once you've gotten rid of 'em. As for the header panel seam right above the CORVETTE script up front, that's bitchier. Maybe a piece of masking tape to protect the script?