Chuck Kourouklis

Yeah. From the looks of it, maybe some of Revell's moderately beefy vintage slicks from recent kits might fit in - or MAYBE the slightly smaller treaded rear meats from the street '41 Willys? - but even though nobody'll know till they try it, I'd be very surprised if Revell's '90s pro-street rubber managed to wedge in there.

Oh, I heard that "thank you" loud and clear, Bob - that's why I steered more toward the corrections I'd make. I too would have to observe that the deviations are far more serious than nits, and that the real hand-wringing is going on among people reacting to the critiques - but I appreciate your last post just the same Mr. P.

That's all well and good, Harry, but your comparo photo has exposed a whole new set of problems around the front end for me. Geez, look how far Trumpeter's fender peaks jut past the headlights. I'm still hopeful about filing down the fenders as they drop just behind the front bumper and ahead of the rear, but I'm now a lot less sanguine about minimizing the grille's apparent height with that perimeter strip. And if these deviations offend everybody's eyes a little less than the Moebius Hudson originally did, the pattern is still the same: overstating the critiques in the service of impugning the reviewers. I've seen some pointed observations, but if the words "horrible" or " disaster" were used anywhere, I missed ' 'em...

Well, one thing I'll look into doing is putting in a thicker chrome perimeter strip around the sides and upper edge of the grille. That should go some way to filling that gawky space between the headlight buckets and the leading edge of the hood. As for getting the body to roll under a bit more at rocker panel level, looks like a cut will be necessary between the lower rear quarters and the rear fascia behind the bumper - kinda hope boiling the body and bending it in that region will do the trick. Always wondered how clamping a still-warm rocker panel into a vise and trying to curl it a bit there might work...

Oh, not to worry. I always make my meaning clear.

To each they's own, I sez - but I do find it odd that I can't type a certain anagram of "carp", yet that word makes it thru...

Well, as I consider what might be done to rehabilitate this kit some, I'm encouraged to see a slightly more plausible dual exhaust option. Of course, that might be academic if you go the full '67 Mustang bash route. I was also thinking an A/FX - style mashup with a Thunderbolt right from the start - looks like the kit fairly cries for something like that.

And you know something else, people? If the kit is what it is, then the COMMENTARY on the kit will also be what IT is. If you don't like it, don't read it.. You know where that ignore button is by now. Use it. Now, for anyone who has a problem with my tone: how am I being any less reasonable, or any more belligerent, than YOU are?

Yup, the very one first released in the American Graffiti series.

And yet there's that Ford licensing seal on the box. Didn't AMT's recent '56 Thunderbird have to go through a few rounds of correction before Ford granted the license? And if so, how did this thing make it through in its current... uh... condition?

It sure does - and don't even ask what's going on with them tie rods...

Oh boy. That's... uh... unfortunate. I'll get one just to see what might be dragged kicking and screaming out of it, but man - it's a little eye-watering. 3-D scanning. They really need to cut the ###### and just get to it. (y'know, that censor mark suggests a whole lot worse than I actually wrote...)

Yup, like they said earlier in the thread, not only a complete drivetrain, but a stand-alone with front and rear subframes if you want. Alas, it doesn't look practical to fix the model so you can remove it all and put it back in whenever you have the whim.

Oooh. Yeesh. That is lame. Eh, well. Somebody out there has an "A"-game, I'm sure...

I'm pretty impressed widdit. Nice at least to have something from Tamiya saying "no, we're not asleep". Btw, Mark - wouldn'cha just paraphrase Marv from "Sin City"? "I love trolls. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

Dude. That was, like, uncanny. You got an inside line or something?

Yup, and Ken abides. Although Most here is a runner-up. His has, like, Adonis balls 'n stuff.

Dude. Have I mentioned - your avatar is just killer.

The 1:6 diecast Ford flathead V8 has been out for a while, but the Model T engine and the 1:4 transparent flathead V8 are listed as new. Think they were announced something like 2 years ago, but various online vendors say they're coming this year...

Hey, man, any time they wanna try 1/8 again in something like this, I'm there. Meantime, though, I can "settle" for this 1/12 GT500.

booooooo... (and if ya got me sayin "boo", that's somethin' right there)

Yup.

That sucker does clean up nice...

Yup. And to each they's own, I guess - for my money, the '48 Tucker, '49 Merc, and the step-down Hudsons are far and away the baddest-looking from that particular era. I'da been decently stoked with the kit as originally presented. Now that it'll be refined, I can't wait.

I was gonna say - Moebius is retoolin' they stuff, and they's gonna have it out sooner than that! Revell's test shots looked ready to produce months ago...