Casey

Not sure about other areas of the country, but HL only started offering the 40% off coupon within the last year to year-and-a-half. Before that they used to have coupons for specific areas or sections of the store (crafts, hobbies) or specific items (picture frames, yarn, etc.). I would guess any coupon brings more people into the stores than would come if they offered no coupon, and the fact that Michael's, Jo-Ann, Hobby Lobby, etc. continue to offer their own (and some accept others') coupons tells me the coupons are effective in getting people into the stores, and purchasing product. Michael's isn't going OOB because John Doe goes in once a week with the 40% off coupon and buys a $24.99 Revell kit for $15.00, even if he takes Mrs. Doe and John Doe, Jr. with him, all with 40% off coupons in hand, buying a kit. Think of all the people who go through the checkout lanes without using a coupon, too. Long story short, if the coupons weren't effective, they wouldn't issue them.

Good eye, and good memory, Ray:

The side panels have been permanently and irreversibly "installed", so this body can never go back to the original version with upper separate inserts without a major reworking of the body shell. I'm guessing Round2 looked into that possibility, but considering the most recent "Dirty Donny" version is what currently exists, and the Rescue version's box art depicts a panel van, going back to the original body shell isn't something I'd expect to ever see happen. Here's the original Rescue version:

Now this is obscure:

I'm going with $350,000-$500,000

Welcome, Earle. Feel free to post a want ad in the Model Cars: Wanted! section if you're looking to find a specific model(s), and hopefully someone there can help you out: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showforum=24

eBay would be the first place I'd look, but there are many online hobby shops which carries them. If you enter this into the Google search bar and click the "Shopping" option after you get the results, you'll have lots of options: "pegasus hobbies wheel and tires model cars"

Norwin Palmer, who would later go on to become an NHRA Competition Eliminator champ, raced this '72 Vega Pro Stock wagon in Grand American action. Now we're talkin'!: Yep, not many well known, 'cept maybe "Smokey" Joe (Lee?).

Hard to tell, but it looks like the lenses and bezels are all one molded piece, still:

Steve Goldman's pics from 2013 Toledo NNL:

No, I'm not denying it's going to have a major effect, but I see it as more of a companion to rather than a replacement for injection molding. Plus, I don't see it happening as quickly as you. I'd love to be proven wrong, and it doesn't matter to me personally if my feelings are right or wrong, because it's pretty clear 3D printing will benefit us all....whenever it finally gets here.

That's my point- the technology isn't progressing as quickly as some would have you believe. I bet I can find a thread on the forum from two years ago which contained the same prediction. Nobody can put a hard date on when the technology will be available and affordable to the average consumer, I understand that, but anyone can keep saying "it's almost" here year after year, and eventually you'll probably be right...but it still isn't available and affordable to the mass consumer now.

I'm not so sure. Every time the topic is brought up, we get the people who say "it's here, NOW!", and other who continue to say "it's almost here", but you can keep saying that for years. Eventually, you'll probably be right, but that doesn't mean it's available to the average consumer at an affordable price right now. What's affordable? I guess that varies for each of use, but let's say $250 for the printer and $60 for the print media, so roughly $300 for the printer related stuff, and I haven't even mentioned the program, downloadable files, etc. It's not here yet for the average consumer, and I don't think it will be for another five years at least. I don't think it'll ever replace nor even dominate traditional injection molding, either.

What about the layer lines/"steps"? Show me a 3D printed part which has a perfectly flat, smooth surface. You can't. 3D printing by it's very nature does not allow for the same type of parts as one finds in an injection molded kit. We've been discussing 3D printing here on the forum for at least three years, and despite claims of it being "already here, who here has the ability to print anything via a 3D printer in their home?

1) Yes and yes, based on the Revell '50 Olds tooling, please. 2) These are long overdue, even with both the 1/24 '53 and 1/25 Revell '53/4 kits still kicking around at Revell, Inc. 3) Yes, and I will add a '57 Nomad. 4) It is kind of odd this one has never been kitted, but it's the nicest looking out of the '55-'57 years IMHO. 5) Yes. Revell has released all-new '55 and '57 Bel Air Hardtops, and who really wanted a '56 Del Ray? 6) On looks and gorgeous lines alone, yes. Not sure it would be a sales success, though. 7) Yes, but I think the appeal of a Country Squire 4-door wagon would trump any other version, and is what I'm hoping Revell has planned.

They can just put the X-brace pieces where the upto--

Send a PM for anything involving prices, please.

Agreed. Is it Wednesday yet??

Some might say that Revell (or maybe Hobbico, since they were the ones to decide not to attend iHobby the last two years) IS taking control of its brand by deciding when and where it makes it's announcements and not just going along with the "everybody's been dong it this way for years" mentality.

Yes, the "under" is when the car is resting on its tires, and the over as shown in the instructions, with the chassis/floorpan upside down. Again, I am basing what I see of the various Tri-Five exhaust systems based on the instruction sheet PDFs on Revell's own website. Other than the tips of both tailpipes, I don't see any differences between any of the Tri-Five kits' exhaust systems, be it the '55 'vert, '57 210, '57 Bel Air hardtop, '56 Del Ray, '56 Nomad, or the '55 Bel AIr Hardtop. Even the two mounting points per side look to be the same, and in the same location on every version. This is for Steve G or for anyone else who personally looked and (and hopefully under) the '57 convertible Ed and Roger brought with them to the 2013 Toledo NNL, but did any of you get a peek at the underside?

It was a last second tack-on on the Monogram '55 Bel Air convertible kit? I understand why the '57 'vert needs to be reworked. I was replying to James' comment about locating points for the convertible's X-brace, and my comments were based on having looked at all the instruction sheets for the various 1/25 Revell Tri-Five kits.

Yes.

That front end looks like 1:1 kitbashing. Wait, izzat 4WD?

To be crude, it looks like the brace just plops down in place over (well, under) the exhaust pipes, with no definitive locating pins, just the frame outrigger brackets as points of reference.