Junkman

There you can clearly see the Lotus DNA. Very nice build, btw.

Forty hard earned greenbacks on top of the kit price. I'd prefer them tooling it.

[anorak mode] Kelsey Hayes never was a supplier to Chrysler Corp. The wire wheels used on old Chryslers were supplied by the (now defunct) Motor Wheel Company and are stamped accordingly. However, since MCW went out of business, Kelsey Hayes makes copies for the restorers and this might be the reason why many people assume they were the original supplier, too. [/anorak mode]

If you mean the Exterminator, it's one of the the most mind-boggling kits ever made. Try to adapt the body for the two-engine setup and get yourself four resin Hemi heads.

He is thinking that every day 12 complete idiots walk by his house and he only has to catch one of them. I guess he is right.

I just got quoted $53.00 for sending one (ONE!) vintage 1:25 AMT kit from NJ to England. Interestingly, my usual kit dealer in the US does it for $12.00. For 53 bucks, he'd send me a box with 10 or so standard sized kits.

How about another slight re-tool into a four door?

If you build a lot of replica stock models, like me, originality is out of the window on a general principle.

I find it looks a tad tacked on on the Mustangs. The design would be much more integral, if they'd moved the B-pillar forward to the door opening, then used a single pane of glass for the rear side window.

It depends on the kit really. Some of them are so nice, that I can browse for hours. I inspect each and every part on each frame, study the instructions, admire the decals, the box art, I can spend hours just doing that. Then I repack everything, carefully wrapping the frames in tissue, or putting them individually into freezer bags, figure out how they go back into the box so they all fit in snugly, pure joy.

There also was a Miami Vice issue.

I for one said from the very beginning they can keep their riff-raff pre-fab custom stuff. Their only surprise attack the past ten or so years is the Routemaster, courtesy of the AG. But then they spoiled it all by releasing newly tooled subjects that have been in the Tamiya catalogue for decades. What an epic waste. If they'd just listen.

"Revell" and "listening" just doesn't go into one sentence. Revell is part of the model kit industry and they only get creative when they tell you the reasons for not selling you something.

Since when are kits for kids? Let them kids play with their stupid shiny stuff from China and leave the kits to people who know what to do with them.

Well, if it's between 1/16 and 1/20, it may go well behind a 1/18 diecast. I still wish they'd reissue it.

Yep, the Union Renault 16 is a repop of the Heller. Entirely btw. the Renault 16 is not an ugly car.

Really? I never knew he designed the '61 Imperial.

Too bad. Now you can keep your house.

Planet Earth is a disc. And the Sun is circling around it.

The kit is totally decent and would build into a very plausible model, if you regard it as a curbside. It's a 1965-68 Nissan Cedric 130.

I would make an inventory of the existing moulds and release everything that can be released over the shortest period of time (Spot Production). And I would bring production back from China.

I never said this, OK? But that 'void' contains more interesting stuff than New York City.

Maybe not that rare, but very obscure nonetheless. Apparently they never hit the shelves of the toy or hobby trade, so not too many modellers know about it. It is my understanding that they were either available by mailorder from the laundry soap company that used the borax, or in a handful museum and gift shops in or around Death Valley, that's it. As I said, the only place I ever saw them was in the gift shop at Scotty's Castle. Oh, and there is a life-sized model at the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Boron, California: This should give you an idea of what a model mule could look like.

Something I regret deeply. The 1:67 scale 20 Mule Team kit has been produced since 1958 and AFAIK is still being made! They are (were?) sold in the gift shop at Scotty's Castle. And believe it or not, I passed on it when I was there.

That Sankyo Mokei Nissan is kit no. 13. I would really like to know what kits 1 to 12 were...