Junkman

I'd say any fuselage era Mopar would do actually, but the Dodges were simply the finest expressions of the look.

Tutorial, please.

Probably not the most exciting rides, but in a metropolitan area by far the most intelligent ones.

Errr.... This links to a 1980s ghetto blaster: Not entirely inappropriate for a disco-age El Camino, but stil...

Let's continue to collect suggetions until Sunday evening. I will then publish the compiled list on Monday, so everybody can look it over and select his favourites. I will not include some wild customs posted in here of which the base models are already on the list. One can always customize a stock model, but one cannot build a stock model from a pre-fab custom. Oh, and then someone should probably start compiling a truck list. The concept of being enthusiastic about a light truck is completely lost on a European, so - with regret - I can't do it. And entirely btw., if Moebius hasn't got the message regarding the '51 Studebaker yet, then it's a lost cause anyway.

But it's a model.

Wrong bus. The one in Summer Holiday was an RT.

Sure, cheers. But before it happens, we must debate, because only debate will lead to reason in the end.

Once the list is complete, sobered up and discussed and debated, i.e. finished, I will email it to the model kit companies.

We will find out what is mentioned more often than not.

We should make a separate truck list, too. That's up to the Americans though. Being European, I have no concept of the truck scene.

Keep on going. However, I will not include stuff that merely needs reissuing. We are talking new tools, or heavily modified/amended existing tools only in this list. We could make a separate reissues wish list too, if you like.

Good old hangings, huh? Too bad they went out of fashion in this part of the world, always were great crack them... If you consider using a polishing kit dry, you will be done within a few minutes. They load up very quickly and they will never really clean out again. This is how I ruined my first one. Took all of 15 minutes.

I will include all suggestions you guys make into the list in the end. I'm really looking forward what the final list will look like.

I have an extensive collection of colour charts and sales brochures. I try to make my models 'typical' for their era and use old postcards or movie stills from www.imcdb.org for inspiration. Most of my models are modelled after some movie car, not necessarily the main protagonist's, but some background car I noticed and that grew on me. Sometimes I buy sales brochures or old postcards just for a specific project and sell them on when I'm done. I have a knack for turquoises and aquas and teals, so if a car was available in that sort of colour, I usually use it on my models. I also like greens and have a 76 Caprice in lime green metallic in the works. Something like this:

I cannot tell you guys how much I enjoy this debate. And how much can be gained from it. Hence I sat down in earnest and tried to make up a sensible list of subjects which I think would appeal to a lot of people. I started with the 30s and went through each decade. I tried to incorporate what people wrote in this thread, what my gut feelings are, and spiced it with a tad of my personal taste. Let's see whether I would make a good kit industry manager or not. 1930s: Chrysler Airflow 1937 Studebaker Coupe Express, followed by coupe and sedan. 1936 GM 'turret tops' Any late 30s Packard 1940s: Tucker Torpedo 1942-48 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon 1946 De Soto taxi 1941 Chevrolet Willys Jeepster, followed by a Station Wagon. early 1950s: Bullet Nose Studebaker 1951 Buick LeSabre show car 1950-53 Buick (for it's stunningly good looks and it gave us the side trim for our chopped 49-51 Mercurys) late 1950s: Any 'forward look' Mopar except the 58 'dere and 300C. Preferrably a 1957 DeSoto. New tool Chevy Nomad. 1957 Pontiac Bonneville. 1960s: 1969 Camaro in some obscure COPO version, most importantly with steelies and dog dishes (just kidding). Checker Cab. VW 1500 Squareback/Notchback/Fastback. VW T2 Baywindow. VW Karmann Typ 34. VW Kurierwagen Typ 181 (Thing, Tracker, whatever). 1969 Mercury X100. Jeep Wagoneer. 1970s: 1970 Chrysler 300 with separate bonnet and bootlid to allow for the Hurst version. 1971 Boattail Riv. 1974 Dodge Monaco (AND a '73! I insist!). Jeep Cherokee Chief. Plodgler Granfifthlomat. 1977-> Caprice. Ford full-sized Station Wagon (you gotta tow your gassers with something, right? Apart from that, DD anyone?). Rover P6 V8 (just kidding). 1980s: GM G-Body, preferrably an Olds, preferrably the last Hurst. Bustleback Seville. Chrysler LeBaron. 1990s: 1992-1997 Pontiac Bonneville SSE 2000s: Cadillac Sixteen concept car Chrysler Crossfire Cadillac XLR Chevrolet Malibu

Which reminds me... We need a school bus kit. And a Greyhound Scenicruiser while we are at it.

Yes, and by 1951 it was completely obsolete because Chrysler had sent King Kong to town. Yawn...

Oh it would be oh so nice. And it doesn't even have to be restricted to American subjects. Bugatti Atlantic anyone? That Voll & Ruhrbeck bodied Horch 853 that's a regular at Pebble Beach? A Saoutchik bodied Delahaye? Despite the huge interest in classic era cars, and the growing popularity of many concourses d' elegance, the model kit industry does what it does best. Ignore the whole thing. And then say: there is no money in it. We think we can make money by doing bugger all.

Speak for yourself. I for one don't own a single 57 Chevy or Mustang. I have zero interest in this overhyped mainstream riff raff. And as for Harry's post, no, I will not buy a model kit just because it is a new tool. They can keep their 53 Hudson and 50 Olds hippomobiles, which I find as exciting as fallen asleep feet. Don't get me wrong, there are loads of early Fifties American cars I find exciting, a few of which have been mentioned by others in this thread. There are also a lot of the recently anounced reissues I will buy, actually most of them. So there is your opinion, and here is mine.

We are excited about the prospect of getting new stuff and not the same warmed over worn out shoes we got the past 40 odd years.

Read: "I nicked a pair of them at work"

Oh, I'm fully aware of the diecasts, but I no longer collect 1:43 at all. And I fully second your list of 36 GMs. I said before that the kit industry should pick up where it left off in the early Seventies, but as you point out, they should also close the gap between the early Thirties and WWII. The 36 GMs certainly would be a good start and if they won't allow for badge engineering and spin offs, I don't know what would. We will also need the Packards from that period, and like Studebakers, those would cause no or very little licensing issues.

I didn't know they weren't going through the metal. Always thought that must have been some ugly bodies. Guess a lot of elderly people knock on the car and say 'that was still tin'.

I guess it's all about original box art this time around. Last time out, all those kits came in packaging void of any beauty, which is called 'modern', and were clearly aimed at the builders. Now they seem to come in the boxes some of us love to decorate the walls with. I think round2 is doing the right thing to target the builders' market with some of their releases and the collectors' market with others.