Junkman

Wipe them with a moist melamine sponge. Then pack them in freezer bags together with a bit of coffee powder. After a few days, take them out and wash them with soap and water as normal.

'60 Buicks are just stunningly beautiful.

As long as the manufacturer backs up his products in the manner displayed, I have no reason to complain.

Yes, you do. They didn't charge a penny for the replacement DS body and the postage. All I had to pay for is the R4 body itself.

That A-bone will be the first kit in decades I will need a casepack of. Oh, and Revell can keep theirs.

Those of you who are lucky enough to still have a memory, will remember my rather twisted Christmas present. After having been staved off for quite some time by the European vendor and the importer, I took it up with EBBRO themselves. That was on the 25th. Today, this arrived: This was inside: One of those little boxes contained this: so that I now can ditch the damaged body. I also wanted the closed body (i.e. without sunroof) for my Renault 4. So they included one: and they only charged me for the part itself, they paid for the postage in full!

I want to imporove it. A lot. It's 1/18 scale by Maisto.

15 years is considered swift in the model car industry.

I didn't know about the '81 bankruptcy, but now I understand why AMT kits were so hard to obtain in early 80s Europe. Lesney never got it into full swing and the range was rather limited under their reign. I also remember, that the plastic they used often was of inferior quality, so the kits were sometimes unbuildable. A few of the tools ended up with ESCI at the time, I remember the 289 Cobra, and the '57 and '58 Chevies, as well as some of the 1/16 kits. The quality of those Italian issues was vastly superior to what Lesney deemed acceptable. I remember the following European companies having issued kits made from AMT tooling: Playcraft ('59 Buick and Lincoln) Heller ('68 Shelby Mustang, various 1/43 scale trucks) Frog ('68 Mustang and Galaxie) ESCI (289 Cobra, '57 and '58 Chevies, various 1/16 scale kits) There may have been more.

That '34 PU has been around the block a few times, hasn't it? Still at AMT, there were at least four issues before the one with Art's box art model. The oldest one I have is the "Street Rods" issue. The green one at the lower right is quite reminiscent of the Alexander Brothers' Grasshopper, which really was a '31 though.

Sweet!

Jo-Han, Jo-Han, rengtengtengteng. It's preposterous that there aren't more newly tooled kits of '57 - '62 Mopars.

This is so true. Also, the likelihood a kit gets reissued is directly proportional to the amount you just shelled out for a vintage original.

If it comes in the form of an AMT '66 Mustang, I'm suddenly - errr - two years of age again... In all seriousness though, when my godparents visited from that America, I must have been aged ten or so, they brought me a Cruising USA issue of that '66 'stang as a gift. Moulded in green. I still have it and you can imagine, that it holds a special place in my heart. I've built a few reissues in the meantime, most of them from the Countdown Series, then the blue Ertl ones. As with pretty much all of my builds, they ended up in friends' collections. Based on what I see in this thread, the kit has lost nothing of its old-timey charm, hence I'll do another one, while listening to some old Yussuf Islam records. How about box stock in Antique Bronze with a tan interior? Nostalgia, innitt?

Och the nostagia. The NOSTALGIA, peoples!

It wasn't me! I bought their stuff!

Nobody is fixating on any errors. A vintage kit has been reviewed. It is in the nature of a review to point out any errors.

Thanks! It's 1:24 scale. Who makes it is a bit of a mystery. It first was part of a series for the Italian motoring magazine Quattroruote. Then it was reissued as part of a magazine series for the "Centennario", Alfa's 100 year jubilee. The issue I have is marketed by a company called Leo Models. There have been several rumours as to who actually makes the models, but it says Made in China on the bottom. They actually look better in real life, than on the photos. I have quite a few of these 1:24 "magazine models". Should show them in the Diecast section, really, there is quite some interesting stuff available.

Metro 6R4. Saab 96.

Rather a curbside than none at all.

For the same reason BMW used used blocks to build their formula 1 engines back in the 80s.

Looks good. How did you achieve the lowering?

As Kerry stated, they have to be built to a very rigid rulebook, hence there is little room for actual development. It's entirely up to the teams how they get their car, they can build it from scratch, buy a turn key car, or anything in between. Make no mistake, despite they look old fashioned on paper, they are very sophisticated machines indeed.