Junkman

You guys are incredible! Thank you so much for this info! I shall track down the first reissue.

I mustard mitt that the Simil'R kit looks the busness, but the Fujimi GT40 has so much character.

What a nice way to say it's naff. I wouldn't do it like this nowadays.

Some (Dennis Doty for one) say Revell called their's a '60 because AMT called their's a '59. On the very first issue, Revell correctly stated it as a '59.

I'm talking about this kit: Which I assume is the ex-MPC tool, correct? When exactly did it lose the correct front wheels? The front wheels in the kit are these: The correct ones are still shown in the instructions: Any idea which other readily available kit could be bashed for those? Or is there a resin caster who makes them?

Am I the only adult (well, actually I'm not an adult, but let's pretend I am) around here, who likes schnapps kits? I'd rather have seen the snap kit being rothized with a set of '57 Imperial wheels thrown in, than this afterbirth of a '57 Chevy kit being warmed up. If they'd then follow that up with a newly tooled '56 Ford Pickup snapper, in the same quality as most of Revell's later glueless offerings, I'd be tickled pink! Anyway, I'll order the Roth decal set from Department X, get me a set of 57 Imperial wheels from the Holthaus clan, and use the '57 snap kit.

This has been speculated, but there is no evidence. I suspect Heller cancelled their's because Record released one.

The Floride, the Matra, and this McLaren were never produced. The 512S, the Porsche, and the McLaren M7A were produced. Heller also announced an Almeras Bros. Porsche 930 Turbo, which never saw the light of day, but I can't find any picture right now. It was the same car ESCI released, so that's probably why they cancelled it. Back in the late 60s, Heller also announced a 1/24 Berliet Stradair, which would have been the correct transporter for the Matra. It may thus be no coincidence that it was nixed as well.

Is it released yet, is it released yet...

That Revell 1960 multipiece kit, which is really a 1959, yields a surprisingly nice model and is not difficult to build. Note brush painted incorrect colour scheme and missing instrument binnacle on this early work of mine. This was built from the Skip's Kandy Kiss kit back in the 80s. The wheel covers are from the AMT Riptide kit. Someone who contrary to me has some basic modelling skills, could actually make something nice out of this.

Are they going to release a Ranchero before I attack the wagon with a hacksaw, I wonder? '59 Caddy a straight reissue, huh? I wish they'd fan out the programme with different body styles/trim, like a Koop Devil, or a Fleetwood 60. Resin casters, are you reading this? Transporter trailer is a welcome reissue, considering them selling for mad prices on the bay of evilness. I shall use an AMT Mack as a tractor for mine.

Wasn't it Otis Spaulding who owns/owned the remaining Jo-Han assets? I wonder how there can be an issue with legal ownership. Apart from that, the '59 Dodge, and all other forward look Mopars, while we are at it, would deserve new tooling. It's soon 2015 and we are still tinkering around with tat, that has been obsolete for half a century, while at the same time we moan about da yoofs not getting into the hobby. Also, how about a 1960 onwards unibody? Wouldn't the 300F and G a logical progression for Moebius? They would yield the first useable unibody chassis in model kit history. Can you imagine how many I'd buy to pimp my old Jo-Hans?

Yes it is.

Click: http://www.modellautoausstellung.de/

AFAIK no. They did a lot of variations, some better, some worse, in the American Muscle series, but I can't recall ever having seen an Authentics.

This was built by my friend Robert Eiber from Feucht near Nürnberg.

This is a display built by my friend Günther Eberhardt from Munich, for an upcoming model show in Frankfurt.

I sold them a while ago, but I had original (1980s) issues of the Hemi Cuda in Moulin Rouge, and the AAR Cuda in Sub Lime. I couldn't really fault them on overall shape, but a bit of superdetailing would have gone a long way. I'll buy them again. They are still cheap and plentiful.

I placed a pre-order.

Model.

Besides, Ert's body shapes were generally spot on, with few exceptions. What they lacked a bit was fit and finish, nothing a few evenings of work couldn't rectify.

Yes, they did improve them. They are pretty much like the Ertl Authentics were.

This is well nice! How much are they?