T-Ray

You're right on that. I apologize for saying that as what I had written and what I meant were two different things. What I had meant to say was that there might be some interest for the accessories in the Police version, things like the light bar, cab divider, shotgun, etc. but the car in the kit itself would be inaccurate to a police spec Taurus. (Does anyone even make the parts necessary to convert the SHO into a base spec car?)

One kit that I'd like to see is the return of the Taurus SHO which was last issued in 2003? I think that there could be a decent case made for this kit to be reissued for three reasons; 1). People who want to build an unusual 1980s performance car/ Ford fans who will build anything Ford. 2). If they reissue all the police car bits, police modelers would purchase kits for that. 3). 1980s pop-culture is still in vogue and Robocop is still a popular and recognizable movie character, meaning that they could sell the kits to movie memorabilia collectors. Of course, all of this is dependent on whether or not the Taurus tooling still exists and if Round 2 has that tool.

Dang! I got my hopes up that it would all be the 1998+ style but I guess I'm happy enough with just the newer body.

I am definitely interested in that S10, the only question I have is if they updated the dashboard while they were updating the grill or if it is stuck with the 1997 (I think) and down dash style.

Funny thing is that General Motors themselves had a similar thought process. Except in that case, it was a Firebird with a Ferrari V12 stuffed into it. The Pontiac Pegasus, something I still find hard to believe was made.

I hope this is relevant. I'm making an assumption that the way Mattel makes Hot Wheels is applicable to model chrome.

If you have the URL, you can try the Internet Archive to see if they have a capture. Just give "Wayback Machine" a google

I can't help but wonder if the Stranger Things Blazer was scanned off a real truck, hence the differences between that and the Deserter. Maybe I'm wrong on that one. If that is how the industry is working these days, models become more and more exact could be an issue when kit bashing with older and less perfect models of the same car.

I'm building the same kit in coincidentally the same color as a Demolition Man Cutlass and I just have to say, WOW! I hope mine looks 1/10th as good as yours

On Explorers, it seems like the only people that made an Explorer in a scale that wasn't weird (I.E. 1/20) were AMT. They gave us not one but two second gen Explorers which may or may not be useful to the original poster's needs. Also, how did AMT justify having two toolings for a frankly boring SUV in their line-up?

Is there an archive out there somewhere of the old Street Rodder magazines with the Modeler's Corner section? Admittingly, I am just curious what was in them. Thanks

Hi, how do you do custom pinstriping? Let's take a Trans Am SE for example, the pinstripes that go all over the car are very thin on the 1:1 car and at 1:25 scale, they would be extremely tiny to paint on. The only way I could see doing it is if you had decals for the pinstripes but if you don't have those, I can't see any other way around it. That being said, how would you do this?

I can't help but feel like the primer should go with what's going on top of it. White primer for light colors, grey for darker ones. That's what I do anyway

I'm sorry for bumping an old thread but where did you get that Left hand drive Dash from? Thanks

Because of this thread, I fell down a rabbit hole of trying to find the "true" color of the Futura and frankly, I have no idea. My best guess is an extremely light green, almost white? Some pictures it looks white, others white with a little green, others are fully seafoam green. Also, unrelated to paint color, I realized how little George Barris changed from the Futura to the Batmobile. That being said, you probably could convert the Polar Lights Batmobile back into the Futura.. Only question would be what Ford to use for the chassis. Rambling aside, Car looks great!