Brett Barrow

That’s awesome, Pete and Rick started the company I currently work for, MegaHobby, and I never worked for them directly I did work alongside them for a bit during the transition to the current owners that I work for. They sold MegaHobby in 2013 to focus exclusively on Atlantis. They spent over a month down helping us transition here as we moved the company down from NY to NJ and taught us all the ropes of Internet retail which was something I had zero experience in. Pete knows, and I’m not exaggerating, where every piece of surviving vintage American model kit tooling is and who owns it and whether or not it’s still useable and if it is I guarantee you he’s trying to work out a deal to run it. I’m sure this is something they’ve been dreaming of for a while.

370Z Heritage Edition:

The way I understand it worked was the checkerboard kits were sold by the case assortment, so WalMart (or whatever big-box retailer) didn't call up and order X number of 57 Chevys and X number of 66 Mercurys, etc, they just ordered however many of these case assortments and the contents would be mixed with whatever AMT chose to offer in that run of kits

GSI Creos Mr. Procon Boy PS-290 LWA Trigger Type Airbrush, 0.5mm. Because I wanted a .5mm trigger type and it fit the bill. I have another Mr Hobby brush (the PS-270 .2mm Platinum) and it works great so I pulled the trigger (ha!) on this one and it's been great. I still use my Paasche H a ton, though, it was my large .5mm workhorse before I got the Mr Hobby one and now I use it primarily for primers and clears (with a different tip set than I use for primer)

To be fair we were just as in the dark as everybody up until about a week ago. Revell and Estes Rockets were really the two lone bright spots in the Hobbico empire and Estes was back up and running under new ownership very quickly so everybody figured the same would happen with Revell but it has taken a lot longer than I think anybody expected.

What it used to say in the description: What the new boxes will say:

No, it's this thing: A rebox of this:

Wow, they've expanded that far? They're based just a couple towns away from me here in South Jersey. I thought they were just a local east-coast chain

Think it's more likely the painter goofed and nobody noticed (or cared) for 50 years.

Aw, man, I just sharpened my pitchfork for nuthin'.

Swim... Swensen... Swanson... SAMSONITE!!! I was way off!

That's what I get for counting the sets of runners! Thanks for the correction.

The other version of this was a ridiculously 90's Street Machine with Viper GTS wheels and V-10 engine style intake. I don't know if it's possible to run this kit as a 2 n 1 some of the other kits of that era like the 41 Ford Woody were designed to only be ran one way or the other.

Tamiya PS-27 Fluorescent Yellow over white primer then clearcoated.

The carbs in the kit look pretty good they have detail if you leave the aircleaners off. They reminded me a lot of the Starliner carbs when I first saw them.

Buy it when you see it because it might not be there tomorrow is my motto. Unfortunately I didn't get a Foose FD-100 when I had the chance and I'm not paying $70 on eBay. Heck, I don't pay retail anyway

I know the CEO/president/whatever his title is is the same but I'm drawing a blank on his name. I keep wanting to say John Podesta but I know that's not it What we've heard is they've hired a bunch of the old folks for the new company. They couldn't continue operations with the old company because all money taken in a bankruptcy sale has to go to creditors so they wouldn't have been able to pay salaries.

The plan was to do them all (the 289's).

From what I've heard the Academy kit would have been the project AccMin had started.

One. Only one.

Early Funny Cars were pretty much strictly match racers. I don't think NHRA even had them as a class until 66 or 67 maybe AHRA did before that but most of the real odd ones (like Piranha) were match racers.

The Revell one is actually the Wave/Hand & Head one, the Squadron one is different.

I get what you mean but remember Revell Germany doesn’t own Revell, a German investment group owns both and from the looks of it they’ve pretty much left the same people in place on both sides so I don’t expect a lot to change. The whole flying saucer deal was because they had presented its history as fact like the the Nazis had actually developed the technology and were working on it like it was real. Plus it was a rebox (the same kit Squadron edit: Wave/Head & Hand not Squadron has been selling for a few years so it wasn’t like they had sunk a whole bunch into its development) Rommel's Rod is much more whimsical I don’t think anybody would take it seriously.

Binney & Smith (Crayola) era kit. Pretty sure they brought the Beer Wagon back as the Beer Wagon more recently, right?