Brett Barrow

Just peeked at one at work. Looks good. A little flash on a couple of parts, nothing major. Chrome sprue is flash free. The chopped roof is just a larger roof panel with just a little bit of C-pillar attached. You might need to cut and section it to make it a little smaller for an intermediate chop.

I have no doubt there will be an RS version. I'm holding out for one because I like it so much better...

I've always felt that Alclad looks more "in scale" than kit chrome. Like all things in this hobby, it takes practice.

Yeah, we've been seeing the advancements of 3D printing used for resin masters in aircraft and armor circles for several years, just not that much yet in auto modeling. Fireball Modelworks is the only one I can think of. Imagine if Rep & Min Co or Modelhaus got on board with this stuff? We'd be in heaven. My view is that we'll just have finely detailed stuff printed on commercial machines and then shipped to us, rather like how Shapeways does it now, it'll just get more and more commonplace (and cheaper). The work is in the 3D files, the printing is the (relatively) easy part. Now those Silhouette cutters have me fascinated, I'd love to get one of those to cut styrene sheet. If I had the money today, I'd have one. Need to save some shekles. Christmas is coming up, in case anyone was wondering what I'd like...

Extrusion-type, so it's probably not going to be good enough resolution for scale modelers' needs. But they'll get better and cheaper. I personally don't think we'll ever get a home office desktop machine good enough for 1/25th scale, but we'll see. I could be wrong.

I bet it's opposite the spot where the the plastic enters the mold. They put them on the inside now, usually on the door.

49 Mercury has wide whites. 62 Bel Air Northwind has narrow Have to be careful as some of the new reissues with "pad-printed tires" have the old solid Firestone Supremes and not the Parts Pack tires. .

I've built a bunch for Make 'n Takes. The kids had a few problems that needed my attention, mainly with the interior and pressing the axles into the wheels all the way. the new Mustang is so easy you can hand it to them and walk away and they'll figure it out. The rest of the Snap-tite line needs a little supervision the first time they build one.

A lot of good kits came out of the 90's. But the model companies were being run (into the ground) by toy companies and were beholden to WalMart and the big-box stores when it came to subject matter. Glad that is over.

Original Monogram Pro Modeler: Then came the Cobra Cobra reissue: New Revell Streetburner, the first "corrected" version:

If anything, computers, the internet, message boards and Facebook have caused an explosion in modeling over the past few years. Just look at the number of Facebook modeling groups. Look at the successful modeling product businesses that have sprang up from well-known modelers' on-line prescience. An airplane modeling board I also participate on, Hyperscale's main "Plane Talking" board just had its largest number of page views ever in a month, 2.5 million in this past August 2014, and it's been around since 1999. All I know is this hobby is in better shape now, in 2014, than it was when I started in the business, in 2001. Will it ever be the 60's or the 90's again? Probably not, but that's not a bad thing.

No. It's a picture from the makers of the app's website (as I said in the post.) I thought I was clear from what I wrote, I guess not clear enough.

How about we just don't call anybody names?

With a can of Clearview 2000 you can make any kit a clear kit!

Decant it, let the flake settle, then draw off the liquid with a pipette. You can suck up a little flake if you want it. I used to do it with Testors Metallics to get transparent candy colors back in the day.

They got it from folks at iHobby when they showed the STL mockups, too. I think it would have been fixed whether they had shown it on the boards or not. And it still has some funkiness going on, the C pillars are thin and the roof kinda ramps up in the back. They made it better, though. Moebius has given us a little Inside Baseball look at the kit development process, but it looks like they're not really going to be doing that anymore, at least that's the gist I got from some things Dave has said, particularly in the Ford pickup thread. I think they're learning why the other companies keep things under wraps until they're a little further along.

It's a rather nice solid dark green. I guess Fathom Green was what they were aiming for. It's one of the "dual color" kits that Round2 offers in both white and a color. My personal copy is white, but the one we have at the shop is green. I cracked it open and snapped a quick pic. Make sure you get kit #855, that's the green one.

Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner Deep & deeper Cragars from the Baldwin Motion 70 Camaro (with those great Mickey Thompsons) Vectors from the General Lee or Eckler Corvette Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner Keystone Mags (40 Ford SD and others) Buick Wires mentioned above (also in the Silhouette) Chrome reverse with baby moons from 49 Merc Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner Chrome reverse from 36 Ford (hey they're already on their own little mini-sprue!) Americans from 62 Bel Air (plated - or better ones from another kit) Slot mags (help me out, which kits have a decent set?) Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner Astro Supremes from 60 Ford Starliner

Round2/AMT 70 Camaro Baldwin Motion

The 3 year old just wanted to see the paper had published her letter to the editor regarding the new city comptroller.

Hmmm... wonder if Revell knows about this? Image from Monzo website:

Same people now, Round2 bought the companies outright in 2011. From 2008 they were licensors of the brand names, but didn't physically own the tooling. MPC has been the Dukes' company from the start so it makes sense to make it an MPC kit. Could be a licensing thing, too, that only MPC has the license to do DoH kits.

Corporations are people too, my friend... And no, no one has ever called me an idiot that I know of. I kinda like it better if the companies lurk and don't post. You know you're getting it honest. Sometimes those Moebius threads can turn into a love fest. Takes a lot of guts to stand up and say something looks wrong (like the side windows in the Ford pickup) instead of blowing smoke like the rest. I don't see where the animosity comes from when they screw something up. We should be thanking them they just saved us $20 on a model we now don't have to buy!

Here's the test shot they had at iHobby several years ago ( '07?) I didn't see it, but those I talked to that did said it was pretty bad. Conceived as a diecast, but converted to plastic. Donk only, no stock version, engine molded into underhood insert. Was a carryover from the old ownership, I don't get the feeling the current ownership wants anything to do with it. I think they'd rather put the Donk era behind them

Ok, that's what I thought, just making sure you didn't mean the 67 was related to the 69!