Brett Barrow

It's not a Charger 500 window.

Wait, you've got Ed's email, but you'll post something Frank tells you second hand instead of getting it straight from the source? SMH...

Pretty sure they did one this year, Boss 302 and Stearman Biplane on the cover. Most Japanese companies still do them because they sell them over there (but I'm sure they send a few out gratis). American ones were always free. Squadron was the last mail-order company like us I know that was doing one, but they changed it to a subscription "magazine" with added articles and stuff earlier this year. It's like $15 a year now.

Revell included die cut masks in one their recent airplane kits, the RAF Ventura. They were produced by Eduard. Maybe suggest it on their Facebook page.

Not acting doesn't mean they ignore it. Like this gem I saw from a member here when Revell's Datsun 510 BRE was reissued: "I told Revell they should do a stock-bodied Datsun 510, but they didn't so I guess that means they don't care" No, sorry, that doesn't mean they don't listen or don't care, it means that they don't think it's a financially viable to do at this time. It's not something they see an ROI on. They're not running a charity, their goal isn't to make 100% of modelers happy while losing money in the process. I saw Ed Sexton at IPMS Nats in Virginia Beach last month. They had a test shot of the new Starsky and Hutch Torino on the table. The first thing Ed says to me is "70 with a white stripe, huh? Where did they come up with that?" and smiles... I must get 3 or 4 people a week tell me that my company should do a printed catalog. But the costs associated with doing a printed catalog would outweigh the additional revenue we'd make from catalog sales. We'd lose money. We're not going to do a catalog. I hear them, I'm not ignoring them, but I can't make the numbers work.

In our parking lot about 5 minutes ago. Ferrari FF (with 2 child seats in the back )

Some crappy cell phone pics through the plastic. I don't plan on buying this one just yet, so I didn't take it out of the baggies. Hopefully these are good enough to tide y'all over until someone can get some better pics. I couldn't get a good picture of it, but I like how the grille is broken down with separate black grille inserts.

You forgot the instruction sheet. See the stink raised when Revell accidentally put an illustration of a 59 Corvette on the sheet for their 58 kit: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89812&p=1186166

Sam Phillips sold the recordings to Chess Records, the ones featuring Ike on vocals were credited correctly, but the ones with Brenston were given the fictitious name, I suppose it was to differentiate the two vocalists. As someone who has seen What's Love Got To Do With It, I can imagine Ike was not pleased...

I made a mistake, Cadillac Boogie was a song already in the band's repertoire, it wasnt written by Brenston, it was written by Jimmy Liggins. I think Rocket 88 gets credited as the first Rock n Roll song due to the recording and arrangement - the amplified guitar, Brenston's vocal style, Ike's piano riffs, etc...

An overnight soak in 91% alcohol stripped it clean.

Let Revell know you want to see an unpainted version with decals. Ed Sexton is pushing for it, but it's not his decision to make. Let the bosses and bigwigs know you want to see it!

Didn't buy one, just opened one up at work.

Nope. I'm about ready to measure some twenty year old scotch after this thread.

SAY WHAT!?!?!? It's the OLD tires he's been talking about this whole time?!?!? ->

I don't have a problem with you, I was just trying to inject a little humor into the conversation. That's my style. Sometimes I forget this model car thing is serious business. Using your Goodyear 1:1 measurements and Steven's AMT measurements- L60's - should be 1.12" dia and .485" wide. They measure 1.12" dia and .420" wide, a difference of .065", or 1.625" in real life. (as I noted before, Goodyear's L60 was wider than the "standard" L-60. AMT will be using these tires with other brand markings in the future. I know this because one of them was my idea .) F60's should be 1.050 and .369" wide. They measure 1.028" and .354, a difference of .022" and .015", .55" and .375" in real life. If you honestly think this discrepancy is enough to warrant Round2 spending thousands of dollars to retool them, then I'll gladly send an email to AMT brand manager John Greczula on your behalf. I'm sure he'll read it.

Guess what? Kit has the Confederate flag, on both waterslide and peel n' stick sheets. Nice looking kit except for the funky wheels.

"Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats" existed in name only on the label for Rocket 88 and one other song he sang lead on. The band was in reality Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. Brenston played saxophone in the band. He wrote the song, changing the lyrics from his earlier "Cadilliac Boogie", which I don't believe was ever recorded.

I was sure that songs about cars were as old as cars themselves, I just didn't know any that old. Any others you guys can think of prior to the rock n roll era?

The poll from the other day about the hot rod songs got me thinking - What was the first "pop" song written about cars? I mentioned Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88" from 1951, which was recorded by Sam Phillips before he started Sun Records and I've heard several sources claim that this song and the others from that recording session were the original Rock 'n Roll songs. http://youtu.be/Gbfnh1oVTk0 Then there's legendary bluesman Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" from 1936, obviously the Terraplane in the song is a metaphor for Johnson's old lady, so it really isn't about cars, exactly... http://youtu.be/dloPrGI0EuY So what is the orginal song about cars? Can anybody come up with anything older than these 2? How do you embed YouTube videos here? I thought there was a button?

Any body made with multi-piece sliding molds is going to have mold lines, that's inevitable. These are as fine as any Japanese kit I've seen, much finer that typical Revell kits. As for the graphics and colors in these, I don't know which kits you're thinking of with garish graphics, but these are factory stock colors and graphics, so blame Detroit if you don't like them.

So the L60's are spot on in diameter and a scale 1.5 narrow (but correct for "standard" L60 size - and I know that Round 2 has plans to reuse these tires with other brand markings) and the F60'a are a scale half an inch too small in diameter and width? Then you sir, have better eyes than I. I'll gladly trade you one pitchfork and torch (never lit) for any of these tires you currently have in your possession.

I know Frank from the hobby shop I work at, I also know how he's taken things Ed said out of context and told it to other people on this board because I was standing there when it happened (a conversation I had with Ed and Dave Metzner about the Meng F350 at NNL East that the only person within earshot was Frank and I later read members of this board post the line like they were standing there when it happened) so I wouldn't take what he says as gospel. I consider him a friend, sure, but I don't know that he and Ed actually talk back and forth. Anybody can walk up to Ed at a show and "talk" to him.

I know Ed too, we actually had a nice chat at IPMS Nats about the anti-Revell faction on MCM and all the words they've put into his mouth or statements that have been taken out of context. We got a good laugh over a few of them. He reads this stuff, trust me. He's never going to respond to it personally because that's not his style, but he reads it.

Not in 25th, but Moebius is doing a 6th scale Julie Newmar that should be out by end of the year.