Brett Barrow

They're private label reboxings of various existing kits just like Model King and other companies do or have done. They started with AMT kits, but since Round2 has stopped doing private-label reboxings, DTR's recent ones have been Revell or ex-Monogram kits. I think they've done some Lindberg kits as well. Some of their older AMT reboxes (their 32 Ford jalopies come to mind) were just straight reissues with a DTR decal sheet and a instruction sheet with a list of Evergreen styrene strips and Fred's Resin Workshop parts to buy that would be needed to convert it to an actual jalopy race car. The other kits were actual kits of modifieds or sprint cars.

Looks great! Personally, I'd change the passenger's side front wheel to something different, if you have something the right size. You can say the accident that damaged the original fender and hood would have bent the wheel as well.

Probably November. No official date from Revell yet.

US Customs has a pile of em! Should be hitting shelves as soon as they're done doing whatever it is that they do with them...

Tired of re-typing these every month, so I just blanked out the stuff the public doesn't need to see. Revell's official release schedule, only thing that matters when it comes to release dates. Untill it's confirmed on one of these, it's not official... Note that August and September are still tentative.

The Foose 64 Impala has been bumped back to August. And add the US boxing of Revell Germany's new-tool Mini Cooper 998 Mk1 to July's slate.

It's going to happen. Round2's purchase of Lindberg caused some shuffling of dates on upcoming AMT and MPC items. This kit needs a lot of restoration work, possibly the most of any Round2 restoration-reissue done to date.

Won't be clear, but they are doing a white and a light blue boxing, modeler's choice...

I have a friend who brush paints everything due to severe allergies. He's capable of just about anything with a brush. But it takes him a lot longer to do it, and it took him way more practice to get to the level he's at. (He's a professional model maker, he now primarily does master patterns for resin companies, but used to do lots of commission builds of various subjects) Here's an example of what he's capable of with a brush (not car-related)... http://paulkeefesblog.blogspot.com/p/kv-i-eckranami.html

CSX2287, the prototype Daytona Coupe, is just a few miles away from me at the Simeone Museum in Philadelphia.

It'll be in the normal square box, no art print in this one.

He was deprived as a child...

They've been offering these for several years now, ever since they did the 1/35 scale kit of the JGSDF LAV (that's the vehicle shown on the bottom of the cans). They're used in JGSDF ratiions, I guess they must just stick a Tamiya label on them. They sell them in their little store/cafe at their corporate HQ in Shizuoka.

You replied as I was typing mine. I was looking more at the items on the bottom of the front axle sprue thinking they were 2bbl carbs, but it's more likely they're siamesed injectors for the SBC

On the bottom of the sprue with the front axle and the chevy pipes are what appear to be 4 2bbl carbs. Or they could be (probably more likely now that I think about it) siamesed injectors for the Chevy. So it might be 2 injected set ups and one blown. All Revell said was "3 intake systems", in fact everything in that line I wrote that isn't in parentheses is cut and pasted directly from the e-mail message.

I hope Longbox55 doesn't mind, but I took the original photo from his Photobucket and cropped it into sections for the different sprues to make it a little easier to see the building options. According to Revell (with my additional comments in parentheses), it will have: A small-block Chevy and an early Hemi, 3 exhaust styles, 3 intake systems (definitely 1 injected and 1 blown with what looks like a possible "Man-A-Fre" style 4 x 2bbl set up?), 3 body styles (open dragster, streamliner, and competition coupe), driver figure(neat!), 2 front wheel styles (wires and 12 spoke mags, with 5-spoke mags for the back).

It's tricky. I basically got rid of all the kit's posts and alignment aids, trued up all the mating surfaces with a large file and let the kit go together in a way that the visible seams were minimized, not the way the alignment tabs and posts wanted it to go together. instead of following the directions, which would have you build the main hull and front "head" part as two separate assemblies and bring them together at the end, I built the hull up in full-length top and bottom halves, with the "head" attached to the upper hull, and the lower "jaw" attached to the bottom. The PE is from Paragrafix' small set of just the "museum" windows and nameplates. They also offer a couple of larger full-blown PE detail sets as well. http://paragrafix.biz/product_detail.asp?MainCat=Photoetch&SubCat=blank&PPartNum=PGX137 http://paragrafix.biz/product_detail.asp?MainCat=Photoetch&SubCat=blank&PPartNum=PGX133 http://paragrafix.biz/product_detail.asp?MainCat=Photoetch&SubCat=blank&PPartNum=PGX138

I don't want to seem like a spoiled brat who takes his ball and goes home, so I'm reopening the thread. Please, proceed...

I must admit I'm not a fan of the show (never watched a minute of it), but I am a fan of the models! Started painting it the other day, didn't like the way the color was turning out (too blue), so it'll be painted a more neutral gray. Going to be using the Acreation deluxe decal set on it, it's a pretty daunting task ahead of me (three full 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of decals), but I like decaling so it shouldn't be too bad.

The manufacturers "butter my bread"?!?! We have to buy the products from the manufacturers before we sell them!!!! We don't cash checks from the manufacturers, we write checks to the manufacturers... Again, I'll point it out - I started this thread, I'm exited about this technology and what it can bring to the industry, from both a consumer's perspective and what it can do for the product development side. 3D printing will supplement plastic modeling, not supplant it, that's all I'm saying. You're saying it will, I'm saying it won't. But don't get up here and accuse me of basically being a shill for the manufacturers, because I'm not. You seem to take way too many contrarian positions for a moderator, I'm starting to think that maybe your role on this board might be better off as just a simple member and not as a moderator. When folks start piling on those with differing opinions, you're often right smack dab in the middle of it, leading the mob. You know what, I'm going to lock this thread, if you or anyone else wants to continue the discussion, you can start a new one, or dredge up an old one, but I've wasted enough keystrokes as it is, I'm done with this one.

i don't derive my income from the industry as it exists today - I derive my income from knowing John Q Modeler and how he chooses to spend his hobby dollars. Revell, AMT, Tamiya, Moebius, etc... don't pay me to sell their products, John Q. Modeler pays me because I have the products he wants to buy. If John Q Modeler wants to buy 3D printers and downloadable models, then I'll be selling 3D printers and downloadable models...

You know how many times I've heard that the industry is going to change just in the short time I've been involved in it? Acrylic paints were going to kill enamel paints. They didn't. Die-casts were going to eliminate kits. They didn't. Snap kits were going to become the norm and eliminate glue kits. They didn't. Super-accurate enthusiast-oriented kits were going to take over. They didn't. Pre-painted kits were going to get rid of unpainted kits. They didn't. Video games were going to kill modeling. They didn't. The internet was going to kill modeling. It didn't (If anything it made it bigger). Losing the big-box stores was going to kill the model industry. It didn't (if anything it made it better). Look , I deal in reality every day, I have no choice but to deal in reality. I've seen scores of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of John Q. Modeler's dollars worth of reality move through the doors of the businesses I've worked for the past 12 years. I've learned a lot about reality (and John Q. Modeler) over those years. Give me a little bit of credit here, this is what I do for a living. The industry isn't the same as it was in the summer of 2001 when I started in it, and I'm sure it won't be the same in 2021. I'm not all about keeping the status quo or else I wouldn't have just taken a new job in e-tail less than a month ago. Also, how is it that you say the industry is going to totally embrace this new technology and give up its way of doing things, but yet you say that the industry only cares about keeping the status quo? Seriously, you're always the head cheerleader on any of these 3D printing threads, so much so that I'm starting to think you might have a vested interest in MakerBot or some company that is trying to market at-home 3D printers... Remember, there was a time when lots of folks, including many inside the industry, thought that this was going to be the future of modeling. Revell lost $7 million on this escapade alone, and there were many other money losing ventures along the way...

"anything that challenges that way of doing business is obviously not going to get the open arms treatment from you" - I started this freakin' thread!!! I'm ready to embrace it, baby, with arms wide open!!!! Seriously, I gotta get more Cosby GIFs... And people in the industry tend to defend the industry, not because of a "don't bite the hand that feeds you" mentality, but because we know the industry and the realities of the industry in a way that those outside the industry will never understand.

We'll just have to agree to disagree then. But, as I said above, I've been selling these things for the past 12 years, in brick-and-mortar shops, at wholesale, and now (for the last few weeks) for a large hobby e-tailer. I continue to learn something new everyday about the psyche of the average hobby consumer. I will tell you that this forum and its members do not, in any way, shape, or form, resemble the average hobby consumer, so this might not be the best cross-section to present these opinions to. I think there might be some differing opinions out there. But hey, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.