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Awesome for RM, and us. I was sad they were only doing old truck from '10-11. Delighted they're doing the '16. Awesome trucks. See a bunch daily, friends have them. Great offroad. On Sale June per Ford site above. Woot!

Art, didn't you cast an MGB-GT coupe for the Aoshima? I'm old, and bought Duesies and Fords, but I recall that towards end. Hope you're good. L

See my post above username from annoying yet useful auction site. I was relaying my experience as a buyer and builder. Mods usually great with this, you never know with some awesome ideas and poor kits. These are awesome kits of obscure cars that are far better than some of my stupid expensive resin.

Fleabay crazycar19. Has early Ferrari F1's, championship cars Hill 61 sharknose, Surtees 64, 625, 375F1, 246 F1, 375Plus 54LM, 61 and 62 LM winning TR's, Auto Union D, Surtees Matra, Brabham Cooper F1, W163 F1, MB streamliner, Campbell streamliner (not Babs, I forget name), 906, Alfa pre-wars,... I've got about 6,7 kits. Kind of Fisher-like, a bit more engine details. I'm flipping my Jouel 158 and my 156 from whomever. His stuff is a lot easier to build, actually has more details in some ways. Clean castings, again, a lot like Fisher's. Wires are awesome. usually $150-160, 20 ship from Portugal, fast, worth every dime. I've paid hundreds more (156, 158, KR 375) and gotten far less. From what I can tell jb, we like a lot of same stuff. Better than Scalecraft and doing kits few have done, far cheaper. Price fair, not much an issue for me luckily, but really fair for what you get. L

I've got a bunch of his stuff, all very well done, great to deal with. Really nice kits. I've spent far more for far less. His Auto Union D and 375 Plus '54 LM winner are great. Some parts simplified/cast together, but they're really buildable. I'm 906 fan (bugged him to do 910), and the langheck is nice. Nice man too.

#2 black GT40 Mk2 #1046 LM winner by yards. Here's winner and rest of entries of GT's for factory. More in rest of field. Huge photo, click on it for details.

Rather have a freshly restored 57, than a new 1500. Small window cab, a fave. Poor truck needs some work, but can't get more honest than that. Cool.

You deserve a nice car like that Bill, stuck in a Saturn, time to bust loose. Great wheels, lots of reasonable aftermarket stuff too, http://www.ridergraphix.com/challenger.html for a start. Pretty reasonable, probably more out there than this quickie search I'd seen. Good luck, enjoy in health. Good start to 2015.

It was Cerberus http://www.cerberuscapital.com/investment_strategies/control_and_non-control_private_equity_investments/companies Daimler Benz gave Chrysler the E platform, which the 300/Challenger/Charger series was originally based on. Saved the lousy products they had flailed along with. Daimler Benz built better Jeeps than Jeep did. G-wagen is from '84, and is still an amazing vehicle, as are Unimogs. Fiat using Alfa and Lancia chassis under new Dart and 200. The old 200 and the convertibles had chassis flex so badly they were nearly impossible to fix on a frame machine. Absolute messes. The largest capitalized US companies are energy, and tech. Apple is #1 most valuable company in the world. Ideas. Not manufacturing. They make their stuff all over the globe, much in China. Hard line phones are dead. Typewriters dead. Mail dying. CD's dead. DVD's sliding. Film? What's that? Cameras? tiny market share. Sorry Toto, it ain't Kansas anymore. Evolve or perish. Unions, insurance costs, and liability issues (what killed general aviation, or at least close). GM, Chrysler poorly managed for years, accountants shaved pennies and caused garbage to be built. Ford has done well, still a basically US company, with huge international basis. GM sells Volt for 40k, they don't sell. Hey, lets sell same car rebadged as Cadillac for $75k!!!. Cannot. Give. Away. Who are these people making decisions like that? I agree about jobs issue with Americans. But there's no correlation with education, school debt, and earning power. Entitlement, 50% college grads moving in with parents, PACS, and legislative branch that doesn't understand government is based on compromise, not petulant bickering.

Mine's good but not that nice. I'd trade for that body. Mine had bed rail holes, no tire marks, painted and stripped. Dunno if you'd play but PM me. I need to dig mine out but it was nice enough for me to own and pass on many others. I think I started repair on bed rail holes but don't recall. I planned dead stock except wheels

Huge companies have been doing business in China for 30 yrs +. Rarely happens. Same stuff happens here, everywhere. Bad guys screw up, anybody doing business with them is hosed. Gummint uses big hammer, not fine scalpel. They don't care whose stuff it is, it's on premises and is suspect and part of case, period. IRS operates EXACTLY the same way, as does every tax service on planet. See Bernie Madoff et al. cr@p works, but rude. Filter actually not bad, hear more on news and network than in some PG13 or R films.

Cool. I spotted both in your workbench pictures in other thread. Great kits, Supra's rock. Great scores,

My favorite side box art ever. Built Kiln Red 32 with Duvall, this stance, and dropped bar. Awesome, still looks contemporary for most part

Fantastic. Need Chapron decapotable and Safari too, but handstands appropriate for the sedan. SM would be wish, but I like the line of basic 50-60's French cars. You guys may like this reference page on design work of the Goddess. http://www.citroenet.org.uk/passenger-cars/michelin/ds/02.html Here's pic of test shot so people can see what we're drooling over

On the upside, the green putty and enamel has a chance to dry!

Great builds. You guys made it thru weather, danger, PITA landlords, and came out better for it. Never give up, and hope you never have more. Strong work, great model room. You guys deserve it. Happy Holidays.

Cool, and he's not even in US. Nice stash

Again you're using words "perfect" when the issues are "incorrect". Noticeably wrong. Requiring correction. Not right. Non-prototypic. Screwed up. Your implication that man can't make anything "perfect" implies god can make perfect kits? Wow. Didn't know he was doing kits! Cool. Here's nice thread that some of you participated in waaay back in August. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92643&hl=+57%20+belair%20+convertible&page=2 Pictures of the 57 Bel-Air convertible door, the 62 Bel-Air bubbletop issue, and conveniently, fixes by John Goschke. Key issue understood in thread is new tools shouldn't need correction on basic elements of design. Most visible part of convertible? Body lines around interior with top down. 57 years of photos of every angle, every nuance and curve. In case of '62, only 52 years. If you deal with one guy, send him pics of these elements that they actually got correct on other bodies 57 Bel-Air snap coupe, and original bubbletop 61 Pontiac and Buicks, and say "this" Most problems with kits are fixable if you have right skills. But why fix basic things when it should be better? You pay for lunch order that's wrong? Put new tires on and not balance them? Spend hours on a great paint job and paint hood shut/leave mold lines in? No. None of the "I know you are but what am I?" games. Moebius is good company. Gets it right, or fixes after fact what gets by. Mr. M told us why, and doesn't know why others can't do it. I'm willing to say it's like Microsoft. You've got good product managers and poor ones. Other issue I see is trusting one guy's understanding of English to ensure entire production run done right. If he's as incapable of noticing error as some others here, the project is screwed. Lighten up it's a holiday. Can't teach people to see things that aren't correct (note, did not say "not perfect"). People are treating this like a Jew coming on here and saying they didn't like bacon...wait, no, that's not right

Chinese officials confiscated tools and stock of company that built them. Both companies SOL.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah last week, and Blessed Festivus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus) for the rest of us!

Both the Daytona Transport and Ramchargers rail were MPC tools. Great kits, both. They have both tools, never thought I'd see Transporter re-issued. I've got originals, builders, and re-issues of both. Be great to see this boxing.

Sorry I misspelled Mr. Metzners name in one post, a typo, but I don't know him personally, and really think he deserves a Mr. Harry, you're correct about costs. The salaries here are higher, but it's the associated administrative, tax, insurance, liability, and medical that kill us for competitveness, If we could get great prototypes made, "pilot production" of resin, or 3D in combo with resin, or renshape equivalent, that may work?

I always thought this one was cool.

Just found this pic, big difference in length. more ref's at link. http://www.c-we.com/piranha/page4.htm