Carmak

I sent you a message. I think I have a spare set.

About 5 years ago when the exchange rate was good, I made an order of 7 or 8 kits from Plaza Japan. There was a sweet spot where the shipping was lowest per kit. They had some kits on clarence that were what I was looking for so that also lowered the total cost. The shipment took months to receive but was a great surprise when it arrived. Well packaged and no damage.

I just want to give you credit. Six years ago, you speculated the Mach Won tooling could still survive as it was reissued after the early 70's tooling purge and YOU NAILED IT! Well done. So glad you were right

This is great news. Hobby Lobby is hopefully going to get 8 new models!

Really good high detail scanners that are needed to scan a model car (to clearly render a grille pattern or emblem for example) are still fairly specialized and fairly expensive. My company makes medical devices of roughly the same size as model cars. We have a 2 year old mid range scanner ($30k) and it can not scan sharp inside corners like where a door handle meets the door, it puts in an inside round of 0.040"-0.060". Last fall a company did a demo scan for us using a higher range scanner ($250k) and the inside rounds got down to 0.020"-0.030". The actual inside round on the part scanned was 0.010". I think even the $250K scanner would would be challenged to correctly render a fine mesh grille of a model car grille. I suspect Round2 is using a fairly high quality scanner to get the basic shapes and is using a fair amount of CAD work to fix/repair the scan. A possible example of this is the fender mounted turn signal indicators on the 68 Coronet kits. I suspect these features did not scan clean and they were removed and added back using cad. If you compare and original issue and the modern clone the signal indicators are in different locations. I agree with many other that scanning and printing are at early stages of development. The goal of scanning and printing a model car probably will be reached but I am not sure we are quite there for people with real world budgets.

Very cool! Definitely captures the look. Realistically a 70 GTO with a 72 front clip is now a 72 (sheet metal wise everything behind the firewall is essentially the same 70-72). I do appreciate that you used the 70 Super Stocker body with a heavily modified stock 72 clip.

The option I would most prefer that may also most likely to make a business case would be a Round2 open hood promo clone using the chassis, interior and clears from the 73/74 Barracuda promo/easy build tooling (I can't remember if the upholstery close or not). This would get us a properly proportioned 1/25 scale body. The Revell 70 Cuda is typical of many recent Revell offerings - wonky. It huts to look at it. My concern is that the Monogram 71 Cuda has been around a long time so there is not the same kind of demand there was for a 68 Coronet or a 71 Demon.

I routinely cut around the perimeter of the floor and remove it when working on older tub style interiors. This is really helpful when building or restoring an early style kit with the front seat molded to the floor. This method gives me a little more flexibility to paint without having to get the sides back together correctly.

In the early 70's AMT scrapped many of its the molds were considered obsolete at the time. A high percentage of these molds were for annuals or promos. The molds for this were most likely scrapped during this purge. Round2 has found a few molds that were thought to be scrapped (like the Mach Won Mustang) but those are rare gems and not the norm.

I got these cool built survivors locally this weekend. I am typically into 60’s vintage annual models, but as a group these kits moved me. Some look like Group 5 or Group C cars (I don't really know). I am going to clean them up and display them together.

Cool find Kevin!

You are absolutely correct! Getting cars is easy, proper storage and working space is hard. My wife (also a car nut) and I have made life and housing decisions that were focused on car buildings for the 30+ years we have been married. The right property that is zoned correctly and without prohibitive covenants is hard to find unless you live in a fairly rural area. It took decades to finally get the right property to build a building to serve as storage and a workshop for my cars.

New addition to collection. 41 Buick Special, OHV straight 8 with twin carbs.

I just did a quick on-line review of period color pictures of the Landy Coronet, and the dark blue looks good.

Let’s take the “Way Back Machine” to the mid 70’s. I am somewhere around 8 and a model car nut with about 20 built models. I am building kits like: Monogram Custom Street Vette & Quicksilver, AMT 64 Impala & 56 Ford, MPC 67 Charger & Monza. A friend comes over to my house with a Revell 56 Chevy he got as a gift, he want’s some help building it. The end result was total failure, and he was no longer interested in model car kits. This encounter kept me away from Revell kits for years. I wonder how many kids left the hobby after dealing with a Revell Tri-5 kit.

Cool old kit, nice find! I have a couple rebuilders, one has the top glued down hard (you're top also looks glued down hard). Big pieces like the hood and grille from all of the AMT 66 Mustang kits will work with the one you have.

One of the biggest issues with Tamiya paint is "in person" availability. The nearest one to me that sell Tamiya is a 2 1/2hour round trip. Tamiya is a pain to get unless you live in the right place. There are multiple places I can get Rustoleum and Testors within 15 minutes of where I live. When I rattle can I use Tamiya. I have a collection of Tamiya can and bottle paints. I know I need to get better with an airbrush but after 40 years I still struggle with thinning properly so most of my work is rattle can. I also use lots of Rustoleum but almost never on a body. Often their colors work well as interior colors with Tamiya painted bodies.

If I put my business hat on, I feel the best bet for sales would be a craftsman plus style (think the Lindberg Crown Vic) Blues Brothers (blues-mobile and Chicago squad car)/early Dukes squad car/"your state here" Squad car. Round2 currently has a Blues Brothers license (not sure if they currently have a Dukes of Hazzard license). I could see a blues-mobile/red pinto wagon two car set (or a blues-mobile/100 Chicago squad car set ). This would sell well to many different groups: Movie people, squad car people, diorama people, general kit builders and the derby car builders. Personally, I would wish for a 70 Fury GT

Nice clean build Nathan! Great color choices and clean detail work.

I was lucky to find a nicely built Survivor years ago.

Not technically on topic but this reminds me of the very unique wheels and tires on an Elvis Stutz at the Graceland Museum. Notice the ribs on the tires! Craig

I have a resin body to build one of these. Is that the JoHan chassis?

Dick Landy! Very cool start!

These are a couple assembled cars from a 1954 3 Car Assembly Kit. I found these cars decades ago with a VERY moldy partial box. Although I was unable to save the box the cars are my oldest built 1:25 scale survivors.

This is an AMT 1955 3 Car Assembly Kit. AMT started doing assembly kits is 1953. They are essentially unassembled promo cars. The kits included paint and tools. My particular kit is missing one of the cars along with the paint and tools. AMT was trying to leverage their promo tooling into kits well before they hit on the magic formula of "3 in 1".