Rob Hall

On the topic of low mounted rear turn signals and taillights..remember the GM A-body wagons of the 70s-80s (both Colonnade era and downsized era)...they had the rear lights all in the rear bumper..same with the El Camino of those generations...always thought those were odd... IIRC, the first gen Audi Q7 SUV has the replicated lights also because of the lights in the hatch...some other SUVs may also. The Q7 had a strange hatch design the wrapped over the rear quarter ends.

Flooding from rains, tornadoes and power outages here in the Cleveland area this week..

They could have used vertical lights in the rear quarters like most SUVs used to have.

My '86 Mustang had amber rear turn signals, my '87 does not. My '00 Jeep Grand Cherokee also had them. None of my newer cars or SUVs have had them.

An interior refresh is coming for 2026 I’ve read. I like the C8, thinking a C8 convertible could be a fun summer ride sooner or later.

Dodge Prospector Power Wagon was what I learned to drive in 40 years ago.

Yes, that is a red convertible w/ the top closed. The coupe has a triangular wedge-shaped black trim piece on the b-pillar while the convertible has more of a rectangular piece.

Last release was 7 years ago, 2017. It was a 2n1 with stock and custom versions. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/amt-1055-ford-starliner--1114879

The Pro Street one is a '74, not sure what year the Motown Missile kit was? Never had one.

Sounds like the reissue is going to be the Street Machine version, which has a lot of unique parts distinct from the stock one IIRC...

The Acadian Canso was Chevy II based, the Beaumont was Chevelle based (w/ a Pontiac dash).

I've used Model Roundup, Spotlight Hobbies, Hobby Search, Hobby Link Japan, Auto World Store, and Diecast Models Warehouse for years w/ no problems. More recently used Wes' Model Corner and Burbank's House of Hobbies (through their eBay store). I've used Megahobby and Hobbylinc occasionally but they are hit-and-miss as far as selection and slow with backorders I've found.

This 1:1 resembles the box art, even has the blue hubcaps.

Went to the beach yesterday, and on the way home saw a Cybertruck for the first time in traffic...Ohio plate 'CYBRTRCK'. Hilarious looking, like a rolling dumpster from behind. Also saw a sharp clean black w/ red interior '87-90 Mustang GT convertible rolling top down. Saw a bright orange C8 Z-06 parked at a restaurant. At the beach I saw a modded, beat up early 90s Firebird w/ hole in the hood, chrome air cleaner sticking through, big wheels and tires. Saw a very clean turquoise '64 Ford Galaxie 2dr ht parked outside of a restaurant.

I could see someone using the MPC bodies over the new Revell dirty bits to the get the better chassis, suspension, etc detail.

I thought the round lenses might be for extra police lights, but I don't see any round light housings on the trees....maybe parts for off-road lights for a future off road version?

After almost 3 decades in software development, I’ve seen all sorts of standards and procedures for production deployment. So many places have limited or no testing/qa environments and put things in production that may be buggy or poorly tested, even big Fortune 50 companies do it.

Several third party integrations my company has are experiencing outages. Windows users in my company are getting BSODs trying to login. My team is fine, we are all on Macs. I'm on PTO today but reading messages in Slack from my team.

Those look like typical Revell of Germany parts trees made to fit the flat boxes.

I don't recall if previous versions of the Monogram '79 Camaro had 3 hoods? Been a long time since I've built one...IIRC, I built the one in the 90s w/ the yellow car on the box.

Definitely up for one of the Blazers, the Shelby and another Charger.

Canuck 3D has those grilles now, albeit for the MPC tooling...probably will work here also. https://wylde.ca/gm.html

It's had at least 4 different releases w/ different box art, I think this was the first one.

The AMT ‘57 T-Bird is ancient. This is a reissue of the ‘56 which is maybe 25 years old.

IIRC, wasn't the kit missing the carburetor? I wish AMT would modify this tooling and do a '55...much cleaner looking.