Rob Hall

Heh-heh..one of those xerascaped (sp?) yards that are popular here. Mine is nice and green, but my neighbor has an astro turf-like synthetic grass yard.

Someone in my neighborhood has a dark red '56 Mk II...I see it in the driveway once in a while, kind of a rare sight. Neat cars. That Cobra is sweet.

Would make a neat kit, as would a regular '13 Shelby, but won't happen.

It's an unfortunate situation, the problem w/ the focus on older subjects is it alienates people interested in building models of current subjects. Not every modeler in the US is in the older crowd that Revell and Moiebus are catering to with kits of 40-70 yr old subjects. There are quite a few modern, late model subjects that deserve to be kitted. I like a lot of the old subject kits, but the lack of a steady release every year of kits of modern subjects is frustrating...it was a much better situation 20-25 years ago as far as then-current subjects being kitted.

Ah, secret insider info. Good to know.

The '69 looks the same as the '67 in the pics there except the middle horizontal bar is thicker. One thing I noticed on the tooling mock up pics is the grille on the '69 seems be rounded vertically and bulge out, while the 1:1 seems flatter..

What's a 'DoAllSer' ? Revell's lead times for new kits is absurd, esp. considering how fast Fujimi and Aoshima are able bring new models to market. I can understand if it is the corporate access, because Revell used to be able to bring new subjects to market in a timely manner--IIRC, the '97 Ford F-series kits, '99 Mustang Cobra, '99 Silverado all came to market in reasonable times, as did the '05 Mustang, Corvette, etc. Yet more recent subjects like the '10 Mustang GT and Shelby came out two years late. It's a non-issue for 40-70 year old subjects, but for current subjects it matters to be timely. DIecast companies release new subjects in a timely manner...

True..there are still plenty of 32 Ford and 57 Chevy variations for them to do....

I suspect Round 2/AMT will have a curbside by 2015....Revell is so slow on new stuff they probably will get one out in 2017 after the 6th gen is out a year..

It's a nice MCE that will do until the 6th gen on Alpha comes out in a few years. I like the tail lights, kind of a '69 styling cue w/ the 3 elements. Nice to see the Z/28 name return.

I remember saving up my Golden Wheels tokens off MPC boxes as a kid in the '80s..I sent them in, wanted the 'Velvet Vette' '57 Corvette, but they sent me the '57 Corvette Gasser flip-front kit..

What does RR have to do with the Modelhaus? Post #41 refers to Don Holthaus..

I've never had a problem w/ the Modelhaus. One of the best in the business, IMO.

Sweet,,,

I've got about 100 or so I've accumulated over the years...mostly mint but some worn. I started off in the '80s with the MPC '80s Camaros and Corvettes, but have a lot of '60s Fords and some Johan Cadillacs. I have the MPC '71-76 full size cars, probably the most I paid for a promo was the '71 Impala convertible. Not much in the way of Mopars.

Yes, I enjoyed DKR..saw it on the big IMAX screen. Have the Blu Ray now, watched it again recently. Anyway, looking forward to this kit...haven't bought the Bat Pod yet.

Isn't the engine in the Revell '70 Mach 1 a 351C? It's 1/24th though.

Sharp build. Did the Jo-han S&M kit include that hood w/ the 6 pack scoop or did you add the scoop? Thinking of building something similar...

Very cool...very clever and different.

Canada..probably a delay in border crossing for magazines.

Probably something like that. It looks like Learning Curve is now owned by Tomy.

Yes...Racing Champions evolved into RC2 then Learning Curve or something like that (through aquisitions, etc). Round 2 is called that I presume because 'Round 1' for Tom Lowe was Playing Mantis.

I have read that Round 2 is really big on pursuing pop-culture licenses and tie-ins, considering all the Star Trek and Batman merch, in addition to Pepsi, etc. Agreed new tooling would be great to see, in the short term it seems for car kits it's limited to the curbside unassembled promos...I'm looking forward to the Camaro ZL1 that is upcoming. Anyway, I've been enjoying many of the reissues so far and am looking forward to many of the upcoming ones, esp. the '69 Chevelle conv and '71 Demon.

That's a reissue of the stock version that had a light blue car on the box. They changed the box art car color with the reissue.

Feb/March issue, looks good at first read thru..it's the annual contest issue.