Rob Hall

Sad..great singer/songwriter...my folks were a fan, I grew up listening to him on our cross-country motorhome road trips in the 80s. Saw him in concert a few years ago.

The April 1st newsletter said it was available starting April 15th. I got the '24 Dark Horse Mustang last month and it sold out the first day it was available I think. His kits tend to be very small runs.

Same kit. I built the Daisy Jeep as a kid back in the day, it had a clear uptop.

I moved 250 boxes of unbuilt models from my current house to my new house (in the garage temporarily) yesterday. Still have old built kits, 60s-70s unbuilts, resin kits and diecast to move. Slowly but surely..

That is a really neat camper. Looks like a boat cabin kinda…

I wasn't around in '63, but I have been to a lot of campgrounds and RVing over the last 45 years...never seen one with that unusual stepped design. Ones like these below are more familiar on older trucks, I would think...

It will be interesting to see if any of the custom parts from the original kit appear.

Probably easy enough to swap the 340 from the modern era Duster kit.

I closed on my new house today. All went pretty smoothly. Only 20 miles from current house, but bigger, one story, much more storage and garage space, almost 2 acres. I’ll be busy the next month or so moving in and then putting my current house up for sale. Icky weather today though. 34 and sleet.

It would be nice without the section over the cab, never seen a 1:1 truck cap like that.

Looking forward to the Demon and the trucks. I have a couple resin Demons, but not the MPC annual. I can see getting 3-4 of them, one of them would be neat Pro Touring style w/ the new resin turbo slant 6 from Texas 3D Customs...

That funky camper top reminds me of one the AMT '69 Chevy pickup had...have one of those in my stash. Looking forward to both of these trucks, and the Demon.

Went to the post office today and saw this C8 in a great red.

The ‘70 Galaxie police car kit fills that niche. Though the roofline is a bit off

There are a few tools that were only issued under the Testors brand..presumably made by some third party, like the Boyds kits incl. the Boyds Chevy pickup.

Yes, I think we are all quite aware of that...the point I was making is Round 2 doesn’t seem to be using the Lindberg brand much anymore...

They definitely seem to have moved away from it in the last couple of years...on the Round 2 website, they only show 3 Lindberg products--all pirate ship kits. And not much more on the Auto World store site.

IIRC, the 2004 below was the last reissue. I have a few of those. The late 70s 'Countdown Series' reissue was one of my very first AMT kits as a kid...I think it and the Countdown Series '66 Mercury were the first AMT 1/25th scale kits I ever built. I figured this one would get the retro redux treatment eventually. Maybe similar box art to the original annual (2nd pic in yellow).

Yes, at least its only 20 miles...my last move 6 years ago was 2100 miles.

Those look to be a Gone in 60 Seconds Eleanor version w/ the '73 grille and plain hood. The Bond version will be a '71 Mach 1. So at least 3 versions coming maybe...

One of the painters working on my house was driving a GMT-400 that reminds me of one of @Chuck Mosts weathered pickups.

It is what it is...I've been building AMT kits off and on since I was in kid in 1977. Some are better than others, some reissues are cleaned up more than others. Glad to have them all. I have my Tamiyas, Hasegawas, Revells, etc..all comes down to subject matter to me.

Kewl...

My home office/hobby room a few weeks ago…. Bottom pic is today after I’ve boxed up a few kits from the office, in preparation of my upcoming move…

It's an oldie, built a couple of them...I remember it sits low in the rear when built out of the box and the rear bumper is difficult to attach. But it had nice crisp tooling and badging, has the optional 427 cammer w/ lots of chrome parts, and optional race car parts...