Mr. Metallic

Are the air dams/flares molded in or seperate?

You're still waiting on that slow boat?

Scorpion? Excellent!

The "stock" (chopped) windshield may be in the box, but cowl has been smoothed to fit the Duvall style windshield, so there's no place to attach the "stock" one

Can't believe there's still comments coming 4 months into 2025 in a thread about expected releases for 2024 when there's a perfectly good thread for 2025 floating around 😄

Thanks for sharing. So the Nomad kit includes the gasser front end parts?

Could someone post some pics of the contents of the Atlantis release? On the fence about getting it just for the decals but curious if there’s other cool parts

Once tooling is in China, it doesn't leave. This has been a "policy" for at least a couple decades now. So anything that is there will remain there, regardless of the tariff situation. But we should probably get back on topic so it that this doesn't get political and locked down.

There's plenty of people and equipment in the US to support injection molding. There is tons of plastic injection molding being done in the US. I speak from experience. The thing is will it be any cheaper than the imported product for our hobby once you factor in the higher labor costs here?

I'm currently distracted by a couple other projects, so progress on this is slow. I did get the exhaust location finalized via pins into the block. Test fit the Rep+Min intake as well. I did get the few other bits and pieces of the suspension nailed down, nothing really picture worthy. Hoping to begin painting this weekend.

Always nice to see one of these bodies being built. I've only seen a few actually make it to completion.

Cool hot rod Richard. But it belongs in the finished area. maybe the admins will move it for you.

This is looking really good James. I love the wheel/tire combo and Poncho. Any thoughts on color yet? And yes, inquiring minds want to know about the 3W. Looks older, like possibly Mill City or Ron Cash?

Figured I'd drop this recently completed restoration in here. I obtained a small group of models from my father in law shortly before he passed away 6 years ago. All were builtups from his young adulthood in the late 60's/early 70's. They had not survived their storage well, and it took me some time sorting through them all to see if any were complete. The easiest one was a 71 Mustang that I was able to buff out and give to his son the Christmas after he passed. I sorted the rest as best I could and they have been sitting in a tote ever since. Fast forward to recently when I developed an affinity for the series of "gasser" AWB kits from AMT, many of which have now been reissued (most recently the 64 Olds convertible Streaker). When I remembered that one of my father in laws builds was a Mustang from that series I decided to dig it out and restore it. Here is what I started with. Note the racing stripe made from flocking for some reason along with other flocked details. Due to a few issues with what I started with I decided to build it as if he was still here and I was going to give it to him all shiny and new like the day he built it. So I sourced new chrome bits for the body and injector stacks, but kept his engine wiring (done with thread) and the unique interior carpeting. I even used Testors enamels for the body to keep the old school feel.

Drag City Casting is still in business, but I don't believe he carries any of his dad's product line. @Riser70 you've come to the right place looking for information on the hobby. If you are under the assumption that resin kits you've seen produced by F+F are 3D printed that is simply not the case. They are resin copies of a physical master, so there are no files to buy. And any F+F product will probably bring a pretty penny since they have been out of production a long time and are of high quality. However, if you mean F+F like Fast and Furious that is a completely different matter.

Looks like variations on those words may cause the issue as well? I typed up my post and got the Oops message. After i read through this thread I saw that I had the word "selected" in my post, put a space in the middle of the word and then it allowed me to post.

Awhile back I mastered a phaeton conversion set for the Revell 32 Ford series. I commissioned Greg Wann to make copies for me, and I recently received them. I'm quite excited to build one so I cleared off the bench and got after it. It is meant to be a pretty simple build as sort of a marketing piece to show the easy compatibility with the Revell kits. So minimal mods or parts swapping will be involved. The conversion includes the body, interior floor, interior side panels, front seat, passenger compartment brace and both chopped and stock windshield. I did decide to use one of the dropped i beam front axles offered by Iceman Collections, and that took a little work with the wheel/tire combo I sel ected. I'm using Modelhaus Tires with the kit steelies. This combo made the front track much too wide. By trimming the wheel backs to nestle inside the tire and trimming the mounting post on the axle assembly I was able to narrow everything to an acceptable width. Here you can see the kit piece, mods in process, and the finished piece. Mods to the rear were limited to eliminating the airbags from the kit axle. Stance is now locked in thanks to the wheel/tire combo from Louverworks Resin Next up was fitting the 40 Ford dash from the Revell 32 5W kit into the interior. Just a little sanding to the corners of the cowl and dash to get them to nest together (since the part of the cowl on the interior of the 5W the dash was designed for is a right angle and the phaeton is curved). Please don't mind what appears to be loose fitment of the interior in the body. It's all a friction fit right now. And here it is, pretty much ready to start prepping the parts for paint. Hood is also by Louverworks. @68shortfleet

FYI, the 65 Barracuda is not from Moebius, but Round2. Probably before the end of 2025.

Maybe the admins could merge these topics?

I just finished adapting them to my 32 phaeton build. I'll be sharing pics soon.

Well, even though I have 5+ of these 29 pickup kits in my stash already Revell has figured out how to get me to fork up more money for at least one of these with the inclusion of the long lost Harley. At least it's a great parts kit for vintage hot rods, and I like the white pinstripe flame decals. Hopefully it shows at HL so i don't have to pay full price 😋 p.s. wonder if they can pair the other parts pack motorcycles with other kits to get them back on the market? 🤞

Honestly not sure in the end that the 3D parts were worth the money. I'm sure someone with your talents could pull this off. The hardest part would be fashioning the rear push bar out of brass or plastic, and even that shouldn't bee terrible. The rollbar should be pretty straightforward to fab, and as you can see I didn't even use the supplied headers, I made mine. Everything else should be pretty much available from kit sources (which you're the hot rod kit king of Australia so I bet you have all the parts already 😉 )

I do as well. Got it from Chris Chabre who is a member here. It will take a bit of work because most of the chrome is shot. But I will be building it to match my Little Drag, including the 12 spokes

The Little Drag Here's another design proposal for what Monogram could have done but didn't. It's designed after the Big Drag, but 1/24 scale. This project started last year when 3D Scale Parts announced they were going to produce a set of 1/8 parts to turn the Big T kit into the Big Drag. I messaged the owner and asked him to please produce the set in 1/24 too and he obliged. I immediately ordered one and when I told my fellow vintage Monogram enthusiast Chuck Darnell about it he ordered one too. We decided to build them simultaneously as a fun challenge. The build started in earnest in February. I soon realized a couple things. The biggest issue was the supplied headers were much to wide to fit the Monogram block. Rather then modify the brittle printed parts I decided to fabricate my own by stealing the headers from a couple Revell 29 Ford pickup and cutting them apart and pinning them to a flange made from Evergreen. I also shortened the height of the roll bar by about 3 scale inches (I realize the one in the Big Drag is quite tall, so the printed part matches it well) I also don't care for the chrome reverse up front so I decided to swap in a set of 12 spokes from a Slingster. The blower came from my parts box, and the scoop is from the modern Revell 30 A kits. I scratchbuilt the interior floor, and cut apart a Little T seat to get the single bucket seat. The decal on the trunk was provided by Bob Spedding @TooOld Rear turtle deck is resin, I don't recall the supplier. Paint is Tamiya Blue Pearl, with lots of Revell Chrom used to make things chrome, especially the 3D parts. Magneto is from Morgan Automotive Detail. The darker blue build is by Chuck Darnell. thanks for looking, and on to the next phantom Monogram build.

I amended my post. The first edition to have the Offy heads was the black stock build as the boxart from the mid-90's and later versions.