Jordan White

Looks good, always nice to see a clean build! The pictures are a tad blurry though, one trick is to take the picture from further away and just crop the picture down to what you want to show. ?

I find that the paint can be hit or miss in the coverage department depending on color, but I do find the 2X gray primer to cover very well and gives me minimal issues as well as the 2X aluminum for my silver parts (and as a base for metallics/candy coats).

Oh no, now what will all the car building shows look forward to building a car last minute for?!

Hard to say, I have not come across any. I’m not sure if anyone has taken on making detail parts for these old Otaki/Doyusha kits. I’ve just been scratchbuilding and adapting other 1/12 scale parts to mine.

You know, I would not be opposed to an actual C1500 Coca Cola kit if it actually meant this kit came out again! ( And no the monster truck kit doesn’t count) Your build looks nice and clean!

Don’t forget that paper copies aren’t impervious to ceasing to exist either. Fire, flood, storms, untrained dog, vengeful ex-wife, etc. Like with anything, you have to enjoy them while you can and remember that nothing really will be around forever.

Nah the wheels do look like the ones on the Boyd version, and I'm guessing both sets are 17" since that was really the biggest size you would find in the early 90's.

I believe the kit is also 1/24 scale vs the 1/25 scale of the AMT/MPC kit, so parts swapping won't quite work out.

Just an FYI, his site is down for the foreseeable future, it appears he is making a new site but it doesn't say when it should be back up again. Of course I find this out when I want to order some parts! ?

It's too bad AutomotiveTouchup doesn't get into the smaller cans since that would open up factory colors immensely while not forcing you to use up a large can if you don't want to. I'm sure it's not financially feasible for them which is why they don't.

I'm looking at my ebay purchase history now on my PC and can see who each item was sold by, and unless you ordered more than one kit from different vendors, you should be able to see the vendor.

You should be able to find it in your order history on the site or in the app.

There are definitely quite a few cases of obvious substitutions for crashing vehicles and stunts in the older tv shows. I know at least a few times in the A-Team they used Ford and GM vans with just a paint job and red wheels in quick cuts for jumps and such. A more modern example would be in the movie C.H.I.P.S. where a Chevy Malibu was used as a stand in for a Chevy SS when the vehicle gets torched.

So, anyone who doesn't want the kit wheels is certainly free to send them my way! ?

The TV car is an automatic, and so they may have decided to just keep the manual transmission and add the automatic shifter rather than molding a new transmission. They probably could have left in the manual shifter as well. And yes, the 4-speed manual was available on all full size cars with the V8, including the 4-doors.

Yup, not every kit will have multiple build options or the parts that you may want, hence the ever growing aftermarket. The problem seems to go both ways, the factory stock guys will complain about one aspect, and the show-car replica guys will complain about another. Dale can complain that the seat isn't correct for a non-TV car, another can complain that the transmission is a manual and the show car is an automatic. I'm complaining that they decided to go with the older bias-ply style tires rather than the correct modern radial tires on the TV car (Revell did the same with the 80's Cutlass kits.) The model companies can't win, and have to do the best they can to appeal to the largest amount of buyers.

What do you mean by this? Do you mean people who are on thin ice threatening to go back and edit their past posts to be inflammatory?

Looks good! Do you have a picture of the tires?

It was a sort of 4th wall reference to the actor who played their father, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, being on the Walking Dead.

I see that they did do that, however I'm guessing the 1:1 vehicle was an early 80's Coupe DeVille with the 4.1 and the Brougham parts added rather than a shortened Brougham.

The kit engine could resemble the HT 4100 V8, from the pics I can find it doesn't look too far off of the Chevy small block. Apparently though, whatever vehicle they used to measure had the front and rear from a 1990-1992 Fleetwood Brougham. Because of this, there isn't a way to make a stock Coupe DeVille out of the box (I do actually like the aero style of the Brougham, so I don't mind it at all!)

I believe it's to do with the requirement of being able to see the rear turn signal from the side of the vehicle, which is not possible with the US taillights, hence the wrap-around amber portion. Chevy used the wrap around red in the US since it doubled as the rear-side marker light. However, I'm not sure if this is also why the amber takes up two "sections" of the taillight assembly. It seems like they could have just used the corner "section" for the turn signal, and used the other two non-reverse portions for the brake and fog lights (or use one of the reverse lights as the fog light like they do on other vehicles).

It's surprising looking at the instructions for the AMT kit, in that the kit has a decently detailed engine compartment with separate underhood parts, as well as a multi-piece bed and well-proportioned body, and yet has a poor 3-piece(!) interior and promo-style chassis. I would love to see a better detailed group of trucks for this era similar to the F100 kits. 2WD Custom 1/2 ton Stepside Bed 292 I6 2WD Cheyenne 3/4 ton Long Bed 396/400 V8 4WD Custom Deluxe 1/2 ton Short Bed 327/350 V8 4WD Custom Deluxe 3/4 ton Long Bed 327/350 V8 This way there would be options for mixing and matching, and along with different years (to represent the different grilles) for the 4 would allow for nearly all options to be covered. Wishful thinking for now of course.

I realized it was released previous since this thread is originally from 2017! ? It is going to be re-released again this year however, and I wasn't sure which month.