Jordan White

One suggestion I have is the Desert Fox decals available for the GMC Jimmy and pickups in the late 70's. They would especially be great for the recently re-re-released Revell GMC Pickup kit.

A while back I built a Nite F150 using the AMT shortbox kit and just printed my own decals. They didn't turn out that great in person though because I used sticker paper rather than waterslide-decal paper. As far as I know though, no one sells them that I have seen.

It's just too bad I can't go down to my local dealer with my camera and sketchpad to get more information!

Looks nice so far! The color is very 90's!

Love it! Paint job looks amazing! I've seen issues with the roof not fitting correctly on a couple other builds as well, is it an issue with the windshield frame or with the roof itself?

I'm probably going to just extend the date seeing as there hasn't been much done yet, especially for myself!

Unfortunately they are fake made up markings, for their Jeep kit they removed the sidewall markings.

What color are you thinking of going with?

Nice! They heard my cries for the return of the 90's AMT/ERTL kits!

29, almost 30, been building since second grade!

Didn’t realize factory cars weren’t their foray. Oh well, would be nice if Aoshima or Tamiya made one then!

I would totally buy one if they did a factory widebody Starion with those fantastic 5-spoke wheels!

It seems like a circular problem when you think about it. The companies want to sell kits to make a profit, and they basically have two main groups to market to. One side is the older crowd who love the kits they grew up with, and subjects that they grew up with, who don't care about few, if any, of today's vehicles. The other side is the younger crowd who also love the subjects they grew up with, but they are from a much more recent era and are the same ones that the older crowd generally doesn't care for. In catering to the older crowd, the companies can focus on reissues and get more of a profit from using paid-for tools, whereas with the younger crowd (which they need to continues into the future), they would, in most cases, need to create new tools of more modern subjects, which costs them money and lessens their profit.

I've said it before, but I would love for Round 2 to reissue a bunch of the AMT/Ertl era kits of 90's cars and trucks, especially the Chevy C1500 and Ford F150 3n1 kits.

Best thing to do is measure from the hub face to the edge of the wheel well. That will tell you how much room you have to work with for wheel width, and with that the backspacing. It is true that it is generally tough to have deep dish wheels on FWD cars without adding flares. Btw, what kind of car is it?

Meng makes this kit, this is their third 1/24 scale auto kit. No relation to the Revell kit, they are in fact different generations.

I keep forgetting that the gasoline I6 was an option, I never really see much mention of it.

The one thing I will say is Shapeways is just a third party 3D printer, all the models are uploaded by individuals in their shops, so any issues related to scale or accuracy are due to the sellers.

Very nice! Is that meant to be the Nissan diesel that they offered in the later model years?

Any updates? Have you decided which direction you're going in regards to 2WD vs 4WD?

Did you notice that the new Oldsmobiles are in early this year?

x2, the Hobby Lobbies I've been too have lately exceeded the amount of kits that Micheals carries by at least double it seems.

The fact that the price jumps from 77 to 2600 makes me suspect that there is some foul play involved.

So doing a bit more work last night, I realized that the two bodies aren't quite the same in height and profile. I realized that I will have to cut horizontally across the bronco body and add a piece in to get the right height, as well as to allow me to match the profile of the F250 body. Also I started cutting apart fenders to get the correct rear wheel arches installed.

Wheels and tires in general. You never know what will work unless you can try different combos both together, and with the kit itself. I will occasionally look on ebay for wheel and tire sets that interest me so I have more of a selection in the future.