Chuck Most

Somebody at a model company has actually considered kitting a coupe express????

Wait... WHAT?

It will go bad after a while- how long that is depends on conditions. Most of the stuff I've bought says it is best kept in a cool, dry place. I know humidity will kill it pretty fast- learned that the fun way.

That's a killer chop. What are your plans with the b-pillars- vertical or slanted?

Wow! That's NOT the one I saw in SAE. Keeping my fingers crossed it's resin.

Al Gore is the root of all problems online. He invented it all, if you recall. :P :P

Depends on how bad you want a Scout SSII I guess. Last I knew it was still available. In fact, my orange one is still up on their gallery page.

Orange one actually is a resin transkit by Time Machine Resins- body, interior tub/chassis (its molded as one piece on this kit), seats, and grille. Even using a transkit, it pretty much fell together.

Yep.

An in-scale ashtray, filled with scale cig butts and ash. I must say, that's the first time I've seen THAT.

I actually plan to backdate the Revell street rods to a more late '50's early '60's style, when/if I locate a few.

LOVE the bobtail Scout II pickup. Forgot I had an El Camino, too...

AND- for the price of one of these, I could have bought three or four hypothetical Coupe Express kits. And then chopped, hacked, and kitbashed to my little heart's content.

Thought of another one- not a great kit, but an easy build. You'll likely spend more time waiting on paint to dry than actual assembly. Even when I correct all the accuracy hiccups in the body and detail out the engine bay and interior, I rarely have more than 12 hours in an Ertl Scout II build.

Yep, they got me too- Still, love to see a kit of it, but I am NOT holding my breath.

That reminds me- Revell's Model A's- the '31 Tudor and the '29 pickup. Those kits are almost as old as plastic kits themselves (what are they, early '60's vintage?). Sure they're loaded with delicate, intricate parts, and they have molded headlamp lenses, but all things considered- as far as detail and accuracy goes, they rival the best of today's kits. I wonder if Revell could tool up a modern Model A and have it come close to those two golden oldies. When you consider that- its like the hobby has come full circle- they made amazingly detailed kits pretty much at the dawn of the hobby, went in to the bleaker years, when everything was molded together and detail was a bit lackadasical, and now we arrive at today, when most kits have more parts in just the engine than the total parts count in a typical annual kit of the '60's.

Most recent reissue (Goodguys logo) it did- as far as I know it's been with the kit since the beginning. (Every issue of it I'd owned has it.) It would be completely idiotic for them to remove ANY part from that kit, if you ask me.

They did release at least two of the Datsun/Nissan engines in a parts pack, too. The engines were pretty much lifted straight from the car kits.

Which brings up another subject- early trucks. When Revell brought out its new Nova kit, everybody pretty much forgot all about the old AMT kit. I really do think if Revell tooled up a '67/'68 C-10, it would sell. Not even a Chevy guy, but I'd buy 'em. I'd be happy with a few reissues of the long-lost ones, like that F-100 unibody.

Everything will be the same regarding the chassis/body. The stock car will have a different grille, wheels, and other parts, but the chassis and body are the same as the '53.

I'd like to see the Revell 1:16 street rod series make a comeback, and I'm working on getting a few of the recent Minicraft Model A Ford reissues. So, yeah, I think I'd be up for a little 1:16 scale revolution.

Sad part is? I think that kit could have cleaned house, if Trumpeter hadn't messed it up in such an epic way. The only reason I haven't bought that kit is... well, just look at one built up and you'll have my answer. It's almost like they had twenty different people designing the different subassemblies, and none of those twenty people communicated or acknowledged one another in any way during the entire process. I do plan on getting a couple of the Falcons when I can find them for a price I think is more in line with what I'm getting, but I will say I'm glad Trumpeter isn't as prolific as Revell when it comes to automotive releases. I really can't see Trumpeter doing much in the automotive arena after the last of the Falcons and Rancheros are out.

None that I'm aware of with the short conventional nose. Modelhaus does sell the more commonly seen medium cab conversion. http://www.discoverautomobiles.com/trucks/details.php?MID=15455 I know I remember seeing one built years ago in SAE, not sure if the guy ever had it cast or anything, though.

I do have quite a few very nice diecasts (ssssshhhhhh.... don't tell), but I'd still love to have a '39 Ford Convertible, '37 Studebaker Coupe Express, or a '70 Mustang without a pig-nose grille in plastic kit form, even though I have all three as built diecast models. I can't speak for everybody, but just having one in my collection as a diecast doesn't rule it out for a kit.

That green one with the Miller logos on the doors has the cab from the '37 puller kit. The chassis is going to end up on another resin International pickup, reworked to a '66 model. Well, that's the plan right now, anyway.