Chuck Most

THANK YOU!!!!

Not s'fast- some of the younger guys are into (in addition to or instead of above) And I'm not even going to post any tuner/sport compact pics (because I have none to post, mostly). I'd love having a kit of that Dodge pickup, though.

Why SHOULDN'T they? The only real change they'd need to make in the majority of cases would be an RHD dash and maybe a photoetched fret or decal sheet with American markings. The US (or European, for that matter) parts could just be included on a small sprue, like you'd see in a Revell-style special-edition reissue. There may be a bigger model car market in Japan, but I really think more people in other markets would buy their kits if they depicted the car they have in their driveway, not it's 'close but no cigar' cousin on another continent.

Well, 26 is on the long end of mid 20's, thats knocking on the door to 'late 20's'. I went beater with that one. Next one I'm thinking of doing up as a period Michigan State Police mount.

One thing to watch out for- the number callouts for the wing vent windows and mirrors are flip-flopped. It's in all the current kits, but it will be fixed before the next run.

Another thing the Japanese kit makers are missing- they sell all the JDM stuff, which is fine with me, but rarely do they offer a US-spec version of their kits. There are a few kits they sell which would need little more than a photoetch badge fret to be sold as a US market Lexus or Infiniti, for instance.

I got it in 2008, when I was in my advanced mid '20's.

That's probably just as well- it'll save you having to keep replacing blown axles and trannies!

Same here- I'm good for at least five of the '50 Olds kits, probably more of the Fords. Just saying- I hope they're doing a better job planning ahead than I think they are sometimes.

Digging it! Reminds me of a Roth creation.

A Lancia! Sweet! Hoping to get crackin' on the Buick again tomorrow, IF I can find the thing.

Yep. While I love the '50's cars and hot rods, the model companies do need to realize that there WERE vehicles manufactured after 1972 that weren't Corvettes or Mustangs. Again- when the interest runs out (and therefore sales) they'll wish they'd have beefed up their product line.

Any of the three would make them happy- a few of them wouldn't mind a Nissan Titan. And you did touch on one BIG stumbling block for a truck kit (you did leave out two or four wheel drive, though ). But even then- a crew cab shortbed kit could share a chassis and quite a few parts with a reg cab long bed. Since most ot today's 'hot selling' kits these days are modified retools of other kits, why not create a platform that you can dip back into for future issues? Revell has proven themselves quite adept at that the last few years, I'm sure the other manufacturers could follow suit. But to answer your question- the easiest thing to do would be to produce a crew cab short bed variant. That seems to be the most common type of pickup on the road today,and the hardcore guys can cut down the cab to create an extended or regular cab and use the old cab section to lenthen the bed. And even if only one body style pr make was kitted, it wouldn't take more than a few months for the resin guys to offer up variants. And I'd be happy seeing more curbside style kits- since when has it been chiseled into rock that a kit MUST HAVE full engine and chassis detail? Everybody seems to hem and haw over the latest Tamiya or Fujimi whatchamacallit, and they are good kits, but the majority of them are curbsides. If somebody kitted, say, an F-250 Harley Edition and it was a curbside with sealed hood and coster chassis, you'd hear no complaints at all from me about it.

Maybe you could grind material off the frame rails. This would enable you to move the axle ahead, and you could modify the suspension so the axle doesn't fit to the frame, if you're one of the guys who's put off by that aspect of the kit. Not sure how you'd solve the axle yoke issue- you might be able to trim it a bit, or deepen the rear of the drivetrain hump with a file to gain clearance. I have a Hornet I plan to lower, and I'm thinking of cutting off the top of the trans tunnel and replacing it with a thinner piece of plastic in order to gain some extra driveshaft clearance.

Well, just because someone's an accountant doesn't mean they're capable of providing sound advice for a business (cough, cough, Government Motors).

I've heard that as well.It was mentioned that the Rambler, Cutlass, and snap Turbine are being reissued first because the tooling is in good shape (and they even managed to provide some Olds Rallys for the Cutlass). Being that there is talk of refreshing/replacing molds if demand arises, I'm just hoping they keep molding quality in mind.

At least he builds something other than Asian econo-boxes. EDIT: Forgot

I'd still have to say there'd be much more demand for a contemporary pickup than, say, a '50 Olds or a base-model '57 Ford (and yes, I do intend on buying those kits when/if Revell puts them out). When the kit manufacturers milk the last drop out of their tooling dollars and don't have anything left, I'm sure they'll wish they'd diversified their selections just a tad.

Just plain love it.

That's probably a good thing- I had one of the Seville-era reissues, and every part that wasn't warped or short-shot was plauged with thick flash. And the sad part was Seville actually was said to have 'cleaned up' the tooling before that run. Basically the cleanup amounted to softening the script detail and losing the door sill engraving altogether, as far as I could see. That reminds me- IMC? Please don't bother with reissuing the kit if the tooling is truly shot. I'd love to see the SC Rambler make a comeback, but if it's as nighmarish as the last reissue was molding quality-wise, I'll pass.

Respecfully disagree with you on that one. But I'll subsitute your '53 Hudson' with '72 Olds Cutlass convertible. I mean, really, I don't recall seeing that one on anybody's most wanted list, and look at both releases of it fly off the shelf. (And I'm one of the guys who never saw it coming, never really wanted one in kit form, and still bought five of them.)

Say huh? EVERY Deuce kit I've ever built came with fenders.

Sorry- EVERYBODY I know wants more light truck kits. That's 100% of whatever demographic I'm in. And judging from what I've read here and other forums, it isn't just a 'Central Michigan' thing. As far as the model company's research teams not seeing the numbers- likely the cause of that is they're too busy thinking of ways to tart up their existing '57 Chevy,'32 Ford, '69 Nova and first-gen Camaro kits to see the forest past the trees.