Chuck Most

Great looking model of the coolest looking trucks Ford ever built.

If I recall, the only readily available '64 Galaxie with an opening hood was the modified stocker. The factory stock version only came as a curbside.

A peek inside the box... http://public.fotki.com/ChuckMost/kit-contents/monogram/tom-daniels-circus-wagon/

A few of mine (any one of 'em I'd love to see in kit form!)-

I've wondered that myself. "Hey, Pete? Shouldn't we check out these CAD drawings before we send them out to have the molds made?" "Nah... we scanned the 1:1 car,they should be fine. Now let's hand this puppy in and go hit the bar!" That might be part of the 'learning curve' going on with the new technology. And of course, the computer is only as smart as the people who program and operate it... As far as the "Chinese toolmakers haven't seen the car" side, I personally don't buy it. Is it possible none of Trumpeter's people have ever seen a '64 Falcon? Of course. But I'm pretty sure they have acess to Google, and can bring up thousands of images of one in half a second. When you quite literally have the world at your fingertips, finding images of something really isn't a big deal. I think the inaccuracies we're seeing in new releases are possibly because of over-reliance on CAD technology, and the good old 'human factor' being neglected. Still, could be worse... http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz=1T4SNNT_enUS412US412&q=Lindberg+'48+Lincoln&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=6929950365982820897&sa=X&ei=dNqlTfn1HqW60QGt8LTqCA&ved=0CCUQ8wIwAg#

Just curious, was this originally the factory-stock version and retooled into the stock car , or was this version totally different from the stock kit?

'37 (and '38) Ford truck grilles were really popular on East Coast rods back in the early days, kind of like the Terraplane and Farmall grilles are with rat rodders now. I'm guilty of buying at least one or two '37's just for the grille.

Perfect. Just got rid of my only Turbine kit... Next time!!!!

As Jim pointed out, it isn't a copy of the REVELL kit part, so the whole thing about Revell and copyrights and whatnot seems like a moot point. Sheesh- look at the photo and it clearly isn't the Revell piece! And since it doesn't have the Ford logo or script on it, I don't see any issues there, either. How many members of Ford's legal team do you wager even know what a '37 Ford truck grille looks like, anyway?

Is that the old AAM resin transkit? Or, better, is somebody casting an early Willys Jeep pickup again????

Uh.... dude? You do know dragons aren't real, right?

No, but think how warm and toasty they'd keep your feet!

Could be worse... http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.carhobby.com/56f7602r34.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.carhobby.com/page1956.htm&usg=__XP4-dbdeMCSOsWpWQHbOWTH7WF4=&h=331&w=487&sz=19&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=4HkZIr3eD8hKTM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=159&ei=0e-kTY3nAcjn0QHciLHQBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRevell%2B%252756%2BFord%2BPickup%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1T4SNNT_enUS412US412%26biw%3D1345%26bih%3D539%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divns&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=443&vpy=217&dur=266&hovh=185&hovw=272&tx=108&ty=89&oei=0e-kTY3nAcjn0QHciLHQBQ&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0

The Duplicolor Hemi Orange Engine Paint is metallic, the Chrysler engine red/orange is not, but the metallic would be correct for the body color, as far as I know.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... V-bucket......... Oh, right... I like to use 3/32" solid core solder for my pipes, with aluminum tubing slipped onto the end for the tip(s). It accepts paint nicely, and can be polished out (I like to use Meguiar's Mag Polish with a microfiber cloth) to a very nice finish.

Could be worse... http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=revell+aar+cuda&channel=linkdoctor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=9562979408641196430&sa=X&ei=Eq6kTYCjCqXSiAKCzpXOCA&ved=0CCMQ8wIwAg# Though, at that price, I couldn't gripe too much!

The Monte is the guy on the bench who never gets played... pretty much useless unless you plan to slide a pro street chassis under it.

Thing is, though, there's NEVER, EVER been a kit which is totally accurate. Yes, I think it will happen, but I don't think the technology has been around long enough for the model companies to utilize it to its full extent. Look at he Moebius Lonestar- based on International's own CAD drawings, and the finished model, built well and photographed in a realistic setting, is indistinguishable from the real deal. But the Lonestar is a new design. They weren't using CAD in '64, and while you can certainly scan and computerize a '64 Falcon (or what have you), it seems like something gets scrambled in the translation. Remember all the messups noted in the Moebius Hudson test shots? Seems to me there's still a bit of a learning curve going on. Yes, I'm well aware of Trumpeter's boo-boos in the past (hey, I actually LIKED the Bonnie Hardtop...), this looks to be at least a mild improvement, and it would be way, way better than trying to rework an AMT AWB kit and (in most cases) quite a bit cheaper, and perhaps a bit easier, than trying to rework an original annual kit. Not that either of those two options would be a bad idea, just saying!

Shaping up to be a typical Trumpeter kit, then. Fresh thinking and good execution here, joined by some ham-fisted bungles and forehead-slapping foul-ups there... Kind of like the twilight years of RC2, only not as hillarious.

I've really been getting into these Tom Daniel kits recently. Maybe not the most realistic things ever thought of, but loaded with whimsy! I do kind of wonder how well that 'monocoil' front suspension would work in 1:1, however! I've got one of these kits, it's being built as a wrecker. Yep, a wrecker...

Gee, thanks, Bob. Now I'm all hot and bothered thinking of a 1:16 scale Charger Pro Tourer. Just what I need- another large scale model idea!

Very cool, indeed! I did a similar build with this kit's body and the '70 Super Bee pro street chassis not too long ago, glad to see I'm not the only one thinking of this stuff! Them Duke Boys better watch out...

Lovin' it all!

The front nerf bars are different on the two kits, and the Offy version has satin chrome instead of factory painted silver parts (I hear the next run of A-v8 versions will have this as well). Other than that, the decal sheet, and the hood, they're the same deal. Oh- look carefully if you buy the Offy version... the instructions say it has the A-V8, even though they did change the assembly diagrams to the Offy!