Chuck Most

I think that's tapered off- the local Chevy dealer has had the same two Camaros on the lot all summer collecting dust. Same story at the more distant dealerships. Heck, the nearest can't even sell the cool green one that's had crowds around it up until the last few weeks! I don't think it's the front and back they screwed up- the car (to me) is too wide for its length, or too short for its width, and as a result it just looks 'squatty' to me. I doubt history will remember it as a beautiful design like the first gen. (And for the record, I'm one of the eleven people on Earth who don't like the first-gen Camaros. )

Worst case scenario is somebody tells you to Chuck off!

Fear not! I hear that a few ex-Pocher and ex-Palmer engineers have teamed up to develop a 1:8 scale 2011 Mustang! With the brilliant engineering and fit of Pocher and the unyielding accuracy and realism of Palmer, it should be a stunner!

Looks like a pretty good replica to start with- but the weathering makes it incredibly cool! I'd rather see an old Fordson 'wearing its old work clothes' than one all restored and dolled up. But I may be biased- my grandfather has a barnful of weathered old Fordsons!

Yep, that would be my coup de grâce for most of my 'out of box' modeling adventures!

Yeah... like I did. Doug, I love seeing the oldies built up, and seeing old glue bombs revived. I also love '60's fullsize Mercs. So I guess I don't need to say I love this one!

Can't go wrong with a first-gen Effie, especially this nice! Not to wild about the color, but on this one, with the scallops, it works.

Seventy five grand for a Camaro? The double-wide and lifetime supply of mullet gel don't even add up to that. (Rimshot...)

Yep- look for them and there they are! Thanks, Chuck. Fortunately, the body is thin enough to spread in order to engage the tabs molded into the body to the chassis plate. Of course, I could have skipped this if I'd simply read the flippin' destruction sheet in the first place-

While we're on the subject of '40 kits, I could go for a '40 Woody Wagon. I'd buy a few of those even if it were only available as factory stock! Not sure how much they could use from the existing '40 kit tooling-wise, but I think it would be a good seller for Revell.

One question... where's the pool boy?

Because it does look cool, Harry! And Felix- your model does the 1:1 justice, it's an incredible build! Tastes like rainbows...

Did NOT know that until now.

Not if you did it in HO scale!

Yeah- I didn't notice it right off, but when I used one of the earlier reissues to build a replica of my grandfather's '59 model, I realized "Hey... there's a whole second set of framerails!" The "Construction" reissue had the vestigial tractor rails, but I can't vouch for other issues including them as well. I wasn't too thrilled with the price of the Stevens tractor reissue myself, either- especially when you can get the last reissue of the C-600 stake for less. A LOT less, in many cases. Other than the lack of tractor framerails, this reissue is about the same, though the plastic is better- the white styrene they're using now doesn't seem as susceptible to sink marks as the earlier gray stuff.

Anybody hear that? It's the sound of my head swelling to about twice its normal size...

I've considered it, but I always keep thinking- "Uh... no." Still, though, I'd think it would be very cool if somebody DID make a scale model of it!

Okay... more stock than what they run today, anyhow!

Okay, I'll play...

If you mean this one- Yes, it should have the semi tractor frame rails in it.

I'm going by memory here, but I think the tractor framerails had a bit more taper to them at the rear than the stake rails, which are pretty much totally flat. Even so, (and even if I'm dead wrong) it wouldn't be a big ordeal to shorten the stake frame, or move the axle ahead the desired amount and 'bob' the frame after it, since the other tractor pieces appear to be intact. The tractor rails would've been a bonus, though, and might well have helped AMT sell a few more of these.

Hmmmmm.... I like the idea, but I dunno. I guess it kind of depends on what kind of 'custom' parts are included. '40 Fords have had everything from nerf bumpers and skirts to canted quad headlamps added to them- but I'm thinking the resulting kit would be a mostly otherwise stock '40 with a chopped top. Not necessarily a bad thing, IMHO, but maybe not "Kustom" enough to draw in a new audience. And if they did go with a more extreme custom it might go too far and scare off people who'd otherwise be into it. I guess its doable, and I think it would be a good seller, but they'd be walking a tightrope in how they approached what parts/modifications to include.

Yes- Ken and Drew- the window net does more closely resemble a storm drain grate- and theoretically it shouldn't even be there, as I don't see a driver behind the wheel! I thought of cutting it out, but that would have been against the 'approach it like the typical snap kit buyer' mindset- I really wanted to get a good idea how the thing went together, as AMT intended, and to that end, I wasn't too badly disappointed. Drew... I KNEW I could depend on you to point out the tire lettering issue- long a pet peeve of mine as well on stock car models! Not sure about the wing- I think the 1:1 piece is pretty ungainly, maybe that's skewing my judgement. Mark- hadn't heard of the glue kits being canceled- I was really hoping to see how Round 2's first full detail glue kit would be, even if I'm not a huge fan of the subject matter. (Yes, I admit, I long for the good old days when a stock car was, indeed, mostly stock!) with all the 'licencing' and 'lack of interest' revolving around modern NASCAR and kits of late, I'm actually a bit surprised the snap kits made it to the shelves. Chuck (not me, the other one)-I kind of wonder if I inadvertently broke those tabs- I'll certainly be checking it out. I've always kind of considered the 1980's Monogram stock cars to be the gold standard of the genre. Not TOTALLY perfect (sorry,NO kit is perfect), but very nicely detailed and executed. Then the Revell Dodge Intrepid came... then the last stock car kit I bought, AMT's Taurus, driven by Mark Martin before he turned traitor and went to Chevy, and still wearing the #6 and 'little blue pill' sponsorship. Detail wasn't bad- but the flash and warped parts, and brittle decals guaranteed it would never stray too far from its original box, at least for me. This one is pretty far from the old Monogram kits, but on the other hand, I'd rather build one of these than the AMT Taurus, even if the Taurus is better detailed. (But I'd rather build an old Monogram T-Bird than either of them!) I do agree with Drew that NASCAR kits don't seem to get the same attention lavished on them as other subjects of late. A modern COT, done to the same level of almost-greatness we see with the current spate of new and revised tooling, shouldn't exactly be a slow seller, at least the way I see it. But then again, I keep hoping Revell will reissue a '70 Mustang with a correct grille, or the Jeep J-10 Honcho, or the old Monogram Land Rover... so maybe I don't see things too clearly!

One of my all-time favorite articles is the one he did for SAE, the one about the SC/Rambler! The Buick buildup (where he built the Monogram '70 into a model of an actual car owned by the president of the Buick club), is one I still haven't tried, but plan to one of these days!

You might want to get with Aftashox- I think he used a resin cab on that wild green Ford SD he build a year or two back. I'm thinking of stretching a testors F-250 into a Crew Cab, but I've never cut and pasted die cast metal before!