Chuck Most

I don't get that commercial... but the miniature giraffe always cracks me up!

I've never used anything but Testors Dullcote for this purpose- it has never let me down.

Uh... you are aware this is a model car forum, right?

I've been keeping an eye out as well, my LHS owner called on it last week, and was told it was going to press as they spoke. Shouldn't be too long now.

Certainly true (the '56 Effie was part of that lineup, too, but as you say they weren't all junk! The Attempt I was in that line, and so was this beauty...

Revell kits a new Mustang, I buy it. Simple as that. Haven't missed a single hit off the '06 GT tool, and plan not to miss any of the '10's permutations, either.

I think the reason Revell isn't including stock parts (besides the fact the car can't be built stock anyway) just revolves around cost. They know the vast majority of these would be built as rods or customs anyway, even if stock parts were included. Why include a bunch of parts practically nobody's going to use? Still, even a rodder like me could think of quite a few uses for some old stock Ford parts (mostly outside of their intended applications, just as the postwar rodders themselves did), so maybe Revell is missing the boat with a 'non-stock only' kit. I guess time will tell.

A priest, a pastor, and a rabbi were on a boat on a small lake, when they realized they'd left their drink cooler on shore. "Boy, I'm thirsty!" the priest said, eyeing the cooler on the beach. With that, he stood up, stepped out of the boat, and walked across the water. He grabbed a soda from the cooler, then walked back into the boat. The pastor said "You know what? I'm kind of thirsty, too." The pastor then stood up, stepped out of the boat, walked on the water back to shore, grabbed a soda, and walked back out. The rabbi looked at his two companions and said "Ha! My turn!!!!" The rabbi stood up, stepped out of the boat, and immediately plunged to the bottom of the pond. The preist leaned over the boat, his soda in one hand, staring at the bubbles coming up from where the rabbi had fallen in. He then turned to the pastor and said- "Eh, Bob... think maybe we should've told him where the rocks were?"

A Cable Car is still a car...right? SPOILER ALTERT!!!! It's 1:48 scale, despite what the box says!!!! I think it's a pretty cool kit, despite its scale. Since I'm no expert on cable-driven public transport, I can only speculate on its accuracy compared to the real McCoy, but the built up model depicted on the box sure looks like a cable car to me! The brake levers are pretty cool too, and might be usable in a bi-scale rat rod or heavy equipment project. The true nut jobs among our ranks could even use the kit as a pattern, double the dimensions and 'blow it up' to 1:24 scale, or do some fuzzy, head-hurting math and do it in 1:25. (NOTE- I just might do that!) Despite its obvious finished result, many tourist busses are built to resemble old-timey cable cars- one could conceivably use this kit to built one of those, the trick might be finding a 1:48 truck chassis with which to underpin it. At any rate, I think it's a cool subject, even if it isn't done in my 'typical' model car scale!

One other thing to consider... some scripts are much easier to do than others. It's much easier to detail the scripts and badges when they're well-engraved in the first place, than the ones which are so faint they vanish under the first 'mist' of primer!

Latest "progress"... Added the teeth to the windows (yes- there are fewer on the actual model than shown in the drawing, maybe it was in a bar fight or something), and added the 'door handles', a pair of slip-joint pliers on the driver side, and a double end wrench on the other, both pirated from a Fujimi parts pack.

Tom speaks my language! (Golden Retriever, if you were curious...)

Nice work, and it sure is refreshing to see a strip-o Camaro in scale for a change!

Yes, you should.

Exactly! And even if you DO like your Fat Fords with hammered lids, that doesn't mean you'll like the specific chop Revell used. I know of quite a few modelers who liked the fact the Revell '49 Merc had a chopped top, but didn't like it's proportions... see, you can't even please the people who DO want the body done a particular way. Sure, it will lose a few replica stock builders, but then again- how much call is there for a stock '48 Ford kit? I can't imagine there's much- most of the Fords from that era are hot rods now. One of the reasons Revell hasn't done a stock version of its splendid Deuce kits? No demand. Maybe it's the same story here, and by giving the car a chop right off the bat, they're letting the potential buyers know which market the kit is catered to.

I've got a pretty lenient tolerance toward styling, so it really has to be a truly horrific design for me to call it 'ugly'. Plenty of ill-proportined kits, though, and many of those fit into the 'worst fitting' category as well- for example... Revell '56 Ford F-100- Not only is it fiddly and ill fitting, it barely resembles a '56 Effie at all. The fenders and cab are blob-like compared to the 1:1. Want a good looking model of a '56 F-100? Cut a wraparound windshield into an AMT '53 and rob the appropriate '56 bits from a Revell kit to fill in the blanks. IMC/Testors/Union '46 Ford Coupe and Convertible- Suffers from much the same ailments as the Revell Effie, with a much more stress-inducing multipiece body. Pyro/Lindberg '48 Lincoln- I won't get into why, we've been down this road before... MPC/AMT/Ertl '69 Mustang Sports Roof- 1:25, you say? Then why does a built '66 kit dwarf it? It at least looks decent built up (or it can in the right hands, anyway), but the scale discrepancy makes it look odd nevertheless. And a few others that are poor-fitting (at least in my experience), but end up as nice models after all that misery and cursing include... Revell '29 Model A Pickup/'30 Tudor Sedan IMC/Testors Little Red Wagon and Dodge L-700 Ertl/AMT International Paystar 5000 (mixer is worse, dump truck slightly less of a pain)

I've heard many people in various modeling circles speak of Squadron's Green putty. It seems that a lot of people use it, but I've never heard any specifics about it. How long does it take to cure? Is is comparable to, say, Bondo 2-part bodywork putty? I've never heard anything bad about it, but on the other hand, I've never seen any one go on and on about how GREAT it is, either!

My only question... who sells the Gregg bobble-heads?

Where's my Speedo...

Is that a resin body? I've had paint do that on resin- usually it's some leftover mold release that I didn't clean completely off, or some other surface contaminant. By the way... what kind of car is that?

Coolest buildup of the Revell Lightning I've seen in a long time! Nice work.

Another thought to throw some gas on the "chopped or unchopped" debate on the '48- I do plan on trying to 'unchop' at least one of these kits when it comes out, though with my luck, an unchopped resin body will become available about ten seconds after I struggle to finish mine! (Kinda surprised there isn't a stock-top coupe bod for the existing '48 ragtop, now that I ponder it... ) Won't be a cakewalk, but you never know, it might be easier and end up looking beter than adding an IMC top to the Revell ragtop kit (which I have also considered, and so far haven't tried). Yeah, I do think that maybe kitting an unchopped coupe would have given the car a bit more appeal, but since this issue seems to be geared more toward the custom builder, I personally can live with the built-in chop!

Hey, yo! C to the K! You's right about the chopped Fo-Eight! I don't know why ya'll peeps be buggin! So sweet it scats sugar indeed, and so so ravashing in it's period custom goodness that it whizzes rainbows! (Best I could do on under the circumstances...)

I'm just shocked a real car was used in a Michael Bay movie,much less destroyed- that hack doesn't know how to make a movie without that 21st century filmmaking crutch, CGI. Strangely, considering all that's happened, I'm not even happy a Camaro was destroyed, something which usually makes me all giddy.

CAUTION!!!! If you built one rat rod, you WILL build more... Very nice build of one of the greatest model kits EVER, too, by the way!