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Dave Van

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  1. have never seen that kit look that good. Any chassis photos? IIRC mine had a separate roof...tough build for a kid. I make screen printed decals for that kit if you need some.
  2. Looks like my Maine Coon Henry I loss to vacine related cancel. 24 lbs of the biggest baby cat ever. Still miss him. My rescue red tabby now sleep on my shoulders while I work at my desk...... Henry.....and yes it's summer do heat is off.
  3. She looks FANTASTIC to me!!!! I'd be proud to have her in my garage! Congrats! and thanks for some great reference shots...I plan on getting a few of the kits.
  4. That's outside the box thinking!!! Cool!
  5. Looks great!
  6. I have one of the Stevens version but I'll get another......
  7. A few of the Moebius pick up trucks have a 240/300 inline 6. There are some resin but cost about the same as the kit.
  8. COOL SPIN!!!! I have a few of those kits......your build is a great alternative!!
  9. Don't forget the even longer 4 door Vette from Mystery Men
  10. Pretty sure it got cut ip and retooled.......when asked about it I was told not available.
  11. Monogram did a kit of it.....I have a few...never built one.
  12. Years ago a resin caster did a 4 door Edsel.....but it was so bad I passed when I saw it a Toledo NNL.....
  13. A RARE car in real life....but a favorite on mine. Excellent work on a not so easy resin body. Maybe now we will get a kit.....always happens to me!!
  14. With the reissues I have gotten many kits I could not afford as a kid. It may not be on everyone's list but the coming Gypsy Wagon showrod is a $200+ kit before R2 did a lot of work to get it reissued. (coming 1stQ) There are some other kits thought gone forever they are working on too......so they are working hard to make things available. I'm a pretty happy guy!
  15. You made it look good!!!!! Kinda a odd kit for AMT at the time..........I recall when they raced the real car on NASCAR type short tracks....and beat them up!
  16. The S&H red plastic is not really a problem. A coat of silver, then white and then custom light blue.....covered fine. The white is better....but I could not wait!!!! I wanted this kit since the real car was built!!! Forgive my photo of my build...but want to show red plastic is not the problem some feel......Thx
  17. I knew about the film....but thanks for letting us know it was on Amazon. I got to met Roth twice. Once when he worked at Knott's Berry Farm and had a little shack to the left of the Calico Mine ride. He had a few motorcycles he was working on. I was young and he was Roth......so interaction was not much!!! The 2nd time was when Revell had him at RCHTA in Chicago. Again not much interaction....but this time I got a signed note from him so worth the 30+ years wait!
  18. I have the correct size nuts.......never seen acorn style in that size.
  19. Nice work.......I've do that same conversion for Bill Elliott Torino but yours came out better.
  20. GM, in the past, has been a bear to deal with on licensing.........so......
  21. Varying the scale does not avoid copyright laws.......'Trade Dress' covers that all a round. The scale issue is more that they want to fit the same size box for each car and increase or decrease the sacle to fill said box.
  22. Nope....does very little to help. Washing hands and being careful around others is much more helpful. Even saw a news report that admitted that this morning.
  23. The large amount of speculation about Revell over the past year or so is due to the appearance to the public of a 'cloak and dagger' like moves. A good personal friend is a hobby wholesaler. When Blitz finalized the purchase of Revell USA they did let everyone go, locked the building and had ZERO personnel in the USA to answer any questions about anything....including scheduled shipments that never showed up. This went on for weeks.....lending to all the rumors to what was going on. Blitz either didn't care or was unaware of the issues they were creating by the information blackout. It then became a game of 'telephone' where info good and bad was passed along and often changed each time it was repeated leading to all the misinformation. I did freelance work for Monogram/Revell since the 1980's and really wanted to know what was going on. But hard info was not out there. When Ed Sexton showed up as a Rep of the new Revell I contacted him. I got only basic info about what was going on but had to be happy with it. So all this leads to tons of bad info and lots of guessing.. Pretty much SOP when things like this happen....human nature. One FACT I know is Blitz got the deal of the century buying Revell.......the retired banking analyst in me says so!
  24. JADA is the big offender in labeling a model 1/24 and it's NOT! I bought a FnF Pink Honda S2000 (online ) that was labeled 1/24 it was much closer to 1/18.....as big as a Dodge Charger!!! Why???? Because the mass market 1/24 die cast are really just toys made for kids and no one cares....
  25. I have built a few AG cars but not as many as planned......... Steve/Toad 58 from Revell kit.....it was going to be a die cast but Revell changed their mind. Modelhaus wheels and Caddy tail lights. For a more obscure AG car how about the T bucket Milner is talking to while sitting in the parking lot??? We never see it clearly so I did a best guess version....
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