Dave Van

I still have mine....mint condition. The 'mouth' is not only a different plastic it looks like it may have been a epoxy mold or maybe aluminum .....other short term use tooling.....so it may have been tossed years ago.

WHY does clearing Silver Leaf kill it so bad????? I built a Monogram Fast Buck and painted it silver leaf over the molded blue.....looked FANTASTIC!!!! Then I cleared it. Still OK....but just a common silver I could have gotten with Testors.....

COOL build!! Glad it's not a REAL Gremlin!!! But cool model!! PS...glad to see those decals used...I did the art for them!! Fun seeing them!

The #43 car with Richard driving ran ONCE!! Joe ran the #04 car most of that season. The #43 was mainly a PR move to get people to buy the kit cars!

I saw it on Thursday 16th.....went back a few days later to see the 3D version.....a waste of money in our theater as it just seemed dark and fuzzy. I've seen every film opening day...first showing......so I am a fan. Esp 7 was good....not great but good.

ANY of the 1/24-25 slot car 'bodies' as curbside reissues would be welcome to me.......Maybe a REALLY cool box art with two cars in each box. Feel free to use that idea John!!!! I have the Cox Cheetah and Chaparral curbside kits.....I should say HAD a Cheetah.....it was in it's box....when I opened it one day and the body was in about 10 pieces....it had become super brittle and exploded!!! Even now it almost crumbles. A reissue would be good....but doubt molds are out there....and Modelhaus is nicer any way!

I was able to buy three of those Brat kits when a wholesaler we bought from went out of business and found a stash of old product. A decent looking kit....yet to build one.....seems like a no brainer for a reissue but I don't pay the bills and Subaru may not be to license friendly.

WOW....again!

All good here!!!!! Sometimes my 25 years of technical writing makes my post on the net seem 'snooty' maybe...... But it's been a good discussion.......thx

Not that the rest of us don't........25 years as a Analyst sometimes makes MY answers more analytical than dreaming.......add working in the industry now..... will color MY answers at times.........thx

I have sold around 2500 kits this year....yet I buy more!!! I have enough now to build one a day for many many years...... Someone is marketing right!!

Yes......I'd love to have a firm list of all tooling, complete or not, to see what is out there. It'd be great fun.....that would serve no purpose for R2 at all. In fact it could almost be harmful......so we will all have to just wait, or have fun speculating, on what is out there......... besides.....I do not think ANYONE knows 100% what is out there. Think along the lines of the AMT 34 Ford pick-up kit. Lost....then found and 'claimed' by another, at the time, manufacture. There is a good possibility of old tooling sitting in the storage area of a tool shop somewhere.

What Luc said........ What is there does not matter as much as condition.......if usable it will be run at some point.

Fantastic,,,,,,but the engine is out of the park!!!!!

The Camaros did come after the Mustangs.....finda forgot them even though I have built and saw the real cars race!!! WANT the Javelins to be tooled again!!!

I WISH!! Last Trans Am kits were Revell Mustangs of the 1990's. That was a project of then product manager Bob Johnson. I built a IMSA Cougar from a test shot of the Revell street 1989 Cougar to try and get the bean counters to approve a IMSA/Trans Am version. It didn't happen and that was the end of modern Trans Am models. You could modify the Revell racing Corvette to TA specs but it's LOTS of work. I offered a few TA models a few years ago and mastered a Mustang TA body for Slixx.

Very nice work. Wish we could get some of those cars n 1/24 plastic.

Better than I've ever seen it built!!

I co-owned DNL Hobbies from 1984 until I parted ways with my partner in 1995. I have a line now for info contact me offline. I made my first decals when I was about 10 years old by hand painting images on brown craft paper tape and painting shellac over them.....it works but is really crude!! Thx

Thanks but Walthers has been making Solvaset since the 1930's and it works 100% of the time I use it. $4 and lasts me years.......heard the vinager thing.....but as a decal manufacture.......stick with what works.

RIP Chuck....prayers to all...... thanks to Bill for linking to Chucks forum name.

Saw eps. 7 Thursday night at 19:00 keeping my record of seeing every Star Wars movie at the very first showing. Nothing will ever match seeing the first film ib 1977, you can't equal the 'newness' of the original. Saying that #7 is a good film......Mad Max Fury was better for 2015 IMHO only.

I love movie cars......good luck!

Box art improvements sell kits. It's a business that's not as easy as it looks. EVERYBODY in the biz right now is giving 100%. These are the good old days.

Going through molds is a most difficult task. It takes heavy equipment, personnel and lots of time. Then add someone with the knowledge of molds and their history and you begin to see how big the task is. A buddy of mine talked about vetting molds in a warehouse that he was involved in. Looking at a mold you see everything almost in a negative mirror format. He would carry a big ball of Silly Putty to press into the mold so he could pull it out and get a better idea what the mold was. A daunting task for sure.