Dave Van

Ditto....WOW

Revell has been trying 'outside the box' marketing for a few years now. At one time they had merchandisers available for grocery stores and other stores.

Terry, Model Round-up will be carrying the Police kits for sure. Any dealer can get them by contacting Model King, info on any MK box.

This project has been stalled for 10 years!!! It started out as a 1/12 Roush Racing IMSA GTO Cougar. I have failed a number of times to build a body I was happy with....so here it sits. Chassis is all Evergreen and Plastruct plastic. Some Grandt line NBW castings. Suspension works with working coil overs. Engine started as a small block Chevy with all detail removed from block, re detailed as a SBF and new heads and valve covers made and cast in resin. Lots of turned aluminum pulleys etc. I NEED to work on this again.......

You can contact me for info here or on Randys bb.....thanks

I'll give you credit for hand painting them......It's what I had to do on my original kit when the kit decals were defective. But next time try these.......

Geo Metro has a 3 cyl.....but I think they were just talking current production. It too is a 1000 cc motor.

While it's only 70hp or so the 3 cyl engine in my Smart 452 is no slouch. I keep pace on the Interstate, out run them most the time and driven in manual mode runs great. A all new design with eco and turbo should be hot. Dad's Flex with the twin turbo 6 is UNREAL fast.....it's the biggest fastest thing I've driven.

Nice work!!! I want to do the same conversion for a Conehead driving school car!!! I bashed a Taurus with a Dodge mini van to make my wagon. Sorry for the bad pic....it was with my first diggy and it was very poor....need new pics.

WILD!!!!

Google 1957 police car and a few movie cars will come up. I did this during research and IIRC and number of 50's B movies had them as well as mainstream films.

WOW....from a owner of 2 1/1 AMC's!!!

Revell used a Motorola 1956 Police radio for the radio and obtained a siren and gumball (not sure the model numbers used) from a vintage police car collector. My fault if I made it sound like it was an EXACT copy of car in photo. But it sounds like some may not like it at any rate. Only 3000 being run so if you do want them get your order in early. Thanks

Model King made an announcement today....see it in review section....

Model King will be issuing a special edition of the new Revell 1957 Ford kit. The kit will be a slightly modified version of the current Revell 57 Ford. The kit will contain new vintage police car parts and a large decal sheet with lots of Police, Fire and other markings that will allow the builder to create a number of different vehicles. Sean S. will be doing the box art and I the decals. We will post these as soon as they are finalized and approved. Below is a photo of the prototype car used to tool the extra parts. Stay tuned.....this will be cool.....

I'd look for some news around Toy Fair time......maybe......

Kinda....in a way....... Polar lights was owned by Tom Lowe and was part of his Johnny Lighting group. RC2 bought JL/PL and ran it under RC2......until Tom Lowe Leased AMT/MPC/PL/JL from RC2 and from what I understand he has now bought the assets from RC2 owner Tomy. The circle of life hobby version!

Penske was not happy with Dodge flip flop on it's commitment to NASCAR. Roger is a business man and felt the need to go to Ford, Ford wanted more good cars....so the switch was on. Look to Ganassi to bail. Chip does not like being Chevy team #4.....and was Dodge when he entered NASCAR and won with Dodge. Chip follows the money and Dodge may go there......that's why a ONE year deal with HMS for motors.......and not a multi year deal.

The Dodge folks themselves said the left only because no teams of the level they needed were open. They also admitted that the response they got when they said they were leaving 'made it apparent the impact we had was greater than thought'. And a Cup Championship Sunday will add to that.

Dodge will be back in 2014. Maybe sooner if they win the championship next Sunday.

I have no inside info on this one.......I know they are looking at it.....but they are looking at lots of things!!! I'm working on the next Model King Revell kit now....but not sure if it's been announced yet so I'll wait for someone to do that! I'd like to see new NASCAR kits....but money may get in the way IMHO.

The instructions show how to build the figure if you already built the Pod...but my laziness has paid off!

Got the figure set a few days ago......was waiting on it to build my POD.....and I too am waiting on the Tumbler!!!! Nice work!!

Thanks for the info Casey......wonder if it really will have a roof rack or someone used a Fresh Cherrys die cast for a stand in......

You did about as good a job considering the kit and it's issues. Here is FYI for anyone that may build one of these. Rear Spoiler- trim it at trunk edge...these never went over the body sides like the kit. A Pillar- trim the back side to thin the A pillar the kit's pillar is way too thick. Rear Fender- sand the ridge down and smooth it into fender the kit is too pronounced. Front Fender- lightly sand the top of the fender to soften the top edge. Grille Opening- Trim the inside of the opening so the grille unit will fit into the opening in a higher position. Just these few things will help a LOT!!! My version of the same kit......Hersall McGriff's Petty owned Charger