Don Sikora II

Very nice job, it looks good!

No expert on these, but when I used them for work we had analog Mitutoyos. Looked and Amazon sells the 6-inch model for about $98. I have a couple cheap calipers. One is a plastic (nylon, I think) and analog. The other is steel and digital and came from Aldi of all places. They were $10, and ended up getting cleared out for $5! I'm guessing they aren't nearly as good as Mitutoyos, but for what I use them for they are fine. I find I usually use the digital ones, and they're nice because you can toggle between inches and metric at the touch of a button. I take the battery out when i'm done using them...read someplace the cheap ones, at least, tend to run down the batteries because "Off" isn't really off.

The 1/32-scale kits based on the Monogram slot bodies weren't reissued in SSP. About 15 years ago a slot-car company (think it was MRRC) released some of the 1/32 Monogram bodies in their line of slot cars...bought one of the Chaparral 2s and if I remember right it used metal wheels and MRRC-supplied tires. Later, Revell-Monogram used some of the Monogram 1/32 bodies for their own slot-car program. For sure they ran the Chaparral 2 again and the Ferrari 275P and 250 GTO ('64) were offered in unassembled form. Don't know it for a fact, but do not believe these used a reproduction of the old Monogram tires. Closest thing I know of to the old Monogram 1/32 slot tires are the tires in the Revell Surfite. They don't fit the old kit parts as is, but they may work with modification to the inner and outer wheels. Never compared them to the old slot tires, but have you looked at the tires in the new-tool Revell midgets?

This seems most common with AMT tires froth late Sixties/early Seventies. Not sure what's causing it, but it could be mold release residue from when the tires were molded.

Agree.

There are a lot of housewares and home items in Tuesday Morning, but the few stores I've been in also have a large aisles of toys. Have had the occasional Hot Wheels find there too...usually recently discontinued collector-series cars that the big box stores have stopped stocking.

I remember when Big Lots had the RC2 Nostalgia Series kits, that was probably in 2007 or 2008. A few years before that, the Big Lots store by me had LOADS of the Canadian release of the Revell-Germany Jacques Villeneuve Williams F1 car for $5 apiece. There are not any Ollie's in my area, but we have a place called Tuesday Morning. It's an odd mix of closeout stuff including some higher-end housewares. My sister got a really nice piece of Victorinox luggage there once too. They get kits every so often. and if I'm in there I'll check....you really have to look around because the shelves seem to be stocked based on whatever will fit in available space. Few years ago the had some of the Round 2 AMT pre-paint NASCAR COT kits super cheap. Before that, I bought some of the RC2-era specials that I think were done for Stevens International...for sure I bought the '27 Ford T police car and think there was at least one other one too. They were cheap, maybe $6.99 or something like that. Have seen J. Lloyd-era Lindberg kits and Hawk die casts there too.

Nice find!

When I've used a plate that's still on the paper, before installation I'll paint the backside with a thin coat of Tamiya acrylic aluminum. That way if the plate hangs off the bumper a bit you don't see the typical pink or blue decal paper.

Thanks guys!

Does anyone know what tires AMT included in the original issue of the Barris Fireball 500 kit? Picked up a started kit and was surprised to find four of AMT's small treaded Indy-racer tires in the box. They're the solid ones usually seen in early issues of the '63 Lotus-Ford and Watson roadster. Are they original to my kit? The box has pictures of the 1:1 car on it, and the rubber looks surprisingly beefy.

I've named a few. The black roadster I call the Drag Deuce. The IMSA-style Monza is the Donza and has that on the license plate. Don't remember how it came to be named that, but it stuck.

I'm really looking forward to Round 2 doing the Pepper Shaker. I hope the decals include the black hood stripes that were only in the original issue.

My local Michaels has a very small kit section. Think the only Round 2 kit they have is the '70 1/2 Camaro Z/28. Newest Revell kit is the S&H Torino. The Testors rack isn't locked up in any way and is well stocked though, and sad to say in my local area Michaels is probably the second-best place to buy model paint after Hobby Lobby. Maybe a couple months ago they had a 60% off any item email coupon, and I used that on a Revell '69 Z/28 which brought it down to about $10.

I've noticed this on a China-made AMT Rat Packer Chevy II that is about 10-15 years old. Chrome tree still in factory bag and it's turning yellow in places.

Anybody here lucky enough to have one of these? If so, could you post a picture of the decals?

I do about the same as what Bob Downie shows, but I click the button at the bottom of the pop-up that says "More Sharing Options." Clicking on that button opens up a new page called "Share File." From there I copy the "Code for forums" URL on the album size tab. Pic below posted in this manner. Hosted on Fotki

Hosted on Fotki Starting in the album with the picture I want to share, I first click on the thumbnail. Once the image opens, then I click on the "Share" button along the top right edge of the image. Clicking opens a pop-up window with four possible codes to use for sharing. I don't use those, I click the button at the bottom of the pop-up that says "More Sharing Options." Clicking on that button opens up a new page called "Share File." From there I copy the "Code for forums" URL on the album size tab.

Think it was called photopoint. Had pictures there, and another smaller site that worked with webtv before it. Gets hard to remember for sure, but pretty sure I had a paid account at photopoint when they went under....

Think the engine in the Revell Anglia is actually an Oldsmobile. Only small-block Chevy with tall injectors I can think of off top of my head is in most issues of the AMT '55 Nomad.... but the injector parts weren't in the latest issue which was stock only.

That's probably when a clickable link is displayed, not the actual photo.

Yes, that's the kit.

Have a nice unbuilt Roarin Rambulance that I bought about 20 years ago at one of the Kit Collectors shows in Buena Park, California. Back in the early Eighties, picked out a Haulin Hearse in the taller/narrower box new at the local hobby shop. From what I remember, made a pretty good mess of that one with a runny Pactra Lemon Yellow spray job.

Pretty sure my Monte Carlo also has most of the paint worn off too. Have quite a few cars from that 1975 time frame (including the yellow Monte Carlo stocker, the black Street Rodder, and a chrome Monza 2+2) that were my favorites and it's obvious how much they were played with going by how little paint they have left on them. If I remember right, my Torino received a couple different Testors brush paint jobs in the late Seventies....thankfully didn't do that to too many of my cars.

Never had the set, but as a kid I received both those cars as regular-line Hot Wheels around 1975. The red Torino was "reissued" in one of the nostalgia series a few years ago. Not an exact match to the original, but it's in the ballpark. The yellow one is a Monte Carlo.