LDO

No bias there, huh?

Man. Someone looks at the world through poop-colored glasses.

I was completely serious when I said sign me up for a copy, BTW. I think it's an awesome car and a heck of story of what could have been. Imagine an American car with McLaren F1 performance in the early '80s.

One bad apple. Also- please don't take this thread to Cuba.

This reminds me of something I heard in the Army: "We can "what if?" This thing all day long". Revell either will or won't fix the kit. I'd like to think they will. They've hit a lot of home runs since the '59 Cadillac. I don't think they like having their reputation tarnished. It represents lost sales for a subject that people have been requesting for a long time. I don't buy any arguments about the Charger have more appeal, either. A whole different generation remembers Fox Mustangs as the muscle car to have when they were in high school. It's also the car they can afford to buy and customize now, unlike early muscle cars. I believe it has just as much appeal sitting as the Charger on the hobby shop shelf, just to a different demographic.

Aw come on, guys. Revell has corrected other kits that had mistakes. I'd just wait and see what they do, before writing them off. They hold a pretty high standard these days. I'll bet they correct it. ...let's turn that frown upside-down

Not really relevant tgo a model project, but the whole concept for that vehicle is flawed, IMHO. It needs to be lightweight to fly, which makes for a poor combat vehicle. Unarmored HUMVEES were poorly suited for conditions in Iraq, and those things are already heavy. Something rugged enough to carry armor and drive over rough terrain will be too heavy for an aircraft. If someone were to suggest using it in rear areas that are "safe", I'd say we already have vehicles for that.

I have also read of Milliput epoxy putty being rolled thin (imagine rolling out dough with a rolling pin) and draped over a form so it will cure in the desired shape. The Superfine grade was recommended. You'll need some Milliput in Superfine White grade, a smooth porcelain tile, a plastic rod for a rolling pin, and talcum powder to keep the putty from sticking. I have not used this to make flags, but I did make some rolled up sleeping mats to stow on top of a model tank. It worked out well.

Cool idea for a thread. I've got a few, but I'll have to dig them out. My oldest is a Pro/Street '71 Barracuda. Monogram body on a stretched Revell Matt & Debbie Hay Thunderbird chassis. No silly looking gaps between the body and tubs, like a lot of kitbashed pro/street cars have. That one dates back to 1990 or so. I put it away because I couldn't make the bodywork disappear under paint. That was before I discovered 2-part catalyzed putty. There are a couple of others. I'll try to dig them out and get pictures.

I have always thought the hatchback looked better.

They were on all kinds of cars. When I saw your photo, I thought at first that they came from Fujimi's Koenig Testarossa, then I remembered that's a 1/16 kit. That style was a very popular aftermarket wheel in the 1980s.

They look like Marchal lights. The company makes other shapes, but this is the one that made them famous.

Sign me up for a kit. Like a previous poster, the only one I've ever seen up close was at the Sinsheim museum. I visited that place several times when I served in Germany.

That's wild.

Oh man. i was just about to suggest King's. That's about it. I like to stop by and look through the "Gently Used Kits" section. You never know when a gem will show up.

Oh yeah- the giant planters against the fence have raspberries and blackberries. The planters are 55 gallon food grade plastic drums cut in half, as well as water softener brine tanks cut in half. I want to grow a lot more blackberries; enough to make wine/mead with. I want to make a batch of blackberry mead big enough to age in a bourbon barrel

I saw a pretty cool idea recently called a keyhole garden. It's a 6' dia raised-bed garden, with a central "basket" for compost to feed it. It has an inset area to provide access to the basket. The idea was developed as a way to grow food in areas with poor soil/hot climates. Anyway- here's mine. It's made of bricks without mortar. I got the bricks from a neighbor who had them as a patio. He got a pool, so the bricks had to go. I wanted to pour a concrete ring as a base and use mortar, but I was working so much that I just didn't have time. I decided to just build it before I missed out on growing season. You can see that I drove in some rebar to give some stability. (Some are below the top level. I used a rotary hammer to drive them. Some went farther than others in the rocky soil where I live) I need to trim them, but I have to replace the spanner for my angle grinder first. Oh yeah- the dirt is held in by a couple of layers of cardboard and some landscape cloth. Everything is growing well. It looks like we'll have more Pablano, Marconi, and Bell peppers than we know what to do with. We also have corn, carrots, onions, leeks...and I don't even remember what else. The compost basket isn't doing much good right now, so I water it every other day and rely on a soil mix that is 60% compost, so I think it will be ok for a while. I can't wait to make Chile Rellenos out of my own garden.

Hey-hey we're the Biebers! People say we Bieber around! Manufacturing a pop group is not a new thing. Having said that, I do listen to music from when I was a kid and before. (I was born in 1969) I do think it had a certain something, beginning in the '60s. Maybe a bit of rebellion mixed with some idealism. I like to think that the hippies did change the world, at least a little bit.

My favorite BBC in a kit is from the Tony Foti LAPD drag Camaro. It doesn't have "572" valve covers, but it does have the ultra-rare (in real life) Moroso cast aluminum valve covers.

I'm guessing you mean Chevy... You can get one from any kit with a big block chevy. Externally, it's identical to any other BBC.

Skip- Have you looked at the photoetched motorcycle drive chains made by Acu Stion? Check Hobbylink Japan.

Discussing a future release is classified as a kit review? ???

Curbside is OK. Wow. I'm so glad this is not April 1st. I can't believe there will finally be an affordable kit of the F1 streetcar. That is awesome. IIRC, Revell has made three different kits with a BMW V-12; a 750I, 850I, and the mid-engine Nazca M-12 concept car. Possible sources for a drivetrain. I would imagine that some aftermarket supplier will offer a resin/multimedia drivetrain.

Munro's engine was highly modified. Any affordable engine in that scale will be stock and a nondescript lump. The wheels will not be visible, and the frame is not stock. Use O-rings for tires, laminated styrene discs for wheels, and a scratchbuilt engine and frame.