oldcarfan

I never buy anything in this scale. 1/18th was always an odd size to me anyway. I only buy 1/24 or 1/25, but anything that negatively affects the hobby as a whole is of concern. I would however love it if they started issuing their subjects in on of these two smaller scales.

I really hope it's not the flip nose monster truck version. I have a rebuilder that I'm working on as a stock one and I've been hoping to find another to do as a sort of Japanese tuner style parts truck.

There are many reasons. One is saving an poor abandoned little car in need of a savior. it is also a challenge like a model version of one of those flip or flop shows where somebody buys a junk car or house and rehabs it. Probably the most common reason is that finding a mint kit in a lot of cases will cost mega-bucks if you can find one at all. Also, at least to me it feels wrong to buy a rare unbuilt kit and then build it when there may be only a few still extant.

It's a cliche, we'll miss him, but he's in a better place.

The Monogram Ranger is an 80-86 body style, and the F-350 is an 87-91. They are both 1/24th scale and pretty much the same size. The only real difference is the wheel wells and the tail lights. You can probably transplant just the wheel wells from step side to the fleet side part and call it good.

I think the Iron Horse version was the same kit, just changed a bit and recycled to get another use out of a tool. I seem to remember someone saying that a while back. It would be nice to see it returned to original and reissued if the tool is still around.

Nice cars, but I guess I'll have to stick to the 1/24 versions for a while more!

I don't buy many magazines these days, but Hot Rod Deluxe and Vintage Truck are some of those few!

In the last one, they'll all be overweight and hairy. They can call it the Fat and the Furry!

I've got the AMT RX-7 kit, it's a snap version and 1/25, but I really want the Monogram to go with all my other 70s Monogram Exotics.

Wouldn't work for me, but to each his own. Don't know why, but I've always been partial to 1/24-1/25.

I enjoy these movies in the same way I enjoy a good superhero movie. We go knowing that it is going to be stupid and unrealistic. That is expected and part of the suspension of disbelief. It's like going to a Clint Eastwood or Chuck Norris or Bruce Willis movie and believing they actually do all the things shown on the screen. I just sit back and watch. I heard that they were planning to do 10 of these F&F movies. Maybe the last one will have Dom taking on a bunch of crazed bargain shoppers in a WalMart while riding his highly modified Hover-Round scooter! Maybe he'll be driving his Charger with the left blinker going to the early bird special at Luby's?

Nice! I've been trying to get a 61-63 on eBay for a while, but always get outbid at the last minute. Have fun with it!

Really good idea and good execution as well!

That's the way I look at it. The majority of releases are actually re-releases of old kits. Even a lot of the new tools are modern, better versions of cars and trucks that have long been out. Camaros and such. It would be nice for those of us who like 'history' to replicate a kit the way it might have been done in 1963 or whatever. Trans Am sets for Camaros and Mustangs and CHallengers and Cudas? Freds Cady used to have this covered, but no one does this anymore as far as I know. It would still take a lot of scratch building, but at least the decals would be available. Also with the release of a lot of the 70s MPC kits, it would be nice to build some Pro Stock cars for which we could use decals. Finally, I know it's a different manufacturer and all, but I would love to see the Hardy Boys, Charlie's Angels and Kiss decals reissued for the Revell Chevy Van as well.

Sure looks like it.

Hello from Austin Texas to Sweden!

Welcome and have fun!

I hope the RX7 doesn't get canceled. I've been haunting eBay off and on for the last couple years looking for good deals on the Monogram European exotics kits. So far I've got 3 of the Porsche 911s, a 924, and a Mercedes SL. I just won a bid on another 911 and another 924 and almost got the TR7 and the 280Z. Maybe next time. These aren't detailed kits, but they are fun kits and for the most part they are well proportioned and designed. Somewhere on this site I posted a letter from the guy in charge of this line of kits. It was fun learning about them!

Welcome to the hobby, I hope you'll enjoy it! Tamiya kits are some of the best as far as ease of assembly. If you want to practice painting and detailing on something less expensive you might get a couple of Revell snap kits. They are easy to assemble but respond well to paint detailing and look really nice sitting on the shelf. They are a good way to practice techniques. A friend's daughter wanted to start building and so we got her a Jeep and Mustang. It gave her a lot of confidence to move on to more detailed things.

I put my suggestions in to them, but there are some pie in the sky ones that would be cool too. I know the licensing would be a nightmare and there's probably not much of a demand for it, but I would love to see some classic racing liveries, Ecurie Ecossie, Martini, Gulf with their blue and orange markings, stuff like that since retro seems to be cool in street outlaw Porsches and others. Decals of the less common Nascar race drivers and teams for current as well as old cars would be cool too, in fact it would be nice to have decals for currently available kits to give alternative versions...

I figure the hobby industry will adapt in that I can see how there could be companies selling a file with say, a few car bodies, engines or maybe a whole kit on it and you purchase the file, download it and print it out for assembly. I imagine it would also be a boon for the tech savvy hobbyist who knows his way around a CAD program. He could design a conversion kit or recreate the parts for some long gone rare kit and sell the files online rather than having to make the parts and sell them by mail or at shows.

Before we moved here, we owned our house. It was in a rundown west Texas town and they're dirt cheap there. My wife got her dream job teaching at the University here and the school system is sooo much better for the kids so we had to move, but didn't anticipate the crazy market and more importantly, her student loans are basically about the size of a house. We have a friend who is a realtor and she is keeping an eye out for a foreclosure or such, but Austin real estate is still at the point where for every house that pops up there are 3 bidders. We are also currently biding our time until the kids graduate because they love the school they're in.

That is the mark of technology. The price decreases as the quality increases. Eventually it will be just like a paper printer, the machine will be cheap and they'll make all their money on refills! LOL

Really good use of space! I looked at those magnetic tool strips at IKEA and also at Harbor Freight. I also really envy you the parts you have hanging there as well!