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I have this body as well. If you haven't worked with resin, it is a little different than regular plastic. Before you do too much, be sure to wash the body thoroughly to remove any mold release. Other than that, get some medium viscosity super glue and probably a thing of kicker. There will be some pinholes and other things that will show up after the first coat of primer that will need to be dealt with.

Is there a time limit? I just got an old unbuilt Monogram 1979 Camaro that needs to be built.

On another site a guy was saying he contacted Revell and they sent him a decal set for a particular release that I think hasn't been in production for a good while. That started me to wondering how the companies get replacement parts. Do they keep a bunch of extra kits somewhere back in the warehouse and when a customer calls for something they send someone back there to raid them for parts? Do they have a bunch of old kits or parts of kits? I want that job!

It looks like it's set up for building a tear drop trailer. Either way, it's cool!

I tried ordering some Pegasus wheels through HobbyTown recently and was told that they couldn't get any except for the lowrider wheel/tire units which they always seem to have plenty of anyway. Anyone know if that was a problem with HT? It's really frustrating since I like to buy locally.

I have one of the '75s that I got on the bay a while back. I pull it out and work on it sometimes. Now I can do one stock and one hotted up!

B-E-A-UTIFUL!

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.

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