Aaronw

It looks good so far, and they always look good in black. Model Ts are fascinating, a very simple vehicle but they were available with a dizzying variety of options both factory and aftermarket. I built this kit a few years ago as an early US Forest Service supply truck. The kit is simple and in places a bit crude but I had fun with it and have plans for many more I the future. Like you I intended it to be a quick simple build that also ended up taking about a year to finish.

The Revell Build and Play are super simple, it literally takes me 2-3 minutes to assemble them. My 2 1/2 year old has become interested in my models, so I've done a couple of them with him. Pretty durable for a model, although he has managed to break the wheels off. The police car made it a few days, the jeep a few weeks before the wheels came off. For an older 4-6 year old child they are plenty tough as a toy, just not 2-3 year old tough. The level 2 kits are a nice curbside snap / simple glue level kits that are easy to assemble but offer room for added detailing. I've got the Jeep Rubicon and Ford Raptor which I actually got for myself because of the subjects. The Revell Peterbilt and Kenworth mentioned above are similar being fairly simple to build but well detailed even including a nice CAT 3406 engine which I've swiped for other projects. I don't know if they are still around but Jada had some nice snap kits I built with my older son when he was 7 or 8. Again tough enough to play with but nice kits open to detailing for a more advanced modeler. There were some Speed Racer kits (Mach 5 and Mach 6) as well as some sports cars a Corvette and I think a Mustang, probably others.

I try to keep up with posts in the news / reviews section but I completely missed your post on it. Looks like a nice little kit, thanks for putting it up.

I had an ad pop up for a Hasegawa Honda N360. I don't recall seeing this before and haven't seen it mentioned in any of the upcoming products threads. Minis, Trabants, Renaults, we are starting to get quite the selection of kits for the space challenged who don't want to go to a smaller scale. http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs1121.html

I really want one of these. I'm not old enough to need to bring my whole house camping, but I am old enough that sleeping on the ground has lost its appeal and these are just perfect for that, a bed and a kitchen in a small package that even a Prius can tow.

Just throwing a wrench out there, but wouldn't cars you had available when you got your license make more sense? If we go with birth year that means it is 16-18 years old by the time you could drive it. Going birth year +16 I'd go with a 1983 Volvo 245 wagon Honestly I was contemplating a 145 myself, one little problem, Volvo only offered the 142 and 144 door sedans in 1967, the 145 Wagon wasn't introduced until 1968. I mean sure we could all throw out Shelby Cobras, Corvettes, Ferraris etc, but from a realistic and practical point of view (drivability, cost, durability) the choices are a bit more pedestrian. Volvos aren't cool in a tire squealing, race from stop light to stop light way, but they are very well engineered, durable and very practical as a daily driver. It is not uncommon to find the pre-1999 Swedish built Volvos pushing 500,000 miles with simple maintenance and regular oil changes, and the wagons offered seating for 7 with the optional rear facing seats. As the 145 isn't an option for me based on birth year I'll go with a 1967 Toyota Landcruiser FJ55 although 1969 is a better year (a tad more refined with modern cartridge style oil and fuel filters, and a 2 bbl carb). I also happen to own a 1969 which I've had since 1996 so I am already sort of playing this game.

I always wanted one of these tin robots when I was a kid, never got one though. Had a bunch of these, I think my Evel Knievel had more crashes than the real one.

I was hoping using the B&W photo from the 1930s themed Dead men don't wear plaid would throw people off a few decades. Foiled

Gotye sometimes collaborator is a New Zealander (assuming we extend the theme to ANZACs, as I'm not sure NZ could support a thread of its own) who is starting to get some recognition of her own. Kimbra has a unique style, a little big band era, a little pop, and a lot of whimsy. With Gotye (Somebody I Used to know probably being the song they are both best known for) and alone

Australian bands fill many spots on my stuck on a desert island CD player. Gotye is one I haven't seen listed. He is an Australian based, Belgian born musician so could fall here or in the favorite European bands thread. He identifies as Australian so I'll put him here. I get a strong Peter Gabriel vibe from him, both in sound and his neat but really weird videos.

For those of us from the 80s a couple of Scandinavian one hit wonders (at least in the US) Europe from Sweden Aha from Norway

Correct Here is another

These are neat little kits, and I'm not really that heavily interested in racing. I'm sorry to hear they didn't do so well as kits, I thought they had done well since they didn't seem to be readily available for very long. Mike thanks for mentioning Model Round Up still has some in stock, I picked up one more of each. Neat idea, I like that they came with decals for a team tow vehicle, but I may also do one and put it behind an unmarked woody as a weekend racer pulling it with their daily driver.

Here is another hint

I build other stuff. Never built a Gee Bee though.

I would assume molding limitations require the levers be all on the same plane, or be multi piece. One piece is probably cheaper than multi piece, so... Seems like less of an issue than crummy tires.

So the Lightning rod is just a shifter to mimic the Lenco using the stock transmission? Seems to me kind of a clunky solutions, just a bunch of transfer cases linked together. At least with the Lenco I can at least see the appeal if you are producing too much power for a stock transmission since they seem to be available built to withstand horsepower in the 1000+ range. Using the same style of shifter on a stock transmission seems like the kind of thing you would find in a JC Whitney catalog. Still if they were popular it is nice to see Revell include it as an option.

Apocalyptica is a Finn cello playing metal band, their take on the classical music piece Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg. Not many cellos in metal, so I think they are kind of neat.

Scorpions would top my list, but there are a few. Trust is the only French metal band I know of (featured on the 1981 Heavy metal soundtrack) and the English version found on the heavy metal sound track

No? She worked as a spy, is handy with a knife and her cooking repels sharks.

I don't really know why but I kind of like 80s / 90s muscle cars so this is a nice addition to the Buicks, Chevy Impala SS and Ford Taurus SHO. I wasn't aware that Olds had their own answer to the GN, not bad looking. I've started noticing this generation of Olds around town lately (standard Cutlass' not HO versions), not a lot of them but more that I would have guessed are on the road. I do not get that lightning shifter at all, what is the point? If it is running off the stock transmission then does it really get you much, and if you have to replace the transmission why not go all the way and put in a manual or at least a better auto that allows positive shifting. Seems like an overly complicated set up. The lack of manual transmissions is one thing I never cared for in this generation of GM performance cars (Impala SS suffered from the same issue).

Skimming through quickly depending on how detailed you want to get it looks like you may want both the PL and AMT to build an ambulance, maybe even throw in a Monogram Eldorado if you want to go full detail. PL has the correct stock rear bumper, AMT has a non stock step bumper. AMT may include a stock rear bumper as well, not sure about that. PL has molded in strobes in the grill, AMT has a stock grill, Monogram has the best grill. AMT has separate clear red tail lights, PL has white plastic molded in tail lights. AMT and PL are curb sides with a promo style bottom plate, Monogram is full detail. I only have the PL version, the above is based on comments from the thread.

Nice job all around and the color combo is very striking.

How about this one

Art is referring to the coach builder Superior, not the service using the ambulance.