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More of that renewed attention to detail at the factory QC we've been seeing for the past 3-4 months.

If you can't find one of the new tool (and frankly mis-labled Monogram even though it was a new Revell tool) '59 Corvettes for a decent price -- It took me about a year but I finally got a sealed one on eBay for $9.99 - then just hang out for a bit longer. I would suspect that it's not too far up the reissue pipeline now that the '58 is finally seeing the light of day again. Makes sense to run them both back-to-back while you have the one tool it shares parts with out and cleaned up already and the '62 Vette is fresh.

You left out the part about what an entertaining joy it was to put on those exhaust tips...or maybe it was only entertaining to the people watching

Yeah really... If I'm going somewhere where I know I need cash, like a model show, then I can make the appropriate side-trip to the bank for paper dollars. But in nearly 29 years of being in this hobby I've never had a guy in a trench coat come out of a dark alley going "Pssst! Hey Mister! Wanna Buy a Model?" There might have been a time when cash was an everyday item - when you actually CASHED a paycheck and a plastic card was a rare exception. Nowadays that entire paradigm has reversed.

What is your point about waiting on the receipt? Is there someplace that DOESN'T give receipts with cash transactions? I'd challenge that since I actually know how to use the PIN pad at the checkout I can swipe my card, enter my PIN, hit "No" for Cash Back, and "Yes" for Correct Amount have it process and get my receipt in the same or less time it'll take you to count out your cash (especially if you're going on an excursion for exact change), hand it over, have the clueless person on the other end try to make change, and get your receipt. At most restaurants I can tell the person manning the register how much of a tip I want to leave and be out the door, while you're trying to explain you want a 5 and 5 Ones. At McDonalds I just swipe my card, I don't even have put in a PIN, you're still fumbling with your wallet. As a bonus when we both walk outside and get mugged at gunpoint I can call my bank and have my debit card canceled instantly and not lose a dime, your huge wad of cash is gone forever.

They're just un-assembled promos for all intents and purposes. We're supposed to get all wispy eyed and nostalgic for the old AMT kits of yore. Well not me, I'm not old enough to remember any of that...seems like a faulty premise since you want people who would remember those old AMT kits fondly and wrapping them up in new cars they probably don't find appealing.

Can't speak for the custom options portion, but Revell tends to not "de-content" their reissues. The kit in question would be the H/T as the Convertible was just reissued (with all the Custom/Lowrider parts) as a 2n1 under the California Wheel "line" a year or two ago.

I have the same La Ferrari time "problem", I have one more back-order I know they would have gotten in stock before the 3-Day Holiday this weekend, just waiting to be billed for it before I ship.

The only problem I could see with that is that the way Revell tends to rotate the catalog every 5-7 years (with some exceptions), you'd wind up with previous issues of currently reissued models. Then you're stuck either trying to sell a kit someone could buy for $10-15 online or at a model show for the new higher retail price of the reissue, or completely gutting the sales of the current reissue. My LHS is stuck with 2-3 versions of the '67 Dodge Charger kit now, with the oldest one being about $5 cheaper in price than the most current Foose one (which I'll grant you has new parts), but when you can't sell the old kit for "cheap", how do you move the current $23 one? Especially with Revell doing release schedules quarterly, you can never really confidently buy a collection and know for sure that the kits you just bought aren't going to be issued in the next Quarter or two. At least the old way, you knew what was coming for the entire year in advance...

2nd Q Release that have been "leaked" so far by Tower Hobbies...Gotta say that the Drag guys are having a banner year, and it'll be nice to have the '58 Corvette run again for the first time since it's only run in the late 90s, there's no big WOW involved here as promised by Revell's FB tease as we all knew the next variation of the '90 Mustang & '70 Hemi Cuda are drag cars. Nor is there a single thing on this list that's relevant to the Detroit Auto Show. I still hold out the vaguest scrap of hope that the big WOW kit is still under wraps until Revell officially announces this week...otherwise the entire Auto Show was a cheap and pointless tie-in. Monogram - 1/24 Cherry Bomb 1/48 C-47 Skytrain SSP Revell - 1/25 BRE Datsun 510 SSP 1/29 X-Wing Fighter 1/25 '90 Mustang LX 5.0 Drag Racer 1/25 '70 Sox/Martin Plymouth Hemi Cuda Dave Deal's Go-Mad Nomad 1/25 '59 Chevrolet Impala 1/24 Datsun Off-Road Pickup Truck 1/25 '58 Corvette Roadster 1/48 A-7A Corsair II

Well this is an entertaining saga to be sure. I bet the dealer feels it has gone above and beyond to find him a replacement vehicle, because lets face it, no matter who's at fault an insurance company doesn't go buy a car and bring it to your house, it cuts you a check and sends you on your way. So legally the dealership doesn't have to do a single thing, it's between their insurance company and this guy. That attitude however is of course getting them a pile of "bad" press. I find it interesting that this guy doesn't have Full Replacement/Gap Insurance on his own. I mean it's a ZL-1 Camaro, not a V-6 off-lease program car. If I had that expensive a vehicle, you can be sure I'd be getting it replaced, and/or paid off in the event of an accident. Plus at that point you could get your check from YOUR insurance, and let THEM deal with fighting with the dealer's insurance about getting their money back. Because it clearly appears that the Fair Market Value of his car isn't covering his finance note. The idea that this guy (and a lot of the comments in the original article) are putting forward that they should just GIVE him a NEW ZL-1 is ridiculous. Unless you could prove the dealer was intentionally liable in employing the guy who took the car out and destroyed it, why would they be on the hook to eat the cost of a 0 mile car, that at this point isn't even the same exact body-style as his wrecked car? How would that even work? He's paying a note on a car that doesn't exist anymore in a technical sense, so even if you re-fi'd the old note into the '14 ZL-1 somehow and the dealer ate the difference, who's paying the sales tax on the entire thing? Delaware doesn't have a sales tax, but there is a 3.75% Documentation Fee based on the Sale Price - so that's $1,950. I guess ultimately it would be up to the Dealership to determine whether or not eating $16,000 is worth making this whole thing go away.

One thing I would add to this is that the kit just can't be a simple Snap-Tite style kit, and thanks to Mr. Brolin "cheating" for a number of years it HAS to be painted. But the engine requirement doesn't exist, a number of us are building Porsches this year, and I'm pretty sure all of them are curbsides. I'll be down in WV for the 2nd time, this year at Bobby Boggs' place (I also crashed the party at Gary's house 2 years ago, but that was just to pick up some models I had purchased off him and hang out and watch the build live). Hoping this experience in addition to getting to hang out with friends I've made in this hobby, will kick me out a long standing "started but not completed" rut. I would also point out this falls on the weekend around my wife's birthday, this year it actually being on Sunday. So if I can get permission to leave the Commonwealth and hang out, you people can surely get away with building a model in your OWN house over the course of 24 Hours.

I would seal it with a light coat of that Pearl White rather than hitting it with Enamel Clear. Because the Gun Metal is Lacquer again, and you're going to wind up with a serious paint reaction once that Gun Metal hits that Enamel Clear Coat. If you want to use a clear coat to seal it, then paint more lacquer, you're going to need either the Testor Model Master Lacquer Clear or Testors One Coat Lacquer Clear. If you had an airbrush you could get a jar of the Tamiya Gun Metal (X-10), that's in their acrylic line, and that could easily go over either the enamel clear, or lacquer paint without complications.

The option exists to either paint it black like the real car, or leave it clear so you can see all the work you put into the engine and transmission which would disappear with that defuser in place and opaque.

Congrats! Oh it's all exciting and "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" until neither of you have slept through the night for about 6 months. Sure the every 3 hours 24/7 feeding schedule goes away after a few months, but they never sleep through the night. Up at least once, maybe twice, usually right after you lay down (they can sense comfort and relaxation). Eventually a switch flips and they can self-soothe (suck their thumb, find their pacifier, or just doze back off if they wake up) and decide they should sleep till morning like a normal person, but until that day you just sit around and wait for the middle of the night screaming. Got to the point where I wouldn't even go to bed until after our now 11 m/o threw his tantrum somewhere between 1:30am - 3am. Then finally for no particular reason he started sleeping in until like 9am, and since he wasn't waking my 2 y/o up, SHE started sleeping until 9am too. Suddenly we could get a solid 8-10 hours of sleep again for the first time in like 2 years. It's like your birthday, your wedding, their birth, and a Christmas Miracle all rolled into one when that finally happens.

They had 5 "contests" on FB for getting their 5,000th "like", the last one turned out to be F&F oriented after Paul Walker's death.

It would just be the damaged part, perhaps the set of inner wheels (as when my Magnum kit was missing a headlight bezel, they sent both of them), but not the entire chrome runner.

Personally I think the Spitfires were impossible to miss. In the day and age with strobes and LEDs they mounted 4 spotlight bulbs on the roof and went "Look at Me! You Can See Me From a Mile Away!!" - which was the effective sight distance for the 4 beam (and they really are just 4 Unity spotlight bulbs) Spitfires. But even Unity was changing, and spotlights have become LEDs...so after much fiddling and testing, they sealed beams are on their way out as Chuck mentions to be replaced by LED versions. The new light is technically a new thing Unity & Whelen came up with, as the brand new lights have a dome that is different (all red, no clear "stripes") and the base is also smaller with less "lip" to fit the dome onto...A lot of the old school troopers have set their flash patterns to "rotate" giving the effect of the old Spitfires, it's really a pretty ugly disjointed thing to look at when it's just on a random flash pattern.

Ya know the only two speeding tickets I've ever received in a big truck, both were in a 3 year span for allegedly going 65 in a 55 - MALARKY I SAY!! - in Ohio. Fortunately that was 15 & 13 years ago, and well before all the CSA score nonsense, and as an Ohio resident if I paid the fine there were no points, and if you didn't get another ticket within 6 months they didn't go on your driving record. Still showed up on your evil DAC, but didn't jack my car insurance rates up any. Got that second one almost exactly 3 years to the day when it would have been beyond the old "Have you had any moving violations in the past three years? application question.

OOoooooOOooo did it have a Rocket attached to it?

I would honestly be shocked if that isn't THE big 2014 release for Tamiya car-wise. Be a handful of spot-runs reissues, and they've been focusing a lot of time on 1/32 planes lately, the BIG 1/6 Harley, and making kits out of the large scale pre-assembled kits, but usually they're good for one "Black Box" kit a year, and since they did the Carrera GT, the 918 is the next Porsche Super Car. Although I also wouldn't argue with the "991" model 911 either.

That's actually a joke I used to make about my wife when we first started dating, as she can lose herself in mid-story if something catches her attention. But yeah the downfall of a big stash is having too many things staring at you, and you fiddle with a little of this, then you tinker with a little of that. Pretty soon all that fiddling and tinkering has you a bunch of started model kits, but nothing actually completed.

Well I usually find that...Oooooo SHINY!!!

All about licensing, as Revell AG obviously has a current license with Ferrari. Unless I'm forgetting something, I don't think they've kitted a new Porsche (or an old one either for that matter) since the Porsche 911 kits in the 1980s. Fujimi and Tamiya seem to hold the Porsche licensing right now.

They're hardly hidden... http://public.fotki.com/modlrA/moebius-model-car-stuff/