niteowl7710

Austin, it's not a conversion, it's an entire model kit! So you get the whole shebang, ready to go out of the box, not just wings, flares and wheels with a bunch of body mods to do like the two resin conversion sets.

$25.74 by the current exchange rate. I wouldn't expect anything on that front other than perhaps a few more dimes less if the U.S. Dollar gains value as the devalued Yen isn't going anywhere for another 18 months at least based on stated policy. If you ship it via SAL that's running about $8 right now, so about $34 delivered. Figure it'll be high $30's to lower $40's if you have a LHS that would carry (or can order) something like this. Buy early, buy often. Like most things Aoshima has been doing lately these will be hot. The first runs of the BRZ & 86/Scion kits with the engine in them, have already sold out and they've been on the market from a grand total of 9 days.

Best governed truck I had performance-wise was a '99 Pete 379 with a 550 CAT I had when I drove for Werner. That thing flat flew up hills, you'd have to actually watch your speed going up Monteagle in TN because I could pull it the full 65MPH fully loaded. I also had a '05 International 9400i with a Cummins, but I set the governor out at 85 (mostly to keep from going any faster) and it would produce 7.5 - 8 MPG all day long, and made trips out West a lot more bearable when you could cruise across AZ, NM & West Texas at 75mph.

People don't belong to model forums (any of them, not just picking on here), model clubs and to some extent participate in contests for the same reason. Raging junior-high level egos and behavior.

Try getting some water into the joint (like if it's an engine, get it into the drive shaft "hole" or in through the water pump/fan belt mounts) and then re-freeze them, water being one of the few liquids that actually expands when it freezes it might get the joint loosened up a bit perhaps to the point of completely separating it.

Well Round 2 does list it as a "panel van", so it appears to be just that.

Was looking at the pdf file of the instructions, that engine is 19 pieces, which is a pretty high parts count even by today's standards (and might be about a third of all the kit's entire contents). That's a lot of time and effort in the design process for a Pacer

I know I have my modern is better reputation, but I'd happily take and love every minute of driving that '50.

It seems to me that rather than the website being "out of date", it really only has items on it that have definitive release dates, not just a list of every announced kit (like say Tower Hobbies pre-order site). Wouldn't surprise me if they ran into some sort of snag that was going to push it out to an undetermined date so they pulled it off. There was supposed to be a lot of restoration of the tooling to revive this kit back to it's original state, good things come to those who wait and all of that.

This kit was also issued by Fujimi as the Lexus IS 200/300 with appropriate LHD and markings.

Fotki's largest display resolution is 1000x1000 which is about full screen on most monitors. The only way you'd get things any bigger would be of you're choosing (and D.P. paid the extra to host) "View Original" in which case it'll display at the largest resolution possible which could conceivably be 4x larger. If it's a set of instructions you intend to use, right-click "save as" and save the file to your system. Your computer will auto-resize the image and allow you to increase and decrease the size as needed.

Wow if something like that were devised for the automotive hobby - aside from the cries of "I build for myself" that would ricochet around, I don't know how many people in all of the combined forums of the hobby could actually get the certification. Just read some of the requirements, that is some hard-core model railroading.

On eBay it seems what makes something "Pro Built" is a great sense of self-importance and an ego that barely fits through the door sideways. I have to laugh in my industry how many companies like to advertise about how professional their drivers are, only to see these people driving and behaving in the least professional way possible. I request people do NOT call me a "Professional Driver" as I don't want to be associated with most of these people that populate the highways with me.

I find my clinging to start showing up when to comes to tablet computers. I need something with a keyboard. Touch screen is fine for a phone, but it has to at least have a keyboard like a Surface. The idea of using something like an iPad or other touchscreen computer as my primary device just doesn't make sense. Perhaps it's because I need a real computer to edit my website, but the to me a "pad"/tablet touch-screen is nothing more than an expensive 2nd toy to me, and doesn't do anything my cellphone doesn't - other than the obviously larger screen.

Oh come now! That is one of the most famous 911 calls ever! This is the best I can come up with that has all the naughty words bleeped out. If for some reason you desire a stream of obscenities the uncensored version is out there. http://youtu.be/n7AB9rzIJPM

My parents are the ying & yang of technology... My dad who turns 66 this month use the internet and all of that for work, and while he has a personal e-mail address I can't ever recall a time where I've ever seen (or heard about) him surfing the net from home, and I don't believe I've ever gotten an e-mail from him. He has no need for Facebook or any of that. My mom who just turned 65 has a desktop, a laptop, and a Kindle Fire. She's addicted to FB, she's an eBay Power Seller, and it's rare to not see her attached to either her Kindle or her smart phone doing Lord knows what. She's worse than my 11 year old daughter. Go back in time 20 years and we had gotten our first Windows computer (ahh Windows 3.1) and AOL, so they've had technology/internet since they were in their 40's. There's no viable reason why any baby boomer isn't connected to the internet in someway unless they've just stuck their fingers in their ears and went "lalalala can't hear you, LALALALALA CAN'T HEEEEEEEAR YOU" whenever the subject was brought up. As others have mentioned most every job requires some form of electronic communications for the past decade. It's one thing to be around retirement age and have no need for any type of social media, but it's hard to imagine not having some sort of free e-mail (Yahoo, GMail, their ISP, etc) and at least being able to seek out information on the hobby - be it here, or Revell's website, or online stores.

Those new fangled cars will never replace horses! Why would I want a telephone? I can write a letter! A box with moving pictures? Bah nothing will replace my radio!

Well geez Brett posted a ton (and then got all bent out if shape offended when everyone didn't fall all over themselves to offer profuse thanks) in the now locked thread.

Yeah delivery on a National Holiday, I don't think so...

I guess my "line in the sand" when it comes to inaccuracies for the "bottom line" is the corner cutting we've seen in the past. Examples would be the Rat Roaster which has a number of problems that keep it from being an excellent kit that all revolve around the fact that they cut some corners to keep from tooling up all of the parts that would have made a 95%+ accurate version of the 1:1 car. Things like the wrong cross-member, wrong suspension, etc Another would be the 2010 Mustang which I think we all can agree considering the car came out in 2011 should have been a 2011, but was kept a 2010 so the corner could be cut to use the older 4.6 engine rather than cutting a new engine tool for the 5.0 Coyote motor. HOWEVER when we have a brand new, from scratch tool - that share not parts with ANYTHING else - then I do not find it acceptable in any way, shape or form for a kit to have a body as out of whack as this one.

Well that might be the case had the Pro Modeler series lasted more than what was it a half-dozen kits if you don't factor in the Airplanes...The Charger body got pulled - according to people who are in the know that I've spoken to - because Chrysler's P.R. & Licensing Departments laid a cow over it and threatened to pull permission to do another run of the Charger, and the subsequent Daytona kit (which would have also killed the '68 Charger kit and irreparably harmed their relationship with Chrysler). The same case for the Lindberg '61 Impala, it wasn't indignant hobbyists, but rather GM's Licensing Dept that made them go back and fix the body. Perhaps we should direct our ire at Ford for letting them trot out this body shell... Also while Revell may have never fixed the taillight kicker panel, they sure did re-tool the gas tank so it was mounted in the correct direction lickity-split. It does make you wonder if the COPO Nova was actually something planned all along - a model of a non-existent car - or if it was something they wound up having to do to justify tooling up all the CORRECT parts so you could actually build a Yenko Nova, then tossed in the 396SS decals so people wouldn't lay their own cows about having two kits with 96% of the parts they'd need to complete the left over one once they swapped interior and exterior parts around. With the way Revell operates in forcing you to either buy two kits or wait around hoping there's a second kit forthcoming to get the up-top option of their convertible kits it makes you wonder, since the only people who know the truth about the Yenko/COPO Nova debacle have non-disclosure forms and want to keep their jobs at Hobbico.

Japan has a new PM who's "devalued" the Yen as part of an attempt to spur their economy. That beneficial Dollar to Yen ratio has knocked a good $10-15 off prices over the past few months. It's something like the 2nd or 3rd best (well for us) exchange rate in the past decade.

Can we all just pause a second and consider what this section is called? Kit Reviews. Now I will grant you that perhaps the language and the "strength" of the opinions about the kits here is perhaps a bit much for some people who expect a sedate, polite magazine style going-over. But the entire point of a review is the point out the high and low points of the kit in question. The people reading the review then have to decide to the pros outweigh the cons. If the fact the roof and all sorts of other things about this kit are wrong doesn't bother you enough to ruin your enjoyment of this kit, then go ahead and buy a case load. But heck even the door lock is so ashamed of being on this kit it's trying to sneak right off the door. I bet if Erik takes another picture of the kit he has, the key hole is back by the filler door with a little hobo pack over it's shoulder. We can be far more blatant about what is right and wrong on this forum than any magazine can be, because none of us here have to worry about Revell (or anyone else) pulling it's advertising. I do find it ironic that when Moebius delays a kit a lot of people will extol the waiting game. "Just get it right, we can wait. I'd rather wait and have a correct kit, than have a rushed incorrect one", blah blah blah. Yet if people are critical of a Revell kit - well that's some sort of blasphemy and the people involved are called complainers, we're going to drive Revell to pull a Linus - we'll find it wandering the streets of Elk Grove Village sucking it's thumb with a blanket, and some people will defend Revell more than they would their own family. Look y'all can't have it both ways. Either a kit is worth getting right and not being rushed. Or in the overall scheme of the hobby business it doesn't matter what gets trotted out since it's all just plastic toys and we just need to shut up and go take massage classes.

That's not an accurate statement. Those of us who were interesting in this kit have been complaining directly to Revell, although perhaps not as vocally in public, about the inaccuracies presented in this kit since we saw the test shots last October. As Bradley said we were told it was "too late" to do anything other than shrink the size of the 5.0 badge. The complaints died down for awhile until the kit came out because I think a lot of us were secretly hoping Revell would come to their collective sense and fix the body before issuing it. They didn't, and now yes the complaint level is at "howling". To be fair after the '50 Olds, '57 Ford & '62 Corvette which while not perfect were 95% or above in "getting it close" why would we expect a sudden backslide into "obviously inaccurate"? Actually both of Revell's newest tools serve the function of "parts donor" rather than an actual model kit. With some trimming and fiddling you can get the chassis up into an old MPC kit. The Rat Roaster has a lot of nice separate parts, but as a whole it's glaringly obvious what corners were cut in how accurate, or rather lack thereof the model is compared to the real car.

I suppose since this kit was issued in the mid-1990's along with it's factory stock cousin, the chorus of complaints has never been loud enough to make Ertl, RC2 or Round 2 go back and fix it over the past 20 years. Both kits have always had the note to trim off the bottom corner of the vent glass, which as was mentioned earlier is a result of mixing the original MPC annual body, glass & interior with the later AMT/Ertl chassis and running gear.