niteowl7710

No my point is that this kit is a Round 2/MPC kit. They have zero to do with Revell. Two COMPLETELY separate companies. Ergo if Revell was getting complaint calls about a Round 2 kit the lack of the clear plastic body must be epically disappointing. Akin to calling McDonald's and complaining Papa John's made your pizza wrong...

Lindberg did sell the lightbar separately for $7.49 (about half as much as the kit cost), but it had the same red/clear some split, which meant you needed two of them if you needed one for an all blue light project. As far as why it's never been reissued, the car itself probably can't be relicensed, the Ohio Highway Patrol is a real stickler (putting it mildly) about that winged wheel they use. Back when the kit was issued Lindberg was owned by CraftHouse and they were based in Toledo. The Vector/Vision SHOULD have been in the CHP reissue so you could build an accurate car out if the box.

There are none right now, it was just a teaser post, the actual details come out next week according to the tease.

Man, it must really be bad if people are going to complain to Revell about an old MPC kit. :/

Wonder if it's a tech issue or a price issue... Considering Tamiya released a clear-bodied version of their LFA a couple of months ago, but the U.S. MSRP was $92. So perhaps they can't make a clear plastic body that BIG that retains the qualities they desire. Or they can't make one satisfactorily for the price they think they'd be able to sell this kit for...it's not like the nostalgia crowd is going to pony up say $50 for it. I imagine the $35 it costs at Tower -- figure $43ish at LHS is already making some people cringe.

It usually held the first Saturday of October. So that would be the 5th this year. We have several of the guys from North Coast on here, so how about it guys?

Well lets see this pile of police car "blanks" is still there, although it has half a case of Chargers piled onto it now. My main wall of kits, now everything is sitting flush with nothing double-stacked... Which was made possible by taking all of my import kits (except the London Bus and Trumpter ALF) and putting them onto their own separate shelf.

Same here, although I didn't burn up a PS1, but a rather more expensive PS3.

Still have my Genesis too, along with my NES, and my wife's Super Nintendo. Still play them from time to time just to see how far we've come to the current PS3.

I understand where you're coming from, I would just say that if I wasn't interested in a '57 Chevy 150 in 1996, I was likely just as disinterested when it came out last year some 16 years later. I don't think prolonging the release schedule of tooling variations somehow makes people become interested in a kit. The cost of cutting the subsequent tooling inserts doesn't decrease over time, albeit you can certainly amortize that cost over the longer period using very minor "modified" reissues (California Wheels) to pay for the next variation.

I get the idea, make the tooling variations last forever, while occasionally reissuing the existing kits. But am I the only one getting tired if these 20 year journeys to get the kits? The original '55 Chevrolet BelAir Convertible came out in what...1996? Then the '56 Nomad, then the '55 again as the Indy Pace Car and so on and so forth into 2013, 17 years later and there's still no '55 or '57 Nomad, nor '56 BelAir or BelAir Convertible. Similar to the ZL-1 '69 Camaro. That original Revell tool has to be 20 years old. It took 16 years for them to modify the '65 Impala into the '66 Impala (but don't call it that on the box SS 396) kit. Then 17 years to reissue the previously only once run '65 Impala Convertible. I get it, but I just don't get it. It's like Revell is run by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Why build the whole road over 4 years, when you can pave it in 4 mile sections for 30 years. That's one thing I'll tip my cap to Moebius over. There are 6 variations (currently) if the Hudson - " '52" & '53 Coupe - '52 & " '53" Convertible - '52 & '53 NASCAR Granted you need 2 Coupes and 2 Convertibles so you can cross-swap the grills and whatnot, but in less than 2 years I can build one of each.

Very VERY nice! Is this a replica of the one that lives out in Chicagoland and famously (or perhaps infamously) got tangled up with a Lexus a few blocks from Reynold's show about 13 years ago when it was still out in Rosemont?

Build 'em, it's not like there's a real shortage of old kits, they're all collecting dust in people's basements. With the overall "graying" if the hobby all you old farts are eventually going to shuffle off this mortal coil in the next decade or two there will be a glut of these so called rare/hard-to-find kits. Looking at the fact eBay has 72,000+ models for sale all day, everday since I joined in 1998 makes me believe 95% of every kit ever made is sitting in someone's closet somewhere...

I guess it all depends on how much you like Corvettes. I wouldn't expect any movement out of Revell on the current (last issued as the '10 ZR-1) tool because they're more than likely going to issue the next Gen Vette that comes in 2014. The Craftsman kits are basically unassembled promos. I have the Camaro Convertible (since it's the only way to get one) and it's a nice 50 part curbside kit that should build up into a nice shelf model. So like I said do you want to build a pair of '12 Vettes? You could probably get them both done over a weekend, it save them as quick slump busters. Otherwise trade-bait they be I imagine...

Well there-in lies the slippery-slope if "it already exists, we don't need a new one". Sure Beetle, Mini & 2CV kits exist, but whether anyone wants to admit it for fear of feeling old, those kits.are now (or nearly) 30 YEARS old. Beyond the Asian market vs. European market comparisons they'd be a fair amount of popular kits that wouldn't exist... Revell '49 Merc - NO! The AMT kit is fine Revell Tri-Fives -Heck No! They already had kits of those.. No '32 Fords, no '69 Camaros (hey Monogram had a perfectly serviceable - if not cartoonish one already.), no,'57 Ford, and on and on. I mean exactly where does one draw the line at deciding what kit does or doesn't deserve new tooling? Revell is on try THREE on the '70 Cuda after all.

The Dark Red and Dark Green were also available on the LT-1 Caprice police package. Pennsylvania State Police had several of each as unmarked/admin cars with cloth seats, carpeting, etc. They were some if the most sought after cars when the state auctioned them off as the color/interior options were rare.

The IPMS Germany site is listing the kit as a "in cooperation" release, so new tooling it does not appear to be...

Your right they were all black, but there are a fair amount of clones out there (which ironically missing the correct suspension pieces is what this does build) that are other colors. I've seen them in Silver, White and the Dark Maroon you mentioned.

Pretty sure every release of the GN including the DONK one includes all the stock parts. This GNX kit was only ever released once back in '87/'88 as part of the Monogram High Tech line (also included a ZR-1, Pontiac Firebird GTA & Olds Aerotech) and as mentioned was cast in black. The original issues have never been particularly hard to get ahold of per sea, but if you're not doing a black GNX, having it molded in white has to be most welcome.

I don't believe he's implying that you can't build a contest winning model with aftermarket pieces IF (and it's a big if) you have the basics of modeling down in the first place. What he's saying is why do some people insist on building piles of dog business and then pour $150 worth of wiring and photo-etch into said business and presume that it's magically a good model rather than a expensive "jewel" encrusted pile of business. That sort of segues into that always dangerous topic around here of people then going and telling the builder of the business that it IS in fact a FANTABULOUS model of epic proportions unrivaled by few things of beauty in the known world, while 99% of the people who see it's a pile of business keep quiet for fear of offended the builder to the level of butt-hurtedness.

I'm in the process of assembling a new set of shelves. I say process because everytime I try to work on it someone is asleep, and apparently banging the plastic "legs" that go been the shelving levels at 3am directly below your bedroom will wake up one's wife. At noon it wakes up one's napping toddler. At any rate I'm still not a hoarder, I just occasionally run low on storage space.

When I was in grade school I had a friend who's dad insisted on calling the building with books inside a "Libary" (as in lie berry). The worst part being we all had the postal zip code of the closest town...Library, PA. I often wondered if the Library in the township building was in fact Libary's Libary to him.

Wait wait...you painted it 2 years ago, and at some point during the subsequent 730 days you found out the correct paint pattern. So why couldn't you go back and fix it. I mean it's only primer, it's not like you had to worry about the color matching or anything. If this kit really is so awful, that after poking and prodding it around you couldn't with the best of your efforts for 2 years you couldn't get the axle or bumper to mount properly. You need to write up a review of the kit to warn off other potential builders of all of the pitfalls and difficulties. As Joe mentioned you don't even get what's on the box, IN the box, so there's already problems before you even get into assembly.

- The three existing model kits from the era you want are the JoHan '68 Dodge (which would have still been used into the early 70's), the '70 Ford and '78 Dodge Monaco. That's it. End of Story. Modelhaus offers a resin '70 Coronet 4 door which is $60 for the partial and $92 for the complete kit. - The molds for the '68 Dodge are questionable, and probably are not complete. There were a lot of plans for these kits when Oakey bought everything, but in the end all of the "new" JoHan kits were just old stock parts with vacuformed clear windows and a newly done decal sheet. The instruction sheet makes reference to the fact the molds were not complete when Oakey got them, so it's probably Slim to None that you'll ever see them again with Slim having left town. - The short answer is No. While you might be able to "convince" someone to cast something in resin if you can prove the item would be profitable, which might require you to buy an entire "run" of them to guarantee said profit. But that goes into another kettle of fish. Who's going to build the "Master" kit that the resin copies would be copied from? People like Modelhaus, Missing Link, Motor City Resin Casters, and others have been producing resin kits that are borderline (if not in some cases better) model kit quality. That makes that master model have to be borderline perfect to begin with so that the copies will be of high quality.

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