niteowl7710

There wasn't exactly much from Round 2 that interested me other than the reissue of 1965 Chevelle Station Wagon. Anxiously awaiting all 3 Moebius kits... From Revell I'm looking forward to the previously announced 2010 Mustang and... 2010 Camaro SS '69 COPO Nova '62 Impala SS Ferrari 458 Italia Ferrari California Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Remember that the iHobby releases only cover 1st & 2nd Quarters of 2011. There's a whole nother half year of goodness yet to come. Wouldn't be surprised to see several more Mustang issues upcoming including a 2011 GT with the correct 5.0 engine, maybe the GT-500, the new BOSS 302...lotta options there. Also be interested to see if they issue a Camaro Convertible, and/or do anything with the ZR-1 tooling (a Z06, Grand Sport, or convertible since the last set of Vette issues are 5-6 model years old).

Reminds me of the time I had to strip the hood on a '62 Belair 409 kit 5 times before the paint would stop acting all wonky around the top edge. It was like crazing, except no actual damage was done. But you hung in there and got it done finally, and that's the most important part. I too have one of the '63 Ford kits sitting around, be interested to see what you do with yours.

Found this at Wal*Mart today for $9.99...was looking for a Diplomat, but this will suffice. Haven't taken it apart to see how much work it needs yet...

Well March 10th will be my first wedding anniversary, but our actual "getting together" deal is in the summer on July 9th (which is easy to remember since it's the day before my birthday), and for that one it'll be 6 years.

Ahh another 6 months...good they'll be a full THREE years overdue by then. Now that the body style has changed...

Can't be THAT much, there is that new Revell (via RoG) Audi R8.

Paint can turn into a Chevy vs. Ford vs. Dodge style debate. People have their preferences and they stick to them. I myself prefer Tamiya acrylics as the both cover well and are water based, and hence can be cleaned up with water. If I'm going into Testors paint for a specific color, I again prefer acrylics for the clean-up aspect. I hate dealing with paint thinner, but for some colors (Chrysler Engine Red for example) they only offer it in enamels. But as Junkman said you'll have to experiment and find the combination that work best for you. I was an OTR driver for 12+ years, and paint thinner hangs out in the sleeper all day...just sayin' Testors "rattle can" primer works just fine in both it's enamel and lacquer variations. Just remember don't cross the streams, especially lacquer over enamel primers. A lot of people around here swear by Tamiya primers, but I too have a hard time finding them. I would also suggest a polishing kit, I have one from Micro-Mesh. Includes sandpaper on a flexible backing from 2400 to 12000 grits for block wet-sending your paint. That can correct a lot of small paint mistakes and generally take overall paint from meh to Oooooo. I got mine from Micro-Mark (which has all sorts of paycheck draining tools to choose from), it's $24.95 in the current catalog (and you can order online).

Came back from the Post Office after finding my latest bargain basement eBay deal. I've taken the shrink off it to check the parts inside, but factory sealed kit for $3.61!!! With S&H is was under $10...can't be that with a X-Acto.

Is this a trans-kit for the RoG kit, or an entire kit?

Nice job! I was just looking at box of the one in my stash, might have to peek inside and take a look at it now.

Not my normal taste in subject matter, but it's been fun to watch anyway for the techniques and for a sneak peak at the kit. Final assembly and eye candy is excellent.

Nice job, does it have bullet holes on the passenger side of the dash too?

Unless it stayed up in Houston, or went to another major Texas city (think San Antonio, Austin, or Dallas/FW), that thing is gone. Depending on when it got stolen vs. when they realized it was stolen...it's only 6 1/2 hours to the border from Baytown.

I too vote for Virginia Beach. Of course being my city of birth, I might be biased. The overall Tidewater (or Hampton Roads) area is the 15th largest metro area in the U.S., so there's plenty to see and do across the area. Plus as Ed mentioned it's 60-75 miles to Richmond (depending on where you land). Unless it's closed down, there is also a model club down there in VaB, in addition to the guys up in Richmond.

I know some people view Wal*Mart as evil incarnate, but for the hobbyist who doesn't have a LHS within a reasonable driving distance, ordering from Walmart.com is going to be cheaper than going through eBay once you factor in that Walmart will ship it to your local store for free.

In the other post you just had two tags, one has to have the slash (aka /IMG) to complete the PHP code, otherwise you just leave it hanging with two starting tags. When you typed it in by hand, you use the right set, and it worked!

Been following the build. Nice to see this one done. Excellent job!

Oooooo I likey! Looks very sinister with the chrome shaved. Nice subtle spoiler too...I read the description and then had to look for it, as I hadn't even noticed it, since it flowed so well with the existing lines.

Recent eBay winnings. All of this was $55 including shipping. All are open, sealed inside.

I do some eBaying during the year, but I primarily buy my kits either through the LHS or if there are several I want to get I wait till it's time for a model show/swap meet to roll around. I find I can buy in "bulk" and work better deals with vendors in person in that environment.

It's my favorite time of year as both NCAA & NFL Football can take up my waking hours on the weekends. I enjoy watching NASCAR too, but not as much as I did when I was younger when you couldn't find me for 4 hours a day on Sundays. I enjoy photography and the travel that my website provides. Get to see a great deal of back-road, small town America. Don't tell my wife, but I like tinkering around with yard work too.

I offered my opinion. It's just that a)mine, b)opinion. I don't need you to agree with it, or change your mind to my point of view to have my day go in a normal way...just so ya know. So to be crystal clear here...my words and MY definitions of them. So you can stop assuming you know what I meant. 1)Yes juevos (there's no sic, it's spelled right, and is being used in the correct context of it's slang meaning)...I know that I am very fortunate in my circumstances to have held my job through the recession, and therefore could buy one, two or a case of custom Fords if I wanted to...but for the average person who is a casual builder trying to stumble through the economy, or worse yet living on some form of fixed income, $20-22 is a lot of coin to lay out to chop something up in the hopes that it comes out right. 2)where with all - Not every person has (or can afford these days) all the tools needed to make a chopped roof conversion properly. 3)talent - whether YOU like it or not, there are people out there that can't do things in this hobby. I used to support my plastic kit addiction by painting people's bodies for them. There are just some people no matter how hard they try can't get a good paint job...or in this case properly chop the top of a car. Again these are casual builders who don't come to MCM (or SA) or have any other support group to improve their skills. They have a skills set they slowly improve on over the years, but quantum leaps ain't coming. 4)innovation - this is actually your term, as I never used it, but what the hey...to me innovation and creativity are synonyms. For some people (and I will be the first to raise my hand here) the ability to look a lump of stock plastic and then transform it into something...well that ain't coming either. I am constantly staggered by work around here that gets me with a "huh, never woulda thought of that". I respect, and yes envy, people who can see something in their mind's eye and make it happen seemingly effortlessly. To that group of people this kit will be extremely appealing. Look it's all done for you. You don't even need a parts box, this kit has so many spare parts you can START one with it. Revell is (and this is what I said the first time) MARKETING this kit to those people. Very smartly I might add. You see I never said that if something isn't marketed directly to you, you're some sort of moron for being interested in it. Quite the contrary, this kit would draw in the custom guys no matter who the target audience was once they started hearing about the parts (the fact it's a kit that's never been done before, eg in coupe form) and they could sell it in a plain gray box to them. Beyond that my posts were what I would have like to have seen Revell do with this kit to have it appeal to me, and that's it. Prime example to me is Revell's Tuner kits. I don't normally build import cars, and certainly don't build TUNER import cars, but I was still interested in those kits ANYWAY because they are 2n1s (in some case 4n1s with all the variations of aero kits and spoilers) and allow me to build stock (or mostly) stock version of 2 Honda Civics, an Acura & Subaru. Bonus that the dashboard is set-up correctly (eg, U.S., not RHD) and I don't have to shell out 3x as much to Tamiya. So in closing - If you want to go buy this kit...good..go get it, hell buy the two I would have got if they did it in a way that appealed to me, so those kits have a good home. I don't have anything against anyone who likes this kit, this subject matter, I simply stated an opinion about the marketing strategy. I never slyly impugned anyone's anything here, least of all yours.

It's Ollie's Bargain Outlet. Basically it's where Big Lots inventory goes to die. They aren't owned by the same company, but I have transported entire trailer loads of random stuff Big Lots couldn't sell out of their main Columbus warehouse to the Ollie's warehouse outside of Harrisburg, PA.

Why are you taking it like a personal affront to you? Beyond the walls of MCM in the sales environment of hobby shops, Hobby Lobby, K-Mart, Michael's, etc this kit is going to appeal to people who normally wouldn't be chopping a top. I get that, that's a good thing for Revell's new release budget. But at the same time (to me) it's also being marketed to that same crowd. Being it's a lot easier to drop a roof than it is to raise it, I stand by my opinion that the "pre-chop" is less appealing to a hard-core modeler. Or are the custom guys suddenly gonna start build box stock from now on because there are 16 combination to choose from? It is however very appealing to an average skills, middle of the road guy. Someone who isn't on a message board, or club. All I'm saying is I think it would appeal to a broader market if you through in one of the limited edition boxes with a stock version behind a wild custom version...or just the wild custom version with a stock picture on the side. I'm just even willing to for-go stock all together, only a custom, just give me a kit with a stock roof on it. From looking at Google & Yahoo Images for every 1 custom chopped '48 there are at least a half dozen really sharp looking UN-chopped cars. I would prefer to build one stock, one hot rod/custom. But even without a stock variant, I still would have bought a custom only stock roof kit. Nothing about a pre-chopped kit appeals to ME.