niteowl7710

To echo the comment above...if they would have offered the kit with ALL of the customs pieces but with an UN-chopped top I would have bought 2. One to build as a hot rod, and one to build Factory Stock. As is, with this kit (like it's companion '49 Merc) I will probably buy 0. That 4 kits (2 per of the Ford and Merc) they ain't sellin' right there. For all the cries that there's no market for a Stock version. You know what? To justify a stock only version, you all are absolutely right, but how about a 2n1? Market it as HOT ROD-CUSTOM-NOT YOUR GRANDDADDIES FORD!!!!, then quietly and discreetly include the stock parts which oughta be easily sourced for the most part from the Woody & Convertible. This worked for all of the DONK, Low Rider, and Tunerz kits they did. All of those kits were screaming marketing at a specific genre of builder, but quietly had all the parts to build stock. I also can't believe the truly innovative and hard-core custom guys are really happy either since they're stuck with the obligatory level and design of the chop. I'm sure they'd rather have a stock roof to do what THEY wanted to do. In the end this kit seemed marketed at a weird middle ground of builders that either lack the talent, where with all or perhaps juevos to start hacking up a $21 piece of plastic. You're going to wind up with what was mentioned on page 1 of this thread. Contest table after contest table this coming summer covered in cookie-cutter "custom" Fords. I know Revell is going to sell truckloads of them despite what I think, and in the end that's a good thing because money for them means they'll make stuff I do want, and then everyone is happy. Hey as Dennis Miller used to say "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong..." Back to the Mustang...hey after we get a proper 2011 kit with the new 5.0L motor, I vote for this as the next variation...the resurrection of the BOSS 302 (there's also going to be a 50 car run of the 302R a factory racer) Rest of the pictures and Motor Trend article here - http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/1008_2012_ford_mustang_boss_302/index.html

Almost any kit that was part of the Revell "Hot Rod Magazine" set of issues...and yes Mr. 57 Chevy, I'm looking directly at you. With fiddly ill-hinged, poorly fitting doors and trunk it is possibly the worst thing (personally) that Revell has ever offered. I threw one out as a kid, tried another one 10 years ago in my 20's and while I finished it, I pitched it too eventually cause it was so dang catty-whompus. I have just accepted that there are better fitting, better quality 57 Chevys out there and will never touch that kit again. The entire experience has turned me off to any kit that has "real working doors", or attempting the feat of making my own on a kit that doesn't. For the record this is a complaint about that kit, I don't think '57 Chevys in general are ugly.

If Revell wanted to make money why didn't the offer say half of all those custom bits and pieces with a lowered ride height suspension option with an otherwise stock 1948 Ford Coupe, then 6 months later re-issue it with the chop top and all the parts? This would satisfy both the custom crowd and those of us who's tastes seem to be viewed as "mild to boring". It's hard for me to swallow an argument derived about money when Revell has issued 2 versions of the '72 Olds, and FIVE versions of the 2006-2008 Mustang (6 if you include the fact the original '06 GT was just re-issued with new box-art). I'll be first in line for one of the 2010 Stangs, but unless the chopped kit is beloved by people around here once they see it and build it, it isn't going to get past the "Michael's Coupon Purchase" priority with me.