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I had to puzzle over it for a minute because I forgot all about the promo, but Revell did a full detail kit of it at the time.

Every substantial rumor about that Monogram Land Rover is that the tooling doesn't exist for it anymore, and versions of that tale I've heard have it sourced to Monogram employees from that time. If it existed you'd think it would be reissued to compliment the new kit.

Revell did the 2016/17 season Fords and Chevrolets. But nothing of the current "pony" car bodies or any Toyota.

The Corvette Stingray III had 3 spoke "Twist" wheels that look somewhat similar.

Aoshima did a run of several different S-Part engine "kits", and they were getting rather pricey 3 years ago, but then Aoshima started reissuing the kits they "belong" to with the engines included again, and those are all older kits that cost at or slightly less than $20 direct from Japan making those engines kit be more like collector's items since they're running more than the reissued kit. Cheaper that way cause you get the engine you wanted, plus a whole car kit to build curbside, or further kit bash with another engine.

Technically it is the same M10 4 cylinder, but the one thing the USCP engines give you - there are 3 options now, N.A., side draft for the rally kits, and the turbo charged version - is the entire engine bay and suspension pieces needed to refab the missing pieces from deleting the curbside filler pieces. Yeah it's $50, but I guess how much do you want to pay for convenience?

Amusingly that would require effectively drawing the decals incorrectly to the reference material to make it fit. To me it looks like Revell put the door handle too low which makes the entire drop of the stripes too low compared to the 1:1...again compare how close (within an inch or two) the stripe passes under the mirror compared to the kit decal as placed. You'd almost have to draw the decal somewhat taller towards the top than it is in real life, and I'm afraid that would effectively destroy the entire proportions if they were xyz% larger than the 1:1.

Presuming the decals were drawn from sizing them off the 1:1 all those decals do is accentuate how off the entire side of the model kit is...look how much closer to the base of the mirror the door stripes are on the real car. Really puts an exclamation point on how far off rear quarter panels are, because even if those decals were straight they wouldn't have a hope in the world of following the kit's contour.

The hood issue is really two-fold. I have some hoods that themselves are legit warped, and some that are straight. But secondarily the "1st Gen" '69-'72 kits also have one of the most lackluster hood fitting systems I've seen. It just hangs out, there's nothing to retain it in place, which makes it not want to fit correctly even when the hood and cab are straight. Mercifully the 65/66 hoods are shorter in length with the way the cab is designed on the 1:1 so there's a front edge to keep the hood from slip-sliding around. The glass also fits from inside, and I think anyone who has all 5 of the 1st kits can find at least one that the glass was rather iffy fitting from the outside.

Question would be is that curve still there after you apply them? Sometimes the 1D nature of a decal requires drawing it a little out of proportion on the print in order to get it to lay over compound curves otherwise it would be too short. Also to all the back and forth about the shortcomings over the sides of the body shell, what you guys are talking about doesn't sound like it could be fixed without creating new side cavities. Now we can lament the "shoulda got it right in the first place" nature of all of it, but you're probably talking about a $50k expense to make the 10%ers happy. Because I bet the majority of their customer base doesn't see anything wrong with it, it's just "Ooooo a Cuda" when they went to Hobby Lobby.

I'm pretty sure KMP Models a resin outfit out of Italy is planning to do a Pike's Peak conversion transkit for the Beemax Audi.

The question would be whether that was scrapped at some point in the past during the various ownerships going into the Ertl years. I mean "The Bat Machine" is an 40+ year old kit at this point too, I'd think if it still existed and was buildable in something resembling factory stock condition it would have gotten reissued at SOME point since then as a compliment to the Heavy Chevy.

It is Tamiya White primer spray bombed onto a molded in white kit. TS-26 Pure White was spray bombed next. Once cured it was hit with 8k & 12k wet sanding and the polishing compound from the MicroMesh set. It was then decaled, once those were dry I applied the Tamiya Gray Panel Liner using the included applicator brush. It's basically super thinned enamel paint, so you just touch the applicator brush to the panel gap and the stuff flows via capillary action right into the gap with no muss, no fuss. It should do all the work for you and you don't need the thing drowning in liner fluid for it work. You can easily wipe off the stuff if you accidentally brush it against a body panel while it's wet. Or clean it up with Tamiya's Enamel Thinner X-20 (not X-20A that's acrylic thinner) if it dried.

He didn't ask what year. He asked which kit - out of about 4 dozen that exist. It goes into Aoshima's base R32. It's still in production and currently uses this boxing. It should be noted that the kit already comes with that insert included already. The box o' engine you have is from the 90s when this kit was reissued several times as strictly a curbside. When brought back under their new boxing lineup a lot of older kits are getting all of their parts "restored" as a value add.

This is Tamiya Gray Panel Liner on a Tamiya TS-26 Pure White paint job. The panel liner is on top of everything, not underneath the paint. It's IMHO just enough to add the depth of the panel line without making it look like you drew them on with a mechanical pen.

To me that pretty much only looks like an Impala, and also that black area to me looks like something in the background behind the car, it doesn't really line up with where the roof would be on an Impala, nor have I ever seen a factory car two-toned that way. I suppose it could be the '66 Coupe just being reissued, it's been 9 years since that came out, and that was the old recycle rate of the pre-bankruptcy Revell. But if it is a Convertible it would almost have to be a new cross-bred '66, since all of the '65s including the Foose kit have the same chrome tree which has bumperette/bumper guards on the front bumper.

Went to the LHS and picked up a couple of things for Dad's Day via my wife getting me a Visa Gift card.

So wait are you implying that Round2 is going to modify the Ertl Era 1967 into a 1968? Because THAT 1968 is gone forever, unless you're implying that Round2 is going to permanently backdate the Heavy Chevy 1970 Impala - because that's where those annual Impalas ended up.

That's a standard issue legal pad that Ed puts out at shows. I couldn't even tell you if it gets read, or just the written sheets torn off and pitched. I frankly wouldn't blame him if it were the latter. I've looked through those "Wishlists" 2 or 3 times and it's pretty much a written replay of any wishlist thread we have here. 10-15% good viable ideas, the rest is crazy fantasy requests that have no basis in the reality that Revell is a business and needs to make money, not lose it by the bucket load.

Yup

So Revell posted this picture of Ed at NIMCON (IPMS) Show with his now venerable traveling show. If you take a look at the back drop you'll notice the Buick Grand National is added to it above the Monte Carlo in the place of the Sprint Car (which is now in a sealed box on the table) Also "missing" from the board is the '70 Firebird and '76 Chevy P/U which are also in boxes. Where the Chevy P/U was is an intriguing place holder. Now when I was at NNL East Ed told me that they were that week (back in April) planning to present a project to the German office about merging two existing kits from the same tooling family into a third heretofore unreleased kit. Maybe someone from the show can confirm with a better picture, but call me crazy...that Impala convertible doesn't appear to have bumper guards. So was that project in fact the creation of a '66 Impala Convertible? I know it probably won't set the world in here on fire, but it's a nifty set of tooling amortization if that's what that is...

AARs are in @ my LHS

Alpha has a GTC4Lusso coming in July

If Atlantis' "case" of Make n Takes is anything like Revell's used to be, then you'd get a box of 24 loose bagged kits without any boxes.

Ya know what? You're right all of us who have these kits and have compared the decals in real life are clearly morons who can't see straight. It can't possibly be a printing error. Nooooooo, Revell is perfect within these digital wall. I'm done arguing with people on here, go buy your cheap U.S. kits with it's cheap not printed by Cartograf decals and have hoot having it look like a dumpster fire in final result compared to an AG sourced kit.