Toner283

Hopefully that all new blazer is a hint of things to come. IMO, and all new, modern tooled, correct square body (long box!!) in 1/25th scale would be a big winner for Revell. They would be able to create multiple versions four different releases of the truck like Moebius did with the Ford pickups. Long box, short box, two wheel drive, four wheel drive, GMC, Chevrolet, big block, small block, dually, work truck, crew cab, lifted four-wheel drive, slammed two-wheel drive. An endless combination of possibilities for future releases. With square body trucks being as popular as they are right now, and the only other options being the ancient 1/24th kits which are poorly detailed at best or resin - an all new square body pickup kit would most likely be a big winner.

Does anyone know if the bench seat and the steel wheels/dog dish hubcaps that are in the Revell 69 COPO Nova are in any of the other various issues of the 69 Nova? I need the wheels/tires/hubcaps and the front bench and rear seat for a build I have planned. (Not a Nova) but the COPO kit seems to be almost unobtanium and is pretty spendy if you can find one. Hoping the parts I need are in other issues as well to open up my options a little.

You wouldn't have a set of the custom running boards in good shape you'd be willing to trade would you? I have been looking for a pair.

Ok. I was confused. I thought you meant you wanted to put the 32 sedan gas tank onto the 32 ford coupe. Wasn't sure why you would do that. But putting one onto the 30 ford coupe makes more sense. I have done that conversion to a couple of full scale cars. Done right it looks like Henry built it that way. If you're putting one on a model a, if the car is on a Model A chassis and fenderless it is tough to get the proportions right. The tank has to be mounted very high sometimes even up into the back of the body in order to look right. On a fenderless Model A coupe (on a stock Model A chassis) for example if the tank is mounted below the bottom of the body it can look like a duck is dragging its butt. If you are using a 32 Ford frame that problem doesn't happen. A bit of (hopefully) inspiration. AMT 29 Ford roadster on a Revell 32 Ford chassis. Full scale, full fendered 30 Ford coupe on a stock dimension frame.

Someone in one of the posts earlier in the thread said they have seen an original in red. I have never seen that myself so I can't confirm it. But if you had asked me a couple years ago if it was ever molded in royal blue I would have told you the same. I have also never seen one completely molded in Black either. The first few issues were molded in at least two different colors. Black usually being one of them. The lemon crate issue had yellow and tan parts in it. The reissues released in the'80s and possibly the early 90s were molded completely in red.

Just curious, what is the difference between the sedan kit gas tank and the coupe kit gas tank? In 1:1 scale they are the same. There are a couple of different capacities of tanks available but they look very similar and they mount exactly the same. From my experience when building full scale hot rods, the top of the tank is the same no matter what the capacity. The difference comes in how deep The "belly" under the tank is. I don't know that in scale you would be able to tell the difference between two tanks that only had a few gallons capacity difference.

I have an update to this thread and my search for a royal blue 40 Ford pickup. I was doing a search on eBay yesterday and up popped a 40 Ford pickup. Opened it up and checked out the pictures and lo and behold it's a mint unbuilt kit in Royal blue. Unfortunately, I was not able to purchase it someone got lucky and got what seems to be a pretty rare kit for themselves as it was only listed for a very short time with a very reasonable Buy It Now of $68. I do wish I had been in a financial position to be able to purchase it. I did save a couple of pictures to prove that I'm not totally nuts. Hopefully someday I will find one that I can purchase.

To my eyes, those look like upholstered filler panels that the silver material is sagging and pulling away from the mounting screws. Don't know for sure. I remember from the pictures posted at the time that the interior was in pretty rough shape. Partially due to age but also due to the materials used at the time. You are right about the weather seal though. Good thing it doesn't rain much in California.

I don't have any love for the golden sahara but the bad trim might be due to age. That pic is when it was displayed in its "as found" state. After having sat covered and tarped for umpteen years in Mr. Streets garage. The yellowed, scratched and cracked bubble glass, the duct tape (?) residue on the paintwork and that golden paint was originally pearl white and has not really aged well.

Agree 100% that Sam had a far better eye for style and flow. Sam's 50 Buick is definitely a beautiful custom but my choice of a Barris car would be the Blue Danube 52 Buick. One of the best looking customs IMO. I have loved that car since I was a kid.

I wonder if the cycle fenders from the front and the abbreviated fenders for the back survived the retool?

Was the same story at the shop I used to work at. It seemed like we spent more time fixing mistakes/safety issues from other shops than actually working on our own stuff. Do custom shops not actually road test anything anymore? Braking systems were one of the worst. Brakes that either didn't hardly work at all or that were so poorly designed (poor pedal ratio) you had to be Hercules to be able to stop the vehicle.

Just did a great trade with Khils. Thanks Kevin!

I do something very similar to this. I use the bamboo skewer sticks and drill a hole either under the oil pan or the trans pan and put the skewer in with a dab of gel superglue. That way I can stick the pointy end of the skewer into a block of foam insulation while working on it or paint/glue is curing. When I am done working on the engine, either twist off or clip off the skewer, install the pan and all evidence is covered up.

Did a great trade with JollySipper. Thanks TJ.

The trailer you are talking about was also in the "Diamond in the Rough" kit. 53 Ford P/U, the service trailer and a 40 Ford sedan Barn/field find in as found condition. The 40 included dented/rusted fenders, one front fender and one running board not attached, bent bumpers, torn upholstery and broken/bullet holed glass. Only issued just the once as far as I know. This is also the source of the single running board in many of the reissued 40 Ford kits since. One of my favorite kits as a kid.

Love IG. Not sure about on a computer but on your phone you can use two fingers to zoom the picture to fill the screen. Plus pics load a lot faster than here on MCM. Some pictures here on the board I eventually give up trying to get them to load. Folks should post up their IG usernames. Easier to find that way. Mine are Toner283 for my main account (full scale hot rod and car related stuff) and Toner283.scalecars for my model car account.

Is it still Tom Cruise playing Reacher or did they pick an actor that is physically closer to Reacher's actual description?

I know this is an old thread but with the newest Ghostbusters flick set to open in a couple of weeks, it deserves a bump. Great looking car! Any pics of all of the different versions together?

Also make sure Bluetooth GPS Etc are all turned off. Have you recently downloaded any games or apps? I have downloaded apps that just eat the battery in my phone. Deleted the app off of my phone and the issue went away. Depending on whether you have a fast charger or not, it may be using the battery juice almost as fast as it charges.

You are absolutely correct. But at least you can't really see the triangulated 4 link (or lack thereof) unless you turn the model over. As someone has already said, that dropped I beam axle was kind of one of the signature pieces of the full sized Rat Roaster. Definitely a missed opportunity on Revell's part since they were cutting new steel for the tooling anyway.

This is information that I did not know. I have never built a Rat Roaster straight out of the box and usually the first modification I do to those Revell front axles is modify the mounting tab so that it sits higher in the chassis thereby making the car sit lower.

The full size Rat Roaster car has a dropped beam axle but the kit does not. It has the same dropped tube axle as the rest of the Revell Deuce series of kits. I would guess that Revell saved money on tooling costs by directly copying as many of the parts as they could from the other kits. 90% of the people buying the Rat Roaster kit would not be able to tell the difference between the axle in the real car and the axle in the kit and a lot of the ones that could tell the difference wouldn't care. Only those of us on the lunatic fringe would be able to tell and be frustrated that Revell skipped over reproducing that part of the real car.

The wheels and tires are a big part of the draw of that kit. The Rat Roaster is the only time so far that that set of wheels and tires has been issued in a kit. Myself, I like them because there are quite a few parts in the Rat Roaster kit (that are specific to that kit) that easily swap on to any of the other deuces in that series from Revell.

Which Revell Deuce coupe kit that you are looking at has a dropped beam axle? Every one of the kits from the Revell Deuce series that I have seen (3W coupe, 5W coupe, Tudor sedan, and both the RR roadster and the normal roadster) all have the same dropped tube front axle in them. If you mean the pictured roadster kit that you posted up, it is not part of the series of kits that I am referring to. IIRC, it was originally tooled several decades ago and it has the fenders and frame molded together making it very difficult to build a highboy. I am referring to the same kits that the Rat Roaster tooling is based on. That series started with the three window coupe some point in the mid-90s. First issued in 1996 maybe? And yes, you are correct. There are several different sources for dropped I beam axles and quick-change rear ends. However, it would be nice to have them included in the box. Without having to Source them from a different kit or the aftermarket. You know, make the kits a different from each other rather than the same old same old every time.