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The Aston is done and posted in under glass now

Just finished this one up, It is Tamiya's Aston Martin DBS kit, I really liked this kit, and enjoyed building it, not problems at all with this kit. It comes with a nice little P/E set, as well the metal transfers . I could not get the ones for the engine to stay on. This was a OOB, I used Testors one coat lacquer graphite dust, and then clear coated with either the one coat clear or ultra clear lacquer, dont remember , I will say that I am very impressed with myself on this one. I did mess up a few things, and I did not do that great a job on the interior . Enough of my blah blah blah, here are the pics

I will play, I have just done a few that I can post

Its on the same lines as the Idrive that BMW's have, so really if you look at this way, we (US cars) are catching up with the rest of the world

You guys have some great Ideas, a lot of what I would do as well, I really like a few from Harry , and Gasp, Ed as well. I also like think that doing polls on model sites is something they should being now. And just not on kits to re release, but on what new subjects to do as well. I like the Idea that Ed came up with, re releasing the kits that are sellers are trying to fetch a large sum for, some us that were not around when the kits first came out, are going miss out unless we want to fork out whats being asked for them.

I met brougham not De Ville, back to google now

Looking at some pics, the hubcaps from the 91 Caprice kit are close to the hubcaps that came on the 90's model caddy deville , so it could work, just need to make some changes to the outer part, the caddy hubcaps have wires on the outer part.

Well I am going to guess that there is a big difference between the stock wire wheels and the caddys lowrider wire wheels , I have an idea, going to look at some pics

Well lucky for the ones that dont like, you dont have to buy it , I think people just want things to be like they were for the past five decades or more. I am not sure if I like either, but there are not that many Chrysler products I would want to own

Oh yea, I have a built more then a dozen of the 91 Caprice, and a few of the Impalas , I know I want to get one a do a four door out of it, have any idea on where to get stock wheels for it ?

The 302 engine is all done, ready to go Wheels all done for the challenger Challenger dash all done Interiors for all done And a few mock ups

Thanks Rob, I had not seen a release date yet, I will have go on model round up more often, is the caddy kit curbside?

Rob, is their a release date already for the caddy kit?, or you just planning ahead?

If you dont have plans for any of the lightbars that come with this kit, can I get one of them from you?. So Valspar paint is very weather sensitive I take it, good to know, HTPH? Edit, I have learned, ok well no because I still do it, but if you put the front and rear bumper piece's on before the body and chassis are one, it makes very hard to get the two together, and most of the times, the front bumper piece comes off. I would like to find an image of a 1:1 police car computer screen and then scale it down to fit the computer screen in the kit.

I use empty, or in some case's full cans of krylon spray to hold the bodys, I have found that its the only thing krylon paint is good for . I have heard people having mixed results using Valspar paints on models, looks like its working for you, I may have to pick a can up next time I am at a hardware store.

I think they come with the kit, I know the 70 challenger kit comes with gauge decals

They were never apart of the Chrysler group, they were a part of GM, and before that they were built by the Am General corp

Some great idea's, I have to agree with all of them, I would love to see LHD/RHD dash options in more kits. What do the wally world box art box's look like again?, I dont remember

So lets have a little fun here, dont you hate when you do something, or did something, and you want to do the forehead slap, or yell out DOAHHHH!!! Now this can be model related or not, either way, just keep it clean. I will start Dont you hate it when, you are in the car, and you plug in your music player to listen to a few songs, and then it hits you, duh!, I have not sync those songs yet Or same car trip, and you manage to grab the one none working lighter out of a pile of four working lighters, and there is not lighter in the car, ( note to kids, smoking is not healthy, do not smoke) Dont you hate when you, you have a very nice build coming along, and are in the final steps of getting it finished, to only mess something up, and you cant fix it, and just have to live with it. Before someone else post this, dont you hate it when you come on a model forum, and see threads that are none model related , so now that its been used, you can not use it So whats yours, (remember this is for fun)

So lets say tomorrow you wake up, and you are in charge of ( insert model company name here), what would change?. What is that the kit manufacturers do that drive you nuts, and have made you say to your self, if I was in charge I would change this. For me, I would find a way to make the engine block one piece, and no more axle rods through the engine block are just a few of the things, I know I will think of more, so what would you change?

Oh yes I forgot the yuppy buyers , I can see them complaining because there is not Icrap jack , the Viper was when it came out was IIRC, to be a drivers car.

I would have either a DBS, or one of the other models, or both

I know Chrysler has been part European for a long time now, the last Viper was just made a few years ago, you are buying a car with a V10, the last think I am going to be worried about is the stereo that comes with it. People that bought Vipers did not buy them for the sound system.

There is or was a license plate collection website that had pis of the window registration and inspection sticker for some states posted, but I think that website is gone now. Which would be perfect, all you would have to do is copy it then resize it. If you are trying to do it, maybe Google the state you want

Well I really do you hope you change your mind and decide to make in 1/24th or 1/25th scale one day You should show this over on a police car forum http://diecastpolicecar.poliskarr.org/index.php