DaveM

Glad you found it! I lost a model at a show once, so I know the sinking feeling. I remember going up to the table to pack up my models, and it wasn't there. I was looking over the tables to see if it had been moved by a judge, or something. After a few minutes, and two other modelers looking for their builds, I knew it was bad. Never caught the guy, but I don't take rare models to shows any more. I am glad yours had a happy ending. It must have felt great to find it.

I'll keep my eyes open. That could be a really fun kit to build.

If they fix up most of the problems with the '67 Camaro, I will buy a few. If not, I won't bother. If the Mustang and Camaro can be built close to stock, (i.e. stock bodies and reasonably stock hoods) I might get one for a street or drag racer. Otherwise the only other thing I might get is a 918 if the kit looks as nice as the original thread indicates. Luckily, I am still finishing up tons of stuff from Revell's last quarter. (2 '57 Del Rios, 3 29 roadsters, 2 '40 coupes and a BRE Datsun Z, along with a couple of others in the stash.) Not every quarter is perfect! I'm sure Revell will still end up with a bunch of my money this year... They always do.

I think R&R did a vac formed uptop, too. It's a pretty basic conversion.

I'm looking forward to the '70 Bonneville and '67 Impala. I will get a couple of the 84 GMCs, and probably grab a GP too. Is this the whole year's list, or just the first quarter? AMT might bankrupt me in 2016! (Although Moebius will get their fair share too!)

I would love to see the '68 El Camino back in good box art. I would love it even more if they could kill the vinyl top and fix those sink marks on the pillars. The rest of that kit was superb!

I like them all! Great bunch of hot rods. I hadn't taken a good look at Drew's flathead powered, black highboy yet. That car blows me away. Perfect look, and that is the one I'd want to drive around in real life.

Great looking Gaggle of Gremlins coming together here! (Or do Gremlins "Flock" I can never remember.) It's amazing what an ancient repop of a horrible kit, and a whole bunch of imagination and creativity can yield. I will check back on this thread for the final couple of days and see what else ends up being finished. I dig all of them. I could never get a solid start this Month. I have been taking care of a relative, and it's been a long Summer of problems. I spent most of this Month dealing with Doctors, Emergency Rooms, Procedures, home therapy, visiting nurses, and learning how to do more of the work myself. There is a lot more work to be done than there was at the start of the Month,and less help. I will try to keep the Gremlin going, but for right now, the Gremlin, the '29 Fords and everything else is going to live in a box in the garage for the winter, along with all of the tools and the bench. I really can't paint anyways, since the airbrush and spraybooth are upstairs, and I can't get that far away any more. I might actually be a bit more active on the boards, though, as I have to sit in the same room with her, or she has problems. I might as well just sit here and type my opinions on the board, if I can't actively build. That shouldn't cause any problems! Congrats to all who finished, or even came close!

Thanks for showing us what's in the box. I don't buy new Revell kits until I have seen the contents first. For Months we have been speculating about what might be in the kit. Now, we get to see what's in the kit... it's not as bad as we were afraid it was going to be, but it's not as good as it could have been. This is one of those subjects that would have needed to be an awesome kit, for me to buy a bunch. I like muscle era and older stuff, more than I like the bloatmobiles of the Seventies. Still, I grew up in this era, and when I started driving in 1981, these were the types of cars we could all afford. (Or the cars we were able to borrow from our parents.) I never had a Torino of this era, but I drove my share of Volares, Mavericks, Futuras, Magnums, Cutlasses, New Yorkers, Electras, and other assorted barges and blimps from the same period. I knew several people who had Torinos, and I have some memories that would be jogged by having one on my shelf. Plastic from this era is pretty scarce, which is too bad. Most annuals are long O.O.P., and reissues have been few and far between. I tend to build Musclecars and earlier stuff, but I have built a few disco era cruisers. ('77 Dodge, Monte Carlo Snapper, Johan Olds Cutlass Supremes, a Pacer and I am starting a Gremlin.) None of the kits from this era can be described as engineering marvels, and they all have some warts and boo boos. Most, with some extra care, can be assembled into decent shelf models. That, more than anything is why I was kind of excited to see a new tool of a polyester era pavement pounder. I am surprised at how retro the tooling is on the Torino kit. It looks like it would fit right in with the simpler Monogram kits of the day. I am not sure if this is good or bad. It probably suits the intended market for the kit. (Which is not anybody on a model car building forum) I hope Revell still makes more detailed tools (Like the '29 Ford) in the future. Someday, I might snag one of these from the bargain bin and build it up just for fun, but It doesn't have the curb appeal to make me run out and buy one at retail. I'm still trying to find the time to finish my '29 Roadsters!

Sounds like Tim has some cool stuff on the slab too! I will use the Caddy motor out of the '49 Mercs, when I swap in a Caddy, because I have a couple of them handy. I replicated a friends dream ride and used an Olds motor in a lead sled I build from the Revell kit, and I swapped a flathead into a woody. That left me with a couple of caddies looking for a new home. I won't bother with a stock build review at this point,because you did a great one with both versions of the kit. I am switching the one I am currently starting on over to a flathead. powered rod with a few goodies. (I'll need to see what Norm has in his catalog) I am not sure if I will go totally traditional, or if I will use a more modern flathead out of a '32 Sedan, or Revell's 40 or '48 Ford. My bench time has been sparse lately, as I am taking care of a relative who has been needing a lot of medical care the last few weeks. Hopefully things are settling down a bit, and I can grab some more building time. The '29 is now sharing the bench with a Gremlin I am doing for the community build. (Odd couple!)

Great build, Dr. Cranky! I looked at the videos, and it sounds like you had as much fun as I am having with this kit. I can't wait to see the next eleven. Somebody needs to do a "Ratty Flattie" version of this one. I am thinking the flathead from the '50 Ford would work well. Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland has some nice vintage flathead speed parts, and Modelhaus has some cool wheels with the old chrome spiders The exhaust would have to be scratchbuilt. I might try this with the one that I am building now, but mine would be shiny. I need to find a Mexican blanket decal for this version. I am looking forward to seeing how the Caddy motor you talked about fits. That was one of the engines on my short list to try in the '29, along with a 409. I'll be watching the workbench threads to see what you are up to, and I will keep checking out the vids. Happy buildin'!

Digging through my older stash, I found a long gone conversion kit. This one has a hood and chrome grille to convert the 1955 Chevy Cameo or Stepside into a 1957 version! I think I bought it at the North American Model Car Championship in Chicago back in '94 or '95. I guess I had better get building it before somebody releases it in plastic...

It's been really humid here too. I can't guarantee that I will finish, but I am going to jump in with a 1976 Gremlin. Probably going to go factory stock, but if I don't find a color in my stash that's a pretty close match for a 1976 AMC color, I might just paint it a wild color and throw all of the drag parts on instead. When I was in Middle School, I took a Gremlin kit and I painted it Red White and Blue like the racing ones, but I made mine a custom, with wide wheels and tires off of a 1/24 Monogram Corvette, and sidepipes! For the paint, I used metallic rattle cans for the red and blue, and silver, to replace the white. I used the custom grill material and square quad headlights from the custom van parts kit, and I cut "T" tops into it using food container lids for the glass. I think it would have been at least three feet off the ground, with ladder bars and wheelie bars made from paper clips. (Sewing buttons were my wheelie bar wheels back in the day) I wish I still had the old Gremlin, so we could all laugh at pictures of it today, but it is long gone. I was thinking of replicating the old beast, but trying to make a juvenile build with adult skills and patience. It was not within the guidelines of this build, though. I'll just stick to an out of the box build and keep it simple and fun.

I was going to buy one, but the whoopie cushion was out of tune.

Nice! I'm going to have to get some of those valve covers and taillights. What wheels do the cheaters fit?

No damage here. All three brain cells are still going strong! I cut and ground the tabs on the channeled interior sides, and modified them to fit the #13 floor pan called out in the instructions. It was a bit tricky, as I had to grind out the recesses in the bottom of the interior panels, and fill in the gaps in the floorboard where I had removed the tabs. (I just used material from the cut off tabs to make plugs for the floorboards.) I was starting to wonder if it would just be easier to take the highboy floorpan, and see how much cutting and grinding it would take to make it fit the over the transmission in the channeled frame! Turns out, it would have taken none, because that was the floorpan I should have used in the first place! I will just toss the other floorpan and the interior sides, as they would have no mounting tabs, and are missing a bit of plastic on the bottoms. Luckily, I plan on building my other kit on the '32 rails and I can spare the other interior sides. The really funny part of this is that I was kind of considering my build as a bit of a box stock review. I was going to review the version you didn't do in a workbench thread that will start in the next day or so. That's the only reason I even got out the instructions. If I hadn't done that, this never would have happened. I would have grabbed the floorpan that fit the interior sides and built away. Now I know why real men never read instructions. It gets us into trouble! Thanks again for clearing things up.

Just looked back and saw that! I will grab the interior panels from my second kit and start over on them! Luckily I bought a second kit. I was probably composing this and getting the camera fired up while Tim made his post. (It has been a somewhat leisurely Sunday afternoon here) Funny, I had double checked the instructions and everything before posting, so I had the posting window open for an hour and a half while I checked, double checked and then modified and photographed my parts! I was making a tutorial on how to fix the problem... (Gregg, we really need a "Headsmack" or "Facepalm" Icon here... or maybe a smiley in a dunce cap...) (Or maybe I'm the only one that needs that...) The good news is that it will be easy to decide how to build the second kit I have. It's going to be a highboy! Seriously, thanks for the heads up, and I hadn't quite cut into the correct floorpan, yet, so I haven't messed up anything I didn't have a spare of. I will now spend the evening trying to do something actually productive on the build. At least I haven't screwed up the Nailhead, ... yet. I'm still having fun with this kit!

Wild looking Buick! I was going to say that it was great for a first custom paint job, but that's great for any custom paint job! Nice work!

I am diving into the channeled version of the kit. I will be posting pictures soon. (Not too interesting yet, just a bunch of sanding, trimming and filing.) Has anybody tried fitting the interior sides into the channeled floorpan yet? It looks like they were going to key the mounting tabs on the two sets of interior sides to their specific floorpans. Unless I have this really screwed up, they have the tabs mixed up. Both sets of interior panels are tabbed the same, but the floorpans are different. The highboy setup looks like a perfect fit, and the lowboy interior panels fit nicely to the highboy floorpan, but nothing fits the channeled floorpan! I think somebody made a boo boo doing the CADD. I am surprised that this never came up in the test shots. They must not have built up a test shot of the channeled "A" frame after keying the tabs. Looks like the channeled version just became a skill level 3.5 To advanced modelers, it's no problem. Just file the tabs off, and grind out the end of the recess that the floorpan keys into. It will take some extra filling, and putty too, plus I might change up the paint sequence to assemble the whole shebang first, then paint the bottom of the floorpan. The good thing is, it doesn't hurt the look of the car at all. It's invisible when fixed, and all of the visible stuff still looks perfect. This is still going to be a real hot build. The rest of the kit fits nicely, and has some of the best detail that Revell has molded. Some of the parts on this kit are approaching Tamiya quality. The motor detail is going to be sweet when built. I am going to do this one almost box stock. I might sneak some wiring onto the motor, just because there is no hood. I'll decide as I go. I will stick with the nailhead for the actual build, but I might mock it up with a couple of other motors too. The more I work on this kit, the more I want to buy!

I will buy them if they are well done. I love the old Comets, and I can imagine a few ways to build one. (Most with the word "Drag" in the description.) If they are not well done, I'm not going to mess with them. I have too many kits in the pile that don't need major reworks that I haven't built yet. If an exhaust port is half a mm off, I will buy the kit. If the wheels weren't available with the trim package depicted, I will still buy the kit. If there are five pages of debate on the best way to alter the body just to get it looking like a Comet, I will pass. I will not buy a junk kit under the threat of "If we don't buy this kit, we will never get another new tool." If a company makes junk, then let them fail. I know I have said this exact thing many times before, but I do hold new kits to a reasonable standard. There is no excuse for a new kit to completely miss a major body shape or dimension. There is no excuse for completely missed roof heights, wheel well shapes, body shapes, major angles etc... There is no reason to buy a new kit for the very high prices they are charging, if the kit needs to be heavily reworked just to build it correctly. ('90 Mustang, '70 Cuda, '69 Nova, maybe even the '67 Camaro and '65 Satellite) All kits have some minor glitches. They are designed by humans after all. The '71 Ranger has a couple of smaller problems, and needs a trim change, but it still builds into a pretty decent '71 Ford truck. The '29 Roadster has a couple of issues, but as Tim Boyd just showed us, it builds into a really nice looking model with no reworking. Hopefully, the Comet will be a nice it, and none of this will be an issue. If the kit looks nearly as nice as the Pontiac test shots did, I will be stacking them up! (Hopefully one of the variations will give us a nice A/FX engine variation that can be stuffed into a couple of street machines) I am looking forward to both this and the Pontiac releases.

I hope they post test shots of the Comet. Remember, the Truck and the Pontiac had some adjustments made due to the posting of the test shots. There might have been a bunch of debate over the Pontiac, but the difference between the first shot, and the latest one we saw was quite clear. Things got fixed. The trucks have some small glitches, but not anything that wrecks the look of the model. The Pontiac looks really close to perfect in the last shots they showed us. I am looking forward to buying the Pontiac. Is it a perfect kit? Probably not. Is it going to be an excellent kit? I think so. We all helped, even if it created a few grey hairs in the process. If nothing else, look at how much better the wheels turned out! The Satellite was pretty much finished up without input. If anybody had posted a first test shot of that one, they probably would have redone the vents and fixed the roof. In the end result, the Satellite is a decent model, but suffers quite a bit from some angles. It's too bad because they sunk a lot of time, sweat and money into something that could have been one of the best models of the last few years. It's still a good model, but not as nice as it could have been.

Looks great, Tim. Great job on the build! I am almost afraid to post my work after seeing this. I will get back to mine tonight. I think I will go for a box stock one, but with the "A" chassis instead. That way we can check out both major versions of the kit. (I am still going to test fit some other motors.) I have the camera working again, and I hope I can bust loose for some time at the bench this weekend. I do see the slight funkiness in the exhaust, but everything else looks spot on.

That's great to hear. I will have to grab one of those. I have two '71 Mopar colors by Scalefinishes; Butterscotch/Bahama Yellow, and Bright Red/ Rallye Red. (I thought I was ordering the '67 Bright Red for a '67 Charger, but I mistakenly ordered the other one) I have two kits ready to build, the '71 Duster and '71 Charger. Right now, I am thinking about the Charger in Butterscotch, and the Duster in Red, but that may change a couple of times before I actually start building them. If the DD issue has the correct stripes, then I will use them for this build, and use the kit to make something like a Rod Shop Charger, or a bracket car. Does it have the black stripes, or the white ones?

That's great to see Tim. Really, the cowl fit is the most important. If the front was a touch off, we could just swap radiator shells between the kits. I figured the '32 frame was going to throw everything off. That's they way they work in real life too! If I want a hood on a '32 frame, I'll have to scratchbuild or modify one. I would also be thinking about a '32 Grille shell at that point too. I'll plan on a hooded version of a lowboy. Now, I've got to see if I can modify or scratch out a chopped uptop! The kit looks pretty nice. The more I work with it, the better I am liking most of it. I am building the "A" framed version, which should look the best with the raised wheel arches. I think I will take the '32 frame and work it under an AMT kit. I can adapt the suspensions from the AMT kit, and the stock wheel arches should shine here, even with some fairly tall Modelhaus tires. If I am really picky, I can put the Revell suspension under the '32 for the more modern car, and the AMT transverse leaf under the "A" frame.One of our local slot car racers, who also builds, is working on this kit. He thinks it's a hot rodder's dream. His best statement on the kit was, "If you build this kit out of the box, there's somethin' wrong with your head!" I think he's right. This kit just screams out to be twisted to the imaginations of the builder. That said... I am sort of going out of the box a bit with mine, but I will be swapping out the motor and wheels. The nailhead is getting tweaked a bit and will be shoehorned into a '25 "T" (For now. all of my plans for this build are transient.)

I have that kit, and the '31 sedan which shares many parts. It will take me a couple of days, as I am dealing with a mini crisis here. I will try to at least hold the parts together and see how they line up. I may also do this with the AMT '29 roadster. I am hoping that one of the hoods can be easily adapted to the new Revell kit. I also have the AMT woody/pickup, and the Revell Woodstock (I think) to check parts out with. Hopefully, I will be able to post which parts will fit together nicely, and which will take more extensive surgery. Imagine the sheer number of combinations we can come up with!