Harry P.

Wow! Very nice! And even the lettering on the heater hoses! Incredible attention to detail throughout. Are the gold "Starliner" scripts PE? That's about as good as Factory Stock gets...

"...it also appears to have correct front seats for either a stock or racing version. The one for the racing version does, indeed, have the passenger-side seat back removed..." "...seat will need to be cut to make the race version..." Dueling reviews???

Party pooper!

From what I understand, the kit is missing the correct 6-lug wheels and truck tires specific to the Black Widow, missing the exhaust dumps for the BW, doesn't include the correct front seat (passenger side seatback removed), no driver's shoulder bolster, no correct 12-bolt rear end, etc. Nobody will be disappointed?

Beautiful! And the DupliColor really gives it that touch of realism. Jim, DupliColor paint is sold in just about any auto parts store... Murray's, Pep Boys, NAPA... whatever chain is in your neck of the woods. It's great stuff, you'll like it.

I'd suggest you check out the nearest hobby shop, or Hobby Lobby, if you have those where you live, and see the kits in person. Sometimes it can be confusing to buy them online and know if it's a kit or a finished model. My local Hobby Lobby has dozens of die-cast kits on the shelves. HL is a chain, but not in every state... so if you happen to have one nearby, I'd definitely check it out.

I think from now on we'll go with "Italian Sports Car"...

Well... I sorta screwed up this time! When I found this picture (and specifically WHERE I found it), the implication was that it's a model. So I figured this one will fool all of you, because it looks so real. As I found out later, it looks real because it IS real! By the time I found out it was real, it was too late, so this week you guys got a freebie! And to those of you who voted model, well, what can I say??? Next ROM coming Monday!

I don't know much about these types of cars, but I'm surprised that it would have an on-board battery! Was that to power the CD player???

Are they all on display in your house? If so, you must have a big house!!!

Very cool! I agree, run some oil lines. Not hard to do and it'll make a big difference.

That's the place to do it!

I collect diecast models... I'm sure there are others who do, too. If you want to put some up for sale, click on the "emodelcars" link at the top right of the page...

Body color taillights???

That's a beautiful model of a beautiful car. Nice job!

OOB and Factory Stock are two completely different things. OOB means building the kit using only the parts that came in the box (slight differences between different contests as to exactly what is or is not allowed in an "OOB" model). What comes in the box doesn't necessarily have to be a "factory stock" car. A drag car, a hot rod, a custom Merc... whatever comes in the box can be entered in OOB, because the subject matter isn't regulated or specified in OOB. What's regulated or specified is HOW you build the model. Factory Stock, on the other hand, refers to building a model that depicts a car as it came from the factory that manufactured it, in stock condition... that is, right off the assembly line. A hot rod or a custom Merc obviously does NOT represent a "factory stock" car. In Factory Stock, you can use aftermarket parts, you can combine kits/kitbash, you can do anything you want as far as technique, but the finished model must represent the car as it came off the assembly line in factory stock condition. Unlike OOB, which regulates HOW you build a model, Factory Stock regulates not how you build it, but how it looks (what it represents).

I said sheet acetate, not sheet styrene. Sheet acetate is very flexible, it's nothing like sheet styrene. And a Dodge 330's windshield is not a compound curve, it only curves one way. Sheet acetate will work just fine.

That is WAY too labor intensive... and in the end, if you're lucky enough not to crack the windshield even more through all that handling, the crack will still be visible anyway! Much easier way: use the existing glass as a template and cut a new windshield out of clear acetate sheet. Time spent: approx. 30 seconds.

The price of everything goes up as time goes by... sometimes a little at a time over an extended period, sometimes there's a sudden jump over a relatively short period... but the bottom line is, everything costs more than it used to. We don't get a loaf of bread for 29 cents anymore, and a dime cup of coffee now goes for several dollars in the yuppie coffee shops. There's no sense moaning and complaining about the high price of model kits. Nothing wil be accomplished by doing that. No manufacturer is going to lower their prices because people post complaints about them. When in the history of retail has the price of something ever gone down because consumers demanded it? Never, that's when. It just doesn't do a darn bit of good to complain about prices... you just have to decide whether or not the price of a kit is worth it to you, and buy it or take a pass.

Number one, delete all the image tags from the text if you're not going to post the photos. Number two... post the photos!!! Tutorials are much easier to follow if there are step-by-step photos.

ok, all you early risers... (that means you, Clay and George....) Real or model? The answer: REAL!

Don't take the scale on the box literally. Some kit makers take scale fidelity seriously, and others not so much...

Your Corvette looks mighty fine to me! Keep building, keep posting. We're one big family here, advanced builders, raw beginners, and everyone in between. Everybody is equal here, we're all members.

Or another way to look at it: The scale of a model is it's relationship to the actual size of the car. A 1/24 scale model is 1/24th the size of the real car, a 1/16 scale model is 1/16th the size of the real car, etc. A 1/8 scale model is 1/8 the size of a real car. So if the real car is 16 feet long, a 1/8 scale model (1/8 of 16 feet) would be 2 feet long.

And the difference between photo 1 and photo 2 is... ???