Harry P.

Beautiful work. One to be proud of, for sure.

Color is subjective. If you like it, it's good. Doesn't matter what anyone else says. It's like saying hey guys... I decided I like vanilla ice cream. What do you think? There's no answer to that.

So, John... how about a model of your idea?

Reference posts? PM me with specifics. How do you see the breakdown?

Pocher 1/8 scale 1932 Rolls Royce Phantom II Drop Head Sedanca Coupe Pocher 1/8 scale 1933 Rolls Royce Ambassador Pocher 1/8 scale 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom II Torpedo Cabriolet "Star of India"

Wow! That is absolutely gorgeous! Very nice work, Rich. You are the king of the land yachts for sure!

How did you cut out the doors? "Back of the blade" method?

Tell it to the UN!

I think you're right...

The test shot is a product of the master. It can't be different. If the pillar on that Ford looked right on the master, but was off on the test shot, that means that master (with the correct pillar) was not used to create that test shot (with the incorrect pillar). It couldn't have been.

Interesting. I thought that only the actual production of the kits was done overseas... didn't realize that design, engineering, and tooling was all done there, too. Of course, that still doesn't excuse all the mistakes. I mean, Chinese workers do have eyes, right?

Seriously... you're not going to recycle that old line again, are you? We all know there will never be a perfect kit. That isn't even the question under debate. And we're not talking about "little niggles" anyway, but glaring and visually very obvious mistakes. Like for example, the Lindberg Impala whose windshield opening was so grossly misshapen and wrong that, if I remember correctly, they went back and recut the tooling to fix it. Or the Nova that had the gas tank molded backwards. That sort of thing. If we can see them, why can't the manufacturers see them?

Are the masters and the tooling created by Americans or by Chinese? I realize that the actual manufacturing of the kits is done overseas, but what is the source of the initial kit design, engineering, and tooling?

Have him email them all to you...

The painted window trim looks very good, but just out of curiosity... why did you decide not to use foil?

I never said all. But enough that it's become somewhat of a common occurrence these days. Or at the very least, it's happening way too often.

There is a kit of a London cab. A Checker (US) cab kit doesn't seem all that farfetched to me... especially if offered with a nice, comprehensive decal sheet with NYC, Chicago, etc. cab markings.

Can you imagine this sort of thing making it past government safety standards today?

From the AP: A few hours after Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo announced the grand jury's decision in this upstate New York hamlet, the Ward family indicated in a statement read over the telephone by sister Kayla Herring that they will seek civil damages in the young driver's death. The family might have a difficult task: Tantillo disclosed that Ward was under the influence of marijuana the night he died and said two different videos were enhanced, frames were isolated and viewed at at least three different speeds and finally overlaid with grids and data. Both showed Stewart had done nothing wrong. "The videos did not demonstrate any aberrational driving by Tony Stewart until the point of impact with Kevin Ward, at which point his vehicle veered to the right up the track as a result of the collision. Prior to that, his course was pretty straight," said Tantillo. He added that toxicology evidence from Ward's autopsy "indicates that at the time of operation he was under the influence of marijuana. The levels determined were enough to impair judgment."

I comprehend perfectly and took nothing out of context. In response to my comment regarding mistakes that make it through to production, and why that is so, you answered that sometimes they make changes to accommodate the molding process... your implication being that errors or inaccuracies in the kit might be due to those changes. And I said that there are mistakes made that have nothing to do with the molding process.

Very cool! The wheels look good on it. One thing I would do is paint the running board "rubber" pads flat black for a little visual interest and color contrast with the rest of the truck.

Nice! I like how you did the hinges. Hard to tell from the photo, but is the grille actually open? If not, you might want to add a black wash to it; it'll help a lot.

I don't buy that. If Johan could get it right 50 years ago, model manufacturers should be able to get it right today, Molding a gas tank backwards, just as one example, has nothing to do with "draft angles" or any other technicality. Getting the curve of a windshield so wrong that they are forced to go back and recut the tooling had nothing to do with draft angles or the molding process. There are dozens more examples, from several different manufacturers. It's not only Revell.

Defanilty?

It's easier to buy and take over an existing title than start a new one from scratch. Production, staff, printing, distribution is all already in place. Starting up from scratch means building all that from the ground up.