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Historically Revell misses their first planned intro. date by 3 months to 2.5 years, sometimes they drag a release date a couple years before cancelling (how 'bout that CRX? ). Revell has gotten much better since the dragging-out by years subjects, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's late in the year before it hits.

If you want to see what each color looks like and the various interior colors, go to Audis website and build one. Audi Website

The sky is the limit with Ferrari; if you have the cash they'll match nearly any color. You can go to a Ferrari dealership and see the color/trim samples for yourself, they offer a wide variety of "standard" colors. Red, maroon, blue, many shades of brown/tan/beige/gray, leather coverings for dash, or optional painted or carbon fiber, contrasting stitching, contrasting color strips...if you can imagine it, Ferrari will do it. Contrasting carpet colors, yada yada.

Oops...had you asked here ahead of time, you'd have found out that you can't touch Alclad II with anything but a soft cloth. Novus is way too strong for it, and over time even fingerprints will affect it. None of these new "chrome" films applied by airbrush are what I'd call durable. You have to be very careful with it. Put those parts on at the very end of the build. No polish, no clear, just a very soft cloth to dust off the overspray. Tricky stuff...

Not surprised that Speed goes after ratings. Not surprising either is that the "best" shows are never the ones that have the highest ratings. Going after high ratings is generally catering to the lowest common denominator. Good shows that become popular generally aren't as good when they start catering to the big crowds and the advertisers. I want Speedvision back!

You're preaching to the choir, brother I about gave up when they dropped WRC coverage. Today's F1 race...if you missed it this morning, it won't be replayed. Boring as it was Speed used to have all sorts of cool shows. Now it's mainly ######. None of their "reality" shows is worth watching. I don't follow NASCAR. So 95% of what they air, I could care less about. I hope that the originator of Speedvision does start a new network to bring back the auto coverage that was Speedvision. Speed Channel is horrible.

The dog dishes are easily found in the photo with the three chrome trees. Look to the right... Also, I hope there isn't a problem with your linking to another forum. It's generally frowned upon. But you did it, not me, so if anyone gets in trouble w/either forum, it won't be me

I know that forums generally don't like people to link from one to the other due to advertiser issues etc. If you want to see pics of the kit, there is a thread in Automotive Forums dot com in the automotive art/car modeling section with photos of the kit contents. Looks pretty cool; 440 and Hemi, dog dish hubcaps/steelies as well. The A/F forum has been cantankerous today, so don't be surprised if it doesn't load or is slow. Just like this one

Cleaned w/Easy Off? The greasiest, slimiest resins were no match for Easy Off, in my case. That greasy MGB GT really taught me something, regardless of the pain I went through to find out that Easy Off worked not only to strip the paint that was running off in sheets, but also made the resin finally pass the tape test (Prep Sol/Naptha/Westleys/Castrol/Bon Ami didn't touch the stuff, and lacquer thinner wasn't quite good enough either). I got a Corvette concept resin several years back that was also a greasy mess, and Easy Off got it squeaky clean. I don't bother with any other solvent or cleaner, other than warm soapy water and maybe a wipe w/isopropyl before shooting paint.

I've already built a stock '68 from the Landy kit, so I don't need another, but I'm sure glad the R8 is out. I'm hoping it's like all other Revell USA variants and molded in white instead of the silver and gray Revell AG version. The SSP reissue of the Cessna 180 also came out this week, I have to build one for a friend who owns the real plane. I need to set up a time one weekend soon to go flying w/him and get some pics.

The irony of this joke is that Leon Tefft (Cobra Colors) is a cop

I just spray a bit of Easy Off on resin, let it sit for about 10 minutes, then rinse thoroughly. Westley's is okay to immerse the body in for awhile. I've had a couple resin kits from a couple prominent companies that were greasy from an impervious mold release that Westleys didn't touch, nor even other cleaners, still had fisheyes...but Easy Off got all of it. So I don't bother with anything but Easy Off now.

From seeing Fujimi boxart photos the GTO will have an engine I certainly hope the tooling is done so that more than a GTO can be done with it. Can't wait for the Scuderia and RX3 Hopefully the aftermarket will do some kewl vintage schemes for the RX3...Gatorade car anyone?

I could take some pics of one of these models that I bought from Lee Baker; he detailed it out in a different paint scheme vs. the real car that resides at the Henry Ford Museum. For a '60's era kit, it's got very good detail. I'll definitely get a couple of the reissues to play with. I'd love to do a coupe...even a phantom, though a Bugatti-enthusiast friend demands I do a Kellner Coupe...properly...

New twist on the Hot Rod Lincoln?

Looks good, and it's going to be reissued soon!

It is a 1/2 scale one-off pedal car built by a father and son team. The angle of the photo helps hide the wheels which have solid backs. Clues for me, before finding it: the brake drums didn't look like the real ones, and the big central steering wheel. Here are more shots:

Thanks for the insider insight, Tim! More food for thought: NNL's are the antithesis of the "rivet counter" mentality seen at contests. Here we are splitting hairs and counting rivets between NNL's and contests. Hmmmmm....think I'll go back to my workbench, got a lot of good painting/detailing accomplished in the last couple of hours

Next thing you know he'll make the shirt pink in your avatar If it took Pepto Bismol to fix it, that's fine w/me. The forum is much faster now.

Whew...between finding out all the cool stuff (to me at least) coming the next few months from the Japanese companies, today I got my Revell Subaru STI (plastic), a Maisto stock VW Type 3 fastback (Dad had a white one w/red interior), and from Finland came my holiest of grails (recently), a 1/24 scale Saab 96 It has a very "Scale Kraft" feel to it. It was also ridiculously expensive, thanks to the lousy conversion rate between the dollar and euro While I got the Saab, my buddy got a Volvo P1800 and Ford Anglia...they all look pretty cool. I'll post pics of the Saab shortly, when I get them cleaned up a bit. I'd like to get it done soon.

I think the forum is taking a break from the forum

Fujimi...yep, the 3rd GT-R Also a new 250 GTO This bodes very well for the future of getting the best vintage Ferraris done in plastic. Also an update of the F430 into the Scuderia I know one person who already started the conversion work, I chose to wait Also for Rotorheads, Fujimi's making a racing variant of their RX3 Fujimi's latest announcements at Hobbysearch

Tamiya Hobby Show announcements (for May show) GT-R and etch set. I assume it's the new R35 GT-R, but no word yet on full-detail vs. curbside, or if it's the street car or JGTC racer. Now, let's see Fujimi jump in... Meanwhile, we still don't have a McLaren F1, Lotus Exige/Elise, or a good Aston or three

Something tells me this hobby has turned a big corner, as news of this kit has gone over like a lead balloon on at least one forum that used to be "Skyline Central". Not surprised at the lack of interest in the US, but something tells me that doing the latest/greatest Skyline kit isn't like printing money like it was in the past for the Japanese kit mfg's.

By the time this page loads (aka est. mid-July ), Aoshima will have the first kit on the market of the new Japanese giant killer aka the R35 GT-R. Also four new 20" VIP wheel sets. Aoshima new models (scroll down to find R35 GT-R and VIP wheels) Okay Revell, time for a ZR1 for the smackdown I didn't really expect Aoshima to have it first. Really hoped to see Tamiya or Fujimi do one full-detail. But there's plenty of time, and further additions to the lineup (Spec V next).