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I also had to cut down the height/width of the 300 windshield to fit; the Magnum one is too narrow once the conversion is done. Then I had to add some styrene strip to the inner A pillars to fill some of the gap. Nothing terrible, just a bit tricky. The rear bumper will need some work, it needs to be based on the 300 instead of Magnum. Not sure if I'll add the Euro fog lamps or not. I'm just going to cut out a big section of the 300 rear bumper face and splice it into the Magnum part. Dash fitment may also be challenging, I'm also using the inner fenders from the 300 instead of Magnum because they fit better and have decent engraving close to the same level of detail as the Magnum. I'll splice in part of the Magnum firewall, and cut out the "engine" engraving from the 300 piece. Boggles my mind that we don't get this car in the US. Honestly, do Americans really prefer overweight/topheavy Grand Cherokee SRT-8's over one of these? Sheesh...

Nice work I've built a lot of these EM 911's. They're not the easiest, but once you've built one the others are a lot easier knowing all the weird areas (I quit building them w/the opening trunk, it causes many fit problems). They're simpler than a lot of the later EM kits. I have just scored another one of these Carrera RS kits, and am building another '74 RSR IROC racer (the orange #1 Donohue car from Daytona in March of '74).

That's sharp

Contrary to early rumors, the new Revell Uptown 300C SRT-8 is basically no different than the previous Uptown Charger or STS-V; it's a stock-proportioned car without door handles, a full set of stock decal markings, and can be built relatively stock w/some ingenuity. Here's the basic model w/some wheels from a diecast: Here is the 300C SRT-8 Touring Wagon conversion: It's a fairly simple conversion, angle cut the front clip from 300 (including cowl), remove same from Magnum, spread the Magnum body out a bit to match, and voila. The 300 is 1/24 and wider than Magnum. However it's no wider than the AMT 300, which is just as wide as 1/24 but shorter. A plastruct tube is welded in place behind firewall area to provide support/strength, and to keep the body from flexing at the point it's been glued together. It required very little filler so far. Wheel donors. Maisto Chrysler ME Four Twelve diecast concept. Fronts are the same scale 20" size as Magnum SRT-8 wheels/tires. Rears are wider and taller. The wagon gets all four fronts, the larger sedan will get all four rears. Design is nearly identical to the 300C SRT-8 stock wheels I have no idea when these will be built; I have other more pressing projects. But at least I got this out of my system, I've been dying to get the plastic SRT-8 kit since it was announced. It's a better parts donor than the AMT kit which isn't an SRT-8 and has inferior headlight details.

This one sure got my attention! Cool reissue. Thanks for sharing

Sure, you can use the pics. I took them in anticipation of perhaps one day doing a model of it. It's nice not to have to scratchbuild it I've applied Alclad II chrome under glass before and backed it up w/some clear/smoke paint and it made for very realistic reflective glass on the model I used it on. The Firebird III definitely doesn't have the reflective canopy any longer. I recently started my AMT Astro I show car, will be a good companion to the Firebird III Another car that I got a lot of reference pics at Amelia.

For anyone who has the Firebird III or is getting one (I'll be getting one soon), I took a few detail shots of the car at Amelia Island in '04. Can't believe there's a model of it now!!!

That came out fantastic! There's nothing better than a white Ferrari, unless perhaps a white Porsche GT2 or GT3 Gives me a great idea how mine will look; I saw a white unmarked 360 Challenge when they were new, really wanted to build a model of it, and had started my F430 Challenge car early last summer when the kit came out to look basically just like the 1:1 car you showed a photo of on A/F. I got sidetracked w/other projects and my car is still in a box in white primer . I also want to make the air jacks so I can show the car up on air jacks, but I also want the jacks to store in the down position as well.

Very nice A+ on the subtle weathering and extra details

It looks like it's right out of MPC Motorsports I would imagine we'll be seeing it in plastic or resin before too long Dunno 'bout anyone else, but I'd take a 2nd gen Camaro (especially '70-72) over any '69 any day of the week. The first gen car was a Mustang pony car ripoff, the 2nd gen looks like an exotic. I'm tempted on that RR '73 Super Duty resin Formula...

I had no idea what you were talking about, I had to find the pinned posts. When log on the main forum I hit "view new posts" and that's the page I see, and all I see are new posts. I never see the pinned posts unless I open a particular sub-forum to start a new thread. I tried saving the "view new posts" as a bookmark, but it only works for X amount of time

Nice features. I've even fired up the "ignore user" feature for one lucky individual

It's widely known that AMT was stopping retail kit production, and not taking any new orders. So exactly how would HL be able to continue stocking them? Seriously, the product line is being dropped, it's not news, and HL is clearing the decks. If the AMT lineup gets purchased, perhaps HL will carry their products again. But at this time I'd have to say if there's anything from AMT you want that's not being funded by a private group like Model King, you'd better get it now, before the distributors run out of stock. There's a whole lot of Lindberg products being reissued that could fill at least part of those aisles.

They're all at the top on my end. Do you view from the main forum, or do you view using "View New Posts" link? Replies within a thread are in the same order as before, with newest replies added after the previous ones.

It may not be as fast as some pages, but it's a huge increase in speed on my old computer and IE. Pages are loading about 10X faster now. My IE was getting particularly cranky, many forums were slowing down. Some pages were still fast, but any with heavy graphics or embedded ads were getting terribly slow. I'm still not getting any email announcements from this forum.

Testing speed w/Firefox. So far it's much better

This board is painfully slow now on my old computer. Hence the double-posting above, I hit the "add reply" button twice because it didn't seem to respond the first time. GRRRRRR.

I'm not sure if this new board is sending emails or not. I didn't get any mass-email either. This board is slower than the other one too. It seems okay, I'll get used to it.

I'm not sure if this new board is sending emails or not. I didn't get any mass-email either. This board is slower than the other one too. It seems okay, I'll get used to it.

It was fixed for a while, now it's done broke agin'. Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 553 Sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts. DEBUG MODE Line : 165 File : smtp.php

Well, I had to switch back to "no email reply" mode, as the following turned up after my last reply: Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 553 Sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts. DEBUG MODE Line : 165 File : smtp.php

I've now made two replies w/out the error message, the first w/the email notification turned off, the second after I changed back to email notification. Thanks Gregg 8) Now we'll see if we get emails again at 38 minutes after the hour (something I noticed before; all email notifications came at that time).

Yes, it sure is a shame (drop the "e") when it comes to fictitious product announcements. Credibility is in shorter supply than the products that aren't filling the store shelves.

Seconded. Revell has a new owner with funding, and they seem to have stopped the "fishing expedition" product announcements. Instead of making hobby show announcements now, they periodically send out a list of items coming in the next couple of quarters. No more of that 24-36 month waiting period before something gets axed (remember that Honda CRX?) The only way we knew about these announcements was via the websites of some distributors. As for Accurate Miniatures, I feel the pain too. We've gotten every story and excuse in the book, and zero new product on the shelves. I don't believe a word of what they say anymore.

I wondered about that, since I certainly didn't remember getting a Landy figure in my Landy Charger kit that I turned into stock. I had wondered about the Mach I; since it's 1/24 it's based on the previous Boss versions. Hope they do all their homework right! If it were 1/25 I would imagine it would be an update to the disfigured '69 Mach I kit. Speaking of Mach I's, I really wish Revell would update the '99 Cobra kit to an '03/'04 Mach I. Can't imagine why the only variation of the '99-'04 Mustang they ever kitted was the lackluster '99 Cobra. An '02-up GT, or Bullitt, or Mach I would have all been better selling kits, IMHO, of course :wink: And driving behind a new Shelby GT500 on Friday made me wonder what ever happened to Revell doing that one??