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A must-have for me; one of my friends has been restoring Corvairs for over 40 years in SC so I'm well acquainted with them. Wish I'd bought the 1:1 Loadside he sold about 35 years ago for $700... Used to ride to school in his '62 Monza Spyder CV. The sound of the turbo's "sirens" from behind always catches you off guard the first few times you hear it! I have the Hebmueller conversion kit so I know the Rampside quality will be fine.

I've had the same problem w/a Z06. I just want to tweak the ride height a bit, add some brakes, but the axles seem to be imperviously attached to the wheels and something is going to be damaged severely trying to remove. It's not like the unassembled versions are easy to find, either. And don't get me started on Maisto's lame attempt at the Grand Sport; it's just a different set of tampo printing on the Z06, incorrect side vent, incorrect wheels. Bleh. Revell's given up on any Corvette variants and we're stuck w/scraps from Maisto.

I'll likely buy & build the Panamera kit, but wish it was the Sport Turismo that to me looks 10,000 times cooler than the sedan/hatch. I can't wrap my head around any discussion at Revell GmbH of future products declaring a Panamera sedan the best choice my company could make for a subject to make my company money. When said company is selling model kits aka dreams in a box. Seems if tooling was cut for plastic it would be for something more exciting than a sedan. Welly could do some great 2nd generation Panamera diecasts (Sport Turismo, please...)...surely I have yet to hear anyone griping that the 1st generation Panamera was only available as a diecast. If you want to scratchbuild, find a C6 Corvette front half and graft it to a Yukon Gold back half and have at it. In 2017 a new Panamera kit seems almost as absurd as the Trumpeter '78 Monte Carlo. But it's not like Revell GmbH seems to have any rational pattern to the subjects they choose. On January 1 I would not be at all surprised if they announce a BMW 2002. Because...that's what they do. 3.0 CS? Hah! So far the only 991's are diecast. Welly has a 1/24 991 GT3 RS coming next year...I have a feeling that's the only way we'll ever get one.

And of course it's not the Sport Turismo. Well, I mean...they're also doing a 1/24 Junior 108 diesel tractor. So there is that.

It's Testors...it's quite common.

That "saggy" looking trim is epidemic on all early Nova models. There's supposed to be some subtle curvature on the drip rail, but so far it's been rendered dead flat by all of them...AMT, Trumpeter, diecast, now Moebius. The Trumpeter and Moebius tend to amplify it to the point it looks concave. It's a slight, subtle detail that I really hope Moebius fixes by the time it's tooled. There is a lot of refinement that can/should occur between these initial prototypes and actual tooling.

Moebius tends to use built test shots for boxart; I have seen inside the box of the '61 Joe Weatherly stock car; the turn signals are engraved as well as the Pontiac script on the grille...those revised parts likely weren't available when the boxart model was constructed. Can't comment if they'd also fixed the issues that cause the entire bumper/grille unit to fit so poorly to the radiator cowl, causing the poor hood fit. If the bumper/grille don't fit, the hood won't fit. Also unknown is if any effort was put into making the front/rear glass fit better into the body. Aside from those issues, I really enjoyed building my Ventura and it looks pretty good. Pity that the boxart tends to amplify some build flaws...boxart artist probably isn't a model builder, maybe not even a car person, to "miss" on that detail.

Screen grabs of Ted Chopper Lear's video from Detroit.

Chopper just posted a video on Facebook of the early Nova and the Ford PU. It was fun while it lasted

There's just something about '60 Mercs that especially appeals to me. I have a couple restorable coupes, a resin wagon, and the Merchero. The Merchero is by far the easiest to finish, and I have a plan...starting with some cool Z-man wheels:

While not grails, I'd be quite happy with a '67/'68 Cougar or any boattail Riviera. An '18 Grand Sport or ZR1 would absolutely raise my pulse. If they're not disfigured by... Or overly compromised...or... Well... We'll hear soon enough, and then the fireworks will really begin. Some will be elated. Some will be dejected. Some will be so triggered to be listing off everything deeply esoteric that those idiot moronic model companies should have done instead IF THEY HAD ONLY LISTENED!!! Some will calmly look at their stash and realize it's perfectly okay if there were never any more new kits. Ever. Until the paint and glue run out. Okay...back to my Merchero. So glad Modelhaus made that one...way cool. A fun diversion after a bunch of more modern stuff.

With a diorama of the house w/the pizza on the roof. You know life is crazy when an Aztek (from the show) has been on display on the 3rd floor of the Petersen...

Please no...at least not until mine is finished . Well...25/30 years ago I think I paid $20 bucks mint in box, so that's better than the $35 Round2 will likely go for. Neat kit. Glad I had it when I saw the real car in person at Amelia Island maybe 8-10 years ago. It's still in perfect shape. The kit has some technical issues, but it's pretty good. Will be a bit tricky to get it to work properly and close up properly...even the real car has those issues.

It can be molded in beige and if it drops on the floor it likely won't break. But it blends into the scenery so well you might have hard time finding it

Don't forget Palmer!

That would interest me more than the majority of the conjectures that I've seen so far. But with caveats...we still don't know what the Bronco is going to look like yet so '18 might be premature, and Revell's current "make every modern subject a Build 'n Play" kills the buzz. I can almost bet it won't be a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, Lamborghini 350GT, Aston Martin DB4 Zagato, or a current full detail Mustang GT/GT350/GT350R

It's highly doubtful that you'll ever see a plastic kit; you can get the diecast for roughly the same price as a kit, far less $$ than Modelhaus resin. If you like the subject enough, get the diecast and make it your own. It's just a different medium...strip it and start over, add detail, perhaps weather it. I saw some in their packaging at a model show, they look really good and I may get one of my own. Subject matter can trump the material it is made in.

You make all of these look so easy! Magnificent.

First words out of my mouth would get me kicked off this page. Awesome!! Love it.

That Alfvo/Volfa wagon is magnificent! Love it. This thread is great!

It's not perfect; it does take multiple passes to layer and you have to let it dry a bit between layers. It's not going to be as good as a "properly" masked/painted (or Sharpie; easier overall when there's a pre-cut mask in the kit) technique, but if I use paint I use acrylics and I use canopy glue to attach the glass, which tends to soften the acrylic and it pulls away from the glass, the Sharpie is impervious. It does have a bluish cast if it's not layered. It takes some practice, for sure, and I get pretty good results with it. Straight lines are a lot easier when you apply the Sharpie at an angle where the Sharpie's wide chisel tip can take a "set" on the edge of the glass. Then it's a lot easier to control the tip as you go back and forth across the edge. Again, it takes a bit of practice, and at least you can use the same compounds used to polish paint to remove Sharpie ink and start over. You may perhaps find a Youtube video out there that might give some advice; that seems to be a medium that would best show a how-to in this regard. Sometimes after the Sharpie is applied if I find areas that are too translucent, I back it up w/a little brush-painted acrylic flat black.

If you're talking about the black perimeter masking on the inside edges of the glass, it's easiest with the big black chisel tip Sharpie. The fine point nibs would be annoying to try to cover that.

If you look back at Russell Cook's replies in this thread, you can blame him for infecting my mind into the "blending disparate subjects into one" mentality. Once I saw his Porsche CRX in person at the Southwest Challenge years ago, I was hooked. It's all his fault, and I've told him that in person. Thanks for the comments about "Flashback II", yes it was done for the other magazine, they asked me when I created the first one if I had taken in-progress photos for an article. I had not, it was a "for me" project for an NNL theme...but I told them if Revell updated the Mustang I'd build another, and it finally happened. It really didn't need much filler at all to blend the three bodies: Here's the first version: And this is "NISMAGNUM" where I combined an R34 GTR with a Dodge Magnum. Again...it was remarkable how things lined up and how "simple" the transformation was.

That turned out really cool!

...thanks! Tamiya MX5's are the Lay's potato chips of Miata-lovin' model builders. You can't build just one. I have built a trio. Yet I haven't built a replica of either my '06 nor '96. Guess I was having more fun driving, and left the model stuff to those I'd like to drive...yeah, that's as good an excuse I have at the moment!