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Love that! Gorgeous lines. Definitely has classic coachbuilt proportions. Goes without saying Ford had the right start but this takes it towards sublime.

I think it's a great idea; one I have had myself as well. Take the well-designed but "economy car of the day" proportions of the Ford and stretch them to classic proportions. The Ford is so clean, if it had classic proportions it would fit among the high-dollar, high-end classics. Now...get to building it!!

LOL ain't that the truth! The last time our ACME group descended on NNL East in numbers (2014) Harold had a banner day in sales between at least 5 of our group. Going to try to finish my 250TDF before this year's show because he told us he hardly ever gets to see any of his kits actually built!

Plating hides absolutely nothing, so the quality of the plating is dependent on how clean, smooth, and glossy the material is that is being plated. The parts get a clearcoat applied before plating, but if resin pieces being sent are not as clean, smooth, and glossy as similar injection molded plastic pieces are, then the quality of the plating will suffer. Can the primer be sanded & polished to the same smooth surface finish as injection molded plastic? I spoke w/Bob Dahl (Bob's Paint & Kustom Khrome) in person, if you have any questions he'll give you plenty of input before you send parts to him for plating.

One of the benefits of going to NNL East: Harold is there in person with product for sale. Good for the psyche. Hard on the wallet.

Yes, he closed it down recently. Not sure if there was any public announcement.

Yes. Hobbytown is right off of I-75 in a major shopping center, Free Time is along the major 4 lane highway running through Blue Ridge.

Yes, but mail order only, no showroom.

There's a big Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw, northwest of Atlanta, and if you want the best hobby shop in the region, you have to drive up to Blue Ridge to Free Time Hobbies. Excellent shop, excellent selection, great prices.

The first shipment of RF's hit the west coast, including Canada, in the last week or so.

I have bought wheels & tires, good stuff!

This is the only fuel for the imaginary fire. It's a fake news site. The entire rumor began from a fake news site. There is no reality to the rumors.

Jonathan, thanks for your honest review of the kit. Let's hope AMT listens to the critiques and refines the kit, and others that may be coming behind it. The more full-detail kits they make like this, the better they should get.

Thanks Tom, great coverage and great to see you again, see you in January!

I know of at least one

The latest sheet I purchased is back to smooth; the 2 previous had the "orange peel" adhesive issue. Those sheets are now used for masking. I only use the regular aka "new & improved" chrome, never the ultra bright, though I think there was a time in the past couple of years they tried to pass off the ultra bright as the regular when they were having yet another one of their production issues.

I measured the steel wheel. I could see on the test shot that the wheels were small...but until I measured them I had no idea how small they really were. The visible outer diameter of the steel wheel is a scale 14"; the diameter is .56". Considering that the visible diameter of any wheel on any car is roughly 1" greater than the size of the wheel/tire at the bead because of the bead retainer, this makes the Bronco kit wheel a 13" wheel. Data shown by Gregg elsewhere on this forum shows Broncos used 15" and 16" diameter wheels. The visible diameter of the steel wheel should be anywhere from .64" - .68" diameter. Here's a comparison of the kit wheel/tire (on the right) next to the kit tire (on left) with an AMT Ford Ranger SXT 4x4 wheel inserted into the tire; it fits fairly well and stretches the tire diameter. The SXT wheel is .675" in diameter; it's the size the Revell wheel should have been.

Thanks Tim! The Toledo show went by too fast...

If you look at the reply just after yours you can see the photo of the blue painted box art model; there are vertical panel line separations for the front and rear fender end caps that are not particularly visible on the photo of the raw white plastic body. They are there, I'm looking at the body right now. The mold lines are also at these panel lines so the cleanup is quite easy prior to paint.

I'm 99.9% sure whenever it happens from whatever company's kit designers that don't realize that the visible wheel diameter is greater than the stated size because of the bead retainer, which adds 1-2" to the visible diameter of every wheel. Followed apparently by no knowledgeable oversight or measurement in either the design or test shot phase. This isn't a shape issue, it's purely one of misinterpreting wheel dimensions and then reducing them for a model. It's frustrating that it's become somewhat expected from Revell because it's such a common issue with their models. Not always, but frequently enough, and both from Revell US and Revell GmbH.

I measured the wheels. They measure out to a scale 13", a full 2 scale inches too small for this trim level.

Thanks! These are one-off decals printed on a friend's color laser printer for my own model, I'm not going to print more or sell any.

A good thing IMHO since the wheel covers look tiny. That said, I haven't measured them or compared to anything more than photos, but they look barely larger than dog-dish poverty caps, not like Galaxie wheel covers.

I'm currently working on an original issue of this kit; fun so far. Not sure if there were any decals in the original kit, mine didn't have any, and don't see any referenced in the instructions. I did make my own decals for seats and woodgrain since most Pacer wagons seem to have had woodgrain trim. I kind of had to build this one after the Pinto Cruising Wagon...

The stock version was reissued once in the late '90's. The cafe racer has never been reissued; the new reissue kit has both stock and cafe racer parts in the same box.