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I asked and they will include the stock parts as well as the new custom parts.

Mazda has not shown any removable HT nor retractable HT yet. The Global Cup racer has a huge roll cage so it doesn't require a top. People have found RHT anchors under a couple narrow plastic panels between the door and trunk lid where they've hidden them. So far soft-top only, and I believe there is no uptop in the kit. It's a kit of the 1st year ND MX5, obviously as time goes by there will be more color and roof options. Whether that means Tamiya does any updates, or we rely on the aftermarket, is TBD. But as a complete Miata fanatic, I have 2 Tamiya kits on order and a ton of ideas. I've driven a trio of ND's at an event put on by Mazda.

Revell has been working with Italeri for years to get this SWB reissued. Even though Italeri is located practically next door to Ferrari in Maranello, the process of obtaining licensing and doing business in Italy always creates some sort of head-banging roadblocks. The Italeri kit is quite good..only issued once, I already have two of them in my stash. It's good enough that new tooling simply isn't necessary. The aftermarket needs to step up and make it easy to obtain good quality detail parts for the engine, wheels, tires that will improve upon out of box.

I put in my preorder at Hobby Search on August 25th. And that was after waiting to make sure it was the ND Miata and not an earlier version.

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Beautiful build! It's one of Monogram's well-kept secrets, many don't know the kit has lived on in plastic. The last one I got was rebranded by Revell Germany, even Aoshima has had this kit in one of their boxes. The option of racing parts is another reason it's a gem. Would love to see this in person, would be great it if you would bring it to the ACME NNL Southern Nationals near Atlanta on Nov. 14th! NNL Southern Nationals November 14, 2015

Tim, the model was built by Jim Shepherd of ACME, and I took the photo yesterday at our club meeting. Jim did a fantastic job on his model, combining it with the Motormax camper from one of their diecast pickup trucks that he found at Wal Mart and refinished it as part of this very unique kitbash.

None of the Silvia kits have ever had full detail, they're all curbside; generally they have had pretty unremarkable 4 cylinder power (a few had 3.0 V6's in the US), they're popular because they're light and RWD. One GTR from the late 80's/early 90's, the Tamiya R32 GTR, has full detail, and that's the one everyone gets to kitbash with earlier and later inline 6 GTR's. Doubt its the same platform as the Silvia/SX's. If you go to Hobby Search, convert to English, you can generally see photos/scans of parts and instructions for most Japanese kits. I have an early 70's fastback GTR kit that has an engine, but it's an afterthought and a bit of a job to open the hood and underhood detail is weak, but it does have a full engine.

Just got mine on Friday, well worth the ~15 month wait.

Just one that I'll build someday...probably as a race car.

Art, It's Aoshima, not Gunze who did the 1/24 MGB bodies. I know the kits pretty well since doing the GT master for you a couple decades ago. I wish Aoshima would reissue them, it's been awhile and the kits are almost as hard to find as the resin bodies. Dave Toups did a great LHD dash conversion that Norm/Replicas & Miniatures cast, not sure if it is still in the catalog or not. These MGB kits need some lowering for the earlier versions; the kits are done w/the tall ride height seen on the rubber-bumper variants.

This model knocked my socks off at the Southwest Challenge when I saw it many years ago, since I love both CRX's and 911's. Seared in my memory...and provided me years of inspiration for similar mashups that I've done. Thanks for sharing

Thanks guys, wasn't quite expecting to see this here, the Mustang was a blast to build and ended up being the perfect slump-buster for me after a couple of far more-involved projects. A 1:1 just like it would be more than welcome in my garage. More photos: http://public.fotki.com/grdeyed/model_cars-1/2015-mustang-mach-i/

Wow, I have to have one of these! Thanks for giving Brad the master, this is going to make a lot of Porschephiles very happy. Now I just need to build the Maserati 450S and the Ferrari 250 TDF that I got from him recently...our ACME group spent quite a bit of $$ at his NNL East table.

You certainly went above and beyond with this incredible model! Beautiful work.

Excellent! Glad to hear it might be available in resin.

We'd love to help feed your newfound addiction to model cars locally; I'm an officer in ACME-Atlanta Car Model Enthusiasts, and we have our monthly club meeting this coming Sunday from 2:30-5:00 PM at the Smyrna Community Center. We'll have show & tell and a great how-to demo on engine detailing. Come join us if you can! We'll even have some out-of-town guests visiting us this weekend.

I'm 150 miles from my workbench, but the Citadel paints I showed are great for brush painting. They're about the only metallic paints that work reasonably well when brush painted. I thin them with a bit of water or Future. Obviously for better quality, if I have the time, I mask/airbrush w/Alclad metalizers. I recently went to replace the silver from Citadel and they've changed all the names of the colors. Hobbytown had a cross-reference chart w/the old names and new names.

Thanks! I was kind of surprised Foose used a 6 cylinder 300 front end. The SRT-8 has the best looking factory front clip (mainly because of the chin spoiler). Chrysler sold 300C Touring Wagons overseas, which inspired me to start one of my own, but it sits unfinished, who knows when I'll get back to it. One issue is the windshield, the front clip is from a 1/24 scale Revell kit married to the 1/25 scale Magnum body. I had to slightly bow the A pillars outward, so I need to carefully trim the 300 windshield to fit.

Thanks! How does it happen? I have no idea, this idea hatched when I was thinking of putting a Mustang front end on the Magnum body. As I was scouring my unbuilts, my eye hit the GTR kit, and that's where it came together. Once I realized the dimensions were so close that it was feasible (and a lot more feasible than the Mustang idea), I went with it. It was quite by accident, but I had a lot of NISMO detail parts that certainly helped make the idea come to fruition. It's fun to mix 'n match in car design, all the great customizers were doing it long before I came along.

Thanks for the new replies. Bike came w/the same Fujimi detail kit that has the roof racks/Thule luggage carriers. The body is available in resin from scaleproduction.de ; I gave them permission to copy my design and they did a good job of it and it's been fun to see a few more built (mostly European builders). As far as body conversions go, it wasn't that difficult, the parts fit pretty well w/a minimum of filler.

To get such a highly-detailed, all-new kit of a car like the Hudson, for $30 retail...that's a bargain. Model car guys are cheap...the Hudson should be an easy sale, and I think they've done their homework to make sure there are no cringe-worthy elements. I'm really looking forward to the Hudson...my Dad used to rave about how good they were, with the first step-down design for a common car, and their performance even w/the 6. Of course the car that got purchased for Mom was a Hudson Jet, but she loved that car.

I would expect over time they would offer a '56. The biggest changes would be to the rear quarters, taillights, rear bumper. IIRC everything else is pretty much the same inside and under the hood. '55's had the underhood area painted black, in '56 they "cost-reduced" it and they painted it body color rather than a contrasting color.