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Early Xmas gift; Missing Link resin 71 Hornet SC/360. Very cool and obscure car, nice conversion kit. Needs a few parts from the SC/Ramber such as drivetrain, suspension, exhaust. Glass will have to be cut from sheet stock. Very good quality kit, the resin is very much like styrene.

SON OF A Betcha thought I was gonna say something else

I was almost laughing when I previewed a post and the word "c r a p" was blocked! Oh ######! Wow, it even puts in a different number of pound signs! Oh poop! Isn't that a bit much? It also kept at least one member from even posting... Dagnabbit, indeed

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The Lindberg Gremlin is just a simple reissue of an old kit, don't know why they marked the scale wrong on the box and their website, it's caused a lot of problems in the same boat as you; not knowing the history of the kit and relying on the company accurately to describe their kit. Not only that, but it's a pretty lousy kit detail-wise. Treat it like a custom; all these 1/24-ish Dub-style kits and whatnot can provide good rolling stock. The Motormax/Fresh Cherries Gremlin is pretty nice, I have one that's an unassembled kit painted with primer. It has some aspects/details that AMT's Gremlin missed out on. AMT Gremlins had ridiculously narrow seats. The Motormax depicts a 6 cylinder car. The AMT Gremlins were modified (along with many of their contemporaries like the Matador, Pacer Wagon, etc.) into a wild custom at the end of it's life cycle; apparently instead of new mold inserts for the customs they modified the originals, so no stock versions remain even if they have the tooling. So it's going to be find a vintage kit, the diecast kit, the Lindberg kit, or nothing. I just got the Missing Link '71 Hornet SC/360 resin kit, nice model

Honestly I was bugged by that, but when I heard Ghettofinger describing why, I understood...the UAW employees would have been forced to match wages w/the Japanese (Ghettofinger said the Japanese actually make better wages/perks), and the UAW wanted to ensure that the pain was felt equally amongst all employees...that GM management should also agree to the same kinds of pay structure as Toyota management, and also to ensure equal/fair treatment and prices amongst suppliers. That could bite the US mfg's who are always beating up on suppliers, and those suppliers also may have UAW employees. I'm sure Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Nissan all have much better dealings with suppliers. It's amazingly complex...I don't think we should lose the car manufacturing from US companies, but those companies must restructure to an unheard of level. Think of it this way, they have to basically out-earn Toyota for quite awhile to get back on solid ground. There are generations of buyers not trusting of American car companies. It's a vicious cycle. I'm not sure GM or Chrysler can ever dig out of the massive hole they've dug. Ford has a good chance, and a great slate of new products in the pipeline that will help them be competitive. GM and Chrysler have cut way back on R&D...at the worst time.

Nothing past the mid-late 70's has ever interested me w/NASCAR; the more commercialized it got, the less I was interested. Too much commercialization generally corrupts anything in racing, especially when you get to the NASCAR and F1 levels. Fans at our level are about the last thing they care about.

Precisely. Let's not forget that Big Lots is blowing out Revell NASCAR kits for 5 bucks. That's all the sign anyone needs to know that sector of the market is essentially dead from a marketing perspective. I feel bad for those who will be hurt by the lack of new product, but they have to realize that the enemy is not us, it is NASCAR.

So true...so true. It's both funny and sad if you think about it. BTW, don't be surprised if Gregg deletes it. He doesn't tolerate the language w/in that ad.

Sorry, your photos and website are not working on this end. They weren't working last night, and when I do a check to see if that website works through another site that says if it works, it shows a 500 error. When I checked "isitup": HTTP status: 500 - Error Checking root domain... No luck. Server or web host is not up. Here's the site that I visit to see if a webpage is working or not: Is It Up?

I just love my "Ignore User" list so much!

Oh, really?

Okay...maybe I'll wipe off the IE cobwebs and give it a try My computer literally locked up after an agonizingly long loading of photos. I could scroll through them as they loaded, but at some point the process literally used up all the power my computer had and no matter what I could not get out of it. EDIT: Nope, IE didn't like it either. System locks up. Also, anyone claiming that there was not a GT40 Mk. I: Oh really?

Peter, who knows? There have been some people speculating that this kit is the GMP GT40 MKII converted to a plastic body and sold in kit form. I'd far prefer a MKI myself, but I'm not crazy about big scale. But...a couple of my friends who love building big scale sports cars are dying to get this kit, so let's hope they buy enough to make it a commercial success.

I think I heard of people putting a wet paper towel over the stuff to let sit for awhile, that helps the iron in the rust set really rust.

My Firefox crashed twice on that site. I'm not about to go back.

Your home page doesn't work either. I guess your host really is having problems today

Would love to see actual photos, nothing is showing up. I have the same resin. It's fairly incorrect in some details; whoever mastered it made it a "Park Lane" whereas that model never existed from Mercury. I also plan to make it into a (within reason) correct Colony Park. Looking forward to seeing your progress, and photos of your real car.

Don't worry, Testors and Tamiya lacquers are not hot lacquers, they're safe to put over styrene w/o any barrier. Unless the styrene has already had crazing/lacquer damage from previous coats. On fresh plastic it's fine.

If it's already tooled up that far they probably will release it eventually; perhaps they feel they need to do more parts trees to make parts more appropriate for what modelers desire today. It was tooled as a lowrider and slated for donk, so maybe they want to make some more stock parts. I'll bet if will happen. And if someone enterprising buys/owns that test shot, they could pop a few in resin for guys that can't wait for styrene. Don't forget Revell's marketing has a habit of canceling models without regard to other variants in the work, such as what happened this year with the Black Widow that got a lot of people up in arms...turns out they just shifted focus on the kit and killed an SKU and started another one. This will be a fairly popular model whenever it hits.

Shhhh, don't give those crooks any ideas

Well, I can continue in my anti-NASCAR support and continue to not watch nor build their models I heartily support Revell in their decision. Enough is enough, the backlash has to start somewhere. Hopefully their letter lands square in the laps of everyone on the greed train. With such a soft market and advertising dollars drying up everywhere, you'd think the brilliant minds behind the licensing gouge would take a small something rather than nothing. Nothing as in no free advertising, either.

I did too, but then inexplicably started watching again the next season. I should have learned my lesson then

I don't know why you even bother with a crook like that. He has no idea about "goodwill", except that he complains that you should buy something (overpriced) from him because nobody else that week agreed to be robbed. People like that give the whole industry a bad name. That's the kind of store I'd go into once, and never return.