Ace-Garageguy

Wait...wait...don't tell me...I know it...ah never mind.

Sheeple don't really realize there's anything large wrong in the world anyway; as long as they have their bread and circuses, they're content. But you're right... people, in general, would rather rag about things than get sweaty and change them. And in today's "new improved" world, it's much more automatic to be peeved because of some minor inconvenience or perceived slight than it is to actively look for something to be grateful for. Just average humans being average humans.

At the time the Red Baron was a new release, several IPMS types ID'd the engine as a WW-I Mercedes aircraft powerplant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, it's similar, but not accurate...AND, it's about 1/32 scale in a 1/24 kit. I've done considerable research into this, having wanted to use the engine in a fantasy between-wars LSR car. No dice.

Wow. Making improvements rapidly, you are. Nice work.

Eeees hokay. Chood be joosed to eeet een a few mor mineets.

...just like the best way to stop this silly shittstorm is to just...stop it.

Frankly, I'm appalled when I see moron 'patriots' abusing this country's flag too. There was a time when our flag meant something sacred to most every American. We treated it with the respect and reverence it deserves, because of what it truly stands for. We used to take it down in the rain. We used to never let it touch the ground. If it wasn't illuminated, we used to take it down at night too, and carefully fold it. And many of us fought, killed and died for what the American Flag means...freedom. Correction: apparently, what it USED to mean.

Oh my.

Good looking build, but as has been said already above, it wasn't the marking on the roof that got the topic locked. It was the self-righteous PC politicizing and childish comments of some of your fellow modelers that prompted it.

The series used Buicks, yes, but they also ran Mercuries, Chryslers, Oldsmobiles and others in Highway Patrol markings, and even Chebbies as unmarked cars. One of the Oldsmobiles. Didn't have time to search for or screen-shot a Merc, but they were there too. Trust me.

Try contacting Flight Coffee directly... http://flightcoffee.co.nz/blogs/news/7363442-our-new-cards-are-tiny-model-planes

Maybe seamed it right at the door shut-line in front? The hinges are gone, and it doesn't have the molding at the bottom of the cowl side panel like the '31 part does.

I'd buy multiples of both, really. The '53 for an old Highway Patrol car, a stocker, a custom...

Steve, the windshield pillars are very thick, and the '28-'29 hood fits the cowl well. What this says to me is that somebody grafted the '28-'29 cowl to the front of, as you suspect, the Revell '30-'31 shell...and sanded off the signature '28-'29 coach-lines from the sides. Look inside the body. The Revell shell had opening doors, so see if they've been glued shut. Your model has '28-'29 fenders. AHA! Your model also has the opening rear door of the '31 Revell body shell. Somebody with limited funds but needing a 'truck', maybe during the Great Depression, surely could have done a similar conversion in reality.

I like cheese. And pie.

Actually, the AMT '29 roadster frame isn't bad. The only things molded-in are the lever-action shocks and battery box. The '34 5-window and sedan have very nice frames...no blobular stuff whatsoever...while the '36 and '40 frames have only the exhausts molded in. This is a far cry from AMT's MUCH earlier '32 roadster, which has the entire rear suspension and exhaust system as part of the blobular mess. The AMT '32 Victorias and Phaetons, by the way, have separate rear suspension.

I did HO eons ago, lost it all, then started acquiring interesting pieces again a few years back. For whatever reason, I don't need to be as "prototypically correct" with trains, so it could possibly be a more relaxing hobby for me to return to in the future. In the back of my mind, I have an old locomotive and rolling stock graveyard layout envisioned, with a restoration shop in the middle of it, loosely based on the Lima engine works. It would let me mix time-period equipment plausibly, and allow shiny-new and rusty-crusty as well. Roundhouse, lots of switching, turntable...yeah, I like the idea. Getting the mechanical and engineering details right on the car models can drive me quite crazy sometimes...just like building real ones.

They share chassis and guts.

It's Allison 1710-powered. Originally built and campaigned by Jim Lytle and named "Big Al", it was re-bodied with a radically chopped fiberglass shell, and later sold to Ray Alley who ran it as "P-51".

Actually, the '28-'29 Ford uses entirely different sheet-metal, body panels, fenders, grille, etc. To the best of my knowledge, nothing on the '28-'29 Ford (body-wise) interchanges with the '30-'31 Ford. Other than the basic chassis, running gear and engine, they're two entirely different cars. '29 '31

Well, ya know, this IS an American-based forum. put up by an American magazine, aimed primarily at the US customer base. And the recent issue of newly-tooled oldies like the Slingster (Sizzler-based) vintage dragster, the partially-retooled and back-contented kits like the '32 Vicky and the '36 Ford, and the all-new older cars like the Revell wagon and the upcoming Revell '28 and '31 Ford hot rods is a pretty good indication that somebody, somewhere, is hearing what the more vocal modelers want...quite possibly from perusing forums like this, at least in part.

Wow. Gold IS a good color for a full-fender '32 roadster. I never woulda thunk it.

I got nothin'. Looks kinda French...

As you say, it's a nice kit, very well proportioned. Looks right. Interested in seeing your take on it here. I have a metal one I bought as a built-up, doing a dry-lakes sports car with it. Very heavy casting lines on it too, but it cleans up nicely and looks just like bare metal. Imagine that.