Ace-Garageguy

...you mean they copied each other's homework?

Yeah man...I tried to smoke a brisket wunst, but I cooden keep the dang thing lit.

OK...I checked. The body shell from the '28 Tudor in the OP photos fits on the AMT '28-'29 roadster fender unit very well. The rear of the roadster fender unit needs a little mod to adapt it to the differently shaped Tudor body...that's all. The roadster hood is the right length and height, and the curvature matches the Tudor exactly. All this means is that it you want to do a more detailed, separate frame version of a '28 Tudor (or maybe a Tudor A-V8) all you have to do is use the AMT '28 roadster fenders and frame. It also means that both MPC and AMT's tooling designers got things measured and scaled right, way back then. How interesting.

That's a 5.0 Coyote engine (see post 10). 420 HP, I believe. Yes, but 5.0 pushrod Windsor engines.

Monogram's very first plastic kit was the venerable Midget Racer, somewhere around 1/18 or 1/20 scale, molded in acetate. I have a red acetate built-up, nicely done but somewhat warped, and a first-run unbuilt acetate one still in the box. It's been re-issued a bazillion times, with the later versions molded in styrene. And no, it shares absolutely nothing with the Kurtis midgets of a few years back.

Me four.

It's only recently that my tiny little mind realized Revell did a '58 Chebby, too. Dumbguy. Looks like a great kit.

Yeah...when I first got back into this stuff around '05 or so, I started buying up everything that looked interesting, vintage, that I'd missed when I was young, or that I had when I was young. I bought one of the Mk II Continentals and didn't bother to check the scale on the auction site, assuming (stupidly) that because the packaging looked kinda like the 1/24-5 scale Caddy (OP photo). it must be the same scale. Wrong. I was pretty bummed when I opened the box. Oh well. Pay attention, Bill. Anyway, I sure wish there was one of these in 1/25 styrene. I'm pretty sure there was a Buick and an F-100 in the 1/32 lineup too.

Nope. Nothing shared, but I'm fixing to see how well the body shell from the Tudor fits the Ala Kart '28 frame/fenders (and its reissues)...right now.

man, I knoes what eclectic meanz. I gotts me a eclectic car dat I plugz in to chaage the battrees.

I have a couple and think it's a decent kit. To me, the only downside is the frame molded as a unit with the fender assembly, rather like the old Revellogram 1/24 '32 roadster kits. The Mopar cast-iron headers for the optional engine were pretty heavy-handed too, if I'm remembering correctly. Gotta look in one...

Pretty cool indeed. If the body shell and door tools still exist, what's to stop them from getting packaged with the old '28 roadster frame, guts and fenders? Shouldn't take too heavy mods to make that work...assuming there's more than one tool for the roadster extant...or if all the drawings exist (pre CAD, I'm certain).

Of course, if I can clear some real-life BS out of the way. Somehow I haven't been able to focus on model-building lately, because of one lingering kinda big-deal problem. If I can clear the negotiations soon, I can get back to some bench-time. I'd really like to finish the '28 lakes car. It's close.

This thread has got me kinda fired and wired to do quick bashups of more accurate full-fendered '34 Fords using bits from all the AMT kits and the chopped Revell snapper. The good AMT frame (5W & sedan) is a plenty good enough base (I'll do some measuring to verify that statement too), so it's basically some "sheetmetal" mods. I currently have access to an original '34 3-window, in the shop, gutted, so measuring what needs to be corrected is a snap.

The 5.0 DOHC Coyote engine is probably what you'd want then. It's based on the "modular" engine architecture, and in real-life, the mounts and bellhousing bolt pattern are the same as earlier modular engines (and it's available from Ford as a crate engine, as well as junkyard sourcing, having been in production for 6 years or so). One of the late-model Mustang kits has a good Coyote, but I don't know which kit...yet. Here's some dimensions to see if it will fit your engine bay. If you can't make the numbers out, download it and blow it up in photoviewer. The resolution's good enough.

It shares nothing with the quite good (even though it's ancient) AMT '28 roadster, and my understanding is that it's an MPC tool. Who knows the real deal?

I honestly hope the '28-29 roadster and the '30-'31 coupe (assuming we get it) are both out-of-the-park home runs. I WANT them to be successful, and I WANT to buy multiples because they're so good. So I hope they're really really good. And IF they're really really good, and the vocal critics like me buy multiples because we're so dammed impressed with Revell's work, and if everybody else buys a bunch of them...as they're apparently doing with the '57 Ford wagon...maybe Revell (or somebody) will seriously consider doing a GOOD '34 3-window. Many many modelers have wanted a new-tool model-A for a long time (and a source of styrene traditional rod bits), and it's finally almost here. Maybe it's the start of lotsa good things to come.

X2. Your rusty crusty builds are among the best I've seen in the style. Nice going.

This vintage of Ford truck is about my favorite of all time, and I really like the heavier-rated versions that you're doing. I've seen a fair bit of your previous work and have no doubt you'll nail this one too. I've been wanting to do a 350 race-car hauler myself, so i'll be watching your work with much interest.

Love that model, Mr. Welda. Did you do a reproduction store display too, or find an original somewhere?

Yes, I have an old Monogram "Long John" dragster, and the scaling is questionable as to being 1/24 as well...particularly the wheels / tires. Though 18" rear rims were common on Indy roadsters of the era, 16" diameter rims were common on drag racing vehicles.

This is very simple. We "complain at inaccuracies in a $22.00 kit" because that small cheap kit is the product of a team of well-paid professionals whose job it is to produce an accurate manufactured product, and to get little things like the scale part of scale model right. We "laud the efforts of those capable of correcting major deficiencies in an extinct $444.00 kit" because just for love of the hobby and getting it right for no other reason than personal pride in their workmanship, they do so. However, it would seem that a company producing models in the multi-hundred dollar range might be driven to get it right too, but apparently not always. The lack of ability to measure accurately and divide by the working scale must cross all monetary and language boundaries, and be a slave to no particular ethnicity or creed.

Hmmm...perhaps I misunderstood. Do you want the old " smallblock" Windsor pushrod V8 that ended its life as the 5.0 (302) / 351W EFI engine (phased out of the car line in '96 and gone from the truck / SUV platforms by 2001) or a late-model EFI engine of similar displacement? The pushrod Windsor is, of course, still available in various displacements as a crate engine from Ford Racing. So...you could go either way here. Kinda depends on what your definition of "late model" is.

And all this time I thought that was me. Your paranoia is showing, Tom.