Fat Brian

I'd like one of these for the Monogram kit as well, and the SD hood.

Wow, you think if a person had that kind of money they would have had a safer way to store them.

This is really cool. There are a lot of specialty vehicles from this period that approach the design most consider a monster truck. This has been at times a heated debate within the monster truck community. The current thoughts on finding the first monster truck is that it must have the 66" agricultural tires that became the standard tire for the genre and it must have done "monster truck things" like car crushing, sled pulls, or hill climbs. This definition excludes a lot of the early vehicles like this that were designed mainly for working. By the current accepted definition the original Bigfoot truck is the first monster truck. There was a mud racing truck called Kaw-liga that was on 66" tires first but they only ever used it for mud racing so it doesn't meet the second requirement of doing "monster truck things". This is an argument of when a thing becomes different enough or it's use changes to the point that it is now a new thing.

I glued strips from a wide rubber band to the inside of the tip of one pair of my tweezers specifically for handling small parts.

PM me your address, I've got two sets you can have.

I may have some of those if you want them.

This is a new video recently put out by a table top gaming channel showing a modern injection molding operation. There are some points made about how the mold is designed and balanced that are pretty interesting.

Revell is bringing the 39 Chevy back out soon so these might be on the shelf again shortly.

Yep, this is a reboxing of the Monogram kit. The only difference between this boxing and the Hertz car is the color of the decals. This is just the standard GT350.

I like both of those but the nose of the Monte Carlo needs a bit of work. I would move the turn signals down about six inches and add some kind of crease to be a fuax bumper. The way it is is a bit too much big flat space for me.

Yep, happens to me almost every time. I typically hit it with a type of clear less susceptible to blushing.

In cases where a defect is this widespread they might also be trying to charge these kits back to the manufacturer. If that's the case they can't both get their money back from the injection molding contractor and sell the kits, even at a discount. It's a tax thing where charged back items have to be destroyed, selling them or even giving them away can get you into trouble.

I used to build 3d models back in the day but the programs got so complicated I couldn't keep up. I build this mostly from scratch and placing individual vertices in the space, no fancy extruding back then. I really need to get back to it I guess.

This one has me truly jealous, the 68 KR is my favorite Mustang and it hurts my heart the only kit available is the old AMT version. It's inspiring to see what you're able to do in such a short time.

Different areas do it a few weeks apart but it usually happens right around now and again around March. Typically the only way you know your local store is getting ready for their reset is models with orange stickers on the shelf. They used to move them to the clearance section but now they leave them on the model aisle. If you don't see any orange stickers but a do see a bunch of empty spots you probably missed it but your store will have new stuff in a couple weeks.

You might want to talk to Charles at Texas 3d Customs, he seems to be taking on new work for his site. I would like one of these in 1/24 for the Fujimi kit.

Ideally you could get replacements but I've never tried from Tamiya before. Someone is selling that parts tree on ebay right now but it'll be $70 to get it. Unfortunately that looks like a defect that won't polish out.

Pretty sure it's the same snap version that was out a few years ago in red. Still, it's pretty nice and you'd need to study it pretty hard to notice the snappyness. I bought a cheap Firebird of similar vintage to rob a few parts from but didn't really need to.

I stopped at a store in Wilmington NC Tuesday and picked up another Dom's 71 GTX, GMC plow truck, 76 Chevy step side, and a 50th anniversary Camaro. I was hoping for a blue Revell 65 pickup but didn't see any.

There's an ebay seller he works with that has some of his decal sets stateside, if he has what you're looking for it saves you on shipping.

You're right, they're Edelbrock covers. They do look pretty close to the stock Tbird ones though.

Ok, I would start with contacting Def models and asking if they would consider producing the tires in 1/16 scale since it looks like they already have the 3d models made. If that doesn't work maybe you can find someone who can make a 3d Model of the tire for you to either print 4 or print 1 and make 4 copies.

Both of the gasser versions have the Tbird covers.

Are the kit tires correct and you just want them in a different material? If so, you could make a mold of one and cast a set in hard resin.

That just seems to be about the pace of things now. Evidently somewhere has this for preorder so it must be coming a bit sooner.