Ala Kart a la carte: Part ONE, Compare and Contrast

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 12/17/2018 at 7:28 PM, Dave Darby said:

Back 2002, when the new tool Ala Kart was first released I did a pretty definitive comparison of old vs new. 16 years later I still consider the new tool kit to be a hot mess. Like something Trumpeter would come up with. The front tires are nice tho.

 http://www.bonediggers.com/2-3/alakart/alakart.html#kit

I'll have to have a look. Funny, a few years back when I first got one of the new tool versions and posted on several forums about the badly underscale engine, I got a lot of angry feedback from "experts" insisting it was correct and that the first tool version was wrong, or it was smaller because it was the "little" Chrysler hemi, ad nauseam. Quite an outpouring of hate, actually.

After having spent considerable time with both kits now, it's my contention that a superior model can be built by cherry-picking the best bits from the two kits (as SOME of the parts in the new-tool kit are much nicer than what's in the original)...and I believe that's already been done too.

Still, maybe I'll spot something the guys who got there first missed.  

Here's part Two:

 

Edited October 18, 2020 by Ace-Garageguy

[rattle can man]

After h parts, < it looks like I will be building my original and possibly cannibalizing the new tool for parts.