AMT Touring Car and Phaeton

[regular guy]

 

You're on your own with what your saying.

Have fun!

 

Edited June 30, 2018 by regular guy

[socal76]

I think the combo kits would be a great idea. They did it with the '69 Torino, '69 Barracuda and a third car I cannot recall right now. Plus they did a 3 vehicle Street Rod set. Now those were all sets before Round2, but the idea could be expanded to AMT's T's and their '32 Fords. While I myself may prefer Revell's '32's, they do not have all the body options AMT does. And I have yet to try some of the AMT bodies on the Revell chassis. Too many other projects going on, like most people! But AMT could use a really good couple of options. The only AMT kits I have bought in the last 5 years are the rebranded Lindberg kits I could not get when they were out. As far as other reissues, no reason to buy them when you already have as many as you will need. Now give me some revised tools, like the '66 Nova to a '67 (Street Machine version so minimal tooling costs) and a '66 Malibu Street Machine (again Street Machine to avoid the costs of a Replica Stock interior tooling). Both of these use existing tooling to avoid totally new tooling. I am sure there are others that could be done the same way, but these two would make me spend my funds. Are you reading this Round2??

Well I have posted my thoughts and ideas. We will have to see if anyone agrees or more importantly if any of the manufacture personnel promote it to their bosses!

[niteowl7710]

Why would Round2 reissue kits every 4 years instead of 9? People moan enough to when it's once a decade. I mean how many would you really buy if the kit was reissued that often. 

Also when there's so many copies of something floating around - Ala the '32 Phaeton that the resale market can't even support $8 prices why would they reissue the kit for effectively 3x as much. 

Once again you're proving you have absolutely no idea how tooling is designed and run, or any phase of kit manufacturing for that matter. You can't just grab random engines out of things when the parts are scattered across 3 parts runners from another kit. If you're talking about packing the parts pack engines into kits, what incentive do they have to that when they clearly make more money selling those separately. 

[horsepower]

12 hours ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

Not only did you get the name  wrong  the car is a T not a coupe. Also his first name was Don not Tom.  Please check your facts before posting. Google is your friend.

And it's a 1913 Roadster. BUT you were right about it being a Ford.....well, some of it anyway.?

Edited July 1, 2018 by horsepower

[Mr. Metallic]

On 6/30/2018 at 1:15 PM, niteowl7710 said:

  Pro Shop were pre-painted,

 

Actually, ProShop was also used on non-prepaint kits as well. There was an edition of the 32 Ford roadster(where I think they possibly restored some long missing parts?) and a special edition of the new tool 57 Bel Air that included the photoetch set(yellow box art). There may have been others

[Rob Hall]

6 hours ago, Mr. Metallic said:

Actually, ProShop was also used on non-prepaint kits as well. There was an edition of the 32 Ford roadster(where I think they possibly restored some long missing parts?) and a special edition of the new tool 57 Bel Air that included the photoetch set(yellow box art). There may have been others

The '62 Buick and '76 Caprice were in Pro Shop boxes as well...

Edited July 4, 2018 by Rob Hall

[Mike999]

On ‎6‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 2:15 PM, niteowl7710 said:

...there was nothing Prestigious about the Prestige kits other than some little car show trophies and the "rope" stanchions.

Not all Prestige kits had those parts.  The 3 Prestige kits in my stash all have different extras:

'55 Mercedes Gullwing: has the "car show" parts you mentioned. 

'63 Corvette roadster: has the old "Drag Strip Accessories" parts pack. The one with the vintage TV camera, flags etc.  When the Prestige kit came out, those accessories hadn't been available for a LONG time. So I was glad to see them.

'63 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop:  has a base with a pen-holder built in.  At least the other 2 have useful accessories.  That pen-holder base might have been useful if you needed some black sheet plastic, I guess.  Otherwise a big yawn.

[regular guy]

 

' '63 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop:  has a base with a pen-holder built in.'

The pen holder base was supposed to be to build the kit and give it to somebody as a give.

Primarily a 'father-son' activity.You build it and give it to your Dad.

A wise move.Considering Dad was how you got your kit's on the Saturday morning shopping trip.