Monogram 1/24th scale 1930 Model A Coupe

[Eric Macleod]

On 9/18/2019 at 3:50 PM, Chuck Kourouklis said:

Comes to that, even I have one:

And I would have understood the question perfectly...

up till a few years ago.  Don't we have Revell's new one in 1/25?

Well. Maybe we don't technically have-it-have-it just now, but we should again just as soon as Revell can get off the thumb with the re-release, right?

This is possibly the best version of this kit I have ever seen. I am always confused when i see a stock model and people want to  "do something " with it. Everyone has different tastes I guess.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

That's very kind of you Eric!  I personally think it's beatable as a factory stock build, but I'll allow that somebody'll have his work cut out for him doing so.

Chris D's take on it, though?  To get that weathered bare metal finish, and a stance you can tell is dialed in from overhead, to add louvers and a steering pose, to get every detail from so many disparate kit sources so locked down and close to scale that the model looks as if it jumped straight from the pages of The Rodder's Journal - well that takes some doing.  And that's why I agree with everyone else calling it a G O A T execution of this kit.

Edited September 24, 2019 by Chuck Kourouklis
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[dimaxion]

On 9/21/2019 at 5:33 PM, Eric Macleod said:

This is possibly the best version of this kit I have ever seen. I am always confused when i see a stock model and people want to  "do something " with it. Everyone has different tastes I guess.

A beautiful replica . Yes Chuck . You did your homework . I own a Model A Repaint Manual . Kudos . I do appreciate this Factory Stock Build . Before anyone knocks you about the Whitewalls . This is not a rendition of a stripper . It may have been the Depression when a 1:1 like this was bought . Still a "high line car" the Industry calls it . With a Rumble Seat on a closed body it is nor a heapie cheapie . These tires are a Premium Tire . The best available at the time . If this was bought on Installments . The Tires would outlast the payments . Not the other way around as would the cheap Black-walls . I paid attention to my Parents and Grandparents talking about Cars and economics . I am retentive and prefer Factory Stock . Would you paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa ? I would not .. Thanx 

[Chuck Kourouklis]

On 9/29/2019 at 11:14 AM, dimaxion said:

A beautiful replica . Yes Chuck . You did your homework . I own a Model A Repaint Manual . Kudos . I do appreciate this Factory Stock Build . Before anyone knocks you about the Whitewalls . This is not a rendition of a stripper . It may have been the Depression when a 1:1 like this was bought . Still a "high line car" the Industry calls it . With a Rumble Seat on a closed body it is nor a heapie cheapie . These tires are a Premium Tire . The best available at the time . If this was bought on Installments . The Tires would outlast the payments . Not the other way around as would the cheap Black-walls . I paid attention to my Parents and Grandparents talking about Cars and economics . I am retentive and prefer Factory Stock . Would you paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa ? I would not .. Thanx 

Didn't really wanna bump the thread for this reason, but I didn't want this to go without a thank-you either.  The extent of my research was basically confined to the Google machine, but with LOTS of digging around on it.  Pretty much wrung out anything I could find on a '30 Ford till I hit on a restoration with whitewalls and that color scheme - not only lovely in the way those cream-yellow wheels set off the two-tone body, but very like a '30 or '31 Tudor sedan a tire-dealing neighbor brought home one afternoon some 40 years ago.  Left quite an impression on pre-teen me; sat there one afternoon and did a pencil drawing of it in profile.

Appreciate it, John!