March 2023 from Round2

[Motor City]

 

Edited March 3, 2023 by Motor City
.

[gasman]

Light month as expected, Chinese New Year slows things down 

[HomerS]

They need to find the Carson top for the 50 Ford

 

[Mark]

The Carson top was reworked to create the half top that is in the kit now.  Compare the underside of the two parts.

[RSchnell]

About the only thing I'm interested in is the '62 Impala, the rest not so much. 

[mikemodeler]

My wallet is safe this month

[Engine 51]

At least two of the International dump trucks will be headed my way. 

[rrb124@sbcglobal.net]

A manufacturer has finally placed 421 fender emblems on a Pontiac that has a 421 engine under the hood! That feature alone is making me want the black 62 Pontiac Grand Prix diecast. Good looking diecast.

[Sledsel]

Gotta try to see if the Ford has the straight axle from the showboat edition. 

[Mr mopar]

Nice looking decal sheet in the International dump truck ,looks like they dropped the flame decals from the sheet !

[ChrisBcritter]

Hey! They finally corrected that box! 

Much better. 

Edited March 4, 2023 by ChrisBcritter

[Snake45]

3 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Hey! They finally corrected that box! 

Much better. 

Not an easy kit to build. The windshield frame is MUCH too thick, for one thing. I did manage to wrestle it to the ground and make it my Joy Behar a couple years ago, though. 

In other news, Diecast Model Wholesale is advertising the '66 Mustang 2+2 and the '63 Corvette roadster. Hmmmmm.....

[stavanzer]

4 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Hey! They finally corrected that box! 

Much better. 

Yeah they did.

But that is not the box art I would have used. Frankly, it is not that great, in my eye. I've had kit, and sold it on. Just could work up any 'feel' for building it. At least it has one piece tires this go-round.

[espo]

I couldn't tell from the video about the tires in the Corvette kit, but when first issued this and others with the Street Rod logos had some very nice low-profile tires as an option. They were more on the order of the one on 1:1 road racing cars of the day. Anyone liking a '62 Impala convertible should pick up one of these. I built one from an original issue last year and the fit is just like the '62 Bel Air hardtop that AMT offered. 

[Can-Con]

4 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Yeah they did.

But that is not the box art I would have used. Frankly, it is not that great, in my eye. I've had kit, and sold it on. Just could work up any 'feel' for building it. At least it has one piece tires this go-round.

That's actually one of my favorite box arts, Alan. I love that it's basically black and white with red as the only actual color in the artwork.

I started to build a quasi-box art car years ago with the Revell multi-piece body kit , which I actually like better then the AMT kit. 

And, yes, I do have a copy of the original. 

[Mike C.]

18 hours ago, mikemodeler said:

My wallet is safe this month

Ditto.

[Rob Hall]

These videos always seem to be a month off...looking forward to the '68 Coronet, '68 GTO, '66 Mustang and '81 Chevy pickup this month...

[Dave Darby]

8 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Yeah they did.

But that is not the box art I would have used. Frankly, it is not that great, in my eye. 

I don't know, they certainly could have done worse. Like this one with the upside down headlights. What would you have picked?

 

 

[Rob Hall]

1 minute ago, Dave Darby said:

I don't know, they certainly could have done worse. Like this one with the upside down headlights. What would you have picked?

 

 

Those early 80s boxes with the bathroom tile are so dull…

[blizzy63]

re: Snake45:
“…Joy Behar…” ???

Edited March 5, 2023 by blizzy63

[pack rat]

10 hours ago, stavanzer said:

Yeah they did.

But that is not the box art I would have used. Frankly, it is not that great, in my eye. I've had kit, and sold it on. Just could work up any 'feel' for building it. At least it has one piece tires this go-round.

Being based on the '59 annual kit with a few updates for the '60 model year, this is the oldest surviving AMT kit.....a cool way to commemorate that would be a retro box based on the original '60 annual box design.

.

[1972coronet]

3 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

Those early 80s boxes with the bathroom tile are so dull…

Between those Tron Bathroom Tile box art images, and the Parvo Vomit Yellow or Seagull Sauce Beige plastic, I dunno which was worse.

[Dave Darby]

2 hours ago, pack rat said:

for the '60 model year, this is the oldest surviving AMT kit.....a cool way to commemorate that would be a retro box based on the original '60 annual box design.

I don't think the slotted mag wheels would fit into that equation. As far as oldest surviving model kit goes, the 60 kit is a second update from the SMP 1958 promo tool. The two kit releases in 59 and 60 were likewise under the SMP label. It was never released under the AMT label until the 1970s, as a "1959" in the Street Rod series box. The 1957 T Bird kit was based off of one of the AMT 57 promo tools. (According to Ertl, there were two, one of which produced the Craftsman kit). That would make the 57 Thunderbird the oldest surviving AMT tool. Especially if it (possibly) was itself an update of the 1955-56 tool.

[Dave Darby]

23 hours ago, Sledsel said:

Gotta try to see if the Ford has the straight axle from the showboat edition. 

It's showing up in the center of the parts layout on the bottom of the box. 

[Mr mopar]

Yes my wallet is safe this month ,money for the '68 Coronet r/t 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Mr mopar