1/24 Revell Aston Martin DB5 James Bond 007 "Goldfinger" kit announced

[Gramps46]

DB4GT - do like Matt said:

• If you want a DB4GT, cut a chunk out of the middle of the cheapest Airfix/Doyusha DB5 you can find, and sand the sides a bit.

[Matt Bacon]

Step-by-step:

best,

M.

[blubaja]

19 hours ago, stavanzer said:

 

I'll bet the street price winds up closer to $70.00, than $80.00 anyway.

My LHS is selling them for $77. 

It's very not good for almost $80 when you can get a very well detailed Tamiya kit for $60 or less if you try hard enough. 

The easy together build isn't so much a detractor. But it being the usual revell quality, and for $80 lol. 

Edited January 21, 2024 by blubaja

[Jim B]

1 hour ago, blubaja said:

My LHS is selling them for $77. 

It's very not good for almost $80 when you can get a very well detailed Tamiya kit for $60 or less if you try hard enough. 

The easy together build isn't so much a detractor. But it being the usual revell quality, and for $80 lol. 

Tamiya made a DB5?  I though the only made the 2010-ish DBS.

[250 Testa Rossa]

USCP is now doing 3D printed wheels for the Revell DB5. 

 

[Bugatti Fan]

Tamiya never made a DB5. They would make a cracking good kit of it if they did.

Matt Bacon's observations about the DB5 the other Aston Martin variants and the kits made interesting reading. Learnt quite a few things from that.

The Airfix JB DB5 is 1/24th scale not 1/25th as I thought so I stand corrected!

Edited January 21, 2024 by Bugatti Fan

[stavanzer]

Did the DB5 only come with wire wheels?

[Matt Bacon]

50 minutes ago, stavanzer said:

Did the DB5 only come with wire wheels?

I’ve never seen one on anything else. That’s not to say no one in the history of the world ever fitted Campagnolo alloys or Dunlop Competition rims, but wires (with a bit of variation in sizes) are near enough standardised and period-correct.

best,

M.

[john sharisky]

23 hours ago, Matt Bacon said:

Looking at HPI-Guy’s video above, the tracker screen panel on the dash is a separate piece...

It isn't. For a stock build it needs to be cut off the dash and the hole filled.

I paid $33.99 plus shipping from Burbank's House of Hobbies on Jan. 9th. Two are listed on their site today: with and without paints (and double-ended brush). When I ordered, only the one with the paints was listed (it's priced much higher now). But the one without paints is priced in line with Model Roundup.

I'm building mine without bumpers. It isn't #1 on my to-do list but I've glued on the front pan, ejector seat lid and I sliced the top part off the bullet proof shield to fill the hole. I also filled the hole in the "boot" lid for the revolving license plate with a piece of Evergreen (I want to use a US plate).

There's more stock alternate (non-Bond) parts than I expected: center console, wheel knock-offs, front parking lights, etc. There's a waterslide decal sheet that mimics the self stick one.

I've ordered the USCP front grille and wheels and tires. I like this kit. I'm glad I bought one.

John

 

 

[blubaja]

On 1/20/2024 at 9:20 PM, Jim B said:

Tamiya made a DB5?  I though the only made the 2010-ish DBS.

A tamiya kit, in general. 

[Jim B]

8 hours ago, blubaja said:

A tamiya kit, in general. 

Oh, that makes sense. I'd like a DB5, but I think I'll wait to see if a non-gadget version will be issued. $80 is a little steep.

[Matt Bacon]

On 1/21/2024 at 4:55 PM, john sharisky said:

It isn't. For a stock build it needs to be cut off the dash and the hole filled.

What's your interpretation of what he's doing here, then?

best,

M.

[john sharisky]

2 minutes ago, Matt Bacon said:

What's your interpretation...

I guess "interpretation" is a good word for this. While yes, the screen is a separate piece, the appendage on the dash that it attaches to has to be dealt with if the screen is not used. There's no alternative in the Revell kit (i.e. radio face and speaker grille).

The video posted has a good view of the two between-the-seats consoles included in the kit. One "open" (showing the Bond switches) and one closed.

 

John

 

 

[Matt Bacon]

Ah, I get it... I wasn't suggesting that you could build a stock car from this boxing without mods, but my interpretation of the fact they'd bothered to make the screen a separate piece was that it was to allow for the possibility of a non-Bond kit without having to retool a whole dash, just a 1cm square radio and speaker part. When I built the 1/16 Revell Porsche 356 coupe Easy-Kit, there were quite a few parts for the full detail kit on various trees of the snapper, plus a 3-part siren and parts of a radio setup designed for a Dutch Police-fit 356 which as far as I know has never yet seen the light of day as a separate release. I think Revell likes to give itself the option wherever it can... it's like the new 1/48 Airfix Sea King helicopter kit, which gives you all the parts for a a number of different variants and overseas operators version that are not included in the decals or instructions, and a tantalising handful of parts which can only be used for more radically different versions, if and when the more substantial bits you need appear in a later box...

best,

M.

 

[Chetwynd]

The Goldfinger Aston Martin was NOT a DB5. it was a DB4 series 5. For the sake of historical accuracy that is how any model product should be marketed.

[Chetwynd]

No problem !

[Chetwynd]

The major problem with the Revell ‘Goldfinger’ model kit, apart from the incorrect description, is that it is supplied without an engine but comes with the sump only. Most bizarre. However a Jaguar engine from an XKSS fits perfectly.

[stavanzer]

On 6/17/2024 at 3:32 AM, Chetwynd said:

 However a Jaguar engine from an XKSS fits perfectly.

But, did Aston Martin use a Jaguar Engine? I don't see how this is a solution.

[Matt Bacon]

On 6/17/2024 at 11:18 AM, Chetwynd said:

The Goldfinger Aston Martin was NOT a DB5. it was a DB4 series 5. For the sake of historical accuracy that is how any model product should be marketed.

That’s an “interesting” interpretation. One of the two cars supplied by Aston Martin was the prototype DB5, which had started life as a DB4 Series 5 but hadn’t been upgraded internally to full DB5 spec. The bean-counting guys at Aston Martin justified it on the basis that the production was going to mess with the car big-time anyway and it had served its purpose already as real DB5s were now in production, so it didn’t matter. The second car was a full-fat DB5, chassis DB5/1486/R. Both were used for filming in the UK. The second full-DB5 car was the one that was damaged on the ferry to Switzerland, and the gearbox ragged-out, so the modified “stunt car” with gadgets was shipped out to stand in in later filming.

In fact “the” Goldfinger Aston Martin is a hybrid of two cars, differently equipped, filmed at different times, sometimes together. One is a highly modified DB4 Series 5, with a lot of features a regular one doesn’t have, and a mechanical spec that’s a DB5; the other is a DB5 that doesn’t have any gadgets.

So to my mind, a “Goldfinger DB5” (which someone has paid a lot of money for a licence for) is a specific car, with a collection of special features which is unique, and a model of it is a model of that fictional car. It’s meaningless to try to allocate “it” to a production Aston series. We’ll be arguing about whether a Lotus that transforms into a submarine is a Series 1 or 1.5 Esprit or what spec of DeLorean “OUTTATIME” is next…

best,

M.

 

Edited June 18, 2024 by Matt Bacon

[Matt Bacon]

1 hour ago, stavanzer said:

But, did Aston Martin use a Jaguar Engine? I don't see how this is a solution.

Hey, all straight sixes look alike in the dark… ? There’s a nice one in the Monogram Maserati 3500 too…

best,

M.

 

[stavanzer]

1 hour ago, Matt Bacon said:

There’s a nice one in the Monogram Maserati 3500 too…

best,

M.

 

That Monogram/Revell/Aurora Maserati 3500 is a Great looking car. I need to track one down. I built one many years ago when I bought it new from K-Mart in the 1980's. It was fiddly, but fun.

[Ron Hamilton]

On 1/21/2024 at 11:55 AM, john sharisky said:

It isn't. For a stock build it needs to be cut off the dash and the hole filled.

I paid $33.99 plus shipping from Burbank's House of Hobbies on Jan. 9th. Two are listed on their site today: with and without paints (and double-ended brush). When I ordered, only the one with the paints was listed (it's priced much higher now). But the one without paints is priced in line with Model Roundup.

I'm building mine without bumpers. It isn't #1 on my to-do list but I've glued on the front pan, ejector seat lid and I sliced the top part off the bullet proof shield to fill the hole. I also filled the hole in the "boot" lid for the revolving license plate with a piece of Evergreen (I want to use a US plate).

There's more stock alternate (non-Bond) parts than I expected: center console, wheel knock-offs, front parking lights, etc. There's a waterslide decal sheet that mimics the self stick one.

I've ordered the USCP front grille and wheels and tires. I like this kit. I'm glad I bought one.

John

 

 

I ordered the USCP parts for mine too, but I am going to build it as a Bond Car.

[Richard Bartrop]

19 hours ago, Matt Bacon said:

Hey, all straight sixes look alike in the dark… ? There’s a nice one in the Monogram Maserati 3500 too…

best,

M.

 

Sort of like how all pushrod V8s look the same.

[john sharisky]

16 hours ago, Ron Hamilton said:

I ordered the USCP parts for mine too, but I am going to build it as a Bond Car.

I have a small snag: all the windows were engineered to snap tightly into the body (molded in silver metallic). After my primer and paint, they won't snap in. Too tight. It isn't just the mounting tabs. Looks like I have to sand the circumference of all four window glass pieces.
 

[Daddyfink]

Honestly, it almost looks like they pulled this from a Die Cast toy, like they did the '68 Mustang