Round2 June Product Spotlight

[stavanzer]

6 minutes ago, oldcarfan said:

I wonder it the camper from the 62 Ford truck will fit on any of their other truck kits.

I've read somewhere that the camper might fit the original SMT/AMT '62/63 Chevy Truck, but don't hold me to that. I do not have one to check.

It does make a kind of sense that it might fit though, since SMT was about maximizing tooling on the trucks. If you look at the instruction sheets for the '62/63 Pickups, both the Ford and Chevy share a lot of accessory parts, and maybe some engine parts and wheels too. So the Camper might fit........

 

Did you see the Twisted Metal Ice Cream truck and UFO Crawler kit it in the Wonderfest Video? Not much for us Car Guys, but some great kits anyways! I hope they sell in huge numbers. I suspect the better the Sci-Fi kits sell, the more budget there is for cloning old car kits.

Thanks for posting the Video, Jesse!!

[Radretireddad]

23 hours ago, Craig Irwin said:

I hope the AMT 67 Mustang chassis fits the 66 Shelby.

 

It fits with a little trimming.

[deuces wild]

On 5/31/2025 at 12:48 PM, Radretireddad said:

The Shelby Mustang kit and the current ‘66 Mustang GT kit are modified and upgraded versions of the old AMT ‘66 Mustang notchback kit. The body and interior look good but it still has the old slab chassis which isn’t anywhere near accurate. Those kits can be bashed pretty easily with the chassis from the AMT ‘67 Mustang GT kit. The next question is why go to all that trouble and expense when you can just build one of the old but still pretty decent Monogram kit versions that Revell sells? Other than the fact that it’s 1/24 vs. 1/25 scale, it may not seem worth the effort and expense of buying an additional kit.

The Willys coupe is the upgraded version of the companion pickup with much better new wheels and tires and a way better decal sheet. I could use those for both the older kit versions I have in my stash but with the current cost of kits, I’ll be scouring my parts bins for alternatives instead.

The gripe I have with the Willys kit is, it does not include the pickup body or bed pieces.... I'm glad I still have my old kit that includes those parts.....

[Radretireddad]

3 minutes ago, deuces wild said:

The gripe I have with the Willys kit is, it does not include the pickup body or bed pieces.... I'm glad I still have my old kit that includes those parts.....

I know. The previous releases I bought years ago included parts for both versions in the same kit. The pickup version is still in Round2’s lineup though.

[DJMar]

On 5/31/2025 at 9:48 AM, Radretireddad said:

The Shelby Mustang kit and the current ‘66 Mustang GT kit are modified and upgraded versions of the old AMT ‘66 Mustang notchback kit. The body and interior look good but it still has the old slab chassis which isn’t anywhere near accurate. Those kits can be bashed pretty easily with the chassis from the AMT ‘67 Mustang GT kit. The next question is why go to all that trouble and expense when you can just build one of the old but still pretty decent Monogram kit versions that Revell sells? Other than the fact that it’s 1/24 vs. 1/25 scale, it may not seem worth the effort and expense of buying an additional kit.

I had the same thought at first. Those Monogram 80s-era 1st gen Mustang kits aren't perfect by any means, but they have a better (more accurate) chassis and separate exhaust, among other things. And they already have a '66 GT350.

OTOH, if you are going to use the AMT '67 Mustang/Shelby for the chassis under the new R2 '66 Shelby anyway, you might be able to adapt the interior rear sail panels as well. That is one area in which the Revellogram kits are lacking, and IMO it's a noticeable omission.

Also, it's nice to see the '40 Willys back, but it would have been much nicer to have the pickup parts included, as already mentioned.

[Radretireddad]

50 minutes ago, DJMar said:

I had the same thought at first. Those Monogram 80s-era 1st gen Mustang kits aren't perfect by any means, but they have a better (more accurate) chassis and separate exhaust, among other things. And they already have a '66 GT350.

OTOH, if you are going to use the AMT '67 Mustang/Shelby for the chassis under the new R2 '66 Shelby anyway, you might be able to adapt the interior rear sail panels as well. That is one area in which the Revellogram kits are lacking, and IMO it's a noticeable omission.

Also, it's nice to see the '40 Willys back, but it would have been much nicer to have the pickup parts included, as already mentioned.

Agreed!

I own one of every version of the still decent Revell/Monogram kits and the most glaring flaws I see in them are that the ride height is too high, which is easily corrected, and the engines are too wide. They make better 351 Windsors than 289’s. The R/M kits are also the only source for a convertible, a ‘65 Shelby GT and R versions. I do like how the newly tooled Round2 bodies and interiors look and other updates like the 2 piece headlights, but they really need to be combined with the chassis and drivetrain from a Mueller era ‘67 kit to properly elevate them.
 

As far as the Willys go, you still need to buy two kits if you want both versions in your collection so it seems to me like a wash.

Edited June 2 by Radretireddad

[OldNYJim]

On 6/1/2025 at 9:31 PM, oldcarfan said:

And I wonder if the streamliner body tool for the go-kart is on an unused part of the mold? I'd buy more of that!

Me too!!!!!  We have the rest of the kart easily available now…just need R2 to give me an excuse to buy ANOTHER bunch of kits just to get the streamliner bodies

[sfhess]

On 6/1/2025 at 3:08 PM, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

I'm not aware of any '67 Buick GS in 1/25 scale, please let me know if there is one out there.

 

Speed City Resin cast a pretty good one.  Check the website to see if it's still available: Speed City Resin Vintage Drag Racing Model Cars

Give it a shot, you never know.

[Sledsel]

On 5/31/2025 at 8:40 PM, 1972coronet said:

I have the new-bodied '65 version ( last year ? Two years ago ? I can't recall - whenever the new body fastback was released... ) , but I've been putting off starting on it. 

Why ?

I feel compelled to add a correct engine compartment. Maybe I'll attempt to scratch build a boiler room for it - or maybe just make it a curbside. The chassis with its moulded-on exhaust and such doesn't bother me all that much, as the build-ups I've seen look positively boss. 

Cut the shock towers out of a '69 Torino, cut the wheel front wells off the Mustang chassis plate and sand to fit it all together.

Someone used to resin cast a shock tower like the Torino but I do not believe it is offered anymore.  

 

Edited June 3 by Sledsel

[DJMar]

56 minutes ago, Sledsel said:

Cut the shock towers out of a '69 Torino, cut the wheel front wells off the Mustang chassis plate and sand to fit it all together.

Someone used to resin cast a shock tower like the Torino but I do not believe it is offered anymore. 

I remember buying a set of these online, years ago. They were made to replace the missing towers on the AMT '66 Fairlane kit, but I cannot remember who made them.

Maybe some intrepid 3D printer will offer them for the Mustang.

[1972coronet]

2 hours ago, Sledsel said:

Cut the shock towers out of a '69 Torino, cut the wheel front wells off the Mustang chassis plate and sand to fit it all together.

Someone used to resin cast a shock tower like the Torino but I do not believe it is offered anymore.  

 

Sounds like a great idea !

1 hour ago, DJMar said:

I remember buying a set of these online, years ago. They were made to replace the missing towers on the AMT '66 Fairlane kit, but I cannot remember who made them.

Maybe some intrepid 3D printer will offer them for the Mustang.

IIRC, it was Missing Link. I'll have to peruse his eBay page...

[Rodent]

It was missing link and they were a repop of the JoHan Maverick. I have a couple of them and they are kind of narrow and too short to fit 67-up engine bays at all.

The AMT 66 Fairlane has towers, but they are missing the shock mounts. Scott at Futuraattraction made those.

1:1 Fairlanes, Torinos, etc. have a bit taller body than the Mustang. The Mustang uses a crossbar type upper shock mount, the Fairlane uses a stud. If you installed a Fairlane shock and upper mount on a Mustang, it would probably hit the hood when you closed it.

65-66 Mustangs have a somewhat different shape to the shock towers than 67-up. The 64 1/2 generator cars also have a "dent" on the bottom of the passenger tower for generator clearance on the V8.

[RancheroSteve]

Early Falcons also have the bayonet upper shock mount, but they can be switched for the Mustang crossbar type without clearance issues.  

[mk11]

4 hours ago, Rodent said:

It was missing link and they were a repop of the JoHan Maverick. I have a couple of them and they are kind of narrow and too short to fit 67-up engine bays at all.

65-66 Mustangs have a somewhat different shape to the shock towers than 67-up. The 64 1/2 generator cars also have a "dent" on the bottom of the passenger tower for generator clearance on the V8.

The 65/66 Mustang shock towers were shared with the pre '66 Falcons. On an early Falcon you'll see a few inches more height above the shock tower in the side engine compartment metal. This was sectioned out to get the lower profile for the Mustang.

Best part sources I can name in scale for a more accurate early Mustang engine compartment would be the trumpeter falcons and the amt '66-'69 falcons. They were incorrectly cast with the pre '66 shock towers.

Trumpeter falcon also has a fairly accurate early '65 generator setup.

Edited June 4 by mk11

[RancheroSteve]

4 hours ago, mk11 said:

Best part sources I can name in scale for a more accurate early Mustang engine compartment would be the trumpeter falcons and the amt '66-'69 falcons. They were incorrectly cast with the pre '66 shock towers.

Trumpeter falcon also has a fairly accurate early '65 generator setup.

Yes, those were by far the best pieces in the Trumpeter Falcons.

[Mark]

The Jo-Han Maverick kits did not include shock tower detail.  The cast piece was apparently offered to correct that.

[gtx6970]

I might could see the Shelby in my list. But none of the rest does much for me 

[sfhess]

23 hours ago, Rodent said:

It was missing link and they were a repop of the JoHan Maverick. I have a couple of them and they are kind of narrow and too short to fit 67-up engine bays at all.

 

Pretty sure Kevin used the MPC 73 Cougar engine compartment as it was a separate part and easy to duplicate.  It had its roots in the 69 "Super Cat" and 70 Cougar kits.

Edited June 4 by sfhess

[Mark]

The "shock tower" Fords are related but not exactly the same.  Not a lot of parts interchange between them. They are similar only in that they could be built on the same assembly line, provided the guys putting the parts on were given the correct ones.

Even among the early Falcons, a lot changed once the V8 was offered.  The small-block Windsor Ford engine into a pre-1963 Falcon is NOT a bolt-together deal, nor was it easy to get five-lug wheels on the front of those cars prior to disc brake conversions being readily available.

Same goes for a 1970 Maverick (six-cylinder only that year; V8 option came in for '71) and a '74 Mustang II.  There's a lot that changed under the surface after the first year.  Ford really wasn't good at planning ahead with some of those cars, and had to scramble when they wanted to offer V8 engines in them later.

[slusher]

I have bought one  Round2 kit this year  and that may be it for a while…

[DJMar]

On 6/3/2025 at 12:47 PM, Rodent said:

The AMT 66 Fairlane has towers, but they are missing the shock mounts. Scott at Futuraattraction made those.

That's a bingo! Thanks for coming up with that, it was making me crazy.

And yes, I used the wrong term...it's not the towers (inner fender) that are missing in the '66 Fairlane kit, it is the shock mounts on top.