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KA 1/43 monogram corvette. Box stock. A friend of mine , I’ll call him Mr. Alvarez, showed me around the NNL West years ago, and I did not not know anyone there. He introduced me to the guys and I told him I would build a 1/43 someday. He built  excellent 1/43 models. He has since passed , I built my first 1/43 . I did build one, I just wish he was here to see it. I will build another. I really loved to build this corvette. Monogram did a fantastic job on the kit. I did not modify anything. Paint and build. This kit is tamiya quality. I just wish they did more 1/43 and I wish they put the same quality in their 1:25-24 kits with photoetch. My first 1/43 and not my last. Very fun kit. I bought it for $2 at our club . Received a 1/43 cobra free from one of my friends here and just traded a tamiya 1/24 Porsche for another. Now I have 2 cobras, might build a stock one and a race version. Paint is automotive very reduced for scale and the rest of the paints are tamiya and testors. I know it’s very small but I recommend this kit. 

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Great build - they are just as much work as the bigguns!

A Monogram 289 Cobra would have been a great 1/24-25 subject, but I can easily see the product committee saying, "We already HAVE a Cobra..." at the same time green lighting another Corvette. 

 

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2 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:

Great build - they are just as much work as the bigguns!

A Monogram 289 Cobra would have been a great 1/24-25 subject, but I can easily see the product committee saying, "We already HAVE a Cobra..." at the same time green lighting another Corvette. 

 

Thank you, I never understood corporate decisions. GM had the S-10 and ford had the ranger. Both were making good money. But from what I was told it was not great money so they dropped the line. Crazy. Now they are doing the same thing with cars. Just handing over a good market to the Japanese, Korean and European markets. So I assume it’s the same way with model manufacturers I have a friend who is in Europe and they are mad at model factory hiro for dropping 1/43. But I have a friend at model factory hiro saying the money is in 1/12. So there it is. 

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