Brudda Posted Saturday at 05:21 PM Posted Saturday at 05:21 PM 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. 3
Ulf Posted Saturday at 06:44 PM Posted Saturday at 06:44 PM Cool, don't forget to add another scale to your forum profile.😀 1
Rattlecan Dan Posted Saturday at 10:36 PM Posted Saturday at 10:36 PM Very nice work. Great-looking Vette. 1
Speedpro Posted Sunday at 02:56 PM Posted Sunday at 02:56 PM Very nice! Watched you build it, looked like alot of fun. 1
Ragtop Man Posted Sunday at 03:03 PM Posted Sunday at 03:03 PM 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. 1
Brudda Posted Sunday at 05:42 PM Author Posted Sunday at 05:42 PM 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.
Brudda Posted Monday at 02:56 AM Author Posted Monday at 02:56 AM 5 hours ago, slusher said: Beautifully done! Thank you Carl
Brudda Posted Monday at 02:57 AM Author Posted Monday at 02:57 AM 4 hours ago, PappyD340 said: Looks fantastic! Thank you Larry
Brudda Posted Tuesday at 03:19 AM Author Posted Tuesday at 03:19 AM On 6/8/2025 at 3:51 PM, PappyD340 said: Looks fantastic! Thank you PappyD340
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