Round2 at Akron NNL (2025)

[niteowl7710]

Round2 with Steve was once again at this year's Plastic Undercover Show in Akron showing their upcoming wares.

Onto things that have been added to the display.

Wheels added back to the '51 Chevy

Reissue of the Polar Lights '04 GTO

Reissue of the Indy Drag Combo (and yes the wagon is curbside like the original)

15 or so newly recreated parts including custom rear roof, dashboard, steering column and most of the lowered front suspension.

Riding the Ford Vicky chassis and whatnot, but with a new body, glass, and front lights.

Slew of improvements to the original MPC kit's body particularly in the front and rear treatments. Mirrors have separate mirror faces and are pinned. Lower side trim is separate if you don't want to make the movie specific vehicle.

Lastly the '63 Lemans Convertible which not surprisingly is made up of quite a bit of the original kit that had been tossed into a corner (so to speak) when the original was turned into an AWB. So new body here, along with the associated improvements you've come to expect with these remasters.

Edited yesterday at 05:34 PM by niteowl7710

[1972coronet]

NICE ! Unbelievable stuff there ! '63 LeMans ?!?!?! Incredible !!! 

My finances definitely are not safe this time around ( Lighting Control Module repairs for my 1:1 Crown Vic be darned ! )

[Rob Hall]

Thanks for posting.  Lots of goodies.  Would have taken pics but left my phone in the car. 

Edited yesterday at 07:09 PM by Rob Hall

[gtx6970]

Nice stuff

 

Shame they didn't tool up a bench seat for the 72 Duster

 

And I assume. The 65 Dodge is the former polar lights kit?

Edited yesterday at 06:19 PM by gtx6970

[niteowl7710]

11 minutes ago, gtx6970 said:

 

And I assume. The 65 Dodge is the former polar lights kit?

Yes with an engine that has not previously been released, but was tooled with the kit back when PL made it.

[Andria H]

The '60 Nomad looks great, the Python and T seem nice too.

[gtx6970]

3 minutes ago, niteowl7710 said:

Yes with an engine that has not previously been released, but was tooled with the kit back when PL made it.

Nice, It builds up to be a pretty decent shelf kit, Even if it is a rather simple snap kit 

 

I wonder how well it will do  sharing shelf space with  the Moebius kit in store

 

 

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[Dave Van]

Thanks for the info!! Lil Stoogie reissue is a surprise for sure. I love showrods but bought a few last time around....

[Mr mopar]

Some cool stuff coming !

[Ragtop Man]

10/10 on the LeMans convertible, have wondered about that one for a while - could the Falcon be far behind? Hoping the halibrands re-appear in the LeMans; converting to a HT should be a breeze. Naturally, all this happened after tracking down a MH windshield frame and leaning on the good graces of a club member to do the repair of an original promo. 

Anyone have a source for the mags in the '51 Shivvalay HT? Would they be the sorta kinda Keystones from the Minuteman? 

3Dverse, I'm looking at you on the Coronet for a better grille. I won't say the original PL got completely bum rapped, but there are a few elements that kinda stick out.

Q for the experts: How much of the hot rod T is left from the Touring's original release? 

Will withold judgement on the MPC Mustang...body may be improved, but it is still fractionally small to be scale.... but the actual release will tell. 

[tim boyd]

2 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

Round2 with Steve was once again at this year's Plastic Undercover Show in Akron showing their upcoming wares.

Onto things that have been added to the display.

Wheels added back to the '51 Chevy

Reissue of the Polar Lights '04 GTO

Reissue of the Indy Drag Combo (and yes the wagon is curbside like the original)

15 or so newly recreated parts including custom rear roof, dashboard, steering column and most of the lowered front suspension.

Riding the Ford Vicky chassis and whatnot, but with a new body, glass, and front lights.

Slew of improvements to the original MPC kit's body particularly in the front and rear treatments. Mirrors have separate mirror faces and are pinned. Lower side trim is separate if you don't want to make the movie specific vehicle.

Lastly the '63 Lemans Convertible which not surprisingly is made up of quite a bit of the original kit that had been tossed into a corner (so to speak) when the original was turned into an AWB. So new body here, along with the associated improvements you've come to expect with these remasters.

'63 LeMans has been in the works for several years....great to see it finally break cover!  TB

[Luc Janssens]

Great times to be an automotive modeler!

[Ragtop Man]

7 minutes ago, tim boyd said:

'63 LeMans has been in the works for several years....great to see it finally break cover!  TB

Any idea if it still has all the original bits from the annual - specifically, the excellent 'kidney bean' Halis?

This will put my MCW Tempest on the front burner, and maybe even improve a promo rescue project for another '63. Totally digging them! (Was the inline-4 in the original annual? Might be a resin candidate...) 

[mk11]

21 minutes ago, Ragtop Man said:

 Will withold judgement on the MPC Mustang...body may be improved, but it is still fractionally small to be scale.... but the actual release will tell. 

Size difference is mostly in door length; too bad there wasn't an improvement in the grill, a la amt '69.

[Mark C.]

Excellent news on all counts!  Thank you!

[DJMar]

How did I miss the news of the '60 Chevy? I must have been sleeping.

[Dragonhawk1066]

Lots of good stuff coming! Thanks for the post!

[Mark]

2 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:

Any idea if it still has all the original bits from the annual - specifically, the excellent 'kidney bean' Halis?

This will put my MCW Tempest on the front burner, and maybe even improve a promo rescue project for another '63. Totally digging them! (Was the inline-4 in the original annual? Might be a resin candidate...) 

Original '63 annual had the 326 (actually 336) V8.  Only the '62 annuals had the four.

'27 T rod parts carried over from the double kit are limited to the Frontenac engine parts, and maybe the rear wheels. Suspension parts are totally different.

Edited yesterday at 10:35 PM by Mark
Added info

[niteowl7710]

4 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:

Any idea if it still has all the original bits from the annual - specifically, the excellent 'kidney bean' Halis?

This will put my MCW Tempest on the front burner, and maybe even improve a promo rescue project for another '63. Totally digging them! (Was the inline-4 in the original annual? Might be a resin candidate...) 

I overheard it mentioned that pretty much everything was still in the original tooling and only the original body was sacrificed at the AWB alter, but whether that means that every single custom part winds up in the kit is up to the folks at Round2.

[JTalmage]

10 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

NICE ! Unbelievable stuff there ! '63 LeMans ?!?!?! Incredible !!! 

My finances definitely are not safe this time around ( Lighting Control Module repairs for my 1:1 Crown Vic be darned ! )

Man, I replaced my LCM with the most recently revised ford part, and it STILL didn't fix the problems my P71 had. 🙄

[1972coronet]

24 minutes ago, JTalmage said:

Man, I replaced my LCM with the most recently revised ford part, and it STILL didn't fix the problems my P71 had. 🙄

There are a couple of video tutorials about fixing just the offending relay and its pins ( i.e., resoldering them ; installing new relay ) .

That's the route that I'm going to take.

* my apologies to the O.P. , @niteowl7710 , for unintentionally taking your post off-topic.

[Stef]

Great stuff, wow wow wow! Thank you Round2!

How similar will the 63 LeMans convertible be to the 63 Tempest AWB, other than roof and wheelbase?

[TonyK]

Thanks for posting this. Something for everyone.

[Luc Janssens]

Wasn't the LeMans/Tempest albeit in coup form, a popular drag car?

[stavanzer]

Yes, that is why this kit exists.