REVELL 48 FORD CUSTOM

[Sixx]

MAN I need a ton of these!!!!!!!!!!

[W-409]

One more Must Have kit... Great looking heads and intake manifold. This is great body style for Custom and that's why I need to get one.

[Chuck Most]

Sick and twisted... I keep seeing that '47 Olds grille on a Moebius Hudson...

[Chuck Most]

I just can't help but think of how much cooler this would look with a few inches sectioned out of the body. Guess I'll have to try and see, huh?

[jeffs396]

Or the Hudson grille on the Ford

[Dr. Cranky]

Again, can't wait!

[walt francis]

Man ! this thing is loaded with all the GOODIES !

Edited September 19, 2011 by walt francis

[Dr. Cranky]

And it's all that virgin white plastic . . . with all the different options . . . .

[jbwelda]

sectioned with a pancaked hood

[Chuck Most]

And of COURSE I'm going to try out the new custom parts on the existing drop top, maybe even the Woody.

[Dr. Cranky]

My mind is simply running through the possibilities of what to do with this kit . . . and the Hornet too.

[62rebel]

i think sectioning this body will be easier than the revell 40 by a long shot. the trouble is, it would be SOOO easy to take out more than just enough to do it right..... three scale inches would be the limit IMHO.....

shoot. i don't even HAVE one yet....

[Chuck Most]

Three, maybe four. Usually I like to seciton the body at least the same amount as the top chop up to a certain point. But yeah, I think a 3" section would work pretty well on this particular body.

[Deckerz]

i want one!! no way im getting one in the UK easily...or cheaply if i buy from the US.

[Dr. Cranky]

Mine should be arriving soon. Can't wait.

[Jairus]

Complaining about the roof chop/the fact the kit is a custom-only/the fact it isn't something else entirely begins in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...

Ken, you know me huh?

Then you can count me in the category of "WHY?"

Explanation: I want a model kit to be stock first and foremost so I can choose what to modify. Not every model of a 1948 Ford coupe do I want to make with a chopped top. So... the logical option from the company would be to provide two roofs, molded separately so I can pick the version I want to build.

I complained when the first 1937 Ford coupe hit the stands with a street rod frame and suspension.

Otherwise, how is one to build a stock model of either the '37 or the '48?

Edited September 28, 2011 by Jairus

[Jairus]

Good thing I have a vintage and mint IMC '48 Ford coupe stashed away huh?

[58 Impala]

Just picked one up last weekend at my LHS, very nice kit. Quite a few custom parts,and the best printed whitewalls I've seen in any kit. I'll probably build it with the fadeaway fenders. I'll have to buy another one, I want to build the coupe also.

[Dr. Cranky]

The more variations, the better for us . . . . bring it all on!

[John Goschke]

This looks like a great kit. As someone who spent a fair amount of time complaining about the clumsy chop on the Revell Merc, I have to say this chop looks pretty good.

[Zed]

This looks like a great kit. As someone who spent a fair amount of time complaining about the clumsy chop on the Revell Merc, I have to say this chop looks pretty good.

same here ! It's still not a true kustom chop with the rear lower than the front ( judging by the pics, i'm waiting for mine to be sure), but at least it's not a bonneville type angle top chop like on the Merc ! An the overall proportions are like the real one, unlike the merc which looked like a ( 50's ) russian interpretation of a Mercury

[Chuck Most]

Something that doesn't make sense to me is Revell is advertising this kit as a 3n1. That usually means you can build a kit as a stock,custom or drag. I guess they perhaps meant that you can build three different versions of a custom?? Looks like there are no extras for the engine,so looks like it builds only one way. One set of wide whitewalls that I hope can be mounted both ways. Even with the chopped top and other stuff,I gotta have at least one.

I think they pitched the Merc kit the same way- it came with two bumper setups, two wheel/tire combinatons, at least three grilles, and two hoods, among other choices. You could build it as one version or the other, both were custom. And of course mixing and matching was possible. I do see what they're getting at, but it's really one version with a few building options- its a custom no matter what.

[Jairus]

The thing I don't understand is: Half the cost of a kit is the complex mold to make a one-piece body! All the other pieces are molded in a two part mold and are quite a bit easier to make than is the mold for the one-piece body.

So, if Revell is going to make another kit with a stock body in the future (Provided Ken's suggestion is correct)... why spend the huge amounts of money for another body mold? All they had to do is mold the body separate from the roof and mold two roofs that the builder can choose. At that point the kit is indeed a 3 in 1 with stock being one of the options just like in the glory days.

Makes no sense and I mourn the death of 'logic' in our culture.

Besides, no two chopped bodies at a car show are the same. That is because two different persons were doing the cutting and welding. Both artisans in their own right. When a model company chops a top on a model kit, it rarely satisfies my eye unless they follow the classic lines of the top chopping zen masters Barris, Westergard, Winfield, Jeffries, Alexander Brothers, et al!

[RichCostello]

I just got this one yesterday,and I love it(chopped top and all).

I think it will be fun to use some of the extra custom parts on the unbuilt 48 woody I've got to make it a mild custom.

[Jairus]

Different door length between the convertible and coupe.

Edit, the 'Business coupe', which was the IMC version, had a shorter door than the Super Deluxe coupe. Since I have NO actual 1948 Fords here to measure... can only assume that the SuperDeluxe might not have the same length as the convertible. But that has never stopped model makers has it? (Re: 1957 Revell Rancharo)

Edited September 29, 2011 by Jairus