jrherald420 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Got this today......was very happy to see it. Sadly when my wife got home we were sitting in our 2 yr olds room and i was showing it to her when my boy lost his balance and sat on the box.......he ended up crushing both A pillars and split the roof in half from the windshield to rear window, whats sad is every thing is still sealed in the factory plastic........its been that type of a week for me. Guess i will be calling Revell tomorrow and seeing if they can help me out Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr
Bennyg Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Got this today......was very happy to see it. Sadly when my wife got home we were sitting in our 2 yr olds room and i was showing it to her when my boy lost his balance and sat on the box.......he ended up crushing both A pillars and split the roof in half from the windshield to rear window, whats sad is every thing is still sealed in the factory plastic........its been that type of a week for me. Guess i will be calling Revell tomorrow and seeing if they can help me out Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr That's terrible. Ben
Roadkill2525 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Last two kits for now, both from the 1991 film Mobile Suit Gundam F91.
PappyD340 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Got this today......was very happy to see it. Sadly when my wife got home we were sitting in our 2 yr olds room and i was showing it to her when my boy lost his balance and sat on the box.......he ended up crushing both A pillars and split the roof in half from the windshield to rear window, whats sad is every thing is still sealed in the factory plastic........its been that type of a week for me. Guess i will be calling Revell tomorrow and seeing if they can help me out Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr Real BUMMER James!!
ChrisBcritter Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) Scored this cheeeep on eBay; should have it by Friday: Original issue '62 Impala convertible. SO hard to find one without all the custom parts glued to the body - plus if I can get those '57 Plymouth wheel covers off intact, they'll probably be going onto a '58 Impala. Edited January 8, 2014 by ChrisBcritter
booboo60 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 awww,jrh420, that's rough, pls let us know what revell says, hope thy help ya out
MsDano85gt Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 that woodgrain decal sheets are sweet!! where des one get those from??
Austin T Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Got this today......was very happy to see it. Sadly when my wife got home we were sitting in our 2 yr olds room and i was showing it to her when my boy lost his balance and sat on the box.......he ended up crushing both A pillars and split the roof in half from the windshield to rear window, whats sad is every thing is still sealed in the factory plastic........its been that type of a week for me. Guess i will be calling Revell tomorrow and seeing if they can help me out Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr Sorry to hear that James. I'm sure revell will help you out, if they have any questions or anything just take a picture of the body in the sealed bag.
Sixx Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Well Gerry, thank you for the link to Uschi's site...WOW! Now I'm really going to be broke!!!!!! Lol !! Cool stuff on that site
crazyjim Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Those wood grain decals look marvelous. What would be the process of installation? Do you cut to the exact size? Cut oversize and then trim down after they dry?
Exotics_Builder Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Those wood grain decals look marvelous. What would be the process of installation? Do you cut to the exact size? Cut oversize and then trim down after they dry? Haven't opened it yet to see the instructions. At this point I am thinking similar to SMS Carbon Fiber decals, but haven't checked further.
Brett Barrow Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Those wood grain decals look marvelous. What would be the process of installation? Do you cut to the exact size? Cut oversize and then trim down after they dry? Full how-to's on their site. Here's the page to the "Woody Special" they market especially for Woody wagons - http://www.uschivdr.com/products-in-detail/woodgrain-woody-special/ This one's a little more of a general how-to on making the tape patterns. http://www.uschivdr.com/products-in-detail/woodgrain-wgf-48/
Jimmy Wilson Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 I just received two Monogram Slingsters in the mail. Boy am I stoked. Thirty six pages of instructions, WOW. Makes me want to buy four more so I can build one of every flavor in the bunch. I feel bad for the collectors, but it's a great day for the everyday builder to be able to obtain these great kits of our youth at reasonable pricing, so you don't feel bad about actually building one. Jimmy
Crazy Ed Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 I just received two Monogram Slingsters in the mail. Boy am I stoked. Thirty six pages of instructions, WOW. Makes me want to buy four more so I can build one of every flavor in the bunch. I feel bad for the collectors, but it's a great day for the everyday builder to be able to obtain these great kits of our youth at reasonable pricing, so you don't feel bad about actually building one. Jimmy Well Jimmy if you want to build ALL possiable choices you're gonna need 8 more Kits! There are 5 different Body styles and 2 different Engines. Just 'cause Monogram didn't have the imagination too run an Injected Engine in the Bantam or Open Streamliner or Putin' the Huffer into the Closed Streamliner or Full Cage Open Front dosen't mean you can't. Boy I like spendin' other folks Money
Jimmy Wilson Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Well Jimmy if you want to build ALL possiable choices you're gonna need 8 more Kits! There are 5 different Body styles and 2 different Engines. Just 'cause Monogram didn't have the imagination too run an Injected Engine in the Bantam or Open Streamliner or Putin' the Huffer into the Closed Streamliner or Full Cage Open Front dosen't mean you can't. Boy I like spendin' other folks Money Thanks, I guess I wasn't looking at the BIG picture. It's nice to have this many options.
Tom Geiger Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Well Jimmy if you want to build ALL possiable choices you're gonna need 8 more Kits! There are 5 different Body styles and 2 different Engines. Just 'cause Monogram didn't have the imagination too run an Injected Engine in the Bantam or Open Streamliner or Putin' the Huffer into the Closed Streamliner or Full Cage Open Front dosen't mean you can't. If you have the Slingster, pull out the Tony Nancy Double Dragster kit and the Double Dragster Fiat kit. Between these there kits you could build for the rest of your life!
Chuck Kourouklis Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 This thing: Ver-ry much a Pocher kit in the spirit of the diecast Ferraris, optimized in a fashion you might have expected if Pocher had continued for a decade, anyway, if not the last 15 years. If the F40's finish was a step up over the Testarossa's, then the diecast panels present maybe two steps over the F40. Glossy, orange peel relatively minimal. Some wash-away at the seams indicates either a dark primer or even unprimed metal under it, so the broader plastic parts, orange paint on orange plastic, are apt to be a dodgy match with the three pieces shot here, the engine cover, doors, spoiler and the bonnet - the rocker panel I tried didn't look too bad, but I have to reserve judgment for now. Unfortunately, there are some sinks in the metal panels and more texture in the painted plastic, so a serious build will want some refinishing. Crappy dogleg steering aside, the dirty bits promise a more rational and sharply-resolved approach than previously seen. The front and rear subframes and running gear are actually metal this time, so no more of this queasy sense of pot metal crunching down on fiber-reinforced nylon - even if the finished model appears to squat down up front just like its Ferrari forebears. The tires are of the exact same iron-durometer vinyl last seen in the Ferraris, with less wave across the tread this time. Parts pouches, numbering system, styrofoam-and-cardboard-box packing are very familiar, even if the box has all the mass of TWO Pocher Classic kits stacked atop one another this time. Multi-colored taillights are pre-painted; metal suspension arms, uprights, pushrods and bell cranks are vacuum-packed against cardboard as seen before. The plastic parts have about the typical mass and engraving for Pocher kits, perhaps with a bit more refinement this go around; there's heavier use of 3-axis molding on the crank case and cylinder heads. There are also 14 different varieties of fasteners this time, as opposed to the one-screw-fits-all approach of the Ferraris. That's a thumbnail, deeper delving as time allows...
o-man Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Wow Chuck, that should turn out to be a nice build! I got a Revell "snap" Kenworth after reading several favorable comments and some good looking built models here in the truck section. Figure skills and patience are not there for a full blown kit. Also got a NIP Tamiya NSX Type R and a Fujimi VIP JDM Toyota.
cobraman Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Got this today. This may be my new favorite kit ! After Cobra's I mean. : )
michaelbaskett Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 in the mail today from a hobby shop in Hamilton Ontario 1) 1960 Ford Falcon Ranchero 2) 1965 Ford Galaxie 3) 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Convertible Anxiously awaiting the MPC Dodge Dart, AMT 36 Ford and 40 Ford kits next week....
jrherald420 Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) Walked into a Hobby Lobby thats 150 miles away and found about 200 cans and bottles of paint on clearance. Guess its not a big model building town! The spray cans cost between 1.79 and 2.22 a can, the airbrush paints were 2.15 a bottle, the small testors brush paints were .57 cents and the big bottle of thinner was 2.15. Also bought the trees at 40% off for a grand total of 77.00. Then stopped by there local Michaels and got the Nova for 40% off, i sold the racing rims and slicks before i even got home, grand total for the kit was 13.00 - 8.00 for the rims and tires for a final grand total of 5.00 for the kit. Not a bad day! Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr Edited January 10, 2014 by jrherald420
martinfan5 Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 Are those the lacquer line or enamel line of spary paint ? I got a payment email for three kits, a shipping noticed from Jameston
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