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Post by rick on Dec 28, 2017 18:55:47 GMT -6
Great go see all the new stuff coming out but there’s a couple kits I would really like to see a new release. How about a new: B58 Hustler 1/48 P38 Lightning 1/72 JU87 Stuka with underwing 37mm cannon 1/48
What other older kits out there are in need of a fresh new release?
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Post by BUCKY on Dec 28, 2017 19:42:29 GMT -6
This could get interesting! Ya want re-issues, new tooling, or a combination? I'm sure the fellas can fill up this thread pretty quick!!
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Post by Beekster on Dec 28, 2017 20:44:03 GMT -6
Ooh! Ooh! I got one!
1/35 IDF M50 Sherman, preferably from Asuka or Tamiya.
OK, more than one:
1/35 M36 tank destroyer, leveraged from the Tamiya M10, with correct turret bustle. 1/35 DD Sherman in styrene, with vinyl skirts. 1/35 M10C 17pdr from Tamiya, with late duckbill-counterweight turret. 1/35 M32 tank retriever, from Asuka, with a new sprue for the welded-hull boom mounts and a new wide-aperture turret. 1/35 M4 with Aunt Jemima mineroller. 1/35 Sherman V Crab in styrene.
And something a bit more modern:
1/35 Scammell Commander tractor and 60-ton trailer from Hobby Boss. 1/35 Scammell Contractor tractor and 50-ton trailer from Hobby Boss; bonus points if it also includes badges for the Leyland version
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Post by rick on Dec 28, 2017 22:47:43 GMT -6
Was thinking of all new tooling and not a boring reissue of some old has been kit from years gone by.
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Post by JCON on Dec 29, 2017 13:01:47 GMT -6
I would like to see a new Bugatti Type 39 done...
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Post by JCON on Dec 29, 2017 13:03:54 GMT -6
A Lister Jag would be wonderful also...
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Post by JCON on Dec 29, 2017 13:05:44 GMT -6
Or how about a nice kit of the original Cheetah...
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Post by JCON on Dec 29, 2017 13:08:32 GMT -6
A nice new kit of a Jag XK120 would rock my world too!!!
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Post by rick on Dec 29, 2017 17:03:46 GMT -6
Or how about a nice kit of the original Cheetah... Love that Cheetah! Grew up with an HO slot car racetrack. Favorite car was an orange Cheetah. Who made the real thing and when was it produced?
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Post by JCON on Dec 29, 2017 18:11:33 GMT -6
Bill Thomas, a California road racing legend, built 19 of these cars in the 1960s with fabricator Don Edmunds. Cheetahs are crazy fast with an emphasis on insane. Low weight and a high powered V8 in a short wheelbase chassis originally designed for boulevard cruising makes for highspeed and interesting driving dynamics. The continuation cars are better mannered, with stiffer frames, better brakes, and improved, adjustable suspensions, but they're still exciting cars to drive. They also look exciting just standing still. The Cheetah has a shape so sexy that it makes the Jaguar E Type look like a prim and proper English schoolmarm. Exciting and fast but flawed. At 1500 lbs, a small block Chevy V8 can easily spin the tires. The wheelbase is so short and the engine so far backthat there's no driveshaft, only a single universal joint between the transmission and rear axle. Effectively a midengine car, the back end can come around fast. The engine sits two feet behind the front axle and everything is packed so tightly the exhaust headers are routed around the driver's footbox, located next to the engine block. Everyone who drove the Cheetah was a hot shoe. Before his death in 2009, Thomas signed certificates of authenticity for 100 new Cheetahs, and Auxier has so far built about three dozen to compliment those 19 original cars.
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Post by BUCKY on Dec 30, 2017 19:56:21 GMT -6
Not yer typical street car! I like the looks of the Cheetah, and this history is very cool! Thanks, Joe!
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Post by JCON on Dec 30, 2017 19:58:39 GMT -6
I really wish someone would make one!!!
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