Car Model brand with engines

Racing cars and street cars i find interesting. I also find those classic muscle cars nice to work on.

Don,

Just hang on to your hat! I'm doing up the new Polar Lights VW Beetle (Herbie The Love Bug), it's a glue-optional, full detail kit, and the fit of the parts is right up there with the best of them! And, in about 3 months, Polar Lights '65 Dodge Coronet 500 hits the shelves, same glue optional assembly, and it will have excellent parts fit as well.

What do we mean by "glue optional"? Well, pretty simple: All locating pins are tapered, as are the locating holes, so the parts can be assembled by pressing together, or if one wants, they can be glued, but these are full-detail kits.

Art Anderson

Hoooboy! Car kits with engines? Model companies who specialize in model cars?

AMT/Ertl, Revell for sure (and most all their kits have engine detail, some better than others--depending on where in history they were tooled.

Tamiya has a fair number of car kits with engine detailing, as do Fujimi, Italeri, Protar.

AA

i had a 66 but can't remember if it's the same bod.

Most Fujimi are curbside, however the Enthusiast range they make do come with engines and are super detailed & not expensive. Not quite up there with Tamiya for fitment, but more detailed :)

Some are, some aren't. Some early Tamiyas aren't terribly impressive.

Tom

No. Not close enough to matter, anyway. In the 'smaller' details, the '65 was essentially a one-year car, most similar to the other '63-'65 Plymouth and Dodge B bodies, but converting to, or from, any of them would require at least entire new front and rear clips (greenhouses and doors were the same). The '66 and '67 were very similar to one another, though; the big differences being grilles, trim, and taillights.

So how come nobody's bothered to do a '66 Dodge Coronet/500 conversion set (exterior, anyway - nobody looks at the seats except anal retentives) for the Revellogram? A '66 Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite would be nice, too.

I'm looking forward to the '65, Art! If I hadn't invested all of $6 in my JoHan '65 Dodge builtup, I'd be upset by a new tool. I imagine those guys asking $50+ for builtups and $250+ from kits *will* be. So what are the odds I'll ever find a 'short' '57 Ford for these doggone Fireball #22 decals I've got?

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; done that)

Well, that narrows it down to, ummm ... about 90% of all model cars.

Well, what with the really crappy Pyro, Palmer, and early Lindberg stuff long gone, you shouldn't have too much trouble with almost any brand you can buy these days. The ones that most often *don't* have engine details are Japanese, but they also do some of the most stunningly detailed 1/24 kits there are. I don't think you need a theme; you need a mentor.

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; done that)

The Modelhaus does '57 Custom and Custom 300 sedans. Is that what you're looking for?

assembled by

Does this preclude test fitting? IOW, can the parts be easily separated after pressing them together?

If you don't want to build, just collect, you should check out Exoto.

Some of their stuff is just off-the-scale detailed. "Furious Detail" is how they describe it. And if that isn't good enough, they have high-end stuff with "Extreme Closeup Furious Detail". Excellent paint and decal quality, acurate colors.

Expensive but worth it.

AutoArt is pretty good, just not as good as Exoto.

Well, I already have a lot of that in this newsgroup. ;)

Looking forward to the new '65. It'll take some of the anxiety out of restoring my AMT/MPC kit. Maybe I can even use some of those custom parts still knocking around the spares boxes.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

They do? I thought *Art* did them ... or maybe Art *did* them ...?

Thanks for the tip.

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; done that)