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02-26-2007, 03:44 PM
Greetings Fellow ACME Members,
Spring is in the air, or is that the smell of new plastic? Well gang, March is upon us and that signals the beginning of the model car show season. We begin with the annual Birmingham show this coming Saturday hosted by the Magic City Car Modelers (theme is wheelstanders), followed by our monthly club meeting this Sunday at 3:30. Check the forum for people wanting to carpool over to Birmingham on Saturday; usually a group meets at the IHOP on Thornton Rd. early for breakfast and goes from there.
Every weekend in March has something for the car nut. Saturday March 10th the Middle Tennessee Modelers Association hosts the 23rd annual show in Cookville, TN. Also the weekend of the 10th the Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance is being held. The following weekend in Sebring, FL. the American LeMans series kicks-off their season, also this weekend the Knoxville,TN IPMS is holding a show, all IPMS rules apply .The weekend of the 24th the NNL East is being held in New Jersey. A trip that everyone needs to make at least once in your life. Now go out and have fun at all these events, but please be safe doing it!
Now for some hobby news. Scale Motorsports, (Matthew Wells) has revamped and redesigned his website. He is bringing three new kits to market. Shown for future release are a Corvette C6R kit by Revell packaged w/a host of additional details, a resin Audi R10TDI, and a resin Cobra Daytona coupe (a version not offered previously by Gunze, Harold Bradford, or MFH). The kits have complete photo etched parts plus machined alloy parts and carbon decals where necessary. The word on the street is the kits are on par with those offered by Studio 27 and Model Factory Hiro. Tamiya is in the thick of things re-releasing many kits. Some of these include the Joest 962, Toyota GTP (Eric reviewed for Scale Auto), Ferrari 360 coupe and Spider, F40, F50, Enzo. They have a Lexus SC430 race car in "Open Interface" JGTC livery coming as well. The Model King has been busy with many older kits that are seeing new life, such as a Ford F-150 from the 70's and many Circle Track subjects, and shortly they will reissue a '71 Thunderbird and '70 Wildcat (that has never been reissued before). Revell Germany is bringing out a styrene Audi R10TDI (Scale Motorsports may have to rethink their resin strategy :confused: ??) and the Audi R8 street car and already has a full-detail Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano on sale overseas. Fujimi's much-anticipated Ferrari Boxer has arrived; the 512BB and 512BBi have been released, and aside from the unheard of (by Fujimi) flaw of oversized 17" wheels :eek: (should be 15's), it's an excellent kit. Japanese builders are furious, and Fujimi will likely retool the wheels (if you have an extra Fujimi Daytona sitting around, it's wheels are a perfect replacement). The kit tires (Pirellis tooled originally for Porsche 911 Enthusiast kits) are a really tight stretch over the wheels. Fujimi's 599 is due in early March. AMT is for sale. Again. If you win the Mega Millions you can buy them. ;)
Scale Auto Magazine’s April issue with coverage of our November NNL is in the mail and on the magazine racks now. Many club members got pictures of their cars in the magazine (hmmm, I don't know if I like the sound of ACME being in what used to be the "April Fools" issue :D ). These include Ron Royston (Studebaker stocker), Eric Cole (935 Porsche), Bob Downie (Jeep pick-up), Paul Grala (64 Impala), John Krick (Hippie 917), Brian Venable (350Z), Mike Crespi (FZ 750), Wayne Webers (IROC 911), John Gum (51Chevy), and new member Winston Mitchell (custom Hot Rod). Congrats to all of you! I hope you all are building some cool stuff for this year’s show.
Well Gang, that’s all I have (Sec'y Bob added more :D ), see you Sunday at 3:30.
Henry Trent
ACME President
Spring is in the air, or is that the smell of new plastic? Well gang, March is upon us and that signals the beginning of the model car show season. We begin with the annual Birmingham show this coming Saturday hosted by the Magic City Car Modelers (theme is wheelstanders), followed by our monthly club meeting this Sunday at 3:30. Check the forum for people wanting to carpool over to Birmingham on Saturday; usually a group meets at the IHOP on Thornton Rd. early for breakfast and goes from there.
Every weekend in March has something for the car nut. Saturday March 10th the Middle Tennessee Modelers Association hosts the 23rd annual show in Cookville, TN. Also the weekend of the 10th the Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance is being held. The following weekend in Sebring, FL. the American LeMans series kicks-off their season, also this weekend the Knoxville,TN IPMS is holding a show, all IPMS rules apply .The weekend of the 24th the NNL East is being held in New Jersey. A trip that everyone needs to make at least once in your life. Now go out and have fun at all these events, but please be safe doing it!
Now for some hobby news. Scale Motorsports, (Matthew Wells) has revamped and redesigned his website. He is bringing three new kits to market. Shown for future release are a Corvette C6R kit by Revell packaged w/a host of additional details, a resin Audi R10TDI, and a resin Cobra Daytona coupe (a version not offered previously by Gunze, Harold Bradford, or MFH). The kits have complete photo etched parts plus machined alloy parts and carbon decals where necessary. The word on the street is the kits are on par with those offered by Studio 27 and Model Factory Hiro. Tamiya is in the thick of things re-releasing many kits. Some of these include the Joest 962, Toyota GTP (Eric reviewed for Scale Auto), Ferrari 360 coupe and Spider, F40, F50, Enzo. They have a Lexus SC430 race car in "Open Interface" JGTC livery coming as well. The Model King has been busy with many older kits that are seeing new life, such as a Ford F-150 from the 70's and many Circle Track subjects, and shortly they will reissue a '71 Thunderbird and '70 Wildcat (that has never been reissued before). Revell Germany is bringing out a styrene Audi R10TDI (Scale Motorsports may have to rethink their resin strategy :confused: ??) and the Audi R8 street car and already has a full-detail Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano on sale overseas. Fujimi's much-anticipated Ferrari Boxer has arrived; the 512BB and 512BBi have been released, and aside from the unheard of (by Fujimi) flaw of oversized 17" wheels :eek: (should be 15's), it's an excellent kit. Japanese builders are furious, and Fujimi will likely retool the wheels (if you have an extra Fujimi Daytona sitting around, it's wheels are a perfect replacement). The kit tires (Pirellis tooled originally for Porsche 911 Enthusiast kits) are a really tight stretch over the wheels. Fujimi's 599 is due in early March. AMT is for sale. Again. If you win the Mega Millions you can buy them. ;)
Scale Auto Magazine’s April issue with coverage of our November NNL is in the mail and on the magazine racks now. Many club members got pictures of their cars in the magazine (hmmm, I don't know if I like the sound of ACME being in what used to be the "April Fools" issue :D ). These include Ron Royston (Studebaker stocker), Eric Cole (935 Porsche), Bob Downie (Jeep pick-up), Paul Grala (64 Impala), John Krick (Hippie 917), Brian Venable (350Z), Mike Crespi (FZ 750), Wayne Webers (IROC 911), John Gum (51Chevy), and new member Winston Mitchell (custom Hot Rod). Congrats to all of you! I hope you all are building some cool stuff for this year’s show.
Well Gang, that’s all I have (Sec'y Bob added more :D ), see you Sunday at 3:30.
Henry Trent
ACME President