Luka's Kits #24 The [Original] MPC Grumpy's Toy Vega Pro Stock Kit
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- On this Luka's Kits. With the anticipation of the all new re issue from round 2 of the MPC "Grumpy's Toy" Vega kit. We are taking a look at my original issue kit from 1971.
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Love the way the wheelie bars mount directly to the stock gas tank.
Thank you for your reply I like all the car kits you've got I would have a field day build some of those
The new release of the Vega is badass ..... but ..... the original is way cool, it's history ! Gotta love it !🍻
Love the videos !
That's one cool plaque. Thanks for the video
Dude love your channel!!!! Learning a lot from your channel. Your by far my favorite model builder channel always!!! Just wanted to shout you out for everything to do for us model builders!!! Thanks brother!!!!
You definitely need to get the reissue if you want to build the kit. Glad you mentioned “hpiguys.” Other than your videos, his are the only other model videos I routinely watch.
Hey Yo you are right Chris, the hpiguy, does build rather quickly, but I’m glad he build a rather large amount of models each year. I build at a much slower pace, and I guess everyone else does as well:
That's a bloody weird looking orange '57 Chevy! 🤨🤔😉😆😂🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻
I want that Sox & Martin Duster and I also want a Motown Missile....😍😎
I'll Wait to See What You're Gonna Do With It..... Awesome Raw Video Luka Cee, thanks for Sharing n God Bless All.
In 1979 at the rip old age of 14 I bought my first car for $50, a 1970 Vega. Before I was 17 I had built up a Duntov cammed 350 for it and had everything together before my 18th birthday. I still love them Vega's...
Great video as always
Iam looking forward to mine coming in to can't wait to build it
That molded-in stock exhaust would’ve looked odd with the headers. Great video, Luka...and THANK YOU Round 2 indeed!
Luka, I'm sure you'll be very happy with new model. I've seen a review of it, and the detail is much improved👍👍. I'll be very lucky if any of them make it across the pond to England, so I hope you build one,👍😎😁. Best wishes Pete
Very cool gonna need to get the new o e for sure. Thanks for the video
I like your vid's your honest about the build.I waited for this kit for long time.I guess styrene is cool again thank's.
Thanks for the look at this original issue kit. The old "Hobby Heaven" bulletin board still exists. It is now called spotlighthobbies.com
Another ace vid Luka! 👍cheers.
While I have a very large number of first issue & annual kits, I could just never layout the money for this one once I saw how poorly it was done. Now, I have no desire to ever own this mess. I much prefer this new issue kit. Honestly, I'm so impressed I've bought 3 so far.
Agree. If I didn't own this kit. I would never buy one. IIRC I only paid 30 buck for it 20 years ago.
Looks like a nice kit cool 👍 new repop wont have the cool story to come with it
Good video Luka !!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Im going to do the Lee Edwards Vega. Maroon and gold. SMP Decals has the decals for it! Ill do a Grumpy one as well.
Way back then the guy across from me had a Vega, I always thought of it as a miniature Camaro, but then again I had a Maverick, which I thought of as a minature Mustang.
If I'm not mistaken, the "reissue" doesn't have the louver's molded in the hatch, like the Original.
I still have the first grumpys Vega.it's built though.but I still have the box & the Vega still together yet.know I want 2 new Vegas and not build them.to collect & storage.
I have two coming ... probably not build either as a Grumpy’s Toy
Bruce Larson actually leased the Camaro Toy Vlll and he had Grumpy's old crew SRD build him a 73 Vega, flat nose Vega that actually had to slide mags that the 74 Vega box art shows the 74 Vega had a Super Trick Cragars on the front and they were narrow the 41 AMT Plymouth kit has a good set of narrows super tricks that would work great for the new Vega coming out any old Vega if you want to correct the rear wheel wells I was told if you cut up a 70 to 72 AMT Nova you can take the rear wheel wells off of the back of that and work them into that quarter panel of the Vega, so I got off track Bruce Larson and 74 Vega was built by Don Hardy who just recently passed away at a Texas I talked to Bruce back in the early 2000s late 1990s I helped with a buddy of mind that used to do drag race videos we went to Bruce's Museum Barn in Pennsylvania and Bruce always wanted to get his Jungle Jim Monza back but after it was sold it changed hands like three times same with the two Vegas he had and of course Grumpy's number eight Camaro was cut up so bad it was turned into a 74 Camaro and it was a piece together with just part of the roof and another 70 Camaro to build a clone as somebody has the chassis dashboard and the Dana rear and they're trying to build a clone from the parts of that car the number nine Vega was painted red and white after he won $250,000 in 1972 drag racing that's when the car debuted in 72 and he crashed it racing Ronnie Sox in 73 Ronnie crashed his 73 duster that was actually a 72 updated that car still around today is the 73 version I got the meet all these guys back in the day, While I'm making this long speech here also want to point out I used to crew for Bill Maverick Golden and the Little Red Wagon number four from 1988 to 2002 his retirement I own a real 67 Dodge A-100 pickup if you ever get a chance you can check it out on my Facebook page under Howdy Hoffman Jr, thank you for showing the original Vega I have mine still and I remember talking to Grump in 1996 at his shop mine was painted pearl white and candy apple red from what Hot Rod Magazine was talking about in an article Grump said he was surprised I did mine and those colors because everybody paints it red and white if you look at the box art you can tell it's a dark red and the white doesn't look bright white it's actually candy and Pearl thank you for the great videos.
LUKA JUST watched the hpiguys review of the reissue of this kit got to say it looks 1000% better around the rear wheel wells
Also are you going to take a look at the international payhauler 350 thanks Scott
I built the new one. Headers are for big block. Bill's car had lenco shifters. Engine mounting is a little shady. Tires, rims great. Molded chassis is janky. Decals a little tough
around windows. I bought the new one expecting it to be different. But no, I tried to bring it a little to real car .
I would build both to see the improvements , sitting on a shelf opened and partially built is useless . I like your videos .
@Hey Yo it's a little late ro whine about it now .
Lukas where do you buy the distributor caps with the wires from as I can't find any here in England can you help a fellow modeler out please
Sorry. I do not like prewired distributor caps. So I do not use them. Go to the Luka Cee's Model Car Hobby Headquarters Facebook Group, and put up a post asking that. There are tons of builders there. You will get an answer. The link is in the description of this video.
I need a 72 Vega kit for a build of a Motion/Baldwin 454 Vega my friend built when I was a kid. I'd like to do a proper job of it, a little more detailed chassis than this kit has.
Of all the car modelling channels I watch I find yours to be most informative on a wide range of topics car model related so I decided to ask you what your thoughts are on window thickness on these car models. I checked the thickness of the kit glass of one model (Revell '71 Duster 340) and it was 0.05" thick that's 1.2" thick glass to scale. Most cars windows are around 0.25" thick, that's almost 5 times thicker in scale. I have always thinned my aircraft canopies to scale, why don't car modelers thin their glass or do they?
I hate thick clear windshields. I touched this on one of my videos that covers the NASCAR kits from Monogram/SalvinosJR. I cant remember which one. Those kits have wonderfully thin glass. Much like most racecar kits. Ive never attemted to thin the clear parts. I have replaced with vacuum formed glass or cut out from clear sheets.
@@TheLukaCeeChannel Thinning is a long a tedious process. I start with 220 grit and move thru all stages up too polishing. Takes about 1/2 hour or so per piece, but it is well worth it.
what newwer prostock kit chassie would fit under is body
None that I know of. It will be all scratch building.
I know your mad at buying off the Internet and you say support your local model shops which I totally agree with but where I live in wales uk some shops don't have those cars you've got so I would have to go on line to buy my paints and some model kits at the moment it's worse here because of the covid 19 pandemic so we can't get to Cardiff in wales to purchase items I hope you don't mind me saying this to you from paul miller
I never said I had an issue of buying off the internet. I do it all of the time and I use to have a business selling on the internet.
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I wish they would have re-worked the chassis as well.... enough of the 'molded in' rears and drive shafts!
Your right im with you on that, molded in Hog Head and Drive shaft makes it a *itch to paint
Looked like a molded in muffler for single exhaust behind the diff. Anyone else notice that? Just curious.
Wait... how can it be a 71 kit? He didnt run a Vega until 72. I just got the reissue... pretty decent.
It would be cool if you watched subbed and supported your subs channels .... just saying you are all about the support...🤔
10000. Scrap model parts