Magazine article about "Stoned Hoods and Crooks" car kit

[wardster]

Wow. I can't wait to see issue #35 of "Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller". It's not out yet, but it should be out soon.

www.scififantasymodeller.co.uk/English/welcome.php 

I'm a big fan of that publication, anyway, and I have been for years ... but that issue looks extra-cool, to me. Why? As you can see from their preview photos from that issue, at the link above: they apparently had one of their writer / builders do a rather detailed build / review article on the "Stoned Hoods and Crooks" cartoon car kit, which was semi-recently released by Moebius. They won't have the pics online, forever -- (probably just until the next regular or special issue comes out) -- but right now, their web previews show two "sneak peek" pages from that article. (Full color. Lotsa pics. Etc. The usual stuff SF&FM does with all their articles.)

I'm jealous! (And stoked!)

Heck, I write build-up articles for those guys, from time to time -- (for example, I have several articles in their just-released "Horror and Monster" special issue) -- but I had no idea, until I saw those web previews earlier today, that they would ever include such a detailed review of any kind of a cartoon kit!? From private conversations in e-mail, I knew that their "special issue" editor, Andy Pearson, personally has fond memories of things we 'toon and 1960's custom car (Roth, etc.) and 'toon monster car, etc., fans love so much ... but I had no idea that I'd ever see a build-up article along those lines, in the pages of those fancy bookazines they put out. I'm happy to see they're on a very fun, if rather slippery slope, now! (As one of their occasional writers, I'll definitely be bugging them to see if they would be willing to do other articles on future 'toon models. The upcoming Egg-plane Colonial Viper, for instance, was on my "wish list" as an upcoming kit, anyway.)

Thank you, Moebius, for releasing that "Stoned Hoods and Crooks" car / monster kit!
 
... and "thumbs up" to the folks at "Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller" for running such a detailed, colorful, multi-page article on a 'toon monster car!

[TooOld]

The link you posted doesn't work for me but I went to the website and it looks like a great magazine . That's pretty cool that they would include an article on a Car-Toon kit !

And I agree with you . . . a big THANKS to Moebius for releasing it , I'm hoping for more from them in the future !

So have you built one yet ?

[wardster]

Ah. I should have said -- that wasn't supposed to be a "direct" link, right to the content I was talking about. Sorry about that. There was a good reason for that, though. One is: they don't make it super easy to supply those kinds of links. The bigger reason is that I had feared that a month or two from now, even if I could have put up a link right to the exact "article," it would no longer be valid, at that time ... so, what I posted was just the "main page" of that site, instead.
 
From there, a person would have to do what you did: look around a bit. Or just wait for that 'toon photo to show up, in the little preview panel. But you can see it, now, in their little "flippable page" demo thingie, on that front page ... so the link's still semi-valid, now; and more valid, later, than it would have been if I'd done otherwise.

Anyway ... thanks for bearing with me, on that web link situation.

As for me having built that particular model: actually, no; I haven't built that one. But if it counts, I do have their earlier 'toon car kit ("Eye Gone Wild") on the bench at present, (thanks both to this 'toon contest that's been discussed; and just wanting to work on that kit, anyway) ... and will try to get back to work on a Huey's Hut Rod that's mostly built and mostly primed, after more work gets done on the Eye kit. As for that earlier kit by Moebius, I think people are over-looking that one's possibilities a bit more than would be ideal, in a forum like this one. I'll see about getting some photos online, before too long, to show what I mean -- but I've found that with a few simple cuts and pastes, that older kit can look less "stiff" and can more easily match Von Franco's cool box art. I'm going through some photos related to that kit now, and will try to get them online soonish, so others can see what I mean.

[TooOld]

The Eyes Gone Wild kit disappointed some people because it didn't match the box art but you're right , with some extra work it's a great looking model .

Glad to hear you're working on one for the contest , hopefully there will be some good news soon !

[Starryeyes]

Glad to have you in. The contest pal... !!