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29/07/2018 5:25 pm
1934-35 Hupmobile J (pics): Has this been done as a scale model?
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As a teenager, I was all agog over the new "wrap-around" windshields on the '55 Chevy and other cars. Daddy's comment was that he had already seen that twenty years ago on a Hupmobile.
Well, kind of. . . But I can't find this car in any scale model, any scale. Please prove me wrong.
29/07/2018 6:15 pm
29/07/2018 10:25 pm
This one was on Brooklin's long list but I don't think it will happen now.
30/07/2018 5:16 am
Too bad really; it was very well styled for that year.
30/07/2018 5:20 am
I agree Jack. BRK subjects will be mainly 50s and 60s from now on apparently.
They are seen as being more commercially viable.
30/07/2018 5:24 am
Yes, I suppose that may well be the case...smaller interest base.
30/07/2018 6:40 am
Ouch. Brooklin is not that good on 1960s cars. Or on feasible packaging.
Vulgari influence I suppose.
30/07/2018 10:19 am
I think Brooklin does a fine job on the '60s cars for the most part. While a couple of them may have some issues, the Buick Wildcats, Impala Flattop, Ford Starliner, and '65 Impalas are excellent in my opinion, as are most of their models from the 1950s. As has been noted here many times, it seems that we are most fond of the models we remember from our youth, and for me that means the cars of the '50s and '60s. I have little memory of the cars of the Forties and none of the cars of the Thirties, so those models aren't as desirable to me as the later ones.
Can you give some examples, David, of the Brooklin models from the '60s which you consider "not that good?"
30/07/2018 3:02 pm
1960 Cadillac, 1960 Ford, 1961 Impala are bad. I don't care for the 1965 Impala.
But I do agree the Buick Wildcats are nicely done (especially when fitted with the Buick accessory wheels, not the attempt at stock wheelcovers).
And each individual sees the models based on his or perspective. So many factors determine how we see them.
30/07/2018 5:46 pm
+1 Agree. I like most of the BRK 1960s cars to date.
31/07/2018 4:30 am
IMO Brooklin models of cars of the thirties are all outstanding.
I have always thought they were delicate and looked as though they were done by different mold makers than the 50s and 60s models. The 57 Chevy now shows me that this trend is changing which I applaud.
31/07/2018 9:50 am
It seemed to me that in past years the 50s BRK cars were done by various mold makers as well as the accuracy varied a fair bit. The latest ones are much improved it seems.