Revell Impala Police Car NEW 1/25 many pics

Hey,

Revell SNAP KIT Impala police car 1/25. It has no engine, and the metal axle setup to hold the wheels. One piece chassis. Good detail ingravings. Revell heat glued the front and rear light setups to the body....Peel off stickers for decals. The wheels look excellent! Seperate chrome hubs!..sorry about the pic tho. No name tires. Light bar pre-assembled, looks a little floppy the way it is put together. The sprue has a place for part #4, but there is none on it, or loose in the box, also, there is no mention in the instrucitons...what could this be revell?? It is a small type piece.

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Looks pretty cool

cool. kind of a let down though. I had my hopes up for something a little more customizable. A buddy of mine had an impala interceptor that had turned street car. It was black with factory alloy's....

What do you mean man? How is this not easily customizeable?

Yo, Blu -

Is that a black insert for the grille, and do you suppose that might have been part #4?

That, or something in the light bar, judging from your pics...

I have been waiting for this forever - for any plastic kit that could be made a police cruiser. I was hoping for a Crown Vic because that's what LA State Troopers use, but an Impala will work since nowadays I think I'm going to go N.O.P.D. Good thing they both came on the same decal sheet! Thanks for the heads up, Frank, this will be my next kit purchase.

Way to go Revell! Stickers/no decals, pre-installed lamps, on an ugly car at that! :evillol:

Nice job on 80% of it, the cheese factor kills the other 20% of it :disappoin

Hey Chuck..You may be right.
Welcome Willimo!!

Holy crap, talk about close to home! Those police decals...er...stickers, are for Huntley IL, a small town literally 2 miles away from me! :eek7:
Since their corporate office is only an hour away, I'd bet money some R-M exec lives out there. weird :screwy:

Funny thing is, I don't exactly recall ever seeing an Impala on their force. I think they're mostly Crown Vics plus this one....
http://policeworldwide.com/USA/IL/HuntleyIL01_BrianBerthold.jpg

It is what it is...

The only thing that I can't wrap my mind around is the insanely high price! Snap kits should be 50% or more less than glue kits, not the current $1 less that they are now.

I was going to pick up a couple of the re-issued Revell new Beetle kits, but the almost $16 each price meant that they stayed on the shelf at my LHS.
:p

It is what it is...

The only thing that I can't wrap my mind around is the insanely high price! Snap kits should be 50% or more less than glue kits, not the current $1 less that they are now.



Er, why would that be? Snap kits aren't really any cheaper for a manufacturer to produce, or to design, than a glue kit with a comperable parts count.

I have a diecast one from maisto but it met the wall one day and its hood broke of and know i dont know what to do any ideas.

Way to go Revell! Stickers/no decals, pre-installed lamps, on an ugly car at that! :evillol:

Nice job on 80% of it, the cheese factor kills the other 20% of it :disappoin
:iagree: Looks like an ugly kit for a car thats even more ugly! I was hopping for a decent police car kit... in anycase thanks for the update Frank, much appreciated mate!

have a diecast one from maisto but it met the wall one day and its hood broke of and know i dont know what to do any ideas.
Slam it into a wall again, it might look better! j/k :evillol:

If y'all want Crown Vics then hunt down the Lindberg Crown Vic police car kit. It's not that difficult to find.

I'm impressed that Revell took the time and effort to tool up something entirely different, but I really don't think that the market is there for this piece. Perhaps the tooling money would've been better spent hurrying up the release of the 2005 Mustang GT or an all new 1969 AMX?

If y'all want Crown Vics then hunt down the Lindberg Crown Vic police car kit. It's not that difficult to find.

I'm impressed that Revell took the time and effort to tool up something entirely different, but I really don't think that the market is there for this piece. Perhaps the tooling money would've been better spent hurrying up the release of the 2005 Mustang GT or an all new 1969 AMX?

The Lindberg Crown Vic is a 1997. It came out right when the 1998 restyle occured, w/the more formal roof from the Grand Marquis, different fascias etc, so it's quite a bit different than what Ford has been making for the last 8 years, not to mention 1997 police cars aren't much in service anymore. As usual, we got a model from an American manufacturer right when it was restyled. Lindberg didn't bother to update. Classic Metal Works did the new style in 1/24 but it's pretty bad compared to the Lindberg.

The popularity of the Crown Vic should have been enough for them to sell just as many of them as Impalas, but perhaps they were trying for something different so I'll give them that much. Let's just say if this exact kit had been a Crown Vic I would have bought at least a couple. Could easily do a Marauder from it. Impala...eh, not interested. And imagine that...the 2005 Impala kit came out right when the restyled (and much better looking) 2006 hit :rolleyes: :banghead:

The Lindberg Crown Vic is a 1997. It came out right when the 1998 restyle occured, w/the more formal roof from the Grand Marquis, different fascias etc, so it's quite a bit different than what Ford has been making for the last 8 years, not to mention 1997 police cars aren't much in service anymore. As usual, we got a model from an American manufacturer right when it was restyled. Lindberg didn't bother to update. Classic Metal Works did the new style in 1/24 but it's pretty bad compared to the Lindberg.

The popularity of the Crown Vic should have been enough for them to sell just as many of them as Impalas, but perhaps they were trying for something different so I'll give them that much. Let's just say if this exact kit had been a Crown Vic I would have bought at least a couple. Could easily do a Marauder from it. Impala...eh, not interested. And imagine that...the 2005 Impala kit came out right when the restyled (and much better looking) 2006 hit :rolleyes: :banghead:

Know what you mean, Bob, the current Crown Vic, is my view the only "real" American police cruiser.
Another thing I don't understand is why they always do these as generic or "low profile" police departments, I don't know how the other forum members feel or think, but in my view a CHP or NYPD are the agencies to go after, model kit companies think global in terms of kit production, it's about time their sales people do the same.
And yes I do know about all the aftermarket goodies.


Luc

Know what you mean, Bob, the current Crown Vic, is my view the only "real" American police cruiser.
Another thing I don't understand is why they always do these as generic or "low profile" police departments, I don't know how the other forum members feel or think, but in my view a CHP or NYPD are the agencies to go after, model kit companies think global in terms of kit production, it's about time their sales people do the same.
And yes I do know about all the aftermarket goodies.


Luc

Hey Luc, good to see you back here after so long :biggrin:

I must say that marketing decisions inside the walls of Revell often times leave me completely baffled. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that boardroom :icon16: This kit has already been done as a Maisto diecast kit in Wal Mart's stores, it's an old subject (I saw two '06 Impalas yesterday in traffic, much nicer car-looks a lot like your Opel) and is a second-fiddle car in the 1:1 world, and isn't going to be particularly popular w/adult builders. This isn't like the old Caprice/Impala SS of the 90's. It's a boring FWD car that's seen mostly in fleet duty, rental car lots, and in non-enthusiast's hands. You are right about the various agencies too. I think Revell has it's back to the wall in regards to licensing, or they're being too cheap, or too timid/conservative. Had this been a 2005 CHP Crown Vic with optional NYPD markings (as decals) they'd have sold a ton of these.

Well, you two have been to the same forums I have, so doubtless you're aware that Testors is threatening a service version of their new Charger kit -

in fact, didn't one of you break that news? :evillol:

I wonder if the Charger's the kind of car to take over the Crown Vic's mantle...

Regardless, I'll be one of the 20 or so people getting this Impala, 'cause it's banality is so novel...

:icon16:

I'm gonna go upstream on this one and build it.

I'm gonna go upstream on this one and build it.

Cool! That may spawn something a bit more interesting than a plain Wimpala :icon16:

I'm actually happy to see Revell did a plastic Chevy Impala, becouse all the local departments around where I live have Impala's, so I finally get to make replica's in scale

I'm guessing the reason why Revell skiped on the Crown Vic. is becouse the market already has so many variations of that car in so many different scale, Motorworks has one, (Revell company) in 1:43, 1:24, and 1:18 scale, , Auto Art has a fantastic 1:18 scale Crown Vic. cruiser. actually, the more I think of it the Impala has been covered in scale very well too, Maisto has it in 1:18, 1:24, and Matchbox has a 1:64 version. I'm guessing Revell's decision to do the Impala was that they thought they could sell more of them.

Testors announced that there doing a 1:24 2006 Charger police cruiser. I'm praying that the Testors kits a good one, Testors has been like Fujimi, they brought out some great kits, and they've brought out some crap, there diecasts have been very nice (especially there Chrysler Crossfire.) and there venture into the plastic kits where terrible. if you see these kits, run as far away from them as you can. there as crappy as old Palmer kits, 1 piece motors. the 80 Firebird makes the old MPC kit look like a Tamiya kit :banghead:

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pretty disappointing kit. but it could be built up nice with some aftermarket decals and new paint job.

many Police decals can be found here.http://www.jbot.ca/welcome.shtml