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SJR has not chromed the parts on some of their reissues of old Monogram kits where the cars themselves had no chrome on the 1:1s. Handful of their own tool 1/25 vintage kits don't have chromed parts either in cases where the car ran painted bumpers and the like. That's a relative godsend since SJR plates with some sort of real metal that you can't strip off.

Alright I'll forge the inception point here of complaining about the people complaining about complaining...but have any of you guys who loathe the "trashing" of kits/companies actually bothered to try to engage the "complainers" to see what their actual issues are? Cause otherwise this is gatekeeping of the first order. Your experience, opinion, feelings don't comport with mine, ergo you're doing it wrong and all you have to say is invalid. It's like you've overlaid the discourse of politics and applied it to the hobby. If you've been in this hobby for a long time you've probably taken for granted that for anyone new to it, or returning to it after a long time away - like so many did in 2020 - the North American automotive modeling hobby is probably the ONLY thing you can buy in the store where a new product on a shelf might in fact be really really old. Imagine going into a store to buy a TV and there's two fairly identical boxes on the shelf and so you pick the one with the flashy box that appeals to you most and instead of the flat screen you were expecting you get a 13" black and white set. Bonus you actually paid a bit more for the old thing to boot! When you go tell people - Hey I got some old "junk" TV in this box, everyone tells you it's your fault you didn't research when the TV was made the first time, and if you weren't so lazy you'd just get up and change the channels like we've always done.

That's cause Ertl as an entity stop existing back when Racing Champions bought the whole ball of wax in the 90s. They're just a sub-brand of Tomy and what used to be the Ertl property in Dyersville is the North American Distribution Center for Tomy.

I am always suspicious of anyone who has to spend great gouts of time professing how much fun they're having in their hobby, particularly if their idea of fun looks down on other people participating in said hobby. As for instant gratification in video games, tell that to anyone who's been playing World of Warcraft for the past twenty years...

Stock Version, Pro Touring Version...as the original post says "2 Versions coming".

Some more high end multimedia goodness for the Stash...

The one thing about modern licensing is that just because you have one product licensed doesn't mean it applies to anything else. Salvinos is at this point THE officially licensed product of both NASCAR and IndyCar in terms of model kits. Lesser drivers mean lesser sales. There's a reason why so much SJR stuff is Petty and Chase Elliot. They are the two names that move product, intentionally doing something obscure is a non-starter even for them with their 1,500 pc kit runs. I really hope those who want these early malaise-era Mopars get their wish - presuming there's an actual market for them outside of the 1% that inhabit this forum - but I can't think of any car less inspiring than a smog choked small block '74 Charger.

I dunno, it would be pointless to shell out all of that licensing money to NASCAR, the teams, the driver(s) {family}, et al to replicate something that Salvinos JR has already done...umpteen times. There are so many SJR '70s Chargers floating around you're starting to not be able to sell them for retail anymore. The Roadrunners are a little more scare on the ground, but they've released at least 3 boxings of those as well.

Today's goodies... Latest HLJ shipment And the a little piece of unobtainium multimedia resin. This Subaru was put out by Hobby Design right before the Alpha Modlels thing got started as a brand. So this is that type of full resin kit. It's been OOP for awhile and I let a few pass through my fingers since then. I accidentally found this one on eBay after talking about to someone else for what it cost new plus free shipping from Japan. Proving if you find the right seller there are still good deals to be found there on occasion.

Model manufacturing is a lot like the old joke about race cars. How do you make a small fortune racing? Start with a big fortune. Not to talk intentionally ill of anyone, but I don't believe any of the parties involved in either Faux-han (especially Okey) has the financial wherewithal to produce an injection molded kit from scratch. Probably not the technical knowledge or design experience either for that matter. The guys behind Salvinos had been working in miniatures and collectibles from soup to nuts for decades together and they've still managed to fall all over themselves repeatedly getting the model business going...

No offense, but exactly how many kids are you attracting to the hobby with a kit of a car that's so old you'd have to be born prior to 1960 to appreciate? I was born 5 years after the car was made and can count on the hand of a bad wood shop teacher how many 72 RRs I've seen in real life. Plenty of kids in "the hobby" as a whole, but they build Gundam and anime stuff that interests them. Or cars, tanks & planes they can relate to from all of those video games - stuff that the U.S. legacy manufacturers couldn't care less about. People can blame screens (which have existed in some form or another for every modeler starting with Gen X) all they want, but thinking a 53 year old car is going to get them excited is a fallacy of epic proportions.

Except this Powell has been in pre-production for more than 2 years now. Last year he had flyers all over the venue, including the bathroom touting it and then didn't actually have any available because of some excuse or another. At some point a product ceases being a "beta" prototype and just is the product you're getting, particularly if there isnt financial wherewithal to produce a better product. If that product floats your goat, then by all means by the heck out of it and support Okey. But it is what it is at this point.

The smaller ones are what are in the kit. Sean built his with a set of the prototype wheels which were originally larger than the end result.

First wave of NuNu M4s has arrived...

Aoshima had attached release months to several of the aforementioned 1/24 Snap Car kits shown in this thread. October for the 2017 GT-R NiSMO October also for the Lancer Evo III which will have three different color options in "regular" release and an Initial D branded offering. November for the 2024 Nissan Z NiSMO also offered in three different colors.