niteowl7710

I think the frustrations here come when some of the fringe of the fringe appear to never be happy about anything that anyone is doing, and they immediately have 59 other commercially unviable suggestions/solutions to the "problem" as they see them. Like...that gets tiring to read thread after thread after thread after thread. Ergo the joke becomes - How do you bankrupt a model company? Put this forum in charge of it. I'm all for wishes and wants and safe spaces, but there is a tipping point that all the "free expression" turns into a constant din of negativity.

Planning the Mack for additional versions...🤪

That link just reloads this page, it doesn't go to your Fotki which is where I presume you wanted it to go.

Looks like it's ready to go. Glass and tires are the last things that get done and it's shot in color rather than the usually neutral gray (as seen in the Mustang and Lambo also on display in Japan).

Those were tooled up when Lesney owned AMT, so that tooling was probably done in the UK - or wherever Matchbox kits were tooled - and never left. Clearly all of that Lesney/Matchbox kit tooling still exists as the odd-scale airplanes have been reissued numerous times over the years.

I'm betting this and the 2CV Fourgonette are manufactured from the Ebbro molds. Heller doesn't have either in their existing portfolio and one of Ebbro's long standing "Coming Soon" kits at the time of their bankruptcy was a modified reissue of their 2CV in AZU spec trim.

The new Peugeot 205 GTI from Heller. This kit should be going on sale in Europe with the next few weeks.

Upcoming Belkits Toyota Gazoo Racing Rally Car. Belkits has said that the final tweaks are being made to the instructions and decals and they expect the kit to go into production next month and shipped out to Belkits before Christmas. So it should be available in Late December or Early January.

Two additional upcoming SnapCar projects. A "Customized" Nissan Z - appears to have a different grille and wheels and Honda Civic EK9

Aoshima SnapCar (1/24) line continues with the upcoming (this month) release of 4 different colored Evo IIIs. Three "regular" and one with a Initial D branding. Coming November is the release of a NiSMO Nissan Z in three colors.

With respect Luc I'm not basing my opinions on the pictures, I've seen it live in person at the IPMS Nats in Virginia several weeks ago. I'm telling you there's no full detail glue kit derivative of this kit because it would require an entirely new chassis, interior and body. Those big giant lug holes on the firewall/scuttle panel is how the interior snaps on from underneath, and the hood snaps onto the body.

It doesn't and there isn't...not in that way. It would take so much retooling to put an engine into it, or for that matter to put a full chassis under it that it would cheaper and easier to start with a whole new tool. Which if they were going to do that, they would have just released a glue kit and been done with it. They flooded their own market with Mustangs with all the kits they released between 2006 and 2013 and each one sold progressively worse. It's why it took so long to get a C8 Corvette, why there was never any update to the Camaro or Challenger tools. All of them became dead stock on shelves for years after they were taken out of the catalog.

Actually one of the blockbuster announcements at the show is that Aoshima has obtained a Ferrari license and plans to use it in their 1/32 Snap Kit line starting with a 512BBi. No idea if that will ever translate into 1/24, or how many total 1/32 kits the license is supposed to entail at this point.

More Aoshima... B-Wave Tuner versions of their 180SX, coming in two versions as the previous ones have/are going to... Also hiding behind those that nobody has so far taken specific photos of are two HKS themed Boxer Twins. One Toyota 86, one Subaru BRZ