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niteowl7710

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  1. Ahh so it is. Should have checked the Tamiya instructions first. Well at least with it being a curbside you don't have to worry about swapping the battery and brake master cylinder.
  2. You'd also have to (in theory at least) change out the center console - so the shift and e-brake handle are on the LHD positions. As well as modify/swap out the windshield scuttle panel and source LHD wiper arms - the arms would be in the Tamiya kit, but Hasegawa molded the scuttle panel RHD specific with the defroster vents.
  3. Probably not until Late May at the earliest. Some Euro Retailer Pre-Orders are showing Early July, but they're going to lag Japan/North American delivery dates.
  4. Yep, All 3. They very closely resemble the originals and have all that nostalgia feel and build style to them, but none of them utilize any tooling from the originals. All of those tools were modified back in the 60s and 70s (for the Demon).
  5. I'll go one further and say that social media in all of it's forms (including this forum) have allowed people who want to be informed, know about upcoming kits months (and occasionally more than a year) in advance. Pretty much everyone here is old enough to remember when kits just - POOF - magicly appeared in stores. You might have an inkling if you subscribed to The BluePrinter, or sent regular SASEs to Hobby Heaven which always had upcoming kits as part of their mail order list. But now people don't get the kit THEY specifically want, on the time frame THEY feel is appropriate - well the entire enterprise is clearly a failure! Revell released 13 kits *specifically* to the North American market in 2023...I guess one a month is pathetic when you compare it to Round2 meat and potatos of reissuing xyz 60s kit for the umpteenth time... 🙄
  6. I swear some people on this forum will argue about anything just to hear themselves type. You know exactly what I meant and being pedantic about it is pointless. Revell didn't release those images, and you as John Q Public couldn't enter the facility to see anything in there.
  7. What do the guys at faux-JoHan Part Duex have to do with the Powell? That was an Okey Spaulding creation and plan and those two entities don't have anything to do with each other. I'm not going to do a line item reply here, but I'll just point out the '29 and '30 Ford were reissued 4 and 3 years ago respectively which is well after the Hobbico bankruptcy. What else do you want Revell to do about those? The Stranger Things kit...did you expect them to release the kits within 3 months of showing them at a trade show? Because until the Revell Home Office debuted them publicly on New Years Day, they technically weren't announced yet. We just knew because someone at the New York Toy Show "smuggled out" pictures. That event (much like the German Toy Faire) isn't open to the public.
  8. Sure just go buy the kits off Jimmy Flinstone, I'm not sure what exactly this faux-iterarion of "JoHan" plans to add to either of the two JF kits (there's a short bed or a long bed) to make them more value for the dollar than the $120 price tag JF wants for them ("JoHan wants $120 as well based on their FB). You could probably buy them in person at NNL East considering the larger setup JF traditionally has going.
  9. My son's current modeling interests extend into military stuff, figures I'd wind up with an IPMSer...but the thing we found in building some of the Revellogram SnapTite military kits are...they suck, all forms of debris. None of them were able to be built out of the box without a significant amount of fiddling, filing, and sanding...and then me taking over and gluing stuff and putting it in clamps. Frankly considering how much of a fuss those kits were we would have been better off starting with Tamiya 1/48 glue kits and skipping the "simple build for short attention spans", cause they tested my attention span and I've been doing this since *I* was 8. My son and I are currently splitting time playing Just Cause 3, maybe I'll get him a reissue of that Tamiya Alfa Gulia, since one of the cars in the game is clearly modeled in inspiration/tribute to that.
  10. Here's a subtle hint of MENG's own advertising literature says about the kit. In 2020, EVANGELION RACING ventured into international competition, collaborating with Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT at the 67th Macau Grand Prix GT Cup. The car in the spotlight was the EVA RT TEST TYPE-01 Audi R8 LMS. As a standout feature of the EVANGELION RACING team, the car's livery was a striking showcase of the Evangelion Test Type-01 theme, predominantly in purple and green, with orange highlights adding a vibrant contrast. Alongside Chen Wei An's exceptional driving skills and the Audi R8 LMS GT3's formidable performance, the team clinched an impressive third place in their debut race on the challenging streets of Macau. Here's what the race-run car looks like It's a matter ot MENG cheaping out and not paying the licensing for the Race Specific items, also notice the kit (actually both of the Audis) don't have any tire licensing either. Understand the "blank" Audi R8 LMS GT3 has a North American MSRP of $99.99. The EVA kit is extra on top of that and will MSRP in around $115.99. I think that's enough money - even paying the $47 it costs out of China, given that's a $15 premium on the NuNu Audi kit - to get the entire set of decals for the actual race car.
  11. Unfortunately with this kit while the decals do match the box art they're only about 85% complete for the actual race car it represents. The literature about the kit proudly touts it as the 3rd Place finisher of the locally run (cause no FIA due to Covid) Macau GT Race in 2020. But it has none of the actual race day items like number placards, windshield banners, et al. In general it seems a pretty decent kit, but they somehow used the wrong sized polycaps and the wheels end up sitting way inside the wheel wells and camber all willy nilly due to the loose fit of the cap inside the receptacles in the suspension components.
  12. The T3 van has one more part in this version than it does as presently reissued. So I suspect that's the roof sign.
  13. Yeah but that SnapTite kit doesn't have anywhere near 100 parts to it.
  14. Should be, I can see that argument. But the Nova Wagon was re-imagined from the full kit from the beginning and then was released as both a curbside and full kit because that's how the original was done in '63. The two GTOS were re-imagined from Promos that were surprisingly found in a box with some other leftovers from the 90s. So as they stand they are what they are, re-tooled unassembled promos. It would be up to Round2 to decide if they want to invest in finding original unbuilt versions of those two kits and then go back in and cut tooling for all of those pieces.
  15. That's great, but really doesn't have anything to do with the idea of a bunch of ancient 1/32 SnapTite dragsters being made for 202x kids. They're being made for older guys who want to have some nostalgia of building them in 80s.
  16. The Camaro is going to be a modified reissue of the Monogram kit.
  17. Given that the kits were produced by recreating old promos, you're most likely looking at reincarnation - perhaps more than once - before you ever see either of them as "full car kits".
  18. Latest shipment from HobbyEasy in Hong Kong, I ordered this right before Christmas and was stuck waiting for some piece of this order to be fulfilled for almost a month. Regardless this shipment includes the latest version of Meng's Audi R8 GT3. This boxing strikes me as being on the fine edge of false advertising. Because the literature mentions this is the livery for the 3rd Place finishing car from the 2020 Macau GT race, the decals are incomplete as they are missing all of the race-directed sponsors, windshield banners, number placards, etc...albeit none of those things are on the box art either. Also a load of parts. Looking at this picture now it's a bit more blurry than I wanted so here's a text list of the items...from top left Hobby Design GMA T.50 Detail Up, Studio27 Toyota 91C-V Detail Up, Decalpool 1990 JTTC PIAA Honda Civic, Hobby Design Ferrari Logos (I have a Tamiya 360 Spider with old decals), and three items from Far Frog Models - 3D Printed Grilles for the NuNu Audi A4 and Volvo S70 and Cam Covers/Wiring & Coils for the GMA T.50.
  19. It's the Mustang II Concept Car, but there's no reason why Round2 doesn't have the '63 Cougar II lying around somewhere as Lindberg kicked that IMC kit out twice so it still exists. It might be far more trouble that it's worth to try to tool up an entirely new body(ies)for that though cause meshing 2020 parts into 90s era kits was a chore. Doing that to a 1965 era tool from a company thrice removed...I think there's a raft of better monetary investments.
  20. Found an eBay seller in NJ who had a few Alpha kits listed with shipping for what they normally cost without shipping from overseas so I grabbed two that I have been wanting to snag.
  21. The IPMS Germany page has some photos of a few of the booths, but they really didn't do a huge photo spread like they have in past years. There's only one picture at the Heller booth and it's of a random kit that's been around almost as long as Heller has been. So unless manufacturers upload their own, I'm not sure we'll see much as the Toy Faire is an industry show and isn't open to the public. This particular Hasegawa kit was just part of their monthly kit pre-orders, nothing to do with the Nuremberg show.
  22. This will ride the chassis/drivetrain of the original "notch back" 1970 Celica (2003 tooling) with a new body and interior for the Lift Back body style. Something that's been desperately needed forever and a day since the only alternative is the Aoshima kit which was tooled up in 1982 and shows every bit of it's over simplified motorized age at this point.
  23. This kit has been out for almost 4 months now. My LHS got it back at the beginning of November.
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