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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

Iron Mask sir...no pack carrying equines involved. 🤣😂

One thing that isn't necessarily debuting at this show, but fits this topic is that Academy is doing a kit of the new Hyundai Sante Fe.

Some photos of Sean's box art builds of both Comets that were on display in Akron over the weekend.

I too got a visit from the Hobby Design/Alpha Model fairy. Decals are for the W Racing Team (Team WRT) BMW M4 GT3s driven by Rossi (and teammates) at the 2024 24hr of Spa and 24hr of Le Mans.

It's this coming weekend...I must have gotten the date wrong, or it was changed a week since the early flyers were made. Either way - stay tuned to this space.

Hot Wheels changed the name and so they obliged. No other changes were made to make it match the actual 1/64 (which has a blown engine through the hood - and you'll notice that's not on the box art).

From seeing it in person and comparing to those instructions, I believe that's a very educated "guess".

I overheard it mentioned that pretty much everything was still in the original tooling and only the original body was sacrificed at the AWB alter, but whether that means that every single custom part winds up in the kit is up to the folks at Round2.

Yes with an engine that has not previously been released, but was tooled with the kit back when PL made it.

Round2 with Steve was once again at this year's Plastic Undercover Show in Akron showing their upcoming wares. Onto things that have been added to the display. Wheels added back to the '51 Chevy Reissue of the Polar Lights '04 GTO Reissue of the Indy Drag Combo (and yes the wagon is curbside like the original) 15 or so newly recreated parts including custom rear roof, dashboard, steering column and most of the lowered front suspension. Riding the Ford Vicky chassis and whatnot, but with a new body, glass, and front lights. Slew of improvements to the original MPC kit's body particularly in the front and rear treatments. Mirrors have separate mirror faces and are pinned. Lower side trim is separate if you don't want to make the movie specific vehicle. Lastly the '63 Lemans Convertible which not surprisingly is made up of quite a bit of the original kit that had been tossed into a corner (so to speak) when the original was turned into an AWB. So new body here, along with the associated improvements you've come to expect with these remasters.

I worked with a guy about 25 years ago that had a square body truck he was so overly proud of for some reason that spent it's entire existence we worked together painted primer gray with what I can only assume was a shop broom. It almost looked like one of those swirled textured ceilings...