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  1. Luc Janssens
    Can you say...Sabotage!!!
  2. Luc Janssens
    Thanks for the input guys, so for a Mack with dumper body, one can use the Amt "R" cabin with the Mpc "DM 600" chassis (don't like the offset cabin
  3. Luc Janssens
    Guys, what's the difference between Mack's "R" vs "DM" designation? Thanks in advance for your input.
  4. Luc Janssens
    Revell Germany can also sent bagged shots to and have them wrapped in the US...it happened before the implosion of Hobbico and can happen again...also Revell Germany nor the investment company had anything to do with the bankrupty of Hobbico..so why the bad blood?
  5. Luc Janssens
    I can relate to that statement, but if one takes for instance the recent Revell '76 Gran' Torino S&H, a lot of siblings can be done, all of which use the same or simmilar chassis and drive-train....also on the 3D files one doesn't have to start from scratch but copy --> paste and adjusts...sure the tooling is still the most costly aspect of it all, but with clever tool design one can eliminate waste to a minimum.
  6. Luc Janssens
    Did a a little back tracking, and you're right, hmm...two things could've happended - not enough coffee - too much coffee
  7. Luc Janssens
    Indeed
  8. Luc Janssens
    Steven, I'm glad we somewhat agree
  9. Luc Janssens
    IMHO A lot will depend on the evolution on pricing of auto kits in the US, and the notion that a company like Round2 can undermine any effort of tooling up something new, just by re-releasing old wine in new bottles, undercutting any chance of turning a profit. A reason too, IMHO exclusive rights when having the license to tool up something are the way to go...but come at a added cost too, which brings us back to my first statement, a lot will depend on the evolution of pricing....
  10. Luc Janssens
    Indeed they don't, so we just don't know, and that is the point I'm trying to make.
  11. Luc Janssens
    No not realy, Lee is living in the past, he's "thinks" that if Japanese model companies today design kits of US vehicles, they will be motorised or disproportioned. A lot of asuming there....while in fact we don't know anything (except maybe guys like Jonathan Stevens
  12. Luc Janssens
    You're already buying Chinese kits, since Revell, Moebius and Round2 have thier new kits designed and produced there, they only provide the Research and 3D files.
  13. Luc Janssens
    There probably isn't any reason to do so, but it "looks like" the deck of cards is being shuffled. BTW Beemax a few years back did a Racing version of the Chevy Cruze, was that a US vehicle, or just a Daewoo with a Chevy badge?
  14. Luc Janssens
    To my knowledge Trumpeter isn't a Japanese company, and yes....they did screw up....the reason why....maybe someday Don Banes, may tell what went wrong there...
  15. Luc Janssens
    you're talking pre-90s Japanese kits of US subjects. In the past (two) decade(s) the market has changed from a toy to speciality hobby, consumers became very demanding, IMHO the car hobby is now where the military and plane model kits were in the '80-90s. When or if US companies cease to exist, others will take over, and probably pick subjects of US vehicles which can be sold globaly, where the domestic companies, only looked at North America. Again look at the military and plane modelers, yes the big companies are still there, but the driving force are the tiny or newer companies, who force the big and or old ones to up their game, the difference bestween enthusiast steered companies as oposed to big top heavy corporations. Also one has to realise that the US isn't the center of the world....
  16. Luc Janssens
    No....not eager, but sometimes people think much is the same, in your case a complete new body tool would be neccesary, but if both model years would've been co-designed then the costs would've been less. But this kit is from before the Wally World retreat, when the money was still coming in by the truckloads....it's a whole new ball game now. Moebius has shown that planned multiple siblings from one basic tool are very much possible, and I'm sure made them a good profit.
  17. Luc Janssens
    there's more to it, body wise...the trunklid is different too, and there's the matter of the rockerpanels. Interior, I'm pretty sure the upholstery differs too.....
  18. Luc Janssens
    Yep, that is a very rare one.
  19. Luc Janssens
    Yes there are still deals to be made, but you'd have to be patient and on the lookout like a sniper, a couple of years ago I was able to buy a mint '66 Chrysler 300 for 50 Euro on ebay Spain, luckely at the time I had a colleague at work who could speak and write Spanish.
  20. Luc Janssens
    Just concerned modelers/hoarders/collectors
  21. Luc Janssens
    Yep, I'm glad I stocked up when prices were do-able, yet a few slipped away and doubt I will get those...but hey, most of the time the chase is better then the kill
  22. Luc Janssens
    What's next, the office furniture on ebay?
  23. Luc Janssens
    Maybe they had good intel and stocked up
  24. Luc Janssens
    For a couple of years I had an open email line with the R&D guy from Revell Germany, his name Ulli Taubert, but IIRC shortly after Hobbico purchased them, he and several others left or retired, the new crew as far as I know is also the current, so no change in their bussiness plan, though I do see that there's a 2-5 euro price increase, on new released kits in their car model kit lineup.
  25. Luc Janssens
    Don't think so...otherwise kits of subject like the 90 Mustang coup and mid '80s Olds Cutlass would never happened....
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