Mark C.

You’ve piqued our curiosity… would love to hear your thoughts, but given your situation I wouldn’t expect to. 🙂

A flat hood would be part of a correct Caliente version, so maybe that’s where they are going? We’ll see… patience is the key. TBH, at this point I’m way more excited about the upcoming Maverick and Chevy pickups. When they hit the shelves, I probably won’t even notice what’s going on with the Comet.

I think the hood looks totally boss (or super cool, however you want to say it) on the pro touring car. It would be my pick for a hot rod or race version as well. Great stuff, Moebius!

Works for me!

Really really nice job on that!

Would there ever be a world where we could hope for a 4-door version of the Maverick in order to cover the famous Gapp & Roush Pro Stock car?

Good stuff. Appreciate the explanation. There are so many perspectives in the equation that it’s always good to hear what others think. Thanks for that.

Nice! 👍🏻

That would be great. I can’t sleep at night from worrying about it.

While I deeply appreciate what Justin adds to the discussion, respect his opinions, and feel he does well in promotion of his shop on this board, I also don't think that one hobby shop in Ohio should be taken as a complete reflection of the car model kit market in its entirety... which is what seems to happen here sometimes. All good, though. Great discussion.

My bad... I thought that: "No. I do not want the Johan kits back. No. I do not want the Johan brand back. No. I do not want another backwards gazing vintage (or faux vintage recreation) brand on my shelves." Followed by: " I'm willing to bet no piece-for-piece reissue of the '68 Plymouth Fury police car is going to match the sales of the upcoming all-new tool Aoshima 1/24th scale F&F MkIV Toyota Supra. " Meant that it was a zero sum game. i.e. Some iteration of JoHan branding couldn't exist because Aoshima was directly competing against them and would put them out of business... or something like that. I also didn't understand that if JoHan did exist, a hobby shop owner would be required to stock his shelves with them and suffer the resultant financial losses. My apologies to all for my misinterpretation.

These discussions seem to become more debate than anything else, though I don’t understand why. An F&F Supra and a ‘68 Fury cop car are not competing for the same hobby dollars. Therefore, why are we comparing them, and why do we assume that they both couldn’t exist in the same world? Not a zero sum game, really it’s just about whether each could capture enough interest to be profitable in whatever business model is chosen for each of them. FWIW, I also don’t understand why any hobby shop would care whether someone introduces a product that they are not interested in selling. Don’t think it will sell? Don’t stock it. Simple.

Any chance that a high resolution scan could be done on the original decals so that a new set could be printed out?

Looking forward to this kit.

If you are going to go to the trouble of cutting off the hood, 2 minutes with a dremel to remove the posts shouldn’t be a big deal…

I wouldn’t be doing it even if it were a separate part. Thus my initial discussion point/issue creation.

From what others have posted, the kit from AMT. I haven’t tried it, so can’t confirm personally. Now that Erik has cleared things up a little, I can be patient. 👍🏻

Haven’t seen anything about it recently (did an internet search a few weeks ago), but I wish that whatever nitpicky regulation caused this would be dropped. Japan typically has really stringent regulations for their products, so I can’t help but think whatever happened here was some minor technicality that some bureaucrat fell upon but isn’t really a practical problem. Nobody is dropping like flies from using Tamiya paints, so hopefully common sense comes into play at some point.

Didn’t think so, but even if you were it would be okay. I have a tendency to let my passion for the hobby (and old cars in general) get the best of me sometimes, so rambling on for several paragraphs is not out of character, much to the chagrin of others, I’m sure.

LOL One man’s discussion is another man’s issue. Touché!

Aha! That clears it up! Thanks Erik!

That’s a good take on this from the front lines. The wallet speaks loudest. In case there is any confusion, I wasn’t suggesting that the street rod versions should be sacrificed in order to sell pure stock versions, only that it would be nice for the pure stock builder to have a flat hood in the stock kit. However, as Bob said, there are likely many versions in the queue, so maybe we will see a flat hood someday. If not, that’s okay too, as long as Moebius continues to be able to bring us great product as they have been for some time.

I could be misinterpreting the intent of this version, and I apologize in advance if this is the case… as it stands, however, I’m just a little perplexed as to why a ‘stock’ version would be conceived with a hood that was reportedly not available for that model. Granted, it’s a cool-looking hood, but it’s in the most visible location on the model, such that anyone wanting to build it out of the box as a stock vehicle has to rob another kit. It’s not like having an incorrect carburetor or wiper motor that only the purists would notice… it’s the hood, out there in plain sight. The last thing I want to do is to turn this into some sort of issue, as it’s really not a big deal. I already have an AMT kit, and I like these cars, but not enough that I want to build every version of them. So for me, I’ll probably just pass on this one and build the crude but stock appearing ex-Craftsman kit. If it had a stock hood, that would be the final push to get me to purchase one for the extra details, superior chassis, etc. I will still likely get the pro touring version though. And as you say, maybe there is a version coming with a flat hood that will satisfy folks like myself. I did buy the almost-stock versions of the ‘65 Belvedere and Dodge 2-door sedans, however. So I’m sure this philosophy has enough of a business case behind it to make sense to the bottom line for the company, and capture the majority who don’t mind scavenging parts from other kits, and TBH I’m happy to see it coming out. It just frustrates me a little to see it go 95% if the way when it seems to the layman like myself that it wouldn’t have required much effort or expense to put the proper hood in the stock version and the scooped hood in the pro touring and race versions… or put both hoods in all versions (again, maybe my protestations are premature…). But in the end, not a big deal, nobody lives or dies because of it, but IMHO still worthy if discussion on a discussion forum about model cars. 👍🏻

I’d love to see a ’76 version.

Has it been confirmed that the stock version doesn’t have a stock (flat, non-scooped) hood? I really don’t want to raid another kit or buy from the aftermarket just to build it correctly.