Rob Hall

The Datsun Z at least was full detail, this is a snap kit, probably on a par w/ the Camaro Cheverra and Mazda RX-7 that were in the same snap kit series.

Modelroundup has it for preorder, other vendors probably do also..

The Veyron is the older one, the new one is the Chiron...similar styling.

Model Roundup has the F100 4x4 on their site now available for pre-order (they have the AF/X Comet also).

Unusual placement of the spark plugs, and asymmetrical at that. Never seen one of these in person before.

I remember seeing this kit as a kid, never had one. Looking forward to getting one, and it's the only stock Hilux of that era available that I know of (Aoshima has a custom lowrider one).

Why? They weren't eliminating the Moebius brand. When Round 2 bought AMT, MPC, Lindberg etc they didn't change the branding to Round 2.

They were.

Neat. I have that trailer to build also...thinking I will use a Modelhaus '60 Plymouth Savoy 4dr or '62 Chrysler Newport 4dr as a period tow car.

The Police Van sounds interesting. The one I’d really like to see is the Open Road camper, but that would require new body tooling.

It was reissued a few months ago, one of the last Revell US releases before the end.

So today’s USPS fun...I was tracking my inbound HLJ shipment, saw it due for delivery tomorrow. Then this afternoon, I get an email saying it was delivered at 1:57pm. Nope—I’ve been home all day, no doorbell ring, nothing caught on my cameras. No package outside. Before going all rage monkey, I call the local PO, and the guy there confirms it had been scanned and would look into it. Half hour or so goes by, I wondered if it had been left at the same house number a couple streets over (similar street name). This has happened before. So I drove over to the other street, flagged down the mailman who was making his rounds. Said he thought he delivered it, but was vague. Said he’d look around. Drove home..see an SUV out front and a guy w my box ? Hmm He was the post office guy I had talked to earlier, turns out the package had never left the post office. Apparently had been scanned in error. Strange..was odd since these packages usually require a signature.

Yummm.. BDubs. When they were BW3 (Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck) they were one of my favorite haunts in college...would go to one on cheap wing night and eat a lot of wings and drink a lot of beer w my buddies...

It depends on what era car you are interested in...for the '80s-90s, I prefer the Monogram kits.

Yes, pretty common around here also...even at a chain restaurant like Bonefish Grill or Carrabas it's easy to do that much or more for two w/ a couple glasses of wine. At a local seafood place for my birthday last month, it was over $200 w/ wine and dessert for 2 people. Had delicious lobster, and great views of Lake Erie, was worth it...

He must have had very low expectations...Palmer-level accuracy in a kit $10-15 more than a Revell stock car?

If the mechanic and tools, etc are new tooling hopefully they are in 1/25th to go w/ Round 2 kits, rather than 1/16th.

Yes, I believe the '77-79 Coupe de Ville was the last new Jo-han tooling.

Who said it was easy? Doing something accurate takes a lot of research and attention to detail. That Salvinos missed the mark so badly with a new product from new tooling shows they may have cut a lot of corners and didn't put the effort into making a quality, accurate product.

These SS wheeolcovers, I think.

The BRAT seems inevitable, considering they have reissued others of that era like the Scirocco and the Toyota pickup..

Had some delicious tilapia stuffed w/ crabmeat and shrimp at Bonefish Grill on Thursday night, and some shrimp tacos at Margaritaville yesterday. I've had more seafood since moving back to Ohio than I did in years in Arizona. Besides the chains, lots of great local seafood places, esp. along Lake Erie.

And it's especially bad that a new company with a fresh start---not working off existing tooling---would screw up this badly. They didn't do their homework and rushed to market w/ a half-baked product.

Old companies with obsolete business models that failed to adapt to the modern world. Irrelevant to the discussion here.

The snap kit box art shows a red '77, though the one I have has a '79 inside.