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Round2 was on hand today at the Plastic Undercover Show removing a few projects...from under cover *rimshot* Polar Lights kit - Hemi parts were in the tooling, but never run in the kit previously. 76 Nova Pro Street - last seen in 2005 Next Variant of the New Tool Demon. All parts in gray are new

I'd guess 75th...

The single cab pickup has always come with USDM parts, apparently those are seen as more desirable in Japan for some reason. Also the single cab has NEVER come with the LHD parts included, as it's a separate tooling created in 2001 vs. 1991 for the quad cab HiLux & HiLux Surf.

Given the absolute joke show of the previous reissue of the Tamiya 787B where they didn't even make enough to ship them out of Japan and screwed over everyone who had them pre-ordered at places like HLJ.

This sorta thing has been needed since these kits were tooled in 2003 (single cab HiLux) and 2001/1980 for the older HiLux (the body is from an old motorized toy, and the rest of the lowrider model kit was tooled in '01). The Nissan 720 has the same lineage - old body with 2001 low rider kit added. Funny 20yrs later they finally got around to it, but I'll take it without too many arguements.

I think Luc is right, practically forces people into 4 doors. I'm not sure anyone who's a classic Bronco fan (regardless as to how old that classic actually might be) wants a 4 door. Broncos never came with back doors until this current one arrived.

Modelers in the social media age (of all genres) have become uncapable of not screaming from the roof tops about things they're not going to buy. I don't understand it either. But this is a monthly thing here and is really Pre-K/Day Care level of griping compared to the commentary Round2 gets on YouTube and Facebook when they post these updates.

I presume we're talking about the kits from the show? At any rate they came from the tables set up by my local hobby shop. I could have driven out there to pick them up any day they were open, but the model show was on my way home from work, so in my mind I had bonus gas savings. ? I did pay cash, though they do take CCs on site at shows. I suspect the CC transactions get sales tax added. C8 was $27, Charger was $28, and the two Moebius Dodges were $31@

There wouldn't be a way to do both without having two kits given the Pro Stock chassis this thing is riding on. I - in my odd kit collecting ways - would have loved a stock LSC, but lamenting it 34 years later? Revell reissues tend to be in runs around 4k pieces, if it's gone already then they sold out. That's a good thing, and a reminder to those who dilly-dally. In a world of limited production numbers, buy it when it comes out, or suffer the secondary market (price) consequences.

They're currently rolling through all the "B-Side" Street Machine/Customs versions of a lot of the Mueller Era kits from the 90s. Most of which haven't seen the light of day since their one release nearly 30 years ago. After putting out something like 16 new tool kits in 24 months, it's not unreasonable of them to "print money" with existing tooling that just requires box art & decals to release. Especially given the reissues haven't been available in 2+ decades.

It's currently shelved, Porsche isn't interested in the project at the moment.

Revell adjusted the Skill Levels...must be 10 years ago now back when Hobbico still existed to bring the U.S. and German Skill Levels into the same level. U.S. used 1-3, and Germany used 1-5. The adjusted levels are 1 - Build n Play SnapTite 2 - Regular SnapTite 3 - Prepainted unassembled glue kit 4 - Glue Kit 100 pcs and under 5 - Glue Kit 100 pcs and higher Post Hobbico when Build n Play kits aren't called that and the prepainted body kits don't exist anymore 2 of the levels are now pointless. But basically everything that was 2 is now 4 and 3 is now 5.

Supposedly the tooling is finally done after what can only be described as a miserable unfulfilled plan to do it earlier this year. Once the 2025 Mustang was confirmed within NASCAR (since SJR gers their CAD direct from NASCAR itself, not the manufacturers) they green lit the new body tool and allegedly it'll be out in Early 2025. They should be able to go back and do some 2024 liveries with it if they desire.

Items grabbed at a local model show Sunday.

Anecdotally based on one local shop's inventory the one Moebius kit they've actually sold out of...is the Mercury P/U. ?

Got in several new sheets from S.K. Decals. Most for the NuNu 911 RSR, but the CLK GTR does all three of the silver schemes (10/11/12) from 1997. This is the only aftermarket sheet I know of that tackles the CLK Sportswear "Model" scheme. The EXIV sheet will do either of the team cars and is the first time someone's done a replacement sheet for the Nippon Denso scheme that copies the kit sheet and doesn't require a tri-tone masking job - still need to mask and paint the front bumper and rear end just like the original kit.

If there was a car coming in 2025 you'd be well aware of it because it would already be in production by now.

Found this on a FB auction site and snagged it for about 2/3rds of what the transkit originality sold for...

Tamiya's 1/20 kit is still the standard for that kit in that scale, which is apparently something Meng decided not to tangle with, but in the process put the price of the 1/24 kit over and above what Tamiya's "standard" scale kits costs.

Latest box from HobbyLink Japan Also a few things from LB Production. The Leon AMG sheet and wheels are direct replacements for the ones that come in the Leon AMG kit that Tamiya did. I have other decal schemes that need those Super GT specific rims and frankly who wants to wrestle with Tamiya kit decals.

I doubt there is an N.A. rebox for this planned. Revell doesn't even sell it in Europe without it coming with the Paint/Glue set. The whole thing was snuck out the back door without any sort of fanfare that it was coming. When I look back at the announcement for this it just says "50 Years of G-Model 911 Model Set" with 0 mention of it being a Cabriolet or it having new parts.

Well the Plymouths were tooled up 3 years before Moebius was sold to Pegasus, so you're talking about two different ownerships and their individual plans for the tooling.

Doesn't all of this stem from the fact these kits are basicly re-skinned Plymouths? They have the Dodge specific parts, but are otherwise carry overs of the original Plymouth kits - as seen by the amount of those parts still floating around. Those kits were originally the regular drag kits and then were made into AWB kits.

...they used to say that there was nobody meaner...and that she terrorized Colorado Blvd...