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$17 per kit vs. $12 per kit. If you shipped a single kit USPS Priority from Coast to Coast you're going to pay $14, so $12 from the other side of the world seems reasonable. I love Hobby Search to look at instructions, but they've never had the best price on kits, or their shipping options. HLJ is cheaper on both, plus you can hoard kits for 60 days (6 months really, they haven't fully rolled back the Covid relaxation of their prior time limit.) which can spread out the cost of 5 kits over 2 months rather than having to make a one time bulk order. Of course that's just an evil plot to not realize how much you're spending...?

I'm sure it sold adequately in the first initial batch to justify making the H/T, which I suspect would have outsold it 3 to 1 anyways because Convertibles are clunkers of kits most of the time. That's why it was released in the order it was, get all the initial excitement sales on that kit and then do the H/T people wanted. If the Convertible came second, I doubt they would have sold very many of them at all (in overall terms). There's still a bunch of people insisting they're going to wait for the "full kit" of that '68 GTO, that 99.9% will never arrive given Round2 cloned a promo, not an annual to make it (and the '65 GTO). There's a whole mess of those sitting in the Wally World endcaps as well. One thing to consider is that Wal*Mart most likely paid Round2 up front at least partially to carry those endcaps in the stores that sell model kits. Because they've been in there now for several Christmases, so they must sell enough kits at their given prices to justify carrying them. One thing Wal*Mart does is turn stock on shelves that doesn't sell, they have too many people wanting to sell stuff on too few sq feet of display space to keep poor performing items on the sales floor over the long haul.

No these Ohio guys created a whole new thing out of hole cloth. I'm still not sure why they want to be associated with JoHan Oldies anyways, those were the last run Seville Industries kits that were missing all the inserts, and had horrible tooling alignment that created flash monster kits. I don't know anyone who's all - Whoooooo doogie I do enjoy those no custom parts, wrong interiored JoHan Oldie kits!! It's why I call them FauxHan and FauxHan II. Neither entity is every going to produce an actual JoHan kit from actual JoHan tooling unless the Ohio crew can track down the few known tools to still exist, find a machine that would actually be able to run said tools, and have the wherewithal to be able to afford the product licensing and liability insurance to produce the kits. That last part is something that they get to dodge (rimshot) by making these garage aftermarket resin items.

To further Justin's point my local Wally World has the Round2 end caps (well two of them actually) and jointly they must hold a dozen of those '68 Coronet Verts at a $24.98 price tag. There's gonna be a tsunami of those things at Ollie's next Spring when Wal*Mart blows them out of the DC after Christmas.

Sure but that came out back in 1998, the year after the new tool kit was initially released. There have been several reissues of the factory stock version of the new '57 between then and the present day, but there's only been the initial release, and one RC2 era reissue of the Street Machine (19 yrs ago).

Gotta bulk up those orders, one kit direct importing is not very efficient. The shipping is based on weight and volume, so there are cutoffs that make shipping say 4 kits the same price as one.

I doubt I'll ever build any of them, but ya know the point of having a well stocked home hobby shop and all of that. On the other hand vintage F-Series aren't my forte, not that I would throw a 1:1 out of my garage for leaking some oil. But all in all so much of this hobby is the idea of owning something I most likely couldn't in real life, so I'm not terribly concerned about the ins and out minutia of the kit when it comes to the "right" transmission, or the "correct" size of the rearend or the rest of that.

They're quite popular with a number of friends who build more traditional IPMS type subject matter.

The factory stock DeLorean is being released this morning (8/19).

Cycling times within the injection process, the parts aren't cooling properly when they're ejected out of the machine. You can usually following the "tuning in" process with Moebius kits as some of those ramp trucks were unbuildable trash and others were reasonably fine. I have 14 of the F-Series cabs at this point and some hoods fit, some really don't and most are 90% of the way there. I think there might be a draft angle issue with it as well, part of the reason the Revell '64-'66 hood is in 3 pieces. Something is torquing the F-Series hood when it gets ejected out of the mold. Ergo making a new hood for the Merc, maybe that can be addressed.

Be amusing if it were messed up given it's an entirely new hood.

It's one of those - If you like it, and you can find it, you might wanna buy it - equations. Eduard sold out of this kit before they ever shipped it and the few remaining kits they had left over from their trip to Wisconsin for the IPMS Nationals went to Squadron who as of this morning are also sold out. So the ones in the wild are the only ones that exist to purchase.

Not my usual wheelhouse at all, but don't threaten me with something that's legitimately a limited edition that's sold out... and then give me a backdoor in to purchase it...?

Academy owns most of, if not all of the old AM tooling. This is nothing more than a private label run of the Corvette. GTM Models ran off several things including the Corvette a few years ago when Ford vs. Ferrari came out.

Good lord Chuck there hasn't been a Unity Spitfire on an MSP car in over 10 years. They ran a modified Unity body with Whelen LED Internals, and now are running SoundOff LED equipment.

No no no, I'm well aware of that. I mean an actual drag car A990/Super Stock like the California Flash or the Melrose Missle kits were for the Plymouths. That's a Day 2 street legal A990 the same way the Belvidere was...

The 65 Dodges are 65 Plymouth AWB kits with a new body on top. A new body that shares itself (with different side inserts to A the WB) with the two other 65 Dodge kits. Selling all 6k of them would be happy dance for everyone involved. It would be 12k sold AWB kits that both share 98% of the same tooling. The 30,000ft view is that when August is over there will be 9 different 65 Mopar kits that all in some way share the same base. Moebius has out varianted the variant happy Japanese companies with their product line. Also other than the relative quick turn around (2 yrs) on the Melrose Missle and then Golden Commando Super Stock Satellites Moebius has yet to ever do two versions of the same drag car. Butch Leal's Super Stock was a Belvidere. If you wanted to speculate about something that is going to happen next it would be what '65 Dodge A990/Super Stock will be done, since that's the obvious next kit.

Sounds easy, but some of these licensing agreements have wild machinations written into them about what can and can't be done. Plus you'd have to relicense the whole kit with the driver/heirs, sponsors, et al of the "new" kit.

It's typical of most new tool Hasegawa kits over the past several years. This particular kit has a bunch of new parts to "backdate" the 1969/1968 kits they've already done to the earlier one. Better kit than the Fujimi option as that one was showing it's 30 yrs of age, half-hearted "4n1" tooling at this point.

A small box *cough* from HobbyLink Japan...

Revell reboxed a lot of people's stuff in the 90s, and they still do. For even more intermingling intrigue Dragon's importer into Europe in the 90s was Italeri. The last time the Dragon kits were seen were right before 2000 when both Revell and Dragon offered different version of the 320i race car for 1997/1998 season cars. There is an extension piece for the rear of the chassis that makes it fit the sedan body, but otherwise the chassis fits under both the 316i/318i Compact, M3 and 320i with the same parts. The road cars and race cars all share the same base interior pieces which is helped along with separate door panels so they can swap between Coupe & Sedan and then tooling insert swaps make up the bulk of it being a race car or a road car. If you look at how Hasegawa handles their 318i/320i sedan kits it's the same thing except Hasegawa chose to have their chassis molded in one piece at sedan length, and the interior as a tub with the door panels attached which pins the interior to sedan configuration only. When kits are shared the tooling doesn't physically move around, the owner of the tooling does a production run and then sends the bagged "blank" kits to the second company to put into their boxes with their instructions, decals, etc. So the most likely story is the tooling has been sitting around in some warehouse in Hong Kong/nearby China wrapped in Cosmoline waiting for the next ice age. Somewhere along the line a deal was struck, and the tooling moved onto Beemax. Dragon itself has started to make models again for the first time after a long pause of regurgitating reissues. I don't know what happened between 2016 and last year, but they "woke up" and began working again. Possibly when whomever spurred the move to produce kits again went through the tooling warehouse, they decided to sell the stuff they weren't going to use.

Given that the Revuelto is a new car designed after the C8, would that make it a rich man's Corvette then?

On the eBay shipping discussion of the last couple of pages. You don't *have* to use eBay's shipping services. The benefit to the seller is so long as the package arrives to the 3rd Party repack for DHL then you're covered if it never arrives at the other end. That ends up being on the 3rd Party & DHL. If you go around and ship it yourself via USPS or UPS and it no shows, there is no such protection provision. So sellers who already don't sell much Internationally have no incentive to work with Buyers. Onto more exciting things, receiving International Parcels. Fresh from Hong Kong. Of special interest to BMW fans and collectors this new Beemax 320i is a massaged and added onto (new parts tooled) Dragon BMW 320i. Finally after about 3 decades the fate of the Dragon tooling is solved. I'd love to get the back story as to where it's been, and how BeeMaNuNu got ahold of it. They've reingraved every sprue with "NuNu Hobby" on them so they now own this tooling. I would presume it would also allow them to release the E36 M3 race cars as well. It's was a matter of intrigue because there was no press about this kit and it's contents going into the release, but I sat down and compared the two and they're the same tool. Also that Hasegawa 318i is a kissing sister of the Dragon tooling that Hasegawa did their own tweaks to and produced their own kit out of, but the same design engineer came up with the whole ball of wax.

It's actually the second kit of the "second" kit. Like a lot of the Mueller Era kits of the 90s there was a Factory Stock Kit and then some sort of mild cusrom/street machine version. Thats what this reissue is, and it's been about 19 years since fhe Street Machine version was last run. The Factory Stock '57 was run last in that "Car Culture" series in 2016.

Kings Hobby is a brick and mortar hobby shop in Austin, so they're a legit place. My suggestion would be find something as close to you as possible so the shipping works in your favor, or some place that has a feasible (Like $50) spending minimum to get free shipping.