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All in good fun, but you also misspelled the slang term for your heritage as well, as a Pollack is an alternative spelling for the fish species Pollock.

Paypal. Also depends on the item being ordered. Older wheel sets and things like complete bodies are cast to order. The shipping from the Ukraine isn't particularly long, usually less than 3 weeks.

Good lort that thing is a hot mess, who designed that tooling? Fujimi?

Poor Joe didn't even make the error, I did, but both of you were so busy correcting me you didn't even realize it was me you were doing it too...So is correcting my spelling, but making a "misteak" while doing it an unintended irony of being a "Pollack"?

FWIW if you wanted to build the team car (I got two sets of the decals) or anyone looking to make one of the older Gr. A cars, S.K. Decal sells a resin "transkit" for the Beemax kit that comes with the modified spoiler, front air dam, and mirrors included. They also have a set of three piece resin BBS Wheels that are sized to fit the Beemax tires (and ergo don't drag the ground the way the S.P. ones do). S.K. products can be found on eBay, MediaMix Hobbies, as well as directly from them via their Facebook page.

Engine - meh who cares? Well I know a lot of you...but I have to snicker at all the people willing to buy up Build N Plays, but won't build a foreign curbside kit... ANNNNNYYYWAAAAAYS - Hurrah for them blanking the sidewalls and not bringing those goofily awful B/F Gaadreich things to market.

This is honestly one of the biggest frustrations I find here and elsewhere on the Interwebs. The "Round2 should magically make this other kit out of this existing tooling". You guys have to realize and then remember that NOTHING Round2 has on file is in a CAD format that is used today. So in order to create the "new" kit out of the "old" tooling you're looking at cutting a whole slew of NEW tooling, which in the case of things like the '49 Merc into a '51 (not picking on anyone, but it's the best example) - your reverse engineering a lot of 2017 pieces into a 50+ year old model kit. It would be easier, borderline cheaper, and less frustrating to create an entirely new tooling at that point. Remember how well the re-tooled '76 Gremlin grille simply DOESN'T fit the old tooling? Now imagine an entire "new" kit with that kind of fit issue. I mean AMT/Ertl stuck us with that entire '70 Superbee - P.S. cut off this window to make the old stuff fit the new stuff nonsense - it was apparently too hard and expensive to reverse engineer a simple piece of clear window. A lot of these "restored tooling" parts that we've been getting are things like wheels - which just need to be the same size as the tire they're going into and the wheel mounting system from the kit. Or little bits and pieces from custom parts for the tooling inserts. But nothing quite an undertaking as back-dating a body shell or creating an entirely new "xyz" based on this "abc" base kit.

I believe that trademarks expire after a certain number of years, sort of like copyrights. So being that Texaco logo is 105 years old as of tomorrow, it's quite possible it's not technically trademarked anymore. This is the only one of these kits that's peeked my interest, thanks for the peak inside.

Only 28?!?!?!? That's like a 50% reduction over a normal year at the garage.

The Honda S660 Alpha was released this week, next on deck will be the 2017 Nissan GT-R Pure Edition (aka JDM only), tentative delivery date is February.

I think you're also marketing something towards higher-end builders, the casual Friday guys don't care what color their carbs are compared to the 1:1 factory specs, they'd probably not even dechrome them. So you're marketing towards guys with airbrushes, and you're directly competing with Tamiya, Alclad, & Vallejo Metal Colors for a specific use product; that you would really have to have like a dozen or so carbs you needed to mass paint. Because otherwise it would be a ridiculous waste of time to set-up and then tear down an airbrush to paint 1-3 carbs "Holly Light Gold" or whatever. (Especially when that Holly carb is pretty much out of the bottle X-31, with XF-16 base, X-12 linkages, and XF-56 butterfly)

Well they certainly are getting their money's worth of this tooling that's for sure. February is the tentative delivery date.

All Meng kits are a tough sell in the U.S. if you're buying them locally as opposed to H.K. I think the MSRP on this kit is $73 if I remember the listing correctly- it's definitely North of $70. Compared to mid- $30s when buying from HobbyEasy. Jeep fans will buy them - I'm willing to bet they can find 5k of them worldwide to sell the production run. I will get one as I'm not a huge fan of the - it only builds as the Tomb Raiders '03 Wranglers. I also refuse to support (as an adult - for my kids as they age into them is a different story) those Build n Play kits as a viable solution to model kits.

Especially if you like wheel swaps! I have their WRX STi sedan conversion and it's pretty nice on first impression and inspection. They 3D designed and printed the sedan from the C pillar back and then grafted it into a Aoshima 2010 WRX STi 5 door - then cast that, so you know it will fit the chassis and interior. I also have the Mansory GT-S conversion for the RevellAG Mercedes AMG GT making the slog over here. There's a little wait time on the bodies as they cast to order those, plus the transit time from Ukraine, but nothing I'd consider outrageous (usually 4-6 weeks).

Wonder when the mass parts request will implode Customer Service from people demanding the advertised Chrome Parts. Revell had to replace all those tires in the '50 Olds when they were supposed to be whitewalls, but showed up sans stripe.

The guys over at USCP are doing a couple of wheel sets and a transkit for the shooting brake body in 2018.

Hasegawa is the only choice, the others are ancient and either curbside or motorized. Hasegawa's doesn't have an engine in the sense that you could transplant it into something else, but you do get all 4 outside block dimensions and top half that molded into the top of engine compartment with separate intake pieces.

Oughta be any day now, the rest of the December Round2 kits have been out for about 2 weeks now.

Technically you'd need the Profil24 piece to do the 2016 car that Revell is doing. The MFH one has the '17 body mods.

That would be interesting considering the stock number all of the European & Japanese sites have is 07041 - which is a RevellAG number (the new Panamera is 07034). All of these places would carry the Revell U.S. kit, especially if it came out earlier than the Germany version. I mean it makes sense that Revell U.S. would do it I suppose, being Ford is here and all of that...I know this car is the one that won it's class in 2016, but still it finished 2nd this past year at Le Mans, and there's a new season going on before this kit comes out...how in the world - granted with inaccuracies - did Revell & AMT release new NASCAR kits through the 80s and 90s, but now can't get race cars out until they're pushing irrelevancy.

The Panamera is a Skill Level 3 kit, and it has some engine detail. Based on the last several "simplified" glue kits that RevellAG has done, they're taking more of a Tamiya approach in only tooling up things you'll actually see on the engine. After that BMW i8 that had both engines (electric up front, combustion out back) that both disappeared once you assembled it...

Well digging around more and what I've been told is, it's a new tool RevellAG kit. Nobody seems to know why it's fallen from the sky now, instead at the 1st of the Year as usual, but release sounds like it's more toward Summer than March.

Again I say...March? Based on what? The kit number is a RevellAG one, and this is not on any current Revell list here or in Germany. They managed to keep an all new glue kit secret up until two foreign vendors list it? Where is the CAD, 3D prints, test shots? Anything? Even Tamiya has built models to show 90 days ahead of release, and they're the king of secrecy. I have to wonder if someone didn't read the list wrong and accidently blew a 2018 new kit that wasn't supposed to be disclosed until January 18th right before the Toy Faire... Also figures Revell makes a livery and body kit that's going to be more than 2 years old by the time the kit is released, the 2018 Ford GT GTE car will debut in a month at Daytona.

From talking to a couple of local hobby shop guys, Hobbico told them to resubmit their orders for the November kits (Honcho & Cutlass), and for some unspecified reasons they hadn't shipped from China yet.

"New tool" Catalina. Albeit that was new some 20 years ago at this point, but it's just another decal variation on that kit.