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Studio27's Dubai Liveries are (aside from this Lamborghini) Mercedes SLS AMG - Fujimi Nissan (R35) GT-R - Aoshima '15 North America Spec (Good Luck if you don't have one) McLaren MP4/12C - the only street representation of this car is a $225 Hobby Design Multimedia kit Audi R8 - Nominally the Revell kit, but S27 made decals for the brand new 2016 R8s, which have many visual external differences from the 2008 kit. The new cars are slicktops, Dubai has older R8s with roof lights and different markings which I've pointed out to the powers that be at S27, we'll see if they ever choose to release the right design. There are also U.K. liveries for the London Metropolitan Lambo Gallardo (Fujimi) and South Yorkshire Mitsubishi Evo X (Aoshima), as well as Italian State Police Fiat 500 Abarth.

What you have there is 3 Aoshima kits, and 3 Fujimi kits. The 2 RX-7s - which are the most recent versions that have several new parts added to replicate a "Battle Race" that go with a R32 from said race, along with the Cappuccino. The Cappuccino can be built mostly factory stock as the "Initial D" parts are an aero front bumper that fits over the existing molded on front bumper along with some racing seats and roll hoops. The RX-7s have a top-half engine insert. The SilEighty, Impreza and AE86 Trueno are all Fujimi curbsides, and unfortunately the Fujimi Trueno is a hot mess compared to the Aoshima kit.

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The only thing with aftermarket decals would be Porsche only made 3 of these cars, 1 of which was a conversion from a 2.8 RSR and has a somewhat different front end on it being a 1973 car. The other two are both Martini sponsored, the one the measured in the Porsche museum, and the '74 Le Mans 2nd Place car (Chassis 9102) that is the hands of a British Collector - which is what this kit represents. It would not at all surprise me to see Chassis 9101 (the #2 Martini liveried car) made as a separate kit in the future as well as it did finish 3rd at the 1974 24hrs of Spa. If you wanted to perform some surgery, I suppose you could graft the front fascia off a '73 Enthusiast kit onto this new kit to replicate Chassis 0576, but other than one showing at the Imola 1000km, it was just a test mule and never raced.

You don't need all the owners to buy one, you just need 5,000 or so modelers globally to do that. I'm pretty sure you can pull that off eyes closed with one hand tied behind the back.

There wouldn't be anything that says "Interceptor" on this era of Crown Victoria. They did not start getting that official designation and badging from Ford until 1999.

Knowing the pricing schematic of the Best Balsa guy he'd tell you it was scrap and then try to sell it for about 200% more than the value. Or maybe that's just how he sells Studio27 decals and parts.

Possibly by Revell and Hasegawa have a distribution relationship still where Hasegawa imports Revell kits to Japan, and Hobbico carries all of Hasegawa's kits. For example Steven's International - one of the bigger distributors in the U.S. carries 19 Hase automotive kits. Hobbico has 63 listings which include the stuff Hasegawa just announced for reissue on Thursday. EDIT All of this is moot, I just looked at this on my laptop which shows more info than the mobile version, and I'm reminded that Erik is in The Netherlands. Alright so who's Hasegawa's distributor in Europe?

I like the last line - "We expect good reactions and a large-sized orders from you". It would be interesting to know who got this test shot in the first place. There really aren't any large scale Hasegawa importers (in terms of volume, not kit size) in the U.S. other than the reciprocal agreement that Hasegawa and Revell have.

Generally speaking as Hasegawa has been reissuing their old races cars (318i, Civic Hatchback, Civic 4dr, Porsche 962C, et al) they have been doing straight re-prints of the old decal sheets - except in cases where they're doing entirely new liveries. Studio27 announced this morning that they are doing two XJ-S sets from 1982 & 1983, these liveries would require you to source center lock BBS wheels which are different than the supplied 1984 season wheels. '82 Canon RAC Tourist Cup '83 Grand Prix of Brno

Tabu Design has already spit out a sheet to make the JPS livery from the '84 Guia Race of Macau as well. The kit itself is the livery from the '84 24hrs of Spa.

As I said 2 posts up, it came out last week (on the 2nd), I already have mine sitting over at HLJ

Hasegawa just reissued the TWR Race Car version this week.

I don't believe that the GT3 NSX and GT500 NSX are the same spec car. Super GT and DTM unified their rules package so that the manufacturers can play in either one of those series, and of course the DTM BMW is the M4, and Merc is the AMG C-Class. That being said if the NSX GT3 can get 20ish GT teams AND it's successful, perhaps it could be viable. The AMG GT has been pretty successful in it's 2 short years if existence. I think the new Blancpain Asia GT Series (which has been renewed for 2018) being extremely successful also helps the sales potential of non Super GT GT3 cars as that series has two stops in Japan. All I know is the MOOOOAAAARR racecars the better!

Yes, I've spoken to Diego a few times in the past week, he's finally getting things back up and running after having some health issues in the late Spring.

While I wouldn't object, I'm not sure there's enough teams running it right now to justify it. Tamiya will sell one of these to a lot of people, and mass quantities to people who want to build multiples. There are already 8 decal sheets (possibly more I haven't checked Patto's Place lately) for this car already done. Studio27 ended up doing something like 35 sheets of decals over the SLS AMG's career span, not to mention the other small guys. From a sales prospective the Ferrari 488, Audi R8 & Lamborghini Huracan GT3 cars offer a great deal more options for long term continued sales to the decal hoarders.

Are we seriously critiquing a kit based on a drawing on the box top now? In that case every Fujimi kit should be FABULOUS! I suspect once we get to see actual..ya know...parts, the headlights will be the ones most people are expecting since that's what the R/C car has, and I suspect a great deal of this kit is just going to be "scaled down" to 1/24 particularly the body and outside pieces.

What decals are made is gonna depend a lot on whether Studio27 cans be drug away from making every Rally livery that fits on a Hasegawa Lancia and every flippin' 962C JPSC livery ever ran. They've been stuck in that rut for over a year now.

TamiyaUSA showed off this box art today with a delivery date of 10/20/2017.

Except that the M8 is a GTE class car, not a GT3 class car. GTE isn't a class in Blancpain Endurance (or ADAC, Italian GT, Super GT, et al), but for the FIA World Endurance Series and IMSA. The M6 will be getting an "Evo" body kit for 2018, which will end up making the NuNu Hobby kit a "body style" too late, however I'm sure there will be decal support for the '16/'17 seasons, and if it sells well enough perhaps they'll make the M6 EVO as the follow on kit. Regardless the M8 isn't replacing the M6, it's supplementing it in a different racing class/series. “The BMW M6 GT3 will remain the flagship in the BMW customer racing product range and our top model for the prestigious 24-hour races at the Nürburgring and Spa-Francorchamps in 2018 and beyond,” said BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. “We are working on an Evo package, to provide our customer racing teams with an even better car. The latest tests at the Lausitzring showed that we have made a big step forward, particularly in terms of driveability.”

Ya know Fujimi did make "blank" BMW Z4s, 6 of them if you count the 2011 & 2012 DX kits that had P/E included. So there's no need to pay for a GSR kit unless you actually want to make a GSR liveried Z4.

That logic doesn't necessarily hold, as they've had R.C. licensing for a lot of stuff that never made the transition to 1/24. Aoshima does major announcements twice a year just like everyone else. May at Shizouka and October at Tokyo. One thing to consider is Aoshima has been dumping a fair amount of tooling cash into slight modified revisions to their early Skyline kits to make trim versions and years that haven't existed previously along with a new set of stock wheel covers and 14" tires all in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Skyline. By the time September rolls around there will have been 8 of these tweaked kits. As evidenced by this very thread we'll start seeing the Tokyo Hobby Show information trickle out over the next month.

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FWIW in my case I was attempting to get a fixed print issue with a decal sheet they did for one of their GT3 cars. But the only way you'd know there was a replacement was if you (as I do) troll the various Japanese language blogs. I wrote to Fujimi, gave my UPC and requested the reprinted decals and heard nothing. Then about 4 months later I got an envelope from Japan with the decal sheet with a little photocopy of the new placement guide

Well lets face it, by and large ALL of the manufacturers could go under, and it wouldn't effect the majority of us and our "Twenty Lifetimes" model collections.