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The theme for the show shall be CRAZY 8'S Any scale, any subject, any style - Just build a car that was manufactured in a year ending in "8" - 1928, 1938, 1948, 1956, 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998, 2008, & 2018 (Yes there is a 2018, the most recent Build n Play Mustang) Factory Stock, Custom, Racing, Drag, and everything inbetween.

Ewww Fujimi 3 Series...what a horrid pile of...that is...Hope you didn't pay more than about $12 for it. Beyond that there should be an e-mail address printed on the side of the box in the area of the barcode and address - unless you got some particularly ancient kits. Send you part's request to that address, don't use big words, fancy North Americanisms, or try to be conversational, because there's like one person in that office that kinda-sorta reads/types English. You will more than likely never get a reply back, and in 3 or 4 months you might get your part(s). I know that sounds like farting in the wind, but Fujimi does the majority of their business in Japan, and in their mind caters entirely to Japanese customers - who of course can use those little coupons on the instructions to request and pay for entire parts runners.

Why do we seemingly have to have this same circular debate every quarter? When Revell or Round2 reissues a kit, it's not for the majority of this forum, or any of the other 5%ers out there. It's to put the kits back on the shelves at retailers, so they can sell more of them. Neither get any benefit from there being "a bunch of them on eBay", or "easily available at model shows". What's more there's a fair number of you guys here who refuse to deal with eBay/Paypal or go to model shows. Take the 1950 Chevy P/U as an example. The last time that kit was out was 2011 in the Texaco Service Truck boxing. Before that it was the Coca-Cola boxing in 1997, and the kit's initial release in 1994 (discounting that weird street machine version entirely). So if you don't eBay or Model Show, how do you obtain this 6 year old release? Another thing to consider it the popularity of Hobby Lobby. Whether you PERSONALLY agree with the "politics" of that chain, the fact is a lot of people live, breathe and bathe in those 40% coupons, you see them brought up here in pretty much every review thread. That's 750+ stores of inventory. Even if H.L. split the cases up to ONE kit per store, that's 62 1/2 cases of kits that Round2 is going to insta-sell. That of course is ridiculously low, and it's probably a half case per store or there abouts, and now you're talking about 4,500 model kits which pretty much an entire production run - for ONE vendor. Why wouldn't you reissue an old kit, that really is printing money at that point.

It's still TBA on the MPC list.

Because my father and I have the same name (sans middle initial, I am not a Jr.) I started getting AARP junk mail in my early 20s mis-sent to my apartment. As for Revell and their flier, I've noticed over the years that Revell, or at least the people who do their social media/P.R. seem to go on vacation at the end of July/beginning of August. It seems every August the "New Products" section of their website doesn't get updated until the 2nd Monday of that month - as opposed to the first business day of the month. At this point all the Revell kits for July are out at the RPP vendors, so there's nothing left to do until August for parts of the office staff anyways.

BTW the "current" (by that I mean this kit with a red car on the box art - #24100) Honda NSX kit that's still in the catalog has the Acura logos and LHD. You don't have to dig up and overpay for one of those OOP export kits.

I'm actually intrigued to see what the kit ends up being, because the stock number on the prepaint is 1061, but this "new" kit is 1074. If you go look at the source for these listings 1061 doesn't exist anymore, and when it did it said "Prepaint" on it the way the Tower Hobbies listing does. Also notice the Tower Price is higher than the Round2 Price for the 1074 kit, and Tower has been selling the other glue Camaro kits for less than $30 which have all had the same $32.95 MSRP.

Good lort you're the 4th person to correct me about this already. My terrible unforgivable mistake to not be able to quite Gibbon's car catalog of customized old cars as bible and verse. In the video at the end the ladies find the keys to the car which are on a ZZTop key chain ala the Eliminator in it's three videos. Guess I'll go flog myself in the corner until such time as I'm excited Revell is doing another tired reissue of an irrelevant car.

Well the dirty little secret is nothing ever truly SAFE. Even if you were to go back to writing everything down on paper and using 35MM film, all of that is only one bad rain storm, an electrical short circuit or some other catastrophe away from floating away, being blown to Kansas, or being incinerated. Have back ups to your back ups and all of that, but there's no 100% guaranteed way of making it survive any longer than you do.

July 24th is the ship date per Fujimi.

The '29 Ford is being reissued first, it's the same order the kits came out originally. I would suspect 1Q of 2018 will have the '30 Ford in it...then the question really becomes does the rest of 2018 have further variations of that tooling in store. You have to think we'd be due for whatever the next step is any month now if the calamity hadn't befallen the tooling.

I always enjoy the hypocritical mental two step done by the people shoveling the "Modern cars are ugly appliances and no one would want to build them!" BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH are the same people who gleefully built Pintos, Chevettes and Citations. COME ON NOW! All I want is a '18 Mustang that isn't a toy and a Hellcat (and Demon) that I don't have to make via a $100+ resin transkit.

3D scan it, I think you mean. Especially given the plethora of complex shapes of that car. I'm not sure I trust anyone's "eye" to measurements in terms of a U.S. manufacturer considering how replete with proportion errors everything manages to be on a fairly consistent basis.

It's not an advertisement, it's what Photobucket has replaced EVERY SINGLE PHOTO EVERYWHERE with if you don't elect to pay for their new $400 a year plan that allows 3rd Party photo sharing.

You can't count on Round2 to release anything until the month before things come out, when they update their actual distribution list, or make one of those YouTube videos of their upcoming products. Everything else is a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH shoot as they work through the tooling and what needs fixed and what turns out to be unfeasible. See the Dodge Demon, See the Larson Vega, etc etc.

The '53 Bel Air 3n1 is listed as 1/24 scale, so that would indicate it's the venerable Monogram kit. The Jeep Honcho "Ice Patrol" is interesting considering the Revell Chevy kit is 1/25, that would make that snowmobile out of scale. The '78 GMC w/Plow is still in the catalog unless they plan to discontinue it any day now, and it seems kinda pointlessly odd to do that considering if it doesn't sell well enough with the plow to keep it around, what's the point of selling it without one? Do they maybe plan to put a GMC Grill into the old Monogram Chevy Stepside kit? Or maybe someone in the marketing department doesn't realize it's a Chevrolet, or can't tell the difference? It's been awhile since that kit been reissued as well. One thing that's on Tower that isn't mentioned in the OP list is - #24 Chase Elliot NASCAR Chevrolet SS - so the new glue kits continue, this was a given since there was a SS in the SnapTite kits. The question is whether the Fusions and the SS sell well enough to begat the Camry. Sexton said at NNL East they want to do the Camry, but it's all dependent on the sales numbers.

Now if Revell REALLY wanted to do something, they would update the Eliminator to how it current looks, rather than it's 1980s video fame. Look up the video for the "new" (2012) ZZTop song "I Gotsa Get Paid" to see it, along with 3 other rat style hot rods and some pretty girls driving around in the Mohave.

Thanks guys, I've now tripped and fell over the hill. It's a toboggan flume to the basement of old age from here on out.

After having to put our show on an unintended hiatus for 2017 due to the venue closing for reconstruction right before we booked it, and causing the other viable options in the area to immediately overcharge for their room rental, we ARE BACK for 2018. Show Date will be March 25th, 2018 Show Location is the venerable Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Hall just outside of downtown Pittsburgh - Now New & Improved! I expect most other things like the time of the show, along with our normal classes, and People's Choice form of "judging" to remain unchanged. I will update this thread, and the calendar on here once we have our theme picked at the meeting this month, and all the other particulars set. Hope to see everyone back out of their modeling lairs this upcoming Spring. Mark your calendars now, it's only 8 months away!

Yes I've seen it, and it's very helpful. However a $30 "state of the art" model kit shouldn't need that much work just to make something as simple to assembly as "glass fit" work as it should. In the case of this NASCAR kit, it's a Model King release meaning there's no 40% Hobby Lobby deal to be had here, you're paying the full price. So the least they could do is fix the glaring issue to an otherwise acceptable model kit.

Hopefully consider how long the gap has been between this and the Ventura kit coming out they've figured out a way to rectify how the glass fits - or rather completely DOESN'T fit.

That means when you go to share a photo from Flickr to here you click the little "Share" Arrow and select BBCode, and then copy and paste into the forum's text window DSC02009 by James Duff, on Flickr The "Link Back" is that part at the end that has the photo's title (in this case it's still the raw camera file) and a link to my Flickr page. If you post to this forum (or anywhere else for that matter) without that link back part at the end you are in violation of the ToS relating to 3rd Party hotlinking.

Guys before you all bail into Flickr, be aware you can't just post the photos here without the associated BBCode that goes with it that creates the link-back. Link back to Flickr - Per our Terms of Use, whenever you place an image you're storing on Flickr on an external web site, you must also include a link back to Flickr.

FWIW this kit is actually on the new kits section of Revell's website this morning as a July release.

The last time Tamiya reissued it was 2006, so it's been awhile and why the pricing can be somewhat scatterbrained. The original kit was done in 1997, so based on that reissue history, it seems due for another go around - and they obviously have an active Alfa license after reissuing three of the DTM cars in 2015/2016.