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The 150 came out in 2009, I'm almost positive the Bel Air came out before that considering it's kit 1912 vs. 4240 for the 150.

So are you calling him a liar then? Or is it possible life exists outside of your frame of reference in Western Indiana?

There's also the Ohio Valley Regional Model Car Show (I believe this is the same show previously known as the Derby City Shootout) in Louisville, KY on Juiy 15th.

Yes it just had newly tooled wing struts and blower hat, along with the new decals and pad printed drag slicks. The other parts Tim is referencing are in terms of the Tom McEwen which is slated for release in February.

P/E for the bagged 956 Some Plamoz conversion pieces.

I'm very well aware of that, but if you read what was actually typed the person was listing kit prices for a store in the U.K., to which Charlie then wondered who THEIR wholesaler was since it was cheaper than his hobby shop can buy them - presumably through Squadron or Stevens International (they carry ICM too). Obviously he knows who he can get the kits from if he has a price basis to know the U.K. place is getting a better deal.

Well that's because Hobby Lobby is based in Oklahoma, which where their warehouse and truck fleet is also located once it gets the kits sent to them from Round2 in Indiana.

In the U.S., however the discussion was who was wholesaling between ICM and a store in the U.K.

Right, right...the Z/28 conversion is the 2014.

I think the best you can hope for right now is the Plamoz Transkit that will convert the Revell 2010 Challenger into a 2014 Hellcat.

I picked mine up on Tuesday. Am I the only one who wishes in the flourish of nostalgia that overwhelms these reissues they'd stop reprinting the old instructions? It was cute for awhile, but on something like this kit which ends up having 3 fold out 1970s size instruction sheets, I could forgo the "Once upon a time" nature of the directions and take a new set that isn't full of a bajillion haphazardly drawn arrows pointing and random vague representations of the kit parts.

Yeah I got some nozzles and some stickers in my package too. Nice touch!

Their wholesaler isn't shipping things across the Atlantic either...

The only pending 1/24 kit right now is packaging the Model T with the 3 figures (Henry Ford, Engineer & Mechanic) for February. We she shall see what if anything the Nuremberg Toy Fair has to offer next month.

Based on finished auctions he pieced out an incomplete kit. He had a body and some trim pieces, and obviously 4 tires

Clearly you have a secret source of Annual kits then, because the only '76 Roadrunner kit on eBay is priced at $130. The most recent sold kits went from $69-80.

There are at my last count somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 DOZEN aftermarket sheets in development for release in the next 60 days for the M3. Along with at least one wheel set, and an entire tarmac rally transkit.

Beemax makes race car kits Charlie. They're not into the "necessary evil" compromises that Revell is married to - see all the non stock parts on the Bronco to support the "Custom Off Road" version. What the niche players have realized is race car builders are quite frankly the "serious" spectrum of the automotive genre. They're going to buy the kit, the detail up set, and then more kits and P/E when the aftermarket decal support starts to pour in during the following months.

It probably is very much that black and white. The Beemax M3 is an example of a kit that was nearly derailed by last minute licensing changes. BMW decided once it got time for approval that they wanted a SIX figure licensing fee. Beemax which had recently endured a nearly year long licensing fiasco with GM (the same one that tangled up the Galaxie Limited Coupe) and subsequent flatline sales of the Cruze had them teetering on the brink of pulling the plug with that huge fee being the primary reason. Fortunately many of us were able to talk them off the ledge by pointing out the M3 is the most winningest vehicle ever made, and a bit more historically significant than a Cruze, combined with the dumpster fire that is the Fujimi kit. I put my money where my mouth was on that and have purchased 13 of them so far.

Certainly is, I'm just saying if MGM/Columbia wants too much to license the movie rights, I'll take a boring old DB5 without the tie-in just to have a kit of the car.

Ho Ho Ho - Santa HLJ has landed.

100k kits might have been the payoff point in the 1960s, but model kits are $2 anymore either. I also am dubious of that figure based on how much of the tooling was covered by the Big 3 as Promos that were later converted to kits. Based on what the wholesale prices of Revell kits are, and what the acknowledged cost of a tooling, it seems like around 25k kits would be the pay off point. That's about 2-4 kits off each tool, depending on how well each version sells. I mean it's not like Revell is taking a loss on kits from that first run of a tool, they're profit is built into the wholesale price. If 100k kits was the "magic" number, niche players like Belkits, Beemax, Ebbro and the like would be out of luck. I don't care how much people like that Mk1 Escort Rally kit, they ain't selling 100k of them...ever. The more niche the kit, the higher the price is to make it pay for itself. I also suspect Revell doesn't make nearly as much from the IPMS crowd as you might believe. Certain tools have produced wildly regarded kits like the Stearman, but Revell has the same reputation for...uhh...lackluster attention to detail in the military realm as they do in the Automotive side of things. Plus there are a LOT more options in the military genre from companies I doubt most people here (unless they also build armor/aircraft) have even heard of...

I think it might be an over-exaggeration of the "flares" the car has in the 3D files. There are what...4 new tools ahead of this one, there is time to refine the design.

Breaking cover this morning, the official announcement of the next upcoming tool to be released from Beemax. ETA 4Q of 2017.