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The kit was just released in September, and other than the LeMans team livery there really isn't a whole lot to do with this kit. The GT3 type cars are going to require a significant transkit, if not a whole new body outright to be accurate due to the differences between the two. Although for the good enough crowd, who cares if it looks correct? AmIright? Also go ahead and ask around to the people like Martinfan who have actually BUILT the kit and learn the lessons of what a pile of non-fitting dreck it is...It really doesn't matter what the brakes look like if you can't fit the body to the chassis because of the way the glass is designed.

I have around 20 each of each of the three main Fujimi GT3 kits (McLaren 12C, BMW Z4, and Mercedes SLS AMG) for "blanks" for livery decals I have, which doesn't count another 3 or 4 of each in the actual liveried race versions Fujimi produced although none of those repeat each other. Then I have 10 of the new BMW M3s, and 12 BMW M6s on pre-order.

Well you have like a 5 week warning. Socking away $6.50 a week from now til then covers the most egregious list pricing of $32.49, and should be less than $30 bucks, as I know my local guy sells Moebius kits for $24.50.

Does this mean people will finally stop claiming the Foose '56 is just the old '56 kit with "donk wheels" that keep popping up ever since this kit was announced?

But aren't the vast majority of buyers casual weekend builders who just want to build a Bronco? In that vein, I suppose they probably wouldn't notice/don't care how comically small the included wheels are... As for no one wanting the stock hubcaps, I go to many shows throughout the year and the most popular categories are always Drag Racing, Customs, and Factory/Replica Stock. You can't build this Bronco with some other wheels and have it be Replica Stock unless there was another wheel option available from Ford that some resin caster wants to make - in the correct size.

It's the '64 kit with new fender badges from 1966, and the grille from the 1965 Stepside - the '64 doesn't have the Chevrolet lettering engraved in the grille. Much like the upcoming '69 Yenko Corvette, it was a relatively cheap and easy way to extend the tooling and get a new kit with minimal investment.

Straight reissue of the Lindberg kit, the only thing different are the new mag wheels, they aren't the ones out of the '62 kit.

Combination of two factors at this point. Wanting to save the "best" for last, and then having such a long delay in getting these to market, they promptly oversaturated it with near identical kits, particularly short beds. Burkett might be running off more '69s, but that's because they're pretty much sold out, and there's still a decent demand (based on what local shops tell me) for the '69 specifically. They can't move the '71 Custom Sports for anything. The 4x4 is what everyone wants, but they have to be leery (and deservedly so) of how well it would really perform 18 months into 4 of effectively the same kit being pushed out.

The assembled wheels look more or less like the picture above, eg. there is a visible lip. Putting them onto the Moebius P/U steelies and the hubcap looks like a poverty cap. I'd like to say I'm disappointed as I really wanted this Bronco (and will 99% still buy one) - although a factory stock & box stock build is now out of the question, but really what is there to be disappointed by anymore. This is par for the Revell course...half the people here will glare at the kit because no matter what replacement wheels and tires you use, unless some resin caster can make bigger hubcaps you can never build one of these factory stock because the hubcaps are even itty-bittier than the Honey I Shrunk the Steelies. The other half will be so happy to have a Bronco kit they wouldn't care if the wheels were 2" in diameter and came with scratch n sniff dog poo stickers, Revell could run over their grandma, and they'd still buy their stuff.

Well it's been over 2 years since it was released. I imagine the licensing to make it specifically a Sox & Martin Cuda only lasted for the 1st run of kits. I'm sure it'll be back around in a year or two as some generic Pro Stock - at which point everyone will complain about it being a boring and unnecessary reissue.

Well Lee Models DID do that with some Tamiya kits back in the 1990s and they of course don't exist anymore, and their products were a spectacular failure. At this point I think the Chinese who are into injection models as a business are in the business. There are a ridiculous (compared to automotive modeling companies in total globally) number of Chinese modeling firms all dealing with IPMS subject matter. Trumpeter of course dabbled with cars with mediocre at best results, and Meng has made two sorties in as well, fairing better than Trumpter by a long shot, but not exactly establishing themselves as a contender with their "over-engineered military model on 4 wheels" kits.

Hasegawa also makes a Police Beetle in 1/24 based on their '65 tooling. I meant by "no kit exists in the past" is at Revell of Germany. RoG did do a New Beetle (as in the 2000 New Beetle) Police car, as well as a police version of their Vanagon kit back in the 80s. But this appears to be a variant of the new '68 tool, as opposed to the old cruddy Beetle (as seen in the Skip's Drive-In Series) from the past.

I've talked with enough people who have direct contact with people who would know the story in Illinois and at this point I believe that the tooling was indeed damaged, and it currently being repaired. Revell has too much investment in this tooling to scrap it, and it was of course incredibly popular, getting people such as myself - primarily modern car/foreign kit builders - to purchase them (I have both the '29 & '30). I think a few vendors tried to spice up the story by adding in some sordid details - it was stolen, it was maliciously damaged - and a game of internet telephone quickly erupted from there.

This just popped this morning on Hobby Search in Japan, and doing some digging I see it listed at Tower Hobbies as well. Based on the stock number, and the fact that this kit doesn't exist from the past, I am presuming this is the next variant of the newer '68 Beetle. Not exactly a must have per se, since you can still get the regular Beetle in the USA reboxing, but for anyone interested. http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGJDP&P=W

Pretty sure the change over to boxing the 90s kits into the AMT line came over the summer when Round2 did that big revamping of the Lindberg Line logos and marketing. The 4-4-2 came out five months ago at this point, side note - MAN has this year flown by...Similar to the way the changeover to Cartograph decal just randomly occurred in February with the Aero Chief reissue. Round2 doesn't seem to work within the normal confines of space-time, but being that they're 98% reissues - they don't really have the same product development times as other people. The 4-4-2 came out five months ago at this point, side note - MAN has this year flown by...

Not the first time Round2 has reissued something out of the vault to "compliment" something Revell is doing. I mean the AMT '29 was announced back in February, which is between the '29 & '30 kits being released, and obviously was in the planning stages prior to the announcement. As been proven here numerous times Round2 can milk mistalgia (the misremembering of great a kit was 40 years ago) for all it's worth, and there are those of course who will insist the original kit is better than any newer kit. Likewise Revell's seemingly constant inability to get basic shapes like curves correct, and/or which items on any given part should be raised vs. engraved detailing, those folks have a point.

I believe Round2 made a decision to put the newer Craft House era kits like the '61 Impala, '53 Fords, et al in the AMT line going forward to keep the Lindberg stuff the CLASSIC Lindberg Line kits (mixed with at least the IMC A-100). It's not a strategy I disagree with since there's a little chunk of kit catalog there that was as good as anything else being made in the 1990s that routinely gets overlooked because of how many people have been burned by various old Pyro & IMC kits when all that stuff kept showing up at Ollie's.

The Civic reissued recently isn't the one he's talking about, there are two Civic coupe kits.

Well remember at this point Revell of Germany is owned by Hobbico, so they aren't buying stuff from an associated company and then adding what amount to a middle man mark-up anymore. Now they're just direct importing their own product line. The only thing Europe/U.K. presents to an American builder in terms of importing kits to anyone here would be getting the kits 45 days or so earlier than everyone else. We tend to get Revell of Germany kits at the end of the month following their release. Eg an October release in Germany usually doesn't show up until the last days of November. The two sports car kits (AMG GT & 570S) if released on time will come out mid-Decemeber in Germany, and we'll see them at the end of January, or February depending on how Revell decides to distribute them - in terms of releasing both the same month or splitting them up since the new Porsche 935 kits will also be landing around Christmas over here. Heller really remains the only thing that can't be obtained with ease here, because for whatever reason they don't seem to believe anyone outside of France wants to acquire their kits. Or they want to hold all the distribution in house for overseas customers.

I wouldn't hold my breath on the molded in yellow part, I don't recall the '69 Vette being molded in color since the original one was done in Orange. Yenko Chevrolet was the Corvette Performance Center for Pittsburgh, so they sold boat loads of Corvettes. But they went out the front door of the dealership like any other car, rather than the "S/C Division" that made all the Novas, Corvairs, and Camaros. That's why finding an all original "Yenko Corvette" is so hard (as stated in the article linked back on Page 1) because no specific records exist of the Corvette sales. Revell could have made a Yenko '68 Convertible, or a '62 Corvette or whatever, but the '69 hasn't been in the American catalog for awhile (it's in the active RevellAG one ironically), so a decal change and a luggage rack and *POOF* - Step 3 PROFIT! Being that it still says 2n1, it should still have the B/M hood in it, and is probably a straight reissue of the California Wheels kit - with new decals and luggage rack. I'll probably get one since the hamfisted the front suspension in half as a teenager back in the early 90s, and I skipped that Cali Wheels reissue.

Well as we're repeatedly told anytime we dare point out a Revell error, we're not the market for Revell's products, they sell to a casual weekend builder. Who isn't going to have a Yenko Camaro and OOP AMT Corvette to pilfer for a luggage rack and decals. They'd want those decals for their build of said Camaro anyway. We all have deep parts bins or kits we're willing to "sacrifice" for the greater good, but then I don't recall ever seeing a Yenko Corvette being built anyways.

Nothing wrong with the '64-'66 pickup kits frame, suspension and drivetrain anyways. Doing the least to get the most - like the Yenko version of the late 80s tooled '69 Vette is just smart business. Cutting corners on the other hand tends to be their worst foe.

There isn't one shown on the parts layout from the most recent California Wheel kit that was reboxed as RevellAG and then reimported here - those kits have parts runner "maps" like all foreign kits and I don't see one. The stock wheels and the hood are still in the kit. Be interesting if they include the luggage rack then - I mean that flyer shows one on that built example.

I was speaking to the earlier post that was calling the Monogram kit a curbside, as ironically it's the only full detail kit available. Also, yes being a Monogram kit in 1/24 it does make the engine out of the 2nd or 3rd Gen RX-7s much easier to deal with...

Two points of order... 1) IF the Suburban is an entirely new tool - aka not based on the existing pickup chassis & running gear with a new body and interior (someone more fluent in GM can probably point out whether or not the wheelbases are even the same to begin with) - then there have to be multiple versions of it coming. Revell doesn't do anything (Foose custom kits aside) that only has one variant. 2) The old Monogram RX-7 is the ONLY full detail "correct scale" 1st Gen RX-7 kit out there. The Tamiya one was 1/20, and the Aoshima & Fujimi kits are based off ancient Imai and Nitto tools respectively that were actually designed to represent a RX-7 that was entered into the 24 Hours of Daytona in the late 70s, and the subsequent street kits are nothing more than those bodies - flares and everything still molded on - with new interiors crammed into old motorized tooling chassis plates.