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Ya know...some people would suggest you take these "slow months" and actually build the stuff you bought during the "heavy months"...otherwise it comes off a little "whiny hoarder". ??

The July Releases are - Multi Maverick '92 Ford F-150 Flareside '71 Dodge Charger w/selected parts from the Street Machine (Stage V Hemi, Exhaust Tips, Grabber Hood) August Releases are - 1960 Chevrolet Apache P/U Street Machine Best of luck to Chad & Taylor.

The Special Edition is only available in that gray...a "regular" NiSMO "R35" is available in the white and red as shown, along with the venerable Silver and Black Pearl. Every inch of the black stuff shown in the CAD is Carbon Fiber on the real car. The only interior choice is black with red seat inserts, and the red exterior trim is mandatory regardless of which of the 5 colors you pick. The only options are locking wheel nuts, carbon fiber trimmed floor mats, and a hard wired USB cable. All yours for the low low price of $221,000 (U.S.). Kit is supposed to come with mylar stickers and water slide decals. Be interesting to see how much (if any) of the mandated carbon exterior parts - the hood, roof, trunk, bumpers and spoiler are made out of the stuff rather than it being a wrap - will be included in the decals.

Couple of accessory orders. SpotModel garners several sheets of decals and a set of KMP resin wheels to correct the wheels in a Hasegawa Impreza. From HobbyEasy a bunch of 3D decals from Quinta Studio

October release, so it'll be a hot minute before you need to worry about that. Although most places like HLJ have it available for pre-order.

Honestly, I thought that kit was older than it is...from back when they made the 328s.

Which are 1964s...the kits in question are not yet released 1965s.

Can't be that long gone...

No there was already an Argosy, but it was a 2nd Gen (2011-2020) model which has a different front end on it. Despite it being a "U.S. Spec" kit, not a whole lot of 2nd Gen Argosys actually stayed Stateside, most got exported to countries where COEs are still popular. https://an-modeltrucks.com/shop/us-argosy-conversion-kit-scale-1-24/

Hasegawa hasn't put an engine in anything since the 1980s in plastic form, and the early 90s in the few kits that got the "High Detail" upgrade with white metal parts.

Based on a FB post yesterday by Aoshima, it looks like October.

Revell is on the Vendor/Manufacturer list for the IPMS Nationals in Madison next month. Hopefully their display with be refreshed from NNL East.

The Black Widow was reissued in 2014, the stock end of the '27 Ford is in the Vintage Police Car which was reissued in 2020, and the '57 Chevy 3n1 was last reissued in 2022. So 3 of the 4 shouldn't be too hard to find, albeit not necessarily in the box art from your childhood.

Fresh off the UPS truck...

Recent additions to the long term release list at Stevens International.

So is this a different tool than the Cop Out? Because Revell clearly still owns that tool as it was just done as a Fire Truck themed kit (to go around the Tom Daniel licensing) last year.

We had a small swap meet here a few weeks ago and I picked these two up to replace a couple of toasted original kits. Also managed to track down one of these after quite a bit of searching through a friend. Turns out he found it in China, and the seller in China sent it to Pennsylvania...in a padded mail envelope. That about bent the kit box in half, but somehow nothing broke...

It's not the same subject per se, the Hasegawa kit is going to be the Factory Showroom version. Nissan had to build 200 street legal cars to meet Group B Homolgation, and that's what this kit is going represent. It's actually super cool as the 1:1s were 240 (advertised) HP, light weight everything, and already caged from the factory. All you had to do was put some number placards on and go racing. I imagine a Rally version probably will show up, and that's a waste of resources to me as Beemax/NuNu already made kits of the best finishing cars that existed on the 240RS platform, and there really aren't a lot more of them that ran - something like 20 of them were registered in Rallys over the course of their "lifespan", and most were Nissan Works cars which all use a variation of the livery Beemax put in the first issue of their kit.

Well it exists in a prototype packaging for display at shows, but you can't even buy the stuff in Japan let alone the U.S. - even if Tamiya did sell things at their booth. Therefore it technically doesn't exist. The 240Z was at the booth, but unless you are among the chosen who get the white box pre-production kits for advance review you can't buy that either, as it technically doesn't exist.

You get two sheets per package. Also they can't sell you something that technically doesn't exist yet. ?

There are a couple of major "mega carriers" (Schneider being one) that are in a pilot program to have only cameras on their trucks. They are still required to have physical mirrors on board that attach via a form of quick disconnect in the event the camera system fails or is damaged, but otherwise just have little nubbins mounted where the upper mirror bracket goes that broadcast to a pair of large rectangular screens on the inside A Pillars.

I've run across a contest that claimed swapping decals disqualified what I was entering as OTB, I still placed anyways against the full detail builds. But no OTB/Box Stock class should allow you to wire the engine. Or flock the floor. Or do anything other than drill out the exhaust and taper/thin parts to scale. Otherwise there's no point to the class. The whole point is to build what comes in the kit and only what comes in the kit. Even that has gotten so dicey lately IPMS re-wrote the rules on their OTB to be specifically single-media (aka no P/E, turned metal, etc). So many tanks come with metal or 3D printed tracks, metal barrels, sheets of P/E and so on that OTB was losing it's meaning.

They obviously have a GM license with all of the Novas that have been done/are coming next. Getting licensing approval on a new project isn't something that done until GM signs off on the final product, they always have the final right of refusal. The box art for the Galaxie Limited Fleetmaster Coupe was famously tied up for months because of a debate over how much/little clothing the lady washing the car had on...

Your overarching 30k foot idea is a good one, however it unfortunately doesn't mesh with the reality of how model tooling exists in the real world. The 90s era '32 Ford tooling (3W, 5W, Roadster, Tudor & Speedwagon) exist as their own ecosystem with the body tools and the various engines and wheels being the swappable inserts. When the kit is run there's a certain fixed part of the kit that comes out no matter what kit is being run. My earlier point being on that base tool that all the inserts fit into - there is no more room for further inserts. So if they created the parts you suggest, they'd have to pull something else out - which means you'd only get one set of wheels or one engine option. I haven't sat down with all of the kits lately in front of me, it's quite possible you can't pull out those inserts without losing more than just a wheel set or engine, it might also lose part of the suspension or interior, or body parts specific to the wheel/kit set as well. More broadly you can't "swap" kits like you're suggesting. You'd have to run both tools in their entirety, mix and match the parts you wanted and then scrap the rest. That's labor consuming on both racking and running 2 tools for one kit, plus the actual manual labor of physically sorting and packing the right parts with the end product. Tooling can't be run without inserts (aka "Just run the body") because the plastic won't flow through the mold correctly.

While I understand your sentiment, the whole reason the "Rat Roaster" was new tooling is because the original '32 Ford tooling ran out of room to add more inserts. So aside from the cost of making new parts, there just isn't any room to put new parts in the kit.