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Well considering the other rumor swirling around is the tooling was STOLEN (bum bum buuuuuuuum), I doubt either is true. Maybe it's the ability of a rumor to be passed along gathering momentum and credibility along the way in the format of the Interwebs, but the last couple of kits that sold out have caused a fracas of rumors and outright lies, probably by people looking to create a secondary resale value of "RARE VHTF!!!" The last time was the '70 Cuda which sold out and immediately the tooling was stolen, seized by the Chinese, etc. But then the drag racing version came out...magically evidently considering the shared parts. Oh wait there's a restock of the '70 Cuda factory stock kit they just ran and shipped them together. Guess it wasn't destroyed in a fire or a typhoon afterall.

My...well everything in the kit has a slight tweak to it, but nothing that's requiring a replacement part prior to actually test fitting things like the tailgate in place. As for being molded in W. Chicago, I imagine there's certain tooling that never got shipped to China in the first place, especially the old Monogram stuff. Much like the Round2 stuff that has been run in Michigan. Makes you wonder if the place that's running the kits isn't used to either more resilient plastic, or manufacturing that doesn't require as much "precision" in terms of warping.

Revell of Germany regularly reboxes USA tools for release in Europe.

In all fairness to the Sweater in Italy, the suits in Germany were still in charge back in 2001 when the first movie came out.

The 1/16 Nomad is a September release, it was shown in last month's video. Another September release missing from this video is the full detail glue kit of the '16 Camaro SS. Like I said before I appreciate that they're putting the effort out there to be more social media savvy with their customers, but these videos aren't exactly the most accurate information either

Perhaps he's special...but the Huracan has conventional doors like a "real" car. So does the Sesto Elemento, which is the reason that neither Aoshima kit has opening doors.

I agree that looks a lot more like a 318 than any Straight 6 I've ever seen. Compiled with the reissue of the Lindberg Oldsmobile 442 Cutless, and that diecast pickup being a Cameo Stepside, Round2 might wanna invest in a package designer with at least an appreciation of cars.

I don't know in which of the two threads about this kit it lives in, but someone gave the advice to putty the underside of the roof first and then clean up the shiny side. Having one of them myself, that seems to be the most reasonable proposition for fixing (and affixing) the T-Tops.

The only "unfortunate" thing about the decals are there's 3 or 4 that have various printing errors and they had to run a supplemental sheet, and I'm not sure how many North American kit owners even knew about it. It took 2 1/2 months with 0 communication from Fujimi to get my replacement sheet, but in the end I DID get it, so I can't fault them.

Yes it will build either as a Honda or Acura.

Well if you believe Revell's propaganda, it should be out in October. That's what they're telling retailers.

Depending on the shipping method (SAL vs. EMS, it'll be $5-10 less than the U.S. retail.

I saw a pearl white 1:1 in the wild out by Pittsburgh, it still looks pretty hot in white.

DING DING DING We have a winner!

Keep in mind Hobby Search is in Japan. The kit will be released in the U.S. in September, it's the only 3Q left.

If the tires being aftermarket units on the 1:1 they measured are the biggest offense the new Bronco can come up with, I'm willing to take that everyday and twice on the weekends after that little era of "Blech" that happened between 2012 & 2015.

I dunno the kit grille and the yellow car don't look that far apart to me. I have to wonder if some of the "tallness" wouldn't be rectified by painting the argent surrounds and black grill areas. There's just a lot of uniformly SHINY chrome OOB, and have the color transitions might help draw your eye away from how it looks as a single piece. Sort of the way painting and foiling a '56 Chrysler makes that kit "lose" the odd hump it has in the roof that is pretty prominent on the raw body.

Look! A whole engine you can display beside your now curbside $45 model kit.

Studio27 already has relationships with Rowe Racing, Walkenhorst Racing, Schubert Racing & Boutson Ginion Racing which are all running the M6 in the Blancpain Endurance Series as well as the 2016 24hrs of Nurburgring from a few months ago. There are also 2 teams in Super GT using the M6, but Studio27 hasn't done much with Super GT, most likely because Fujimi was doing so many things like the Studie BMW Z4 as kits. Studie is running the M6 as well as the Autobacs team.

This kit popped up on the Japanese vendor lists this morning with an "After November" release date. ICM usually distributes globally to all locations at the same time (as opposed to RevellAG kits hitting Europe 45 days before the U.S., or the 4-6 month lag between U.S. releases and their Asian distribution). So you will probably be able to ring in the New Year with a new fire apparatus. With the exception of Squadron who occasionally firesales ICM kits, the cheapest way to get their kits continues to be via Ukrainian distributors on eBay.

I don't think anyone would even consider making a new tool kit that a further variant would permanently alter the tooling. Unless you're talking about Round2 "demodifiying" things back to their origins. Heck when Revell reissued the Yenko Nova last month they didn't even put all the "COPO" parts into it to correct their original gaffe...even though they have the parts, and the COPO Nova kit has most of the SS parts in it. They would have just had to include the original hood with the louvers and the Yenko decals in the COPO kit contents. But no they reissued it completely wrong like the original, meaning you still have to buy that COPO kit separately to "convert" it. Nobody, especially Revell is destroying tooling.

Unfortunately that giant gaping hole for a lower grille is a GM design element. All of the new model Chevrolets (Corvette excluded) are getting some variations of it, even the trucks.

The thing is with the way the engine insert fits into the model no one who doesn't know it's not a complete engine would ever have any idea that it's not. I don't believe that anyone was really going to buy a $35 (or $70 if you insist on LHS it) just for the engine to put into another project. Well O.K. maybe a handful of people, but not en masse like LS swapping, or putting another style of engine in a street rod, etc. Because the exotic engine swaps I see around here are 99% cheap hobby shop RevellAG Ferraris rather than anything out of any Tamiya or Fujimi kit.

Originally the kits were going to be molded in white or black. Then at some point they decided to mold it in Garnet Red instead. There was never any plan to mold it in silver. Also it's MOLDED in Garnet Red, not pre-painted like the dumbed down Revell kits. Just because the box art car is silver doesn't mean the contents are...otherwise I demand the '57 Del Rio gasser be recalled and replaced with ones molded in Gold Metalflake. The SnapTite kit will be on the shelves at the end of the month. The glue kit is getting two releases in September. One molded in white, and one molded in, you guessed it, Garnet Red.

$82 for the RevellAG London Bus. Before the big price increase on the 2nd run took it to $125.