niteowl7710

There are 3 Nova kits. The Yenko which is just an SS with a BBC and Yenko decals and is not capable of being built as a correct Yenko car OOB. Then the Nova SS with the 350 SBC and drag racing parts, then the "COPO" Nova - which was hashed out around here at the time of release, and determined with relative certainty that there is NO such thing as a '69 COPO Nova to begin with - that included all the missing base line parts to fix the Yenko kit and had the SS parts tossed in so you could (with included decals) make SS 396 Nova out of what was leftover once you made a Yenko out of both kits.

I think what you're seeing is people filming things with their phones - new gen Smart phones will record in 1080p HD - and then trying to edit their videos using YouTube's basically worthless video editor. When you add music to a video it doesn't (or didn't in the last time I looked at it a few months ago) allow you to do just Intro Music...it adds the track over the ENTIRE video. Then you have to go in and fade it in and out...and most people doing videos aren't digital content managers, they're modelers of an age they're just thankful they can get it filmed and online. As a person who uses intro & outro title cards and music I keep mine under 25 seconds on the intro and use the appropriate faders in post production. One of the things that drives me NUTS are guys who use music in front and back, but don't use faders in post production and so the intro music just instantly dies when the actual content starts and then suddenly starts at FULL BLAST when it the video ends and goes into their exit credits.

Another thing I saw this morning, not mentioned the OP's list is the 1/24 Thom Daniels Beer Wagon.

The kit came out in 2009, and had been out of the catalog for awhile. Might as well kick it out since the Yenko licensing is obviously active due to Yenko Camaro that's on the 2nd Q slate. BUT I highly doubt it's anymore than a straight reissue of the original WRONG kit. Because beyond the non SS grille and tail panel you also need the wheels and interior out of the COPO kit to do a real Yenko. It would be far more reasonable for the original Yenko kit number to be buried in the scrap heap and just include the Yenko decals in the COPO kit and redraw them to fit the flat hood rather than the SS hood as they are now since I *believe* based on looking at pictures original Yenko were flat hoods too, and it's mostly clones that I've seen with the louvered hood.

Full detail.

That kit was one of the first reissues from Round2 over 8 years ago when they were still just leasing the tooling from Racing Champions. Wasn't much they could do to "re-content" it when they were just renting the thing. Surprised if the inserts exist that it hasn't been brought back, but clearly the thing isn't very hard to find, so it might not justify a re - reissue yet.

They 3D scanned the pickup at Foose's shop, so that's obviously going to be a new tool. The Caddy is self explanatory since nothing like that exists. I wouldn't get very excited to see BOTH of them in 2016, as the deal with Foose was for 3 years, and it's only a year into the deal at this point. More than likely one late this year, one at the end of 2017.

The problem would be convincing the guys at Aoshima that ANOTHER Short Tail would be viable at this point. The "window" has kind of closed for the moment as Fujimi has saturated the market with 8 bazillion boxings of their race car. An Aoshima one would of course be vastly better as seen by comparing the two company's Long Tail kits, but Aoshima announced their's first and then Fujimi slammed theirs to market first, much like the tale of the two Aventador kits. While better it's also not like Beemax's upcoming BMW M3 that will unseat a 30+ year old awful Fujimi kit. Maybe in a few years after the Fujimi kits have faded away they can approach the subject again, but these three projects represent the next 18 months of development within the Super Car Series.

The 6th Element took a few months longer than it's original Christmas release, but has passed muster in Italy & Japan and was released this morning. Looks to be exceptionally well detailed without being exceptionally complicated to build. The kit can be built either as the prototype or one of the 20 production vehicles so if nothing else you'll net a spare set of wheels for your purchase. People who are willing (or have a plethora of reasons why they can't use a Japanese vendor) and pony up for the Export version will get a clear body for the increased price tag your LHS charges. *dusts hands* Onto the next Super Car!

I'm just curious why this was released as an "econobox" factory stock kit, and not as just a 2n1 F.S./Drag kit. Seems like this multiple versioning is gonna split the resources of the builders out there and both kits will "suffer" poor sales as a result. The pool of people looking for a fourth Hudson kit can't be that large to begin with, and it seems the upper hand would go to the drag guys who will get a unique piece of subject matter. I can see Dave moving 5k 2n1 kits, I'm not sure there's a market for 10k of these things (e.g. 5k for Moebius, 5k for Dave), especially if builders hold with Jon's sentiments about the body style change not being enough to draw them into a purchase.

Crazy illustrations of a 16 year old VOCALOID on the cars notwithstanding, the GSR kits represent legitimate race cars being fielded in the GT300 class of Japan's Super GT Series. Unlike other various Itasha designs like the Evangelion Series (although there is one legit Super GT fielded car in that series of kits), or any of the various Fujimi & Aoshima street cars. Fujimi sponsors the real 1:1 race team - you can see their associate sponsorship third down under the word "Gift" on the front edge of the door. Nice work on this kit, they are decal laden kits of the First Order. Here's hoping that Fujimi's ongoing sponsorship relations with Good Smile Racing begets us a AMG GT GT3 car in 2016 as that's what GSR is running in 2016.

I'll be interested to see if it's FULL full detail, or "full" detail the way the Revell pre-painted kits turned out to be. Impossible to tell from the way that pile of sprues is orientated. Although that body has a rapid prototype texture to it rather than injection molding, and why would you need that if you were in effect pulling a 90s AMT/Ertl annual in so much as adding an engine to the existing tooling of a promo. I'm in for one regardless, although my preferences lie without metal axles. If it is a "real" model kit (for lack of a better term) when will the wailing and gnashing of teeth fall upon us from on high that they wasted their money on their first new tool by making some ugly icky new car rather than "insert obscure 1960s baselinemobile or 1970s land yacht here" and/or fixing existing problems with "insert long list of pet project model kits that should really been done as entirely new kits rather than tweaking 50 year old tooling"?

I'll tell you the latest Round2 surprise I want no parts of...the current plans to force people to buy the OAS (Original Art Series) kits to get white plastic. Both the Mod Rod & '65 Grand Prix are being packaged that way. I don't want the art print, or the $3 upcharge. But I also don't particularly want a Grand Prix molded in "Teal Metallic" either. The Mod Rod kit is otherwise molded in yellow if you don't pony up for the OAS kit.

Hobby Shops in the Revell Preferred Program already have it, there's several listings on eBay as of last Friday for both this and the '17 Ford GT, and obviously as seen in the other thread some people already have their GTs.

Actually BOTH kits have left AND right hand drive included.

So there are two versions of this kit at release, the Timo one shown in the beginning of the thread as well as a Roger Clark '72 Daily Mirror RAC. I don't believe there to be a difference between the two other than included decals. The kits are now IN STOCK! Out of the gate Rejimodel (Czech Company) will be offering 8 decal sheets for this kit, including Timo's '74 Daily Mirror RAC Colbert Lighters entry, giving you a nice 3 year sweep of winning liveries.

Well sure there's 15% of people remaining that truly know what they're doing. They're also the ones - for the most part in a JUDGED show (People's Choice done by General Admission doesn't count, Fred's Cousin Aunt Mable wouldn't know a good model of you hit her with it, she just picked that one cause Purple is favorite color) - that are winning awards. But being part of a club Greg you know as well as I do that 85% of stuff put on the table never passes muster to go past the first view by the judges. There's usually only 3-5 well built models in any class, and if we're talking Best of Show outside a major venue like NNL East or something that draws out the big boys, maybe a couple three that can actually put in a major push towards winning it all. After all how many times is Best Paint, Best Interior, Best Engine and Best of Show all won by the same model? With all respect Tim don't try to sell me a line what after I build the whole model I'll never notice how many spark plug leads it has. How it got that way is moot, it clearly happened. The important question is did anyone ELSE in Revell see that it happened and told them to go back and fix the mistake? This isn't a curve, or a radius, or a window opening, it's a flippin' distributor and everyone since the 1950s has known how many points it is supposed to possess. It's not subjective, it's not a matter of preference or opinions. It's as glaringly factually obvious as it was on the Cuda, and the Meng F-350 that included 6 spoke wheels that are 7 spoke on the 1:1.

It's not enough to keep me from buying one in the first place, and since the kit isn't shipping tomorrow, maybe they can quickly fix it like they did the Hemi Cuda, but this time before distribution. But besides that, not EVERYONE wants to wire EVERY engine they come across. Heck some of us build Box Stock for Competition...gasp...on PURPOSE. Cause frankly about 85% over the full detail blinged out models you see on contest tables wouldn't stand a chance in an OOB class since all the pretty check book modeling and 10 inches of clear shellac try to draw you eye away from the total lack of building basics.

*sigh* Seriously another 7 point distributor? Once on the Hemi Cuda was a fluke, now I'm curious which side of the Pacific is being lazy on final QC on the tooling approval, and/or needs to go back to Pre-K.

Mine is sitting at my Post Office waiting for me to come sign for it (and the rest of this HLJ dispatch). EMS took 41 hours and 9 minutes this trip from the time it left HLJ and entered the tracking system til it was scanned into my local P.O. I plan to inspect the the contents for scorch marks from the reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

Shock fenders...*snkr* great typo This was just added to Auto World Store as a May release.

This is just the unfortunate side effect of putting EVERYTHING into retro box art. Not EVERYONE has been building for the past 50 years and they don't necessarily know what every kit contains. The box art looks great, but makes it difficult to understand the origin of a kit when 1965 kits and 1995 kits all look the same.

Receivership isn't something that should come a surprise to a business, so it seems somewhat odd to attend a major trade show and then "collapse" a week later. Unless perhaps the new kits aren't selling well due to their lack of distribution network and the interest (or lack thereof) from the buyers/distributors at Nuremberg was the final step into the legal filing.

The Spitzer Auto Group still exists, and actually has 17 dealerships strewn mostly across the Cleveland Area, although they have a Chevy store in Lordstown and Toyota & Scion (or had Scion as the case may be) here in Western PA in Monroeville. I worked doing "Internet marketing" of used cars back in 2000 (before anyone knew what that meant, and the idea of also offering PHOTOS of the car was a novel idea) and I got the gist that the reason they have so many locations is because everything was split up brand wise across several counties. Interesting that they have 4 Chevy stores, but none of them also carry Cadillac and/or GMC. The only multi-piece dealerships they have are 3 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram stores, one of which also sells Kias. They have 2 stand alone Kia stores, an Acura store, a Mitsubishi store, a VW store, and 2 Ford dealerships.

They're in the Martini version of the kit, which as I said a few posts ago is being reissued next month.