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The most sensible thing to do in terms of packaging the '48 Ford would be to toss the new body, glass and other sundries, along with the dubious police parts (sorry we've suffered enough Light Commercial nonsense to hold any hope - see '57 Ford parts) and put it into the existing Convertible kit contents. That would allow it to be built factory stock (eg popo ride) as well as Hot Rodded...poof 2n1! I have to doubt there's enough need considering the glut of '48 Ford parts out there that a separate Hot Rod version is viable. I was one among many that were disappointed to see the pre - chopped '48 come out and ridiculed mercilessly for being an idiot over the fact a factory stock '48 Ford would never sell, etc etc. It took several years, but there's validation that maybe they CAN sell one after all. I'll take one of those '30 A's too, and maybe an Olds. I can only hope after 18 solid months of every FB post Revell made being followed by wailing "WHEREZ THE CUTLASS?!?!?!?!?!?" that the kit is everything the G-Body fans have been waiting for...or a total disaster, if only for karma for the most impatient group of builders I've ever seen. I can't wait to see pictures of all the cases they're insisting they're buying since this flyer was posted.

I'm sure it will be tragically disappointing to the "No more Ferrari kits, OMG they're gonna ban plastic, THE SKY IS FALLING!!! Committee", but Fujimi's 4 reissued kits came out right on time yesterday & today.

We get it you hate the guy in charge of Ferrari. But that still doesn't explain to me how it's NOT a RevellAG issue if Fujimi can issue "new" Ferrari kits, but Revell can't. BTW before you start with - they paid the higher licensing fees you should know the kits they're doing this month are priced at the blisteringly high prices of $11-14. This is after they reissued the EM 288 GTO kit for $17 this fall. You could account for that and say reissues are paid for so the margin is higher, but that's wasn't keeping RevellAG from wanting $31.95 for the 250SWB @ Tower Hobbies for an old tool that they don't even own in the first place.

This is a problem that only seems to bedevil Revell in general, and this 250SWB kit in particular. I mean there must be a reason Italeri has never reissued it, since clearly the tool is serviceable. As I said in a previous post Fujimi has FIVE Ferrari kits scheduled to be reissued in the next 45 days, several of which haven't been produced in 8-10 years, so it's not a stop of ALL licensing, or at least not the licensing as it's written with Japanese manufacturers - especially considering the Tamiya announcement that's 2 weeks from being made public. Incidentally I'm pretty sure that if the possibility existed of reissuing the kit without Ferrari logos was a viable idea Italeri again would have done it. Academy of course did that "Classic European Car" song and dance, but they're also not trying to have a working relationship with Ferrari from South Korea. Pretty sure if RevellAG did that they'd get cease and desisted so fast it'd make their heads spin, and probably lose their ability to sell the Ferrari kits they still DO have licensing for at the moment, not to mention never being permitted to make another Ferrari kit in the future.

I was thinking of getting one of each of the two variations and then deciding which livery/color scheme I like better - as I have no particular attachment to the drivers/races/rally in general - and building that one in race trim, and then doing the other as an "after racing life" street car.

Believe me as the owner of several shelves of run of the mill Toyotas & Nissans I know all about that variety. But then if you look at them, 98% were made as the base for one or more VIP "Tuning House" creations. For all the talk of Revell needing "x" number of tooling variants to make a project worth while, the Japanese (especially Fujimi & Aoshima) are the masters and beating every nickel out of a piece of tooling they can.

I don't believe Tamiya was ever the ONLY official model producer, as Fujimi still made a number of road cars as well as F-1 kits during that time as well. That might also be a situation over licensing agreements and where they cover. Anyone who paid attention and witnessed the debacle over Bandai's Star Wars kits being banned from U.S. Distribution and even removed from U.S. friendly Japanese distributors like HLJ because Revell possesses the SOLE licensing rights in North America and Europe knows how that game is played.

As far as Chrysler goes, the Foose branded pre-painted Challenger SRT-8 was already announced by Revell as a January release. Isn't Ferrari supposed to be spun off into a free standing company from Fiat? Perhaps that's why all the licensing has to be re - written again. Also FWIW Fujimi is reissuing 4 of their Ferrari kits this month (F430, F430 Challenge, Super America, and 355 Challenge) and is listing a 1/20 F-1 Ferrari kit for reissue next month. Has Revell of Germany gotten caught with their pants down over this SWB kit AGAIN???

Well neither of those 80's cars are historical vehicles to their companies (hysterical perhaps). The 360 was the first mass produced Subaru, and while the S600 came first for Honda, the N360 was their first "real" car as the little roadsters were considered (while mass produced) limited run sports cars.

I got bit by a bad editing bug on my phone. Fixed it to make coherent sense again.

Announced this morning for a tentative March delivery is a brand new 1/24 tooling of the Honda N360 II. This was a kei car that was Honda's next step in mass production automobiles (after the little convertibles) and after a number of years and a larger N600 version it would begat the Honda Civic. The kit comes with parts to build either a base model "S", or the top of the line "Super Deluxe", which included fog lights, rear mudguards, different fender mirrors, and interior differences. Expect a curbside based on history and price point. ($25-28 depending on vendor) http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig36/10368391b.jpg

Best bet anymore is going on the Auto World Store website and babysitting the future release section. They're usually a month ahead or so - eg February's kits should be listed soon if they're not up there yet along with the single January kit the 1/32 Ranchero.

While I have nothing against a 458 GT3, there was only one team in all of Super GT running one this year with another running a Gallardo (also being Italian). The top division (which has been where their Super GT kits have been focused) was one of 3 makes this year. Honda NSX, Nissan GT-R, or Lexus RS-F. I'm thinking the FXX-K would be the most likely candidate.

Tamiya kit is miles beyond. Fujimi one is at best a cheap curbside with weak detail throughout. It was created primarily to fit in the last series of cars related to the Circuit Wolf animated series, then reissued as a conventional road car. I suppose the only interesting bit is the Circuit Wolf car makes a JDM Spec Europa.

Fujimi announced today that they're issuing a 1977 Esprit S1 next month. So that will be this submarine with a car chassis stuck underneath it.

I can read just fine, thank you. If anything you're the one having the issue by refusing to let this thread ebb and flo the way things do around here. That being said, since you insist on specifics. After I buy the Revells (US & EU) I'd get the bodies on the LX Mustang and '67 Camaro fixed. Beyond that a lot of "I'd make this or I'd make that" would depend on what exactly Revell had in development. I think a '70 Charger is a no brainer, but that seems to be more of a given than ever with the F&F Charger that was teased last year. Then go with more variants to replace long tired AMT kits...like '68 Camaro, '69 Firebird. Oh and an all new tool '69 Chevelle, because again enough of that old ancient kit.

Round2 marketed it as a "6n1", so it's believed to be as close to the original issue with addition of pad printed Bluestreak Drag slicks.

Fund a tool for an existing company? Why wouldn't you just flat out BUY the company and be done with it? Moebius in particular is small enough that I doubt they'd make a terribly large dent in the first year's check - because YES you take the annuity payments, lump sums are for suckers who like to be broke again. But now with it being 1.3 BILLION, maybe you start looking at buying the entire entity that is Hobbico. Leave the majority of the key people in place, and enjoy making money from your investment. Just install yourself as the Chief Muckity-Muck of Automotive Kit Development, and fund some pet projects while reshoring all the manufacturing and getting them out of the morass of this intercontinental tooling inaccuracy debacle they have themselves mired in for the past 3-4 years. Round2 is lets face it a rich man's toy, and I have no interest in making a rich guy even richer by paying whatever he'd want to sell his toy. Starting you own model company is a great way to set large quantities of your lottery winnings on fire I suppose. You'd run into the same problems that Galaxie Limited and Accurate Miniatures ran into...no existing tooling catalog to fund new projects. Because I presume the idea of starting a company is for it to turn a profit, not just throw wheelbarrows full of cash into a bottomless pit. Plus lets face it almost nobody here knows how to actually make a model kit from the ground up, so you'd be hiring a whole bunch of people away from existing companies (and overpaying the people in the process more than likely) to come work for your new venture that hopefully maybe might kinda sorta make money eventually presuming you don't go over the top into model kits that you PERSONALLY want to see made, over those that would actually sell more than 10 copies. Yeah..buy Hobbico and Moebius, and merge Moebius into Revell under the name MoRebellius!

4329 is a straight U.S. rebox of the "standard" RevellAG Porsche 918 kit, no extras from the Weissach version are included.

1st Quarter 2016 was the latest update.

It smells like the ink from the instructions to me. They are a lot thicker and more robust than the F-Series and Plymouth. Freshly printed, snells good to me.

This might be the most reasonable and correct explanation we're likely to hear.

I was likewise puzzled by the RSR, but Tamiya's kit is from the 80s, and a curbside. Completely different market in Europe too, especially if it's full detail.

AMG GT and 570S are most excellent. I hope that Isetta sells sufficiently to justify downscaling it to 1/24, as the Gunze Sanyo one is a small ransom if you can find one. A nice new full detail Isetta in the "right" scale would be great.

I have always been of the school that late and the best possible is always vastly better than quick and rushed. I think we've seen this repeatedly with some of the Illinois based offerings over the past 18-24 months.