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I've gotten so much stuff since the last time I posted in this thread that I'd probably break it...so instead here's the goodies from the most recent HLJ shipment and a Belkits Skoda I picked up off eBay. Not shown several GT3 & Carbon Fiber decal sheets, and the P/E Detail Up Set for the Tamiya 300SL DSC02231 by James Duff, on Flickr

It's on Round2's June Release list...so end of the monthish, the May stuff came in the first week of June.

It's been bounced out to at least August.

It is the Revell USA boxing of the brand new in 2014 Revell AG VW Golf GTi/Cabriolet tooling.

Maybe I'd rather build it with a beefier set of wheels and tires like this... Rather than the bone stock factory wheel covers and tires... If EVERYONE just would use polycaps, perhaps the U.S. companies could get into making wheel AND tire sets (I know there are some with both in the drag tires Round2 has done), and open another revenue stream. I mean if you really sit down and look at the various ways wheels have been mounted over the past 50+ years the closest thing to a "standard" we ever got was those wire axles. It seems like every decade or so someone tries to reinvent the wheel (pardon the pun) cause before the Delta Queen paddles Revell had gone over to those 4 tiny "nails" that had the habit of evaporating whenever you happened to gaze upon them. I'm also not speaking of Revell/Moebius/Round2 doing big goofy VIP wheels or Japanese branded tuner wheel sets like Aoshima/Fujimi, but you're telling me there's NO market in this country for an easily swappable sets of period muscle car wheels? I mean from personal experience some of the most successful vendors at the shows I go to are the ones that sell spare wheels and wheel/tire combos. Lastly how much time do you spend per day looking at the inside edge of your model's tires sighing with contentment over the prototypical inner tire rim/bead? Yeah that's what I thought...

Yeah but everyone runs around the Moebius threads insisting that they're the new Tamiya, then they should mold their wheels the way the Japanese do by attaching the sprue mounts to a little riser of material on the back of the wheel and start using polycaps so you could swap wheels and tires quickly and easily between all of the "Big 3" U.S. brands.

Yeah I get that bit, I just meant that we survived nearly 60 years without that feature, now it's on several new releases.

One thing I've noticed here, as well as Steve's F-Series photos - which isn't necessarily a Moebius "thing" as Revell does it too - is the use of those Mississippi Delta Queen paddles on the wheels. That's a new annoyance that I first remember seeing in the '50 Oldsmobile kit, and now it seems to be spreading...the tires are always the weak spot in these kits and those paddles impede the use of replacement items unless they too are hollow like the kit tires. Yeah, yeah I can remove the riverboat accessories, but why are they there in the first place?

Lamborghini. The actual 50th Anniversario cars were 2014s to celebrate the 1963 founding of the company.

That's cause you bought a last issue Revell AG boxing of it, not the version Revell just stocked onto the shelves last week.

Well yeah you're paying to reimport something that was exported to Japan.. The point being that the kit is officially released, not a cry to go order one. That's as silly as buying a Japanese kit as U.S. mark-up pricing.

I wish they'd include a steel top...

There were like a half dozen variations to this tooling including GMCs as mentioned, and 2wd versions. However at the moment only this one is currently in the Fujimi catalog.

I believe, unless I've lost track of things, the reason why this kit is teetering on being released even though it was announced after/with several pending projects is that this is the first tool out of the new contractor that Moebius was moving to after all the delays and frustrations with the Fords and other kits. Be interested to see how it compares in quality & workmanship to the "old" tooling contractor.

The SELLER is in the Ukraine. eBay and PayPal are still firmly cemented to California. Your credit card number isn't going flying all over anywhere...

Not to be the Qualcomm button idea bubble buster, but QC hasn't used the satellite tracking style antenna in probably 5 years. Communications are now cellular based and GPS tracking is now much smaller leading to an antenna that's square with a fin on top. They don't even have to mount them outside anymore.

As stated in the thread title this is the ESCI kit. AMT reboxed several of their offerings here in the States (and vice versa for the ESCI/AMT kits in Europe).

I hope everyone is just as willing over the next three years to shell out the higher price for these kits as they are right now digesting this announcement. Unless Revell were to half-botch the kit full of compromises they way they did with the Rat Roaster, sincerely following Foose's designs on any of the 6 choices would limit the kit to being JUST that car...forever. MSRP on Revell kits are already creeping ever so close to $30 as it is, one-off kits that have no way to amortize tooling are going to blow straight through that ceiling unless Chip is footing the bill on some sort of revenue sharing agreement. While none of his stuff particularly blows me away, for reasons stated here by others, I commend Revell for at least thinking outside the collapsible donut box and trying something new. Maybe Chip Foose is the next generation's Ed Roth/Tom Daniels...

It's their new Skill Level System. I don't know if anyone else remembers but they were supposed to start going on a 1-5 scale the way Revell AG (and most everyone else) uses. So the Max (which I hope isn't the level of disappointment) are going to be Skill Level 2. Hopefully that means something on the level of the Caprice, NSX, et al from the 1990s that have all slowly but surely become glue kits over the years of subsequent re-tools and reissues.

1:18 is Japanese is it?

The pre-painted glue kit maybe might come out next month. But the way Revell's various releases have been delayed (especially the new tool stuff) nothing is in concrete until they put out the monthly ship list.

Yes 5 Window

Beatings will continue until morale improves!

Like I said my decision to purchase one or more will depend on the contents of the kit rather than the actual product being offered. I doubt many of these will be built in the liveries being offered anyways, particularly the non-alcoholic version of Keslowski's. As for the parental scolding. It's a known fact that if they don't sell, there won't be anymore. Why does anyone need to see that "verbalized"? If you don't wear your jacket, you're gonna catch a cold - Yeeeeessss Mom If you don't buy these Fords, there won't be any more NASCAR kits - Yeeeeeeeeees Ed

Too much is still unknown about these kits for me to budge from my firmly "On the Fence" perch. I don't even know if Chevy & Toyota kits would really help. I fall into that category of rabid NASCAR fan and builder up to the point that Dale passed, aaaaaand then I really didn't care. My tastes have passed to GT1/GT3 endurance racing, and there's support for that habit in a major way out there. I don't know that I can be drawn back into the NASCAR fray as I don't really have any particular feelings about any current driver beyond seeing the underfunded guys pick up the random win here or there. In regards to the threat/extortion/scare tactic that if people don't buy them, they won't ever make anymore. I don't like it, it's common knowledge. It comes across as a parent/spouse telling you something that's annoyingly obvious just to be an authority figure. At this point with the hobby being the niche - albeit ever so slightly growing in the U.S. - market, doesn't that apply to ANY project? I mean if people suddenly decided that the Model As and the Hot Rod movement was passed and had moved onto something else, would they keep plowing capital into them?