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I find with this hobby it tends to be "usually reissued" right after I buy one. I'm not gunning for any rare kit, just some "One Run" kits Revell & Monogram did in the 80s/90s. So far they've then gone on to reissue the Buick GNX and now the '58 Corvette & '59 Impala H/T are pending. I think the only one I didn't track down before it was reissued was the '65 Impala Convertible. I missed out on a few, and then they announced the reissue, so I just gave up and waited.

The Rescue 911 is a Dodge, and is from the Dodge series of van kits.

Be something if there was money at stake, but it's just long simmering bad "relations" - in so much as Person A feels that Person B was a lower class person in life regardless of actual realities, along with Person A's insistence that they be the center of attention even though they're only family by marriage.

The way people, who are allegedly from the same genetic stock (aka "Family"), can bring every petty difference and perceived slight out when a loved one passes. The one time you'd think everyone could set aside whatever problems they have for 48 hours, instead magnifies and amplifies them to a fever pitch. Needless to say there's about a half-dozen people I don't feel the need to ever engage in occupying the same oxygen supply with again in their lifetime.

When you list an auction with a BIN, the BIN has to be at least 15% higher than your opening bid is set to be. It is designed to give people who REALLY want an item, and are willing to pay that higher price to instantaneously purchase it rather than running the auction out and risk being sniped at the last second. Once someone bids on the auction the BIN option usually disappears, so it's not at all like using an auction with a Reserve. You set your opening bid for the minimum you want to get and then hope the item you have trips someone's trigger and they pull the trigger on the higher BIN price to avoid the bidding process. Frankly it's an easier process than that convoluted "Best Offer" system, which always seems to have a RIDICULOUSLY high BIN price or the "Submit Your Best Offer" button. If you want that kind of BIN price, my Best Offer is likely to be no where near what you're willing to part with the item for in the end. Seems more often than not people who run strictly BIN "auctions" either are (or are attempting to be) a more traditional retailer, it also allows you to create a month long listing for multiple copies of the same item. You often see a "xy available/xy sold" below the price, and then the tantalizing "LAST ONE!" graphic pops up when there's only 1 of the item left to taunt your senses into buying something to make sure you...don't...miss...out!

You can only post 10 photos per "post". After that you need to start replying to yourself to add the next 10 photos and so on. Very nice job!

I don't count the bad machine translation of Japanese into English as a "blooper".

I think if you were going to offer a separate F-250, you'd have to either offer it in 2WD with the other set of '08 F-250 wheels. Or go the fully-loaded route and offer it up as a King Ranch, which again has a different set of wheels. You could get a them both with the Diesel so there's no need to change the engine, although you'd have to wonder at the possibility of offering the F-250 as a 2WD gas V-8 too. I guess it all depends on what all they have planned with this new Car Series. Only the HiLux seems to have been repeated in modified reissue sort of way out of all the kits they've done so far in their history.

Well the bodies might be usable for dimensions maybe, but if you were cutting new steel you might as well replace the way shallow interior, promo chassis, metal axles through the engine block. At that point it'd be easier to start from scratch. Certainly there would be interest in some of the subjects JoHan did, but I'm not sure trying to trying to recreate JoHan is the way to go about that.

I hiiiiiighly doubt that. The part about Moebius kits coming first, not your purchasing power Looks like everything on the F-350 is done other than the glass runner (which isn't shown on the runner board), and maybe the tires since they aren't displayed either. But clearly the box art is done, the decals are drawn, and the mylar transfers for the mirrors are ready. Knowing that Asian manufacturers don't announce until about 90 days before release and the Bumpsides just got the first round of test-shots a month or so ago, I wouldn't hold my breath on getting them first.

Well they're exporting the Color Me Gone '64 Dodge and '29 Mercedes-Benz SSK to the Asian market this month. That will mark the first time anything with the Lindberg brand has been sent to Japan in two years. Tower Hobbies is still showing an "Early June" release for the Lawman Plymouth Belvedere as well.

You guys both realize that a "case" of kits like this tend to be like 30-40 per case because the long flat boxes fit more per box...right? Example - This is a case of Aoshima Corollas, you'll note it's 40 to a case.

American cars go through design cycles, rather than phases. Some models undergo more changes than other in regards to mid-cycle "refreshing", but I appreciate the information. By "model years" I just meant that I presume the EBBRO kit will be marketed as a 19xx 4L, and the Heller as a 19xx 4L, but the model years will of course be different to represent those different phases you're speaking about. It still makes me wonder if there are enough shared components between the phases to justify sharing most of the dirty bit tooling, especially with the connection between the heads of Heller and EBBRO. Or possibly is Heller planning all three of these kits and EBBRO is going to co-brand the kits for Asia the way other kits have been done Revell AG tooling as Tamiya, the Moebius truck kits and a slew of Fujimi tools done as Revell AG kits, etc.

Well speaking for myself, I have that many cans of paint because they're on sale. For the $65 or so I have invested in all of it, I'd only be able to get about 6 cans of Tamiya/Testors paint. But only having 36 or so cans AND bottles seems to me likewise silly. That means every time you need a specific color you need to stop the build and go find it. I have more than 3 dozen jars of Tamiya paint because I hate nothing more than realizing that I don't have something, and I need to careen something I was enjoying the build on to a stop until I have enough time to schedule time to hit the LHS (which isn't the easiest thing to do with 3 kids and a wife who works). At least Tamiya paint seems to last forever, I have jars that I saved from when I was building as teenager that are nearly 20 years old that are still perfectly serviceable.

Alright not being a Renault expert, or even a novice, I have a question...are the mechanicals between the two model years not more or less identical? The collaboration between EBBRO and Tamiya to make the Fourgonnette was a new body shell and random pieces by EBBRO all riding a the mechanicals and chassis from the Tamiya kit. Is it possible that Heller is tooling up their 4L, and EBBRO is just releasing their "own" kits with the different model year/open roof and apparently a subsequent utility "van" body kit later on, but all of it riding on the basic mechanical/chassis bits from Heller? That scenario makes a lot more sense since the guy running Heller interned at Tamiya, and the head of EBRRO is a former Tamiya employee. Maximize your tooling investment by sharing costs and creating at least 3 distinct models kits in the process.

That's only part of it...that box in the background is full of cans, although most of them I paid full price for at Advanced Auto. You'd look at it and go "WOW! That's a LOT of paint!"...and yet it'd only paint about 2/3rds of my stash.

Ollies will blow out the 1/4 cans (the ones the same size of the Temporary Paint) usually a couple of times a year for 59 cents a can, the larger ones are $1.59. It happens at random whenever the NAPA Warehouses (the last big batch came out of Denver) wholesale out the previous year's paint lines. Sometimes you go in and there's nothing, other times it's a bonanza, I have something like 130 of those quarter cans. Pretty much 2 cans of every single color I could find, I have more shades of silver and champagne than you can shake a stick at! I tend to break the cash registers when they sell the 1/4 cans because technically you're only allowed to buy something like 15 or 20 of the same item. I pointed out it might be 50 cans, but it's not 25 of the same item, it's 2x each item, and there's still like 15 flats of paints back there waiting for everyone else.

Sedan Deliveries are still available directly from Galaxie Limited. The Aerosedans are Sold Out however. http://www.galaxielimited.com/48chevysedandelivery.htm

Well if you were to look at that list you'd believe that the only two companies in Nuremberg were Airfix and Revell AG... The AG LaFerrari was discussed in the thread about their 2014 releases last month.

MENG is releasing a 1:35 M2A3 Bradley with BUSK III Upgtade this month that's supposed to make every other prior Bradley look like a joke. It's 667!!! parts, and has a full interior and engine/drive train along with three sheets of Photoetch. HLJ has it for $72, proving the military guys pay, they get results.

The box art and decal sheet both show 4x4 markings. It's a Crew Cab, diesel, 4x4! ALSO TWO wheel choices, TWO running board/bar choices, along with the option for a closed bed gate, or open with the tailgate "extender". Take my MONEY!

The info board says something to the effect of (I'm not looking at it right this minute) "In 2008 Ford redesigned the F-350 Super Duty with this that and the other and powered by a diesel engine".

With the bed being a separate runner, I'd bet money on it...and LOOK a window mask for the windshield trim!

Looks like it's 166 parts, that'd hang in there with most big rig kits.