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  1. niteowl7710
    Several people - myself included - got the M.K. '57 Ford Police kit with bad chrome too. In my case half the police parts tree didn't have a shred of plating on it. Hope this isn't a trend...last thing Revell needs is a spate of iffy Q.C. on their last kits of the year.
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    That's why you just use Priority Mail, it's both insured and has tracking. I don't care where my package USED to be, but the tracking can tell me the last time one someone saw it when they do lose it, or damage it in such a way as to render it useless.
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    Well presuming he's up and running, his decals are truly fantastic. I'd drop him an e-mail and double-check, but usually when he's behind on orders he disables the ability to order, and it looks like the "Shopping Cart" is active right now. Jim's a good guy, but he got caught up when the popularity of his decals met some personal relationship issues head on, but to his credit he managed to soldier through the muck either refunding money or providing the product and came out the other side more or less in tact. The Police Car hobby just isn't as big as it was when he started.
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    Well it does say "Latest Shipping Date"...the November releases say 11/26 - next Tuesday, but people CLEARLY gotten their hands on the new Cuda a week before that.
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    Yeah as Jonathan mentions it (well actually BOTH the Volk & Enkei) carries the Scion and Euro-Spec 86GT markings as well as all the of LHD parts to make them. Only fair since the REAL cars are Scions they had to import BACK to Japan since they couldn't get their hands on JDM 86s originally.
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    I believe it's the same car, but the graphics were updated recently to the far more snazzier "stealth" (black on black car) graphics it has now. Shows the extra mile that Aoshima is willing to go, you can build the original decals or the current graphics. Sure beats getting a decal set for a car you can't even build with the contents in the box.
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    The two together are only (I realize to some people it's offensive to say only, but really it's not THAT much) $14.78.
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    Looks like more inventory has come into HLJ, the kit itself and both Detail-Up sets are showing as In-Stock today. All three are now sitting in my "Personal Warehouse" waiting on the remainder of my 2013 Pre-Orders.
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    The photo also don't show how small the tires are, they're like the size of a nickel, but look at that sidewall detail...Aoshima is magical...or a certain American company is cheap and lazy...
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    Not shown in Jonathan's pictures are the P/E Winglets for the Enkei (Red) 86 kit. These were a special for the 1st run of kits, and will not be in subsequent runs (next one is scheduled for January - so it's gonna be a wait till more are available). There are plastic versions identical to the P/E pieces on the runner as seen in the photos.
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    If you recall I was complaining that when the Gloria & Cedric came in, I didn't get a Cedric with my Gloria. Then when the Rocket Bunny kits came in I magically bought a Cedric at the same time. I can't pretend to understand how their inventory works some times...
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    They are brand new tooling (the kits are the same with the exception of the pick-up bed vs. cargo box) representing 2012 Sambars. They are little jewels of a kit too, about 130 parts, 4-5 part engines (nothing opens to see them so it wasn't all out), but the suspension is superb, chassis detail and interior detail are excellent, and there's even Yokohama tire engraving on the tiny (about the size of a Certs) tires. While the subject matter surely isn't up a lot of people's alleys, they show the excellent attention to detail Aoshima is putting in their "run of the mill" kits right now. Y2600 each, with the exchange rate, that's about $26.40...putting them cheaper than the MSRP on new Revell kits.
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    If you had this on Pre-Order at HobbyLink Japan you should be expecting your Purchase Notice any minute. If you didn't pre-order it...gotta wait until the next shipment comes in as this first round is SOLD OUT (as are the P/E and Carbon Fiber decal sets).
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    That's misleading, I slept through the delivery guy yesterday. FedEx "lost" your package at the airport for 24 hours. Still beat you by 5 hours...
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    No sleeping through FedEx today!
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    Slept through the FedEx driver's baby knocks this morning, but this kit which drop shipped via SAL out of HLJ on Halloween showed up today. So even when I'm not getting my HLJ box...I'm still getting my HLJ box!
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    It was the first ever automotive instruction manual for Moebius. It and the Hudson were pretty rough in different ways, but to their credit they've significantly improved with each new release. The ProStar instructions are much more useful, while retaining some of the photos of built assemblies.
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    The only boxes that actually open on the end - that are DESIGNED to open on the end are the Lindberg/Testors '06 Dodge Chargers, and Revell of Germany kits. Some of the box sides have some glue keeping them from opening like the clam shell they are, another useless aspect of those boxes. but none-the-less they really do open if you don't lose your patience and attack them like a rabid beaver.
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    No Austin those late 90's Revell boxes open like a box of a dozen donuts or a pizza box. It's hinged in the back...but once you open them they instantly lose all structural integrity and begin to self-biodegrade. Once you open and close them say 3 times, the side walls blow out and you wind up having to go around a few times with duct tape just to have a "box" like thing to put the parts into...
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    The engine in the Magnum and Challenger are two different sizes, the one in the Magnum being oversized to fit the diecast-based tooling. It might not be a direct "pour the plastic in the diecast tool", but the full-detail Magnum still has the separate rear hatch. Certainly used the same patterns to create the non-scissor door body, and as a result the engine is larger to look the correct size in the diecast patterned engine bay.
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    Couple of things off eBay to add to my Lexus collection. First one I've seen of this since the one popped up here a few days ago - which is the first one I had seen in months. Easy to find the VIP car, but the stock one, not so much. Then I got a Tamiya Lexus LS 400 for an absolute steal. Well I had it at an absolute steal...until the USPS got ahold of it. When my mail lady came up to me and handed me a box that looked like it had been run over by a lawnmower. "Some parts fell out I think, we got it this way"... Inside the box (which was well packed)... Since the kit was unsealed the seller put packing peanuts around the bagged runners...fat lot of good that did BUT there is a bright side. The same seller a few days later got another half dozen Lexus kits consigned to them, and they cracked one open to rob the body. So today a nice body shell showed up. Really a credit to the seller who went above and beyond to fix the problem the USPS created.
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    Uhh no, both sources for the 6.1L Hemi are 1/25, there are discrepancies in engine size between the two because the Magnum was originally a diecast. To avoid the wonky proportion issues, I'd source it out of the Challenger kit.
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    When I lived in the area back in the 1990's my LHS was Trumbull Camera & Hobbies which was out in Howland. They eventually became cameras only around 2000, and then went out of business entirely afterwards.
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    Despite the Monogram box, this was the "modified" reissue of the 1958 Corvette Revell ProModeler tool. So it's the new (well late-90's new) tooling, one piece body. Perhaps it's never been reissued since it was some what of an odd duck (read slow sales) being a new Revell tool, released in 2002, in a Monogram box. Shades of things to come it can be built as a bone stock '59 or has some flame decals and the large diameter wheels -- prelude to the "California Wheels" marketing line of kits.
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    After losing out (as in more than I was willing to pay) on a couple of these earlier in 2013, I managed to find this one by accident trying to describe the box art to someone else. Being the first one I've seen in months, I bid on it on a lark, and committed a little highway robbery in the process as these rarely even start below $20, let alone winning it for less than $15. Still don't understand why this, and the '58 that proceeded it have never been reissued.
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