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I forgot about this one, I made this back in March after the real LaFerrari reveal. See I can predict model kit releases!

Correct to both yourself and Rob. It's almost time to start reckless speculation about the next batch of new kits, when we haven't even gotten all of the last batch of reckless speculated upon kits yet

Welcome back to the fray Patrick. If you want your mind blown (and perhaps a talking to from the wife) don't forget the Three Rivers Auto Modelers show is coming up Sept 29th one town over in Castle Shannon.

Oh I know, I'm just sayin'...I've been to NNL East, and it's bigger - at least in floor space and models on display, ironically I spent the least of any show I've gone to in the past 3-4 years there. 3RAM continues to soldier on for what has to be close to 25 years, as I went when I was in my late teens, and that's around 20 years ago.

Still the biggest regional show around, as I don't think NJ being 7+ hours away puts it in the same region as Pittsburgh.

I don't remember what the first thing I purchased was, but I remember that I was in a hotel room after being Best Man in my best friend's wedding. Back in 1998 before I had a laptop, and WiFi was ubiquitous, this hotel had a little computer "terminal" (flat screen monitor and keyboard with touchpad) mounted into the wall as a desk. I'm not a drinker and my significant other at the time couldn't/wouldn't come all the way to Philadelphia (from Cleveland at the time), so I was bored and wide awake at 1:00am so I figured I'd look up this whole "eBay" thing.

Well seeing as how it's not showing on the MPC/Round 2 page, I'd say it'll be into 2014 before it sees the light of day.

I see what you did there Erik, but it's not quite in the tradition of that meme...so I fixed it

Just as an FYI it's not a variation of the Toyota Aristo (well kit-wise it is, I believe the Aristo came before the Lexus release-wise), but that IS a Toyota Aristo. The Lexus GS400 kits were LHD as the Lexus GS wasn't sold in Japan, it was the Toyota Aristo over there. The Lexus kit only includes the LHD parts, and you're sporting a RHD interior.

The Aoshima kits, particularly the ones with the engine, so thoroughly stomp the Tamiya kit in every way conceivable, it's not even worth bothering IMHO.

Well the engine isn't the problem. Yenko did indeed post-factory install the engine represented as discussed earlier. What made it wrong was the incorrect seats, wheels, and SS-Trim. All of which you can fix by swapping out those parts for the bench seat, non-SS trim and steel wheels & poverty caps from the phantom Nova kit. Put the Yenko "spare" parts BACK into the "COPO" Nova and you magically have a SS396 Nova since there's no external difference in the engines (at least that would be significant in scale). The real intrigue of the past decade of modeling is whether Revell had ALWAYS intended the Yenko be wrong, and ALWAYS had a fake COPO Nova planned, or whether the latter was the result of ensuing backlash about the Yenko parts being incorrect - not to mention the problems with the gas tank being backwards. From everyone I've ever spoken to who actually worked for Revell or AMT/Ertl, or Aoshima - not magical, mythical hobby insiders in their own minds - these companies know what their going to do for years in advance, and have firm kit plans going 18-24 months into the future. So was the phantom COPO Nova the best solution to fixing the Yenko parts problem, that also help amortize the overall Nova tooling costs while just flying over the radar of people who aren't into cars and don't know/care about a factory 427 Nova, and provided the necessary wheels and hubcaps for the ZL-1 Camaro? Or did they always intend to do things the way they happened? If it wasn't a "happy accident" then there's an entire cultural issue in Elk Grove Village...

Well I believe as was mentioned earlier they weren't going to import (or import very few) of the Revell Germany versions of it to the U.S. The Revell US part of Hobby Shipper still shows it as pending. Interestingly enough Tower Hobbies doesn't even have a listing for it on the Revell Germany side at all, only on the Revell U.S. side. That would seem to eliminate the possibility for your LHS to order it, and well frankly I stopped buying the reboxed kits because Revell Germany doesn't mold their kits to be crammed into our North American boxes and I got tired of getting $27 worth of warped and broken plastic.

Seeing that the wheel painting was going to take place a couple of days ago, this might come too late, but Tamiya gave advice for replicating the alternating silver and black of the wheels here (page is for the Toyota 86, but the BRZ has the same wheels) http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/24323toyota86/index.htm The same technique would also work for the wheels in the Aoshima kits should you find yourself getting into a "Boxer Twins" building frenzy - with 6 kits out there, and three more pending these may be the most kitted vehicles in recent history.

If you can find some Tamiya white primer, go that route, the yellow will be a great deal brighter over a white base than gray.

What you do is take the bench seat, non SS grill & valance, flat hood, steelies and poverty caps out of the COPO Nova. Go buy a Yenko Nova, take out the SS grill and valance, wheels, bucket seats, and hood. Swap parts from COPO into Yenko and vice-versa. NOW you have an accurate Yenko Nova and an accurate SS396 Nova. Now why Revell didn't just do that in the FIRST place remains the great unknown. Other than the part where they made you buy two kits and swap parts just so you can build...two kits...

I'm thinking he means it in a more existential big picture learning, like spatial reality, problem solving, ability to read schematics and understanding assembly, and the ability to think in three dimensions. None of it is going to make your SAT scores higher per se, but there are some life skills in there that are handy to have. Especially considering the fact that the knock-down furniture they sell these days tends to have "instructions" that look like they were scrawled on the back of a cocktail napkin after Happy Hour without a word of English to be found.

The possible reason the paint didn't come out the right color is that Tamiya Mica paints have to be put over a base coat of gloss aluminum TS-17, painting it over just primer causes the flat blah you've come up with here. The Micas (there are a whole slew of them) are sort of a tinted metallic rather than an actual paint color.

I started building "real" (read glue) models when I was 8, but it was my mid-teens before I could convince my parents to drive me to a show/contest. Even then it was only after I actually turned out to be "good" (or perhaps lucky) enough to win something that they would take me to a couple of local shows. There was only a two-three year window when I had a license and a car that I could go to any show I wanted to before real life, real cars and girls took over and I managed to only get to the NNL in Toledo as it was the closest show I knew about living in Cleveland. Getting my parents to take me to the NNL when I was 16 was an epic battle that in. the end I won (we went), but I remember being at the toy show the next day totally broke (as a 16 yr old would be) . It would take from 2000 until 2006 before I went to another show, and only in the past 3 years have I regularly gone to the same docket of shows annually.

If it were to become popular - hey look at how many streams there are of people playing World of Warcraft, there are people who with sponsorships and channel fees play WoW live as their JOB - You'd probably be able to sand a model every time. If the olds adage about having an entirely new audience at every commercial break is true, for every group of people who would focus on their own build, or go use the facilities and make a sandwich, an equal number of people would want to know why you were doing that, and you'd have to re-explain why and how to remove mold lines.

I think one of the big questions is..."How many of you guys who are retired/getting close to retirement got your kids into modeling?" Because those people are the tai lend of Gen X, and most of Gen Y. We are the ones that finally have a house, and stabile careers/finances and represent the ongoing "wave" of people experiencing the "Getting back into the hobby" bug this decade. How many late 20's-mid 30's guys rejoin the "party" going forward will determine the overall health of things in 2023. The millenials...they got shafted by the rise of Social Media and the fact their parents would have built models during the 70's (shivers). I think a lot us who have kids still too young to be school age have seen the plague if cell phones and Facebook and are silently resolving to ourselves that OUR kids ain't getting a phone at 10 years old. Our generation is also having more kids per capita since the baby boomers, and a great many of them will be introduced into the hobby in the next 10 years as well.

Unless you were streaming a group taking part in the Annual 24 Hr Build, I'm not sure exactly how interesting watching you (or anyone) build a model would be. You're probably talking 40 hours of video, and unless you can really make interesting small talk, that's a lot of dead air quite literally watching paint dry.

This Rosso version appears to be the same as the original Reventon kit except either molded or pre-painted in Red. Cheaper? Beside the probably removed P/E it's also probably because the tooling is a little more paid for this time around as is the licensing.

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Yes exactly the sales development force sits in a basement lair in Bentonville twirling their collective mustaches Snidely Whiplash style...who should we run out of business this week boys and girls? Nyeh heh haaaa!!! I don't believe anyone who says they've NEVER set foot in a Wal*Mart. If you've never EVER been in one, what can one possibly base their person opinion on? The second hand anecdotes of others? People complaining in the media to further their cause of choice? I've yet to see Wal*Mart employees put on flak jackets and riot helmets and round up the town and force march them into the store and then hold them at gun point until they left with shopping carts chocked full of merchandise Why is it that no thread about this store can be discussed here for the informational purposes it's designed for - "IF you're interested, some Wal*Marts sell models at $20" without it devolving into a shouting competition about who hates Wal*Mart the most? I don't build drag racing models, but I don't see the need to go into each thread in that section and scream "I WOULDN'T BUILD THAT KIT IF YOU PAID ME TO!!!!!"