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USPS Rates are based on the distance the item travels in addition to its dimensions and weight though. Shipping a single kit in the Zones near me on the Eastern Seaboard will cost under $7 (using wholesale rates), but that same kit will cost nearly $12 to ship into the Rockies, and nearly $14 to go the whole way to the West Coast. Using Ground might knock $2-3 off a full-on West Coast shipment, but that's still around $11.97 for one U.S. shoebox sized model kit. Those are the wholesale discount rates, if you walked into your local Post Office and shipped it OTC (Over the Counter) you're going to pay an additional on top, so that West Coast box will cost $18.05!

Come on Dan, you live in Arizona...so you know it snows quite a bit up North, ergo the need for ski resorts. You wouldn't take a Charger off-road - albeit don't tell that to the Arkansas State Police - regardless of the drivetrain configuration, but AWD Chargers are for winter weather, not running around in OHV Pursuits. It would make sense for DPS to have AWD Chargers as a standard fleet order so you wouldn't have to worry about where you're assigning them out of fleet maintenance. Georgia tried to run a split fleet and keep the AWD units North of Atlanta where it snows regularly, and it's been somewhat of a mess trying to keep AWD spares available. There has always been a limited number of the AWD specific transmissions available per year, and if you didn't order your new cars early enough you didn't get AWD Chargers that year. Also, earlier AWD Chargers on the older (Pre-2015 facelift) cars didn't have a specific AWD rim. It was the 2015+ cars that got bigger brakes that necessitated a different rim package than the RWD cars which continued to use the same brake size (and rims) from the 2006+ cars.

You'd have to do a printing of the hood decals all by themselves included as a separate sheet from the rest of the decals. There's no technical way to "spray" a decal sheet with two different types of clear coat when its screen printed like you're suggesting.

The wheels in the picture you took are the AWD specific steel wheels, they're the second wheel option to the AWD dress hubcaps are supposed to be in the box too. The kit itself is still RWD...not a total deal breaker for me as nobody is going to flip the model over and demand to examine the front drivetrain. Steve mentioned here in the past that they might consider doing a 2nd release that would have the RWD steel wheels & dress hubcaps.

I believe that stems mostly from the fact that the last time the kit tooling had been run it was done as the Flareside and so when they loaded it up on the machine and pressed play it spit out exactly what was loaded into the inserts from the last time. The only difference in the short-bed accessory insert (between the Flareside & Lightning beds) is the width of the tail gate. Nobody in China would necessarily know one tail gate from another in an American Truck that was 30+ years old.

I'd presume it's a reissue of the one-time only Street Machine version of the 90s tool 1960 Fleetside. Don't believe this has ever been offered again after the 1999 release.

Another couple of items received I forgot to add. Several of the new S.K. Decals sheets for the NuNu BMW 320i (2008) kit.

The Cannuck one to the North. I was watching one at one of my usual suspects once Alpha themselves run out and of course someone bought it out from under me over the weekend when I went to grab it on a Monday.

Also arriving in today's mail. This required a cross border international incident to acquire, as once the run of 100 pcs sells out they become instant unobtanoum.

Few more things trickled into my dungeon from HLJ. The J. Ferie can be built as a LHD Infiniti J30.

But the mold "stealing" the employees did when they weren't paid took place back in the mid-late 70s when John Handley still ran the company. It's the reason all the subsequent Golden Oldies kits came out missing all of the "flat box" additional parts and often times the wrong later interiors in earlier versions of the same car.

Makes sense, the only stock part the BTTF kit doesn't seem to carry is the rear window/hatch area. Otherwise everything else that makes it the time machine is molded separately in the new BTTF kit which should be released in April.

It's the same kit, pretty sure Doyusha wound up with all (or almost all) of the old LS molds. They reissue the stuff on a very irregular basis, but they're still in business.

HL has 1,001 stores. Also not every Wal*Mart carried models, only the locations that have a proven track record of moving units in past years. Every time Wally tries to expand the selection to a broader base of stores they wind up supplying Ollie's with a truckload of "unsaleable" product - as seen earlier this year when the 2023 Christmas Displays were liquidated.

Seems reasonable to ban that stuff to me. I thought the point of Cars & Coffee was to show off unique high end stuff and eclectic classic cars? At least locally that was always what was allowed to park at the actual venue. Kinda loses it's point when any 25 yr old redneck with a Shelby Mustang his daddy bought him can be part of the show. There's enough of that sort of thing at the local county parks on summer weeknights.

Jo-Han operated almost solely (Gold Cup kits of 30s era cars excepted) on Promo contracts from the Big 3 and the release of those annual promos as model kits. When the promo contracts went away in the early 70s, so did Jo-Han. Royalties didn't exist back then like they do now, considering Jo-Han was being paid to produce the products in the first place on the promo side. The later Golden Oldies kits are in a slew of...unique...colors because Seville was a 1:1 Car Part Supplier, so they shot the kits in whatever color plastic they had lying around from their main production lines.

Correct, but they don't have to "release" the Gasser version of the Custom as it would just be a re-stock run and those are not bandied about as a "Coming Soon" product. They just show up on the shelf, back in stock.

The Revell Skill Level thing was changed many years ago to align the 3 Level North American one with the 5 Level European one. The Levels are now - 1 - Entry Level SnapTite - Build N Play Kits 2 - Snap Tite Kits 3 - Pre Painted Glue Kits (which I guess are now relegated to history) 4 - Any Glue Kit Under 100 Pieces 5 - Any Glue Kit Over 100 Pieces

Does the '40 Ford Sedan Gasser kit have the 1939 parts in it? Otherwise the 39/40 kit hasn't been out in 21 years.

As usual this is all a month behind/ahead, so the March kits are the 68 Coronet H/T and 2021 Charger Pursuit. This stuff won't be out until April.

Sooooo...this is a thread about old fart Americans not liking things done in Japan to VIP style cars? The cars are on air suspensions fellas, they lose the ridiculous camber when they're at normal ride heights. It's no different than any other "bagged" car done in the good Ole U.S. of A where the point is to drag the car as low as possible when you're showing it off. Nobody says you have to like it. Nobody from the Government is going to force you to slamber your daily driver... This forum really will find nearly anything to complain about, sheesh go build a model...

I don't believe this kit was ever released into Japan back in 2019 with the crazy sideways situation Revell was in a year after the Hobbico implosion. Hasegawa is still Revell's importer in Japan and they wouldn't be advertising something that doesn't exist, so it's quite possible another run of the kit is planned for when the modified reissue of the 1957 Del Rio (Hidden Valley) Ranch Wagon is being run considering how many parts are shared between the two kits. Given that box art is the "current" one (as seen in 2019) it wouldn't get a whole lot of hoopla about it being a big official reissue of they're just making another production run of it to restock distributors.

The only version of that Kyle Petty Grand Prix that ever existed was an AMT kit done back in 1983. From my experience you don't want any part of those early AMT stock cars, not to mention it would be the wrong scale compared to all of the Monogram 80s kits. The $50+ is the MSRP, the real shelf price is somewhere in the $42-44 price. Cheapest early 80s era Monogram Grand Prix on eBay right now runs $30 shipped and you'd still be on the hook for another $12+ shipping to get the KP 7/11 decals off Powerslide...so that's $42-44. Show prices of those old kits gas risen as well since $25 for one of those old Monogram kits is now half the price of a new one. Those sub-$10 prices are gone for now.

That kit was produced at recently as 1997 by what would have been the Craft House ownership of Lindberg. So unless Round2 sold those molds as part of their old junk clean out they did to Atlantis that stuff should still be with them.

I suppose there's vague value in - If this guy can do it, anyone can...if his work wasn't being used in advertising.