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The kit is RHD only.

iHobby is about a month or so...let the speculation get turned up to "rampant"

Most U.S. cars have a "Flash-to-Pass" bright light "switch" built into the turn signal stalk these days. Came around about the time that manufacturers stopped putting a dimmer switch on the floor beside the dead pedal. Usually pushing it forward turns the brights on full time, but pulling back will turn them on until you release it...so you just pump it backwards a few times to flash your brights repeatedly. But then most people state-side use that feature to warn traffic that there are cops ahead. One thing I have noticed anyone mention is that several of the drivers in this story were teenagers. Where the hell did they get these cars from? Maybe it comes from not being filthy rich, but if I ever did get enough cash to buy one of those cars my kids wouldn't even be allowed to look at it, let alone drive it anywhere.

September's releases have already been announced, and the Camaro was not among them. This month's Revell releases are the '48 Ford Custom and the reissue of the '59 Impala Convertible. (along with a lot of airplanes). The wait continues...

Ya know there's an old Richard Jeni (Rest in Peace) bit that went something to the effect that everyone needs a English tails-wearing butler in their closet who could leap out at the last second and yell "MIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE" before you do something with disastrous results... We'll play it as it lies because it's your sandbox, but I don't see how turning this forum into a series of giant vacuum bubble is helpful in the long run...

Monty for the record the last paragraph was a generalization of this entire thread, not directly to you personally. I figured that would be fairly obvious since there were no "you's or your's" involved. So while you might travel and rent a lot, I would gamble that most people here (the 95%) don't. If everyone were traveling and renting, the rental car business wouldn't be in so much trouble. I also happen to own a full-size, 4 door, RWD vehicle, and being that it has "Interceptor" in it's model name I would describe it as very zippy thank you. Anyway I have to go find my ADHD medication amongt all these Red Bull cans so I can go play more WoW. I almost have my elf knight mage shaman up to Level 100. Pretty soon I'll be uber l33t. W00T!

While I can certainly share the frustration with Revell's release schedule or rather their lack of adherence to it on some subjects, I don't see where they've canceled any projects in the past 12 months (other than perhaps the U.S. box version of the M-B AMG SLS, which was still available in a RoG box if you were willing to pay the premium price). The much debated and delayed '48 Ford Custom is finally on the website as a September release. I think the question that has to be asked is really do you want it fast, or do you want it more or less correct? (There's never going to be a kit that's perfect in 100% of the eyes that view it) The '48 is a good example of a kit they were having tooling issues with, and the delayed and fiddeled, and while the subject isn't something I plan on getting, I am happy to see Revell taking the attitude of producing kits with some modicum of quality to them, rather than just running things off as quickly and sloppily as possible. That said where's the 2010 Camaro SS?

No my finger-quotes indicate a forest for the trees problem. I can understand why anyone (let alone people specifically enthusiastic about Mustangs) would have gathered outside Ford HQ with torches and pitchforks had they actually passed off the Probe as a Mustang. I can understand some sense of resentment towards Ford for even contemplating it. But man seriously, they came to their senses 23 years ago and never did what you're so angry about. You didn't buy a Probe, and the Probe in no way effected your life, and clearly not the life of the Mustang. I can see being angry with Chrysler for the 80's Charger, or Oldsmobile for the '80's 442 as those actually occurred and "sullied" the name of their originals. I gather your own personal experience is what is driving this since you mention "I and others wrote to Ford", you clearly believe you have a personal stake in the Mustang's survival. In which case I would like to apologize as "I and others wrote AMT demanding a police car" at about the same time and what we got was that abortion of a Taurus SHO "police" car. Even "anger" is a bit much. It's an inanimate object. One that evokes great passion and perhaps nostalgia, but a lump of steel non-the-less. If you don't want to buy a new car, no one (except perhaps the Feds if they had their way) is pointing a gun to your head and frog-marching you to a Toyota dealership. This "2 door, RWD, & V-8" or die mentality that rears it's ugly head on this forum about every 60 days or so when someone re-creates a "The Charger has too many doors" thread is fascinating. It's a like watching a retirement home that's a cross between "On Golden Pond" and "American Graffiti". The amount of "back in the day", "when I was young", "the glory days", "everything new is bad and ugly" is touching, but also irrational. Since it seems 95% of it is based in the fact that any car today simply doesn't "look cool like the '50's/'60's". No one has driven any of the cars they hate, they just hate them because they're foreign, or "too expensive", or not a V-8 (never mind most V-6s today have more power than the V-8s of yore - the KIA my wife wants to buy next has more HP and Torque than the LT-1 Caprice/Impala SS which was the pinnacle of cool and performance for us police car "enthusiasts") or 4 door, or power the "wrong wheels" or all of the above. Having a fun plaything car is great, I've owned several, but when it comes to transporting my wife and two daughters around I'll "settle" for the big, bloated, bells & whistles, safety filled vehicle with the warranty every time.

O.K. I think we all get that point for the 14th time, but that still doesn't explain the fact you still hate a car 23 years later for something that almost didn't happen. That's a mighty long time to hold a grudge against something that never occurred. "Enthusiast" or not...

Alright well this one is 1:24... http://www.hlj.com/product/AOS00072

Now that's a very realistic and highly probable "phantom" you have there Zoli. Excellent job!

Probably would be a decent seller, especially since the Roadster hasn't been out recently as Dave pointed out. Personally I have "-11" interest in this one.

Yeah what Mike posted, I also moved it back to the correct day on the calender. For some reason when the board software was upgraded it moved every calender item backwards one day. Only the original poster of the calender item (or perhaps a Mod *COUGH*) can move them back to the correct day.

If it's anything like that modern 1/25 bus they put out last year it'll run $85-100 over here since I doubt it will get a Revell USA re-box.

WAIT!! WHAT?!?! There are kids in the hobby? Well when did THIS start? We've been told regularly and "reliably" every time someone dares bring up the subject of kids in the hobby that there are no kids, they're all too busy with their xBox and have no patience for modeling. Those kids oughta be ashamed of themselves! (Insert Emoticon indicating thick sarcasm and smug satisfaction verifying that if people left their houses and went to contests they'd know kids are actively involved in this hobby)

I'm sure the 2012 Contest (presuming they follow through with it) will be a completely different automotive genre. Perhaps modern sports cars, perhaps Muscle Cars. Revell has a substantial portfolio of things to choose from to have several years worth of contests without worry of repeating the contest.

I'm sorry but I fail to see the inability to take pictures as making something "unfair". People here and elsewhere spend dozens, if not hundreds of hours per model, and have decades (for us Mid-30's and up members) of building time in, yet aren't willing to spend a few hours figuring out how to use a camera properly. Or for some reason believe their cell phone is a camera. This comes up here constantly and the excuses made are always the same. Frankly I'm sick and tired of people who can wire and plumb an engine, or scratch up major components of their build tell me they can't figure out the basic focus feature of a point and shoot digital camera.

Odd, I always referred to Pilot cars as those guys with amber blinkie lights that block the road when I'm trying to get someplace Well congrats on getting a job, now you have to finish a model for Pittsburgh!

After reading the various horror stories about LHS closings, or surly attitudes, I feel very lucky to have the shop that I have nearby. It's 11 miles (albeit it takes nearly 25 minutes to get there since SW PA is hilly and curvy when you're going cross-county. They only have 3 or 4 guys there, but the owner is really into trains, the 2nd shift guy is really into models, and they have a weekend guy and another who works off and on out of the back doing all the R/C repairs and sales. So the stock is always new in everything, the prices just a bit higher than I would pay from a show vendor, and way less than any of the "box" hobby stores (Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Hobby Town USA). But I do shop online for older kits as well as kits I want to import from Japan. My LHS seems to get everything RoG puts out, and has started carrying Trumpeter and some mainline Tamiya/Aoshima stuff, but it's not as in-depth as I'd like, so it's Hobby Link Japan or eBay to the rescue.

Yeah but if you're collecting for value, (not a builder who buys too much), then what value does your collection have if someone winds up liquidating it? I would presume most people obtain material possessions in hopes that they can pass on this "wealth" to their family. But unlike a house, rare car, or gold bullion, model kit collections seem to be several thousand small pieces only a few dozen of which are actually worth significant money in the end.

The problem with any private collection of anything is of course, you eventually take the big dirt nap and your spouse and/or kid(s) who have no interest whatsoever in whatever it is you were collecting, sell everything at auction or to a large buyer for less than it's "worth" anyway

I think based on that two week shipping window, we shouldn't expect to see the Hudson here till September by the time it takes the slow boat from China (pun intended)... If you want this kit, then it's a good August, otherwise for Revell it's a giant snooze festival. What are the other options, the re-pop of the '32 Ford and Snap-Tite Lamborghini Diablo Round 2 is supposed to kick out the glue kit of the Polar Lights Batmobile and the AMT Tall "T" this month...exciting for some, snoozing again over here for me. Be interesting to see if those LHS that carry RoG products if we can really find the Audi R8 Roadster...and for those of us who can, I'm taking even money bets that at iHobby it will be re-boxed for the U.S. for this winter. They really need to be clearer on what things will and won't get a U.S. box. I don't mind paying the $35 for the RoG box, unless I could have it for $18 in a U.S. box. I am listless this fall...several mainline releases still aren't out, or announced from Revell, bring on iHobby so I have something to look forward to in the Spring

You might want to re-price that internet service, doing a quick search I found Qwest offering it to the town in your profile for $25/mo. Being on the edge of THE major metro area, I doubt DSL is your only option either. However I believe Matt's point is that anytime anyone mentions money around here you seem to chime in with how broke you are. We get it. You can attempt to claim that you don't, but you're the only person here to ever scream at the entire forum that Revell needs to make new tooling, because you can't afford two model kits to combine together - Famously - "What part of that don't you understand?!?!?" Oh well if anyone needs me I'll be pawing through the big box of kits I just imported directly from Japan.

If there is I bet we find out about that in October at iHobby.

Realized I hadn't posted my goodie pictures forever. My wife likes to call these threads on the various boards I belong to the "Heeeeey, Look what IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII got!!" posts. So since the beginning of June I got... Ferrari & T-Bird from LHS, right column from eBay More eBay... Went into Ollie for lightbulbs, left with 26 quarter-cans of DupliColor (and yes the lightbulbs), the paint was 59 CENTS a can! (All of them unopened and unused, I checked...the floor and shelves in the paint section looked like several colorful bombs had gone off) Hobby Lobby Coupon & Everything 30% Off Deal I also have an order from HLJ (Hobby Link Japan) that is clearing customs in Alaska right now...pictures of that when I get home Monday to receive it. Lastly, on 7/11 I FINALLY finished this 9 month long project!