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Both the Cougar and Nova should be out later this month.

Licensing tends to run on three year terms, and that kit was produced in 2020, so the licensing is up. Sales of the kit vs. the cost of a future renewal would dictate whether it's ever reissued as the TV car in the future.

The police cars would have also been Biscayne trim level for the majority as well.

That VW Type 3 changes scale every time it gets reissued. Half the boxes say 1/25, half of them - including the most recent reissue last year - say 1/24.

Even faster, that kit came out 14 years ago.

Presuming the displays are quality well made items, you're probably not charging enough for them given $500 works out to $12.50/hr for 40 hours of work and wouldn't take into account the materials involved. My earlier comment - that Chuck recently quoted in his post that got all of this started - is I don't see the point of re-selling a JF resin item, even with "value added" for a nominally lower price of $100 + Shipping (which means $110-115, we're quibbling over 5 bucks) and slapping a "Jo-Han" label on it seems...weird. It's not something that was ever a Jo-Han product. I could totally see the point of offering a resin version of an actual Jo-Han kit offering, especially if it were improved with 3D printed parts. But some random truck for the funnsies tying up an old name for Nostalgia FOMO sakes? Color me unimpressed with the business model...

I wouldn't expect it until late this year if it makes 2024 at all. The C8 Corvette would be the next new tool kit that needs to be released.

If you want to further muddy those waters AMT *did* make a 4 Door Blazer as part of the SnapFast Plus "unassembled promo" series of kits. That entire kit series is an interesting set of "why not just make regular models of that?" business decisions. Especially considering the fact that those trucks - Dually Dodge, 2500 Silverado, this Blazer and Tahoe tend to be the most sought after since they fall under the whole "Made for AMT, not by AMT." so they can't be reissued. In real time the SFP kits probably sold in orders of magnitude less than the glue kits because even in 2024 Snap kits are looked down on as toys regardless to the part count. That doesn't even get into the static Round2 gets over the current situation Craftsmen Plus subjects being curbside.

The Asphalt Modified Wes had made with SJR doing the production was a ground up new project. If you made a new tool of any subject JoHan did, it wouldn't be a JoHan kit anymore...

Scooped up the one Ferrari kit I was missing from the previously issued kits.

Well you got a response from them directly on their FB page over this...they seem a might unhappy with your opinions.

I believe Watermark went in and out of business in 1996. I have a couple of the Canadian Police Car sheets they did, but there was never follow up production to anything after that.

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.