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Wandered around SprayGunner after they weren't carrying this airbrush (or had sold out of it by the time I got around to look) at the IPMS Nationals. Turns out it was on sale on their website so I grabbed it. Now have dualling triggers in two needle sizes (top one is a PS-290 in .5mm)

I'm guessing it will magicly not be a SnapTite kit anymore the way the '81 Camaro was marketed. Toss some decals at it and Bob's your Uncle. I'm kinda surprised they kept the tooling for it to be honest.

Unless something completely falls apart I'd expect this "RCR #3" kit to be the only one released without his name attached. With name rights and their kit lineup they can do a plethora of offerings from his rookie Dodge Charger up through at least the Lumina years. There was an entire scheduling conflict with Italian summer holidays (Cartograf) that went alongside the negotiations with DEI for the naming rights and a decision was made to proceed with the kit as is and no-named to not throw the entire 3rd & 4th Quarter Historic line up into discombobulation. Those Historic kits are what the Club gets as their "Kit of the Month" and have to be pre-planned in advance so that the decal runs match up with the production schedules. As for the pricing, keep in mind that the SJR website is selling at full retail MSRP. I'd expect the IndyCars to be in the mid $60s on the shelf (presuming the usual 20% below MSRP most places price their kits at).

Fiat (aka Stellantis, aka Chrysler) is licensed through IMG (of the sports licensing and sports academy fame) when it comes to their plastic models.

The link is to Donn's FB page where several people local to him have made contact with him this evening and he is very much still amongst the living. The Obit posted earlier is some sort of AI generated hoax/scam which a simple 30 seconds looking at - and comparing it to any real obituary anyone had ever read in their life - should have set off alarm bells of sketchy suspiciousness. Also anyone that ever knew Donn knows he's quite the larger than life personality...I mean he played videos of himself on TVs at Hobby Shows vendor tables for the better part of a decade. That he would slide off this earth 3 months ago and no one would have noticed is frankly impossible.

FedEx stopped by with the monthly HLJ haul...not shown some decals for R32 GT-R JTCCs and the 5 Detail Up Sets for the Audis

I'll argue til I'm in the ground that the Eclipse would have sold more kits by magnitudes if it were a factory stock kit that came with pieces for a body kit rather than the permanently "Tuner" version with the body kit molded "on"...

I'd argue that's partially because neither the AMT or Monogram kits were particularly easy to build, nor were either at all accurate. Both AMT & Monogram kits were also the wrong scale for then existing open wheel kits on the market as well. Part of what doomed the "Tuner" line that Revell did was that it was 1/25 in a world of 1/24 Japanese kits and tuner accessories. Much like the NextGen NASCAR kits, SJR is getting the Spec Car CAD files directly from IndyCar. So accuracy shouldn't be a concern this go around.

Nobody has ever complained (at least that I've noticed) that all the NextGen kits are 1/24...but their new tool vintage NASCAR kits are 1/25. Their theory being Monogram had reset the scale in the 1980s, but their vintage kits will be the same scale as the old AMT & MPC kits of the 60s/70s. Suffice to say I think more people will be happy than not about the scale when the next batch of information comes out that will be a bit more indepth.

The two big shows in Indy happen in April (IPMS) and October (Circle City Modelers).

Some new decals and an Evo Transkit from LB Production. Should have come with wheels for the M1, but we'll get that straightened out on the next order. The Porsche decal sheet comes with a 3D printed whale tail - fits the BeeMaNuNu 935 K2 kits. At this point I own pretty much all of the AMG Evo transkits available on the market and LB's wins hands down for easy of use and near drop fit straight out of the box. If you're interested in Evo liveries LB has two others for sale right now and 5 more coming. SK has 5 of their own coming soon and more in the planning stages later.

The who, whats and whens will come later as this was intentionally vague to gin up interest and speculation. But this is real and is being done directly in conjunction with IndyCar and IMS. Kit is in the design phase right now based on "factory" CAD data supplied by IndyCar.

The James Bond kit should be out before the end of the year. Any future releases would be "rumors" at the moment as none of them are official right now. Maybe the Late Fall Detroit Show, otherwise probably have to wait until the annual RevellAG January 1st announcement slate.

There is/was a show in Elida, Ohio that happens in the middle of August, but other than that most of the Fall Show Season in that neck of the woods starts in Mid-September and ends with the Cleveland IPMS Show on the first Sunday of November.

Anything that came in those Checkerboard boxes were sold exclusively (at the time) at Wal*Mart. Most all of those pre-painted kit have a boxing as "CustomShop" that was red, and then the Wal*Mart "ProShop" checkerboard boxes which I believe actually had more kits total in the line than the non-Wally World series did.

If you purchased the kit 4 months ago, then you bought it on pre-order. Chris has a brick and mortar store in Southern Indiana just above Louisville, along with the mail order business and vending at shows. So it's not some fly by night operation. I can't speak to the shipping snafu as a PO Box should have been shook off by the UPS shipping software.

No he meant on the real car, were the accents gloss or matte? AS-12 is "Bare Metal", it's what Tamiya suggests painting "Natural Metal Finish" P-51 Mustangs in...

Where does Scalemates say that it was reissued in 1994? There's a double entry of the kit which both say 1974. Unless someone went in there and edited it since this thread started 7 hours ago. As for the kit it wouldn't surprise me if Atlantis has it, and the only way it would reappear is if Atlantis has it since they have the Tom Daniel license.

Cause that would have made their $1.69 kit closer to $3 and Armageddon would have ensued...obviously. I mean just a few posts ago there was a celebration about additional exhaust parts in a 56 yr old kit being a "win". (No offense, just making a point)

I have one of these on pre-order at HLJ (Japan isn't getting it until August), but if TamiyaUSA is selling them for a decent price at IPMS Nats in a few days I might grab one there instead.

There already is a 2019 Spec NuNu kit as well. Came out over a year ago. I do not understand what the point of this kit is...other than having an opening door and deck lid gimmick. None of my contacts overseas seem to understand the thinking behind this release either as it's an exact duplicate (albeit perhaps more detailed - since this is all CAD imaging) of an existing kit that was popular enough NuNu sold out of it. They could at least do a 2021-2023 Evo II Spec which would eliminate the need to source resin/3D print conversion parts for the NuNu item. Or do a kit of any of about a half dozen other gaps in GT3 cars that haven't ever been done by anyone.

Why am I not at all surprised his showdown involves 82 different cans of patio furniture paint? One of these is for models, the other ones make your Ollie's Plastic Adirondack Chaise Lounge silver...

Ran out to the LHS since the '71 came in...