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Minor point of order the Porsche 911 GT3 and the Porsche 911 RSR are two different cars that race in two different classes and series. The RSR is visually larger in dimensions and was more powerful in terms of it's performance vs. it's GT3 cousin.

Nissan raced the "Hakosuka" GT-R in several Japanese Racing Series (1969-1972) most famously the Japanese Grand Prix when that was still a Touring Car race, not an F1 event. In 1972 the Skyline flipped to the next generation (Ken & Mary colloquially) and in 1973 the 2nd Gen GT-R debuted...directly into the Oil Crisis. Only 197 of the factory street cars were made and Nissan pulled out of racing without ever building the car as a racing platform. They did however build a one off Racing Concept Car for the 1972 Tokyo Auto Show with the #73 on it, an indicator of a future that never arrived. In 2007 NiSMO completely restored the original concept car as part of Nissan's Heritage Collection.

Unless they've tossed some P/E at that Lancia it's the same kit that's been available since 1977. Nothing on the little placard says anything about new parts and the Alitalia livery is how the kit was done originally. It was reissued in 2018 with a metal plated body as a limited edition, now it's back with the decals (which I suspect will be missing the tire logos and any other pesky expensive licensing).

Racing "tribute" version. There was no 1973 GT-R race car due to the oil crisis. Nissan built one up as a "what-if" but it never actually ran on track.

The indent is too stark maybe? Hard to judge that sort of detail on a rapid prototype.

Other than new decals I don't believe there's anything *new* about it, just a reissue if the Protar item. It's been out for a few months.

A look at the parts from the Tamiya T.50 Also the parts from the upcoming Belkits Opel Ascona 400

KA Models Mazda Familia Presto sees the light of day again.

As the old joke goes...coming soon...so is Christmas. Which judging by the placard there is actually when this kit will finally come out.

Monthly allotment from HLJ. Not shown the P/E Set for the Volvo. First up some new decals by SMC to create some of the Heritage Edition Ford GTs (Tamiya). There are also wheels to go along with these but of course they didn't show up until the day after I shipped this stuff... Kits

Yeah they were closed for a good while during Covid and then owing to Singapore's stringent regulations on outsides entering the Island there was no mail service for an even longer time. But with HLJ in another one of their spats with Studio27 they aren't carrying the Z Carbon or the reissued TA64 Logo Sheet. 1999 wanted $30+ to DHL me those two decal sheets (which cost less than $30 to begin with) and the shipping from Media Mix was less than $10. They had the 3 ST165 filler sheets in stock too so I took a flyer on putting in the order. They only ship out once a week (on Mondays), but once it was shipped I got it in a week. Happy to be able to add them back into the rotation.

First order back into one of my previous favorite vendor pre-pandemic. Media Mix Hobbies out of Singapore provided these. They are the 3 ST165 Celicas (89/90/91) and the Safari Rally version of the TA64 Celica which are early Beemax kits. These fill in the missing Marlboro logos on those 4 kits (this was before BeeMaNuNu started putting those items into the Detail Up Sets). Also lurking in the back is the Carbon Fiber for the Tamiya 2022 Nissan Z.

Not the most accurate example since the OBS kits are being cloned off the promos and those were done 3rd Party for AMT back then and they didn't have access to the tooling to just re-release them otherwise. There's also the inherent problems even with cloning a 90s era tool parts into a 60/70s era long gone body of making everything play nice and fit together. See Full Bumper 70.5 Camaro, See retooling of the stock front end of the AMC Gremlin. Etc.

Interesting choice on that design. The 5th wheel is in the closed and locked position which would be accurate if you can fit the trailer's king pin down inside the space provided. But if you don't have a trailer hooked you might want to consider taking it in for servicing since it should close/lock on it's own volition.

Isn't it just the Daisy Dukes Jeep minus the verboten branding? I've honestly never seen the inside of the Daisy Jeep to know if the "up top" was part of that kit or not, but it's back in this one - along with the 1981 box art.

Yeah exactly, otherwise it's Round2 trashing half a kit into the recycling bin to provide the Duster chassis and drivetrain into a remastered Demon body and interior. Presuming those two things would even fit together without a bunch of tweaking and/or making the customer trim things themselves ala the 70 Super Bee and it's old body/interior - new chassis kit.

Okey was at NNL East where he plastered everything he could find, including the bathroom wall (which I found a fitting statement on JoHan under his guidance) touting the Powell and supposed test shots of the AMC AMX and when I went by his table there was a whole pile of bupkiss. I saw no AMXes of any sort, no Powells unless he managed to sell his entire supply in the first 10 minutes, and instead it was just the random odds and sods of parts he's always trying to move. Although there were a couple of 3D printed engines floating around. But there was no evidence of this grand revival, and certainly not enough to justify wallpapering the facility with 2 dozen fliers.

If I recall correctly the back of the box shows it having a parts count under 40, so I suspect you're getting it as the Craftsman "unassembled promo" type kit it's always been with nothing additional other than some new decals.

One thing not mentioned in the TamiyaUSA information is the release date, which according to the Tamiya Japan version of this is going to be August. That's a bit later than I would have expected, but I guess with the new "gimmicks" of rotors & calipers being separated and the multi-slide molded "hollow" coil-over springs tooling production has run a little longer.

The 2018 Season for the Factory Teams that ran the GTE cars in FIA/WEC and IMSA were all throwbacks to earlier paint schemes. The team car to this was a de-tobacco'd Rothman's livery, the IMSA team ran the 1998 911 GT1 scheme at Petit Lemans (Road Atlanta).

Now would be the time to criticize it and get it corrected before it gets committed in tooling steel for all of eternity.

I know this isn't a BMW...but they just dropped this little nugget. Final test shots and approved box art for the long overdue 2018 911 RSR.

I'm well old enough to know that. Sure they were decent model kits...for the time. But I'm going to say that there's not a soul alive today who's going to run out and buy one of the Lindberg repops of any kit they did in their military lines over any sort of modern alternative unless they were *specifically* going for a nostalgia build.