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No MRC was just an importer, primarily for Fujimi items in it's heyday. Those Aoshima "Cragers" are a BIG and little set from their...unique...take on the concept of what a Hot Fod is/was

They were originally with Round2 from when they purchased Lindberg, but Round2 later sold a bunch of the really ancient and odd ball tooling onto Atlantis which was the original point of this thread when it was started 2 1/2 yrs ago.

Pretty sure that's Gary Kulchuck's. It's a Meyer Manx with a metric ton of modifications, scratch-building, and kit bashing involved and it's "powered" by the engine out of a Tamiya 1st Gen NSX. It's really quite something to see in person, one of those models you can look at all day and keep finding new things.

On the Hearns Hobbies site listed in the first post the Shipping to Pennsylvania (and I suspect most of the U.S.) is $30 AUS, which is $19.72. Total cost to ship one kit is $99.98AUS which is roughly $65-68 depending on what kind of exchange rate your credit card or PayPal feels like giving you on a given day. AUS to USD is roughly 66 AUS cents to a USD at the moment.

They appear to be Holden HQs which were made between 1971-1974, with 1973 being the first year a 4 door Monaro GTS existed. In 1975 the line was facelifted into the HJ Generation and those have a different front and rear fascia compared to the model kit.

What do the back door windows look like? One of the visual oddities about this kit and it's "now in plastic" format is the front door window trim is molded with the doors since they previously opened on the diecast. I'm wondering if the rear door glass has a robust enough trim around it to actually be able to paint it body color.

Steve already mentioned in the thread about those kits that they are not in any sort of near term plan.

The roof rail is being remedied on the Camaro, but it's there on the Ford and obviously the Camry. The three bodies have three different body tools. They didn't just slap different front and rear inserts into the Camaro as both the Ford & Toyota have completely different body side style lines as well.

Jay Savarese is building all of SJR's "promotional" (eg used for their advertising and inclusion as built examples on NASCAR's website, Fanatics, etc), he has one of the test shot bodies, shot it in primer and mounted it to the chassis.

$47 before shipping is higher than anyone else's price for a new kit short of one of the crazy top-end Tamiya kits (Enzo, FXX-K, LFA, etc), Belkits (and now DModelkits) Rally offerings, and the MSRP on Salvinos JR. All of those things being brand new tool (at the time) highly detailed plastic kits. Not a - oh well let's run plastic through it and see what happens - recycling of a diecast tooling. We all know what the Revell "dual use" kits are, and I don't think anyone around here actually appreciated the results of those kits in terms of fit, assembly, and body shell properties. I'm fully for the subject matter, give me cool Holdens & Ford Falcons, et al. But it's 2023, I expect 2023 or there abouts quality in something that costs that much. I'd happily pay $55-60 for one that fits the bill.

Delete.

These were discussed several months ago when they were initially announced. They're just plastic versions of their diecast line, so it's not so much a quick build as it is the simplified (and usually quirky, if not outright bad) result of pouring styrene through a diecast mold. You usually wind up with very thick parts and bodies that are "slab sided" since the molds are designed to hold the thicker more viscous liquid metal than plastic. It's interesting subject matter, but I can't see paying their asking price for what I see in that video, particularly when these aren't new molds, just re-purposing existing already paid for tooling.

Who is they?

It probably will be molded in black, but it was stated again last night on their live stream that the entire car is covered in decals top to bottom and side to side. There will be no part (allegedly) that isn't covered by the wrap. I also don't expect them to really follow up on the vinyl wrap idea anytime soon.

The entire Truex Jr. car is a wrap, not sure what color they're going to mold it in yet, but to quote Rick - "There's not even a 32nd of an inch on that car that isn't a decal".

Alright I meant to do this earlier this month, but this forum is now all but useless to me when I try to access it from my phone. The reply box goes haywire and won't let me type if I'm quoting someone, and randomly adds spaces to the posts when I've never hit return to start a new paragraph. So this is a bit redundant at this point, but hey I made this thread, so I can dub myself relevant. ? February 2023 Company-wide price increase on the MSRP to $49.95. The Blaney 2023 Mustang is the first kit this actually effects going forward as most reputable places wouldn't raise their already existing shelf prices on "dead stock". But re-stocks of older kits in the future would reflect the increase. Next Gen cars will be MSRP'd to reflect the cost of decals individually. Cartograf has effectively doubled their price - to everyone, not just SJR - and those costs will be at least partially passed on in kits that require extensive "wrap" style decal sheets. All 2023 Kits going forward (starting with the Blaney Mustang) will now have a dashboard and electronics box included in the kits. Kits this month are the 2022 Mustangs for Austin Cindric's Daytona 500 Win, Joey Logano's Championship, and the 2023 Ryan Blaney Menards/Duracell Primary Livery.

Sure but the original question was about it being offered on their own website, not retail in general. With the increase of MSRP to $49.95 that took place last week, if you're buying the kits directly from them you might as well join the Kit Club at that point since they didn't get that increase passed along to them - membership having it's "priveledge" and all of that. You can always flip the stuff you don't want, since you have it 1-2 weeks before it hits store shelves and someone will always want to be first.

It was shipped for club members earlier this week, probably would have been out this month if February had a normal amount of days in it.

I know, but to me (at least) it looks like the brighter, more vibrant yellow that Pennzoil sponsored cars have been over the years when you compare it to the "Shell Yellow" that was traditionally used in their Red/Yellow schemes. At this time there is no licensing agreement with RFK, the only Ford team currently licensed is Penske. It's possible more may be coming in the future, but even then there's no surety which livery would be decided on to be produced. If you're talking about the 2022 Gearwrench car that Powerslide is going to do, skip the yellow plastic and buy the Austin Cindric kit - that will be molded in white. For 2023 liveries, again the Cindric car will be molded in white.

It is Pennzoil yellow.

Most of the time no. Not with any ease anyways. The older tooling is not at all designed to be modular, so you would most likely have to run the entire rest of the 74 kit to get the parts you'd want to borrow. That's a huge waste of time and plastic since it's an entire process to take out a tooling and re-rack in another one to make a singular item.

They aren't spec engines like say Super GT or something, but for the most part there are only one or two places making engines for each manufacturer and everyone else buys engines from those shops. Externally they are more or less the same, the main differences being how the air intakes attach, and SJR did address those changes between all three kits.

I like the bit about curbside entries not being allowed to have visible engines...so what all the 60 part Fujimi Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and anything else with an "engine window" gets kicked over into Factory Stock to play with the full detail builds? I wouldn't necessarily worry about the "must have a number" on drag racing as that is it's own sub-category in Competiton.

The only stock parts that were "restored" to the kit are the wheels and the rear bumper, otherwise it's the same kit as it ran in the last several reissues as a custom lowered SIlverado.

Isn't the MPC '68 GTO Annual kit what was updated through the years and now sits as the heap of a '72 GTO? Is that what you want for an engine and chassis? ?