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No I'm saying the kit which is the flareside "Street Custom" pickup which the box art was shown in the previous page of this thread has been around in that format since at least the 80s - the kit goes back into the 70s - is most certainly not the factory stock longbed that is shown in their "ShutterStock" stock photo they decided to use. Also when the kit came out it was branded a 1978, it's magicly lost two years over the course of time and became a 1976.

Unfortunately most of it is driver error. These days almost no one has actually driven a vehicle on an actual skidpad to learn how to control/recover a vehicle, and not many more are taught vehicle dynamics so they'd have at least a "book sense" of how to control their vehicles. Most people lose traction under acceleration, and then immediately slam on the brakes which breaks the car out of one skid into another and they ride off out of control into the sunset so to speak. Look at all the videos of people sliding down ice covered hills at 5mph with their wheels locked, where if they just let go of their death grip of the brake pedal they'd be able to roll down the hill. Much like the church parking lot it's a hill they've invariably sped down at 20-30mph over the posted speed limit on a near daily basis, but it's covered in ice and they slide down it like a drunken ballerina at less than 10mph bouncing off every other idiot that doesn't understand ABS doesn't function under 15 mph.

Best example of that is a church parking lot. Don't worry this isn't a religious comment, just observational humor... You're talking about a group of people who are in the same place, usually the same exact parking space at LEAST 52 times a year. But the first time it snows enough to cover the lot everyone loses their minds and start to park completely contrary to the way the lot is striped and occasionally on sidewalks and in the fire lane. Like you KNOW where your car goes 48 other Sundays a year, why is it snow suddenly erases the rules?

I know some folks around here are fervent members of the HPICult, but do we need two copies of the video posted? ?

That's true, but compared to the 24 pieces of engine in the other it's barely sufficient.

There are two versions of that kit, one that's curbside and one that has an engine. The one pictured is the kit with the engine, if you (or anyone on here) finds a boxing with the car going from left to right (facing the opposite way than this box) than it's a curbside version. There's also a "DX" curbside kit that comes with P/E. Studio27 makes (or made) a comprehensive carbon fiber decal set for this model as well.

Alright I have to ask what's so great about that paint that couldn't be replicated by Vallejo or any other paint brand that does FS color matching paint colors.

It was released last month, shouldn't be too hard to find out and about.

Show me the exciting and/or interesting Busch Clash from Daytona. I'm sure there probably was one I don't recall, but it was just a dozen and half guys playing follow the leader trying not to tear up a Super Speedway car.

SnapTite kits aren't Skill Level 4, which is what the "new" kit is advertised as... Also Revell is using this as the '76 Chevy pickup, which it's obviously not at ALL

Well unless they tool up a new body for it the only 57 Bel Air they possess is the one being discussed here. Given they are using a picture of a real car, the '71 Olds 442 was advertised with a 1:1 1970 442, and the one they stole for the C8 still has the guys internet watermark on it I wouldn't necessarily trust that anything they present in early demonstration photos are an accurate representation of the model in the box.

Everyone always wants to give Chad a ration of nonsense, but apparently it's never occurred to anyone who's doing it that... 1 - This place isn't the target audience 2 - The videos are done the way Round2 wants them done These videos, which gave been consistently "incorrect" in showing what kits are coming in any given month from the very beginning are for the dopes on the R2 YT Channel and FB Feed that don't even know who made any given kit - See monthly requests demanding R2 reissue a Revell kit, or that they tool up a new series of 65-72 Ford Trucks because they don't know the Moebius kits exist and so on and so forth. Everyone here knows what's coming months and months in advance between Steve posting here and the people who troll the Steven's International list for new additions. The videos are meant to tip off the truly uninformed and do it in an approachable, golly gee shucks over-friendly Midwestern way.

Almost every single Tamiya Ferrari kit made, including those entry level FXX-Ks and Enzos were all molded in red, unless you got the Banana Yellow Special Edition kits. The DBS is molded in color, and the LFA probably would have been too if the most common color that car came in wasn't white.

But at least RevellAG owned the Corrado, they couldn't reissue It because they chopped the roof off it to make the Cabriolet version.

Thanks Luc, I appreciate at least one person here can read. The SnapTite kit was just reissued in 2019 and is still in the active catalog. ?

Dragon is the one that tooled up that series of E36s, RevellAG just reboxed them.

'57 Bel Air would be a reissue of the kit based on the 90s era Tri-5 tooling that splits duty with the 150 & Bel Air Convertible. It was last out in 2011 in a California Wheels box. '76 Chevy P/U is mostly likely a reissue of this thing last seen in 2007. Which traces itself back to the 80s Hot Rod boxing (when it was a '79).

Considering what H-D want to license anything these days, and how wildly conservative Tamiya is these days - there's probably a 99.97% chance that kit is never going to be reissued again.

Blue Max is already out, L'il Hustler should be hitting store this week.

None whatsoever, I just appreciate keeping the faith to the point of declaring your victory champaign worthy. We didn't know when, we didn't know where, we didn't know how...but we knew dangnabbit!!! ?

I gotta admit the Convertible doesn't do anything for me, but I'll be pacing a path in the carpet until the H/T version comes out. It's a win for everyone, except the people with $400 model kits that they probably can't move to anyone now but the .05% of hard core collectors. I do love me some good destruction of kit value.

To be fair the technology that allowed this to happen didn't exist on any sort of affordable level a decade ago. It's sort of like claiming you were right if you said some day we'd all carry computers in our pocket. I mean sure you guys did win the day, but you didn't know how it would actually come about...??

The Kit Box/PZY items are available only through their FB Group called "PZY & Kit Box Models Official Group". They are around the same price as the Alpha Kits ($150 + Shipping) Alpha Models has their own website they sell their kits through, they're also available through HobbyEasy in Hong Kong, along with HobbyLink Japan, BNA Model World, Hiroboy, and UpScale Hobbies here in the U.S. Expect to pay more outside of the official website/Hong Kong for the middleman markup.

Salvinos JR monthly shipment is in...