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German Toy Faire is coming up in two weeks (Feb 1-5), I expect we'll get more details on this, the Tamiya GM T50, and other odds and ends that will debut at the show.

Powerslide is going to do a sheet for his Menard's Primary with multiple hood associate sponsor options from 2022 next month too.

Alright so the point of this thread will be to keep track of the SJR kits for 2023. There are expected to be nearly 30 kits released in 1Q & 2Q of this year alone. January - 2023 Camaro - No revisions to the tooling as the the car continues relatively unchanged. Once this production run is done (as the Mustang tool is in-house for February releases) the missing driver's side roof rail will be addressed for Camaro releases beyond these first two kits. 1500 pcs per kit. #9 is the Club Kit, so 500 of those are already gone. SJR also has commitments to make the other two Hendrick Primary Liveries, the Legacy MC (nee Petty/GMS) Primaries, and Trackhouse Primaries in Camaros this year. Plus other speciality liveries (Patriotic, Throwback, Secondary Sponsorships) are possible.

Some recent arrivals... From LB Productions rally decals and decals to do the 4 Audi-WRT R8s that ran across GT World Challenge Europe Sprint, Endurance and 24hrs of Spa (each sheet is a 2n1 if not a 3n1). Also3D Resin rear wings for the R8 Evo IIs and wheels for the Peugeot Rally car. From DModelkits, three bottles of the "house brand" Firescale Paints for their Ford Sierra kit and the first set of aftermarket decals for the same from Renaissance. Gotta love some eeeeeebil tobacco livery.

If this isn't a Priority 1 project, the current maker of all things NASCAR is eventually going to do a Superbird, perhaps within 2023. Salvinos JR has quite the sum sunk into making the Mustang & Camry with all the associated licensing, but the better and faster those kits move the quicker SJR will be in position to proceed with more vintage era projects.

Turkey? That tooling never left Illinois. It was run out at Chicago Heights this last time and had a huge Made in the USA sticker on it.

None of that stuff is coming back unless TD finally kisses and makes up with Revell.

Tamiya is raising the prices across all of their paint lines in 2023, and I suspect with the increased cost of shipping the TS cans (which have to be shipped by ship) it just isn't viable to import them anymore vs. what quantity of them they sell.

Last HLJ box for 2022...

Be interesting to see what if any difference there is between it and the Ebbro/Tamiya version. I'm not sure anyone is going to argue that the Heller 2CV is a better kit than the Tamiya one the Ebbro kit uses as it's base.

Previous Skill Level 3 under the current 1-5 range were were the Pre-Painted Body (and subsequent unpainted followed up) kits like the C7 and '14 Mustang. Be interesting to see which scale it's really in since the stock number used here and Hannants is a U.S. one.

Yeah what Keyser said...illegal in the sense that it was probably the finest, most elegant example of cheating recorded in Motorsport at the time...maybe still to this day.

The bigger widths of Tamiya tape, or the yellow delicate Frog Tape. It's really 1001 uses tool when you start to think about it. If you double cut a mask (diameter and then an inside diameter) it makes perfectly circular masks for things like gauge & headlight bezzles. Also comes in very hand for cutting inside (or outside) masks for wheels - where you're either "chroming" a lip, or leaving the lip already chromed, but painting the inside wheel face.

I don't think so, that is a T50s, it's the track version of the car. None of the places I've seen have it listed with the "s". SpotModel is also pretty notorious for just grabbing an image of something to use as a place holder regardless to whether or not it's the correct model (or even year).

So I've not seen it mentioned here (that I can easily find), but DModelkits is well under way with their 2nd New Tool kit, a pair of 95 Toyota Celicas. Famous in WRC for running an illegal turbo and getting Toyota Team Europe banned from WRC for the back half of 1995 and all of 1996. But today these guys announced two MORE new tool kits for later next year. The Citroën C4 is also supposed to have an opening hood and an engine.

But how many more do you make before you hit that tipping point and they start sitting around and languishing on shelves? From a purely business aspect nobody wants dead stock lying around. Also everyone has heard these sold out, so when Kit #3 gets made people will flock to pre-order it. FOMO is the best motivator in the hobby. Also there's been talk out of Wes' that teams have seen the kits and are approaching HIM to have their cars included as kit choices, which must be a nice problem to have.

No it does not. Appears to be something along the lines of Belkits+ from the gander I've taken. Everything looks pretty decent on first inspection, certainly has a lot of parts to it and one of the largest and longest instruction manuals I've gotten in a while. First nit to pick would be the roof "rubbers" (the expansion joint between the roof and door frames) is molded weakly on the inside edges and has a prominent rise to it at the windshield that evaporates quickly thereafter. Some scribbing and sanding will take care of that, but it's not going to be confused for a Tamiya body any time soon. Acid test will be how well everything fits together for the $60-65 (before shipping) these are running.

At around 2500 pcs on each kit, that's not very many spread over a pretty large area. Maybe by the 4th or 5th version (if it really goes to that many) and it winds up either being a clunker of a kit to build, or they wind up with a less than popular driver choice. But in 2023 SJR kits themselves are going to be 1500 pcs per kit, with one kit per month immediately selling 400+ kits straight to the Builder's Club and a big chunk of the rest being claimed by NASCAR itself for their own sales. It'll be interesting to see how well the planned scarcity works out.

Fresh off a transatlantic journey that seemed to involve kicking these to me from Portugal (I blame the World Cup) I received my order from DModelkits for their new Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4. They seriously did use one of the thinnest flimsiest cardboard boxes I've seen recently and in another day or two it would have fully split open down the corner seam and regurgitated it's contents all over the next USPS vehicle. Also meant both kit boxes are all bent up...but the kits appear to be alright and I'm not a box art collector so all is fair in Peak Season Shipping I guess...

The first two account for a 5k piece run combined which sold out before they were even shipped out of the factory in California. There might be less demand from "mainstream" modelers only in the sense that they'll never get a solid chance to buy one.

Yeah so kit 24364 had been leaked by a few vendors...

Very few Revell Germany kits get U.S. reboxes, and with the new management Revell Germany kits are no longer force shipped to the U.S., retailers/wholesalers have to order them. As others have mentioned it's been out for awhile and it quickly sold out when the first shipments of it came around. Most likely will have to source one from a Euro/UK vendor.

The Torino reissue is a Revell U.S. kit in our boxes with a North American stock number. I'm not sure how many (if any) of those Revell kits Hannants actually carries.

Revell Germany has a long tradition of doing their later year new tool/revised tooling announcements on New Year's Day. Hannants usually leaks that list early...and Bob's your Uncle. Tune into German modeling websites on January 1st at 1 minute after Midnight to see the official Revell announcement.

Next month. 01/23