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November pre-orders were in at HLJ, so I deported the kits to my front door.

Camaros are also 1/24.

Thanks I figure Round2 will clone it first thing next year knowing my luck ?

I suspect point of personal pride aside to do the best you can with what you're given, whomever built the box art model for this (since it's the same one as their table display model) also built the Ramp Truck, the 67 250 and the "Day 2" 4x4 that's still coming. Four models in maaaaaybe a months worth of deadline (if you're super lucky) for a pittance that means building box art models isn't your actual job. I wonder how much research you'd actually do to take things to that level of accuracy. Based on everything I've seen of box art/display models over time...it'll be everything possible just to get them done and out the door on deadline.

Box art models are traditionally built without instructions or decals and under severe time constraints (2-3 week turn arounds). Finding people who can build things in that manner at that speed in a neat and clean manner suitable for use in promotions is hard enough. Expecting them to be an expert in the car/truck at hand, or have the time to research small details is pretty much impossible.

Supposedly he had to sue Seville over the naming right after he bought all the tooling bits and NoS leftover parts because he was under the impression he bought that too and they were under the impression he didn't...or so the story went back when the whole thing changed hands. There was a point where he had to call it JoHan Models or some such cause he really didn't have ownership of the trade dress and name. I seriously doubt he owns any of the actual IP of JoHan at this point since he doesn't possess a single piece of tooling that's in one piece as all of the stuff that got run for Testors by Seville has gone AWOL.

A bigger issue with 3D printing as it currently stands is there's no industry standard by which all printers operate. Until the machines function as ubiquitously as a toaster or a microwave instead of a whole new expensive and time consuming hobby I don't see a future of actual Revell "PrintHome! Model Kits". Files that work on one printer often times won't work on another without tweaking to supports/slicing to say nothing of the wild variation of build plate sizes, print depth (height) and resolution. It's great for aftermarket, it's great for home use (if you have the time, energy and finances to sink into learning it), but it's still quite a ways away from it's full potential in the "Press a Button and Out Pops XYZ" that is touted for the machines.

Studebaker's legacy is owned by Eaton, and as we know from Moebius Hudson is owned by Stellantis. I doubt either one would allow Okey to commercially advertise products using their names that are obviously for-profit with his attaching the Jo-Han name to it (as opposed to being just a guy who prints some 3D aftermarket stuff). The Powell name and company died with the last of the Powell Brothers in the mid-60s, I'm not even sure there is a person to ask for permission to use the name at this point. The subject is an interesting read, it sounds like every single one of those early Plymouth chassis they used for these things was recycled out of L.A. Area junkyards. Talk about gambling with your safety.

Local Hobby Shop had one of their "Jumble Sales" over the weekend. Which usually means a bunch of dusty old stock out of the back and some kits out of the owner's personal collection. So this is now officially the most expensive piece of styrene I own (although I have a few resin pieces that have cost more). All there and untouched... Also grabbed some more mundane items.

I'm not saying they're running crazy sales, but the exchange rate between the US Money Dollar and the Euro is floating around a 1:1 ratio in the first time in forever. The byproduct of that is a drop in what European kits (Revell, Italeri) and aftermarket costs to purchase by a few dollars compared to a year ago.

Another order in from SpotModel as I abuse the great $ to € rates. One of the Le Mans winners for my collection of those (and Fujimi 917Ks in general). Also the primary reason for the order Decalcas did a "reprint" on these Opel Manta wheels for this specific decal sheet. I dilly-dallied around and missed out ordering the wheels when they were originally released. So I grabbed them and the decals after getting a re-stock notification email. Love those 80s sponsors...Philips Car Audio...when was the last time they even made a car stereo? ?

I'm guessing Charlie is thinking the E58 was a Police Package only thing, which of course as you pointed out it wasn't. It was for the engine and HD components. A38 was the code for "cop stuff" and a slew of Mopar squads are described as "A38 E58" models because both of those are required on an official Police Package car of those eras - those fender tags make it easy to determine a legit one (which are somewhat collectable) and a "clone" made out of a regular low powered civilian car. As far as I know Dodge didn't recycle either fender code into the Police Package Charger the way GM badged a number of sedans as "9C1" or the entire three generations of Vics that were "P71"s.

Container has finally arrived, pre-orders ship through next week.

Oh as an adult I'm well aware of the issues regarding that kit. It just struck me as bemusing that for a car that came in 13 colors the same one has been used 3x by what would be technically 3 different companies (I believe the MPC issue from 1988 came post merger, but pre-discontinuation of the name).

Was that blue and silver combination the most common option on a '71 Boss? I built the original MPC kit as a kid when it was reissued in 1988 and it was in that combo on the box art. When RC2 reissued it in 2004 it was also blue/silver...and now this box art/media build.

This is a new tool, or well 75% new tool kit (as it uses the base chassis/suspension that's universal to their own 1/25 kits) from Salvinos, it doesn't have anything to do with the old MPC kit.

They're they same kit, just with GMC/Chevrolet specific grilles and other bits.

Well that one on the market by Italeri is the old ESCI kit that's nearly 40 years old at this point. I'm guessing they'll make a case it's time for a new one. If 40 yr old kits were good enough that pretty much means we don't ever need newer versions of any model ever that's already been made.

I'm guessing the new parts for the Corrado would be a body. Since it met the same infamous fate as the 8 Series BMW and was permanently convertiblized back then. That's gonna crush some people's hoar...err stash values.

As someone with a 9- & 11-year-old, I have to wonder what on earth makes you think kids would want these? I mean they feasibly serve the purpose of a "basic" kit that Snaps together and is molded in color. But these things were tooled up five years before *I* was born. Sorry guys but very few kids in 2022 have a connection to Tom Daniel, 70s Funny Cars, or 70s cars in general. My kids are dipping their toes into modeling, and they're interested in stuff they see on the various Disney+ Star Wars shows, and my daughter wants the Gunpla kits from "My Hero Academia". I want to encourage them into the hobby however that emerges, not force them to build mediocre SnapTite kits I barely have any connection to in my own childhood and then blame their lack of interest on "screens" and "no attention spans". Good on Atlantis for re-releasing the kits to spark nostalgia in adults, but I don't see these bringing in the kids.

I suspect if there's an answer to this question in the year 2022, the best chance of it being answered would be at Round2's display at the Detroit NNL this weekend.

Order from SpotModel came in with a new Revell Europe boxing of the 71 442 that was nice and uncrushed. Also picked up a couple of decal sheets for the Belkits Metro 6R4 while I was at it.

That's a weak argument to me, as someone who's got over 1k kits on shelves. I can get 4 kits across any given shelf regardless as to the box width (shoe vs. Asian/Euro), but I can stack those long boxes one higher per shelf section because they're much "flatter". So, I'm actually getting 4 more "long box" kits on a shelf section than shoe box size. Anybody who's been hoardi...err collecting for long knows the height (or depth) of the U.S. style boxes have grown over the years from the 1980s until now. I get that a mix and mash of box sizes takes up more space for sure but given that all but 4 companies in the world use long flat boxes, I doubt you're going to convince the world to adapt to "our ways".