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So at this point it's now official, Salvinos JR has acquired the full licensing for both Toyota and Ford. The Ford license will eventually open the door to the "historic" Monogram tooling they have. They're now waiting for the CAD Data on both Next Gen cars, and they could possibly have one or both ready to go as we go into 2023 as the chassis carries over on both, so it's just new bodies and air intakes. With the Next Gen Manufacturers, SJR also has licenses signed with Joe Gibbs Racing (for Toyota) and Penske (which also includes Wood Bros) for the Mustang. First Mustang out will be Austin Cindric's 2022 Daytona Winner.

Box from SpotModel finally arrived after several days trapped at the Paris Airport... Finally got the last set of decals for the 1985 Manx Rally, unique in that the entire podium was made up of Mantas. Also a relative new set of decals/transbits to convert the Beemax/NuNu Toyota Carina E kit into the Carina GTi that ran in the 1996 24hrs of Spa. Finished 8th Overall, and 3rd in Class.

I'm glad I could help inform a purchase for a fellow modeler, but to be honest I'm not aware of a boxing of the Hasegawa 037 that doesn't have an engine included, at least going back to the kits released in the 2000s. Any recent reissue from 2014 forward would have an engine (for others following along here). The Stratos and Deltas are 100% curbside.

If your friend never ordered the replacement parts, why can't you?

Also the road car is a road car and therefore has treaded tires, the race car has slicks. Road going version also has a passenger's seat (and the mount it goes on) which isn't in the race car version - which also fills the passenger's side of the car with fire bottles and race computers.

It'll be in GT3 Spec too when the "R35" GT-R ages out in a couple of years.

What Aurora stuff that survives is over at Atlantis.

I know Allentown isn't precisely the area you're wanting, but this is probably the closest show remaining out that way. The Super September Showdown which is held in Boyerstown already past a few weeks back. Next show out that way should be the NNL Philadelphia if they can actually get themselves together to hold it.

They just need to actually release some of that stuff. The kits on the two rows of risers are all our there, and the 935 K2 Ricoh and Mitsubishi Lancer HK to Beijing Rally (the yellow 4 door) have been released in Hong Kong, but so far haven't made it out if Platz to the wider world. All the rest of that stuff is "Coming Soon", some of it has been Coming Soon for over 4 years now. There's several all new tools there, and a couple of significantly modified retool along with a bunch of "new decals" releases.

The Viper and Mustang were part of that SnapFAST line of kits they did that had several promo style "annuals", a couple of older cars (there was a Vette & Cuda off the top of my head) and all the trucks that never got made into full kits (Tahoe, Dodge 3500 Dually, etc).

Got this displaying on mobile this morning... I read the advice on reporting the ad for covering the forum, and when I reloaded I got a smaller version. Still inserting ads like that into the flow of topics is annoying, they have 19,782 banner ads on the site as it is at the top and bottom of the pages, the interstitials are unnecessary.

The Pony (it's a 1975) was Hyundai's first native design and manufactured car, prior to that they were selling rebadged Ford Cortinas. So it's a historically significant automobile to them.

I believe the '61 Impala came out first, then this truck. The '67 Olds and '66 Impala along with the '53 Ford came in 1997 & 1998.

I'd love a Stinger given I have one in my driveway, but also given that the Stinger ceases production in a few months I doubt even Academy will kit one.

Yes the T-Bird is the old Monogram 1/24 kit.

Fujimi has occasionally offered a Midget II both in pick up and panel van form. I'm not sure it's necessarily that same kit or not as I've never personally seen the older version. But Fujimi did wind up with some of the Nitmo and Mitsuwa tooling over the years.

Went to the 3 Rivers Auto Modelers show in Pittsburgh over the weekend. I have too many kits as it is so I wasn't looking for anything. Grabbed a couple of OOP SJR Oldsmobiles. Also at the show, much to my besmusement I got a 3rd Place for my recently completed NuNu BMW 320i. Took it just to show as it's the first thing Ive drug across to a finish since 2019. It's not particularly great in my own eyes, and I wouldn't have placed it over other builds in the class, but any given Sunday and all of that. Also in the mail this morning the 3 newest sheets (which are some months old at this point) from RacingDecals43.

It's 1/24th. The box is so big because they cast the body as a one piece unit. It's a curbside and is another one of Fujimi's mediocre new tools (Pantera, Esprit, etc) that make nice enough shelf models, but leave a lot to be desired. In Fujimi's defense, when they made this kit the Tamiya Europa had been OOP for quite awhile, but if you already have a Tamiya kit - or now that the Tamiya kit has been reissued - there's no real reason to pick this one up. Unless you just really like Europas.

I don't think it's necessarily rivet counting to assemble a kit in a way that the cab and bed are on a single plane of existence. Because "trolling" or whatever you want to call it people he doesn't get along with also poorly serves Moebius and Model Roundup by showing that kit as a poorly aligned mess. If that's what I can expect out of the box - and mind you I own the Moebius trucks and know of the issues, but I'm not the target audience - I wouldn't be "wasting" nearly $40 on it. Especially if I also was aware of the fiasco of the Ramp Truck (which in full disclosure I also have, but I managed to get a relatively straight one)

Is the hood warped, or is it just as poorly assembled as the rest of it? Not trying to slag on it, but there isn't a single part of that whole body that's on a level plane with anything else.

GT3, GT4, NASCAR, NHRA Spec, Darkhorse II, and Australian Supercars. GT3 will be replacing LM GTE (and LM GTE Am) as a class in WEC (World Endurance Challenge) in 2024, which the 24hrs of Le Mans is part of along with the 1000km of Sebring and so forth. GT3 Spec replaced GT LeMans (GT LM) this season in IMSA. 2024 is also when the new GT3 Spec Vette is arriving.

Duke is a Private University they would have more control of who and/or what is allowed access to their campus compared to an open campus public university.

So dredging this out of the dirt to update it. This morning Fujimi finally put a date out on the release of the JB64 (current Kei version of the Jimny) for December of this year. The initial release will be molded in the Banana Yellow shown, as that's part of the shtick of the "Car Next" Series. Molded in colors, body in highly polished plastic, and unfortunately unlike the previous offerings of the Alphard van and Suzuki Hustler there haven't been actual decals included, but rather a single sheet of mylar stickers - although I suppose that's the speed of these being SnapTite offerings. Incidentally since someone asked way back in 2019 the JB23 version (introduced in 1998 and ran through 2018) was released earlier this year in February, and has one other existing reissue and a pending reissue - but all 3 kits are the same, they're just in different body colors (Metallic Brown, Metallic Blue-Black, and the upcoming one is a lighter metallic Blue) Model represents the "Land Venture" trim line on a 2014 Jimny.

It was mentioned here briefly when we did the show coverage for the Shizouka Hobby Show back in May, as it was announced then. It's been out since the end of May over there. It's a nice Supra ?. If you can get it from HobbyEasy or elsewhere in Hong Kong then it's a reasonable kit for $40. If you try to pick it up in Japan or Stateside it runs a lot closer (if not over) $70 which is a bit much for a curbside kit no matter how nice it looks in the box.