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The Skill Level is based on parts count, I believe the kits needs to have more than 125 pieces to qualify. The Fujimi 917 is around 90 or so.

It's the Fujimi kit reboxed as a RevellAG kit. It's been out for for a month or so in Europe. It's been a little while since the 1970 LeMans winner livery has been out, but Fujimi released it with that livery in the past as well.

I don't believe those boxes extended beyond their Ferrari line of reissues in 2006/2007.

Not so much that, as much as it is the expectation of it being semi-current content vs. 40-50+ years old. It's not (to me) junk vs. not, but I know what to expect. We - as a forum - can sit here and be all snide about "everyone knows" til the cows return, HOWEVER this forum even if it united in a mass purchase of a particular kit couldn't buy the entire run. We're the 1%...or maybe 5% at the top of the most informed, most seasoned/knowledgeable people in the hobby, and yet we don't represent anything like a majority of the sales of these items. People look at the IPMS as some monolithic organization, but there's only about 4500 members in the U.S. that's again not buying out a single kit run even of all of the membership agreed to purchase a single genre kit.

I guess I have to agree with Alan in that.... 1. Why is Retro Box Art often one of the 4 Bullet Items on the sticker on the cellophane? The people who will appreciate the 60s throwback box art already KNOW what it's from, it's not really a feature. A subpoint to this is why things that aren't old enough to be "retro" have to also be subjected to the faux treatment. A lot of younger builders are really turned off by AMT/MPC right now (more on that in a second) and they're doing themselves no favors by lumping everything together as "Old Kit!" 2. The person(s) who decided to go Retro with the instructions really need a talking to, I to remember the much clearer Ertl era sheets from 89-97 and these recreations of the original sheets are cute...and also hot garbage in terms of being accurate technical drawings for assembling the kit. 3. Round2 reputation with the next wave of customers is on shaky footing. The nostalgia thing worked in bringing the brands back to life after the RC2 ownership. Buuuuut a lot of folks who fit into that - New Modeler/Returning Modeler group (Bottom of Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, and the Top of Gen Z (those folks are in their 20s now) didn't know what they were getting with Round2 kits necessarily and have been "burned" repeatedly because they expected a modern(ish) kit and got a pile of 70s "finest". When you buy a Revell kit, 85% of that is post 1988. Moebius - is all newer, Salvinos 80s to brand new. Tamiya, anything post 1986 is solid. Aoshima puts warnings on their boxes about old kit origins, Hasegawa has put out an ocean of new kits and most of the reissues are from post 1986. Round2 remains the only company (minus the odds and ends at Atlantis) that cranks out these "ancient" kits. It's fabulous for a lot of folks, don't get me wrong. But I've also seen a LOT of comments recently about the upcoming modern tools that should be right in the wheelhouse of the 25-45 age group that are something to the effect of - A new Bronco...cool, too bad it's AMT. Sweet a new Charger, too bad someone else isn't doing it. Now you can twist in the wind however you want to about ungrateful youth and not real modelers, etc. But let's face the reality that most kits past the end of the 1980s have a certain engineering and build quality to them, and with this unified box art people don't know what to expect and are now just skipping the brands entirely.

It was put up on the distribution list for September this morning, which might be late August if they're already on the way over. For whatever reason MRU gets their kits several days/weeks later than some places.

Maybe...they put them in the 69 Camaro with the ice cube hood, and the 71 Olds has Firestone Wide Oval decals on it's sheet.

Ed seemed to believe that the stock wheels will be in it as they wouldn't be allowed on the box art if they're not included. Otherwise, it's reported as a straight reissue of the kit from its last run, which means no stock height suspension.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the 442 has Firestone Wide 0 Oval decals. Slowly but surely Revell has been branding their tires again...

Decals for the 442 Contents & Decals for the 1981 Camaro Someone requested a hood shot.

It's the IPMS National Convention. It's been held at the La Vista Conference Center now through Saturday afternoon. It's open 9a-6pm Thur & Fri, 9a-2p on Saturday. Door is $15 for General Admission, substantially more if you wanted to enter the contest and go to the Seminars as you need to be an IPMS National Member. https://ipmsusa2022.com The Nationals move every year, so it's not a dedicated annual event in the same location. 2023 will be August 2nd-5th in San Marcos, Texas. We'll find out who bid for 2024 on Saturday morning.

I doubt we'll see it this year...maaaaybe right before Christmas, but in reality it's probably 1Q 2023.

Yeah I already posted these in a separate thread with the rest of the photos from Revell's booth in Omaha. Glad to see they're already walking around FB with my name detached in a matter of hours. ? I'll take a picture of the hood in the morning.

So let's take a peek shall we? First up the well known and seen before 1971 Olds 442. Next up the reissue boards. Couple of things on here that have been mentioned in passing, but now with box art prototypes The 32 Ford is right around the corner, complete with an actual box. Aaaaand what we really all came here for, the debut of the 1971 Mustang. I drive to Nebraska so you don't have to...

Probably not til at least September, it's not on the distribution list for July or August.

Based on what was said at Indy a month and a half ago the end of this year at the earliest, probably dragging into 1Q of 2023.

My deck plate gas a minor twist in it that the heavy tongue and groove assembly of the bed itself seems to straighten out. Some heavy and slow gluing (like you're trying to assemble fuselage halfs on a plane) should settle that with a minimum of drama. My hood is also askew...but for everyone saying it's warped. Is your hood actually warped? Because to me it looks like the hood itself is perfectly straight side to side, but it's injected on a couple of degrees off TDC in terms of the sprue itself. Mine doesn't have any twist to it, but it's not level with the mold plane, it's like the sprue attachment point drooped under the weight of the part.

I always thought the dairy cow with VR goggles (so it thinks it's in a field, rather than a post apocalyptic warehouse) was the winning piece from ToriFactory for this particular series of diorama items.

Add me to the cool kids club! Actually I've wanted this since I saw the first peeks at the test shots Dave got. Finally a proper ramp truck instead of that goofy MPC backbirth.

The new car (known as the GT3.R) won't hit the market (GT3 are Customer Racing - some have more factory support than others, but none are Works cars) until the 2024 season, so it'll be awhile before that sees plastic form - if ever.

It's branded as a 1976 Caprice and it's been out for about 2-3 weeks now.

"Yes, I did see that Mr Duff. That was not the decals discussed in any of the discussions of decals included in this kit. BTW, I don't make snide comments directed at you in posts you're involved in, I would expect the same courtesy from you. " Steve, If I want to snidely comment to you, clearly I know how the quote reply works... I am referring to the larger habit this "community" has about either not listening when people who know stuff are relaying information and/or deciding the forum knows exactly what's going on without adequate information. The former being the discussion below about the Revell/Atlantis 57 Nomad where people ask the same question over and over (prior to it becoming a running gag the past 24hrs) despite the Owner of the Company being quoted. The later being this decal sheets. SteveG said there would be "some Freewheelin' decals added", which there were. This forum HOWEVER decided that meant it was going to be the huge panel width ones. A page and half of giddy excitement in that thread over what was assumed to be correct, now everyone is moody cause nobody bothered to ask for clarification. The decals discussed in the truck forum thread were an aftermarket sheet, not the decals to be included in the kit.

Monthly box from HLJ contains another set of R32 livery decals (actually it's hardly any decals, it needs a lot of masking and two-toning) and the latest in the series of pre-printed P/E Japanese license plates from Platz. Newest transkit from SMC for the Leap Design (Japanese Company) for the Aoshima Aventador SV. Interestingly the transkit is actually metal rather than resin. ? Lastly the three most recent releases from Hasegawa. The Yen is so upside down to the USD right now these came out to less than $26 a piece WITH shipping.

Look closely? Pay attention? This group would NEVER!

Dave Burkett (The Model King) paid the freight on this kit, his releases are always a more limited number than a standard Moebius kit. Wouldn't surprise me to see Moebius come back in a year or two and repackage it in with a different year - they've done that with most everything else he's paid to tool up (Slant 6, NASCAR parts, drag parts, truck utility bed, etc).