niteowl7710

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).

For anyone who's been waiting on these kits, Hasegawa has released the new tool '73 Skyline GT-R, as well as modified reissue MR-2 and Isuzu 117 over the past several days in Japan. One side effect of the various monetary ills that are plaguing the system is our currency is super strong against the Yen, which is making the releases cost LESS than $20 before shipping.

Well I've not heard of it either, but I mean hey if you can get your customers to send you free materials and have them foot the international shipping to get them back to you, I mean why not? Probably have to make sure they're specifically your own sprues since not every formulation of styrene is identical.

Based on what the auctions that are running say it seems to be someone liquidating a collection/store/personal collection. All of them make references to them being the "last of my model kits". 178 auctions in the past 12 months feedback-wise...if I liquidated my collection that way it would take almost 8 years. I suspect for many here, it would be more than a decade.

It would also cost many times more than the tooling was worth to bring it back from China, if such a thing were even possible. Salvinos JR is the only company doing their products end to end in the U.S. and they just upped their MSRP to $44.95 last month on every kit they sell including old inventory, so it's not like bring production back here is going to make it any cheaper to produce the kits.

Not a bad idea at all, but it might need a little time to pass. Since the Ramp Truck can build a stock pickup, and then the stock pick up was quickly Coca Cola'd, I'd suspect dealers and wholesales might balk at the idea of having what is basically the same kit in 3 boxings on the shelf at the same time.

Lose and fast back of the napkin math, MSRP us usually 100% higher than wholesale and wholesale is usually 100% higher than cost. That way all the people in-between make their profits. Someplace like HobbyLobby can negotiate a better wholesale rate considering the sheer volume of their purchases (they're buying an entire kit run just to get a few kits per store). My LHS sells a pretty hearty volume on most kits when they're released and tends to price their stuff 25-30% below MSRP.

Meh you're trying to argue a conundrum older than time itself. Some people will always have less than others. There are entire swaths of people who have never purchased a NEW car, or even been able to afford a vehicle at all since people stopped riding horses. As someone who in what seems like another lifetime ago was so broke I lived in an apartment without functional electricity for several months the costs of fixing a 5th owner vehicle were also cost prohibitive back then too. We live in these rose tinted nostalgiavision where everyone worked on their own cars, but that's simply a fantasy otherwise dealership service departments (to say nothing of independent garages) would have died out decades ago. Certainly some people can and do all their own repairs, but just like the fantasy that every midsized GM was a 454 Chevelle, GTO or 442 Olds that people spun their own wrenches - the reality is most were base model transportation appliances that people didn't do their own maintenance work on... The price of EVs, like any tech, will slowly drop until anyone who could afford a new ICE vehicle can also afford an EV. My wife just bought an SUV in the low 30s that has comfort and safety features (or annoyances depending on your view) that were solely the realm of high end luxury vehicles 10-15 years ago. EV sales still only represent something like 2% of purchases, it'll take a while before their a significant portion, let alone majority - especially in a car centric country like the U.S. People in positions of legislative power, even in California, are already starting to realize the idea that everything will be electric within 8-10 years isn't at all realistic.

If you can afford to he an early EV user, then you can also afford to put in a charging station in your own garage. Which means your vehicle will be on "F" every morning and it would be all but impossible to "run out" of charge day to day. Also if you can afford of all of that, you more than likely aren't going to keep the vehicle much beyond the end of the warranty. So yes someone will eventually have to pay for a new battery, it won't be the original owner.

I think it would have been a two-fold problem. These were toys in what was primarily a kid's hobby back then. Nobody would have had any inkling that people would come back 25 yrs later as adults. The second part would be - how could you tell the 69 Camaro was going to be an iconic vehicle in real time?

I don't see why it wouldn't fit.

No that's the box bottom to the Polar Lights 1/32 kit. This new 1/25 kit doesn't even technically exist yet, let alone have a box printed for it already.

It's a instruction key advisement. Eg this symbol means don't glue. It's for the next step I'm which will have that symbol attached to the wheel assembly. It's not any sort of instruction pertaining to Step 6 itself at all, but refers to the next step and not gluing the polycaps into the front wheel backs. In Step 7 there's just the symbol, but not what it means.

It will indeed by molded in blue, not a guess, just Info. ?

The stock 1991 parts wouldn't be correct for the 1994 model year that the Impala SS represents. It wouldn't make any sort of fiscal sense to go back and try to modify it now since the Caprice is older (30 yrs) than the Monaco was (15 yrs) at the time the Caprice was released.

Comparing these "prototypes" with the diecast examples, I believe you're exactly right about that. Notice the blocks have holes in all of the oil pans for the metal axle...

That was what Ed said...?‍♂️

I wish they had modified it in such a way that it would have been either a 9C1 LT1 Caprice OR an Impala SS which would have taken an additional set of seats and not permanently changing the body to accept the rear spoiler, but alas they did not. As to being up to date...it was a 1991 Caprice released in late 1992 when the 1993 (with opened rear wheel wells) was already in production. So much like the Lindberg '96 Vic that was released just as the entirely new 1998 was rolling out the factory doors, the Caprice was modern, but it wasn't current.

And here ladies and germs we have the results of asking the right questions. Answers and clarity...instead of bickering like school children arguing about wasting plastic pellets.