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My son's current modeling interests extend into military stuff, figures I'd wind up with an IPMSer...but the thing we found in building some of the Revellogram SnapTite military kits are...they suck, all forms of debris. None of them were able to be built out of the box without a significant amount of fiddling, filing, and sanding...and then me taking over and gluing stuff and putting it in clamps. Frankly considering how much of a fuss those kits were we would have been better off starting with Tamiya 1/48 glue kits and skipping the "simple build for short attention spans", cause they tested my attention span and I've been doing this since *I* was 8. My son and I are currently splitting time playing Just Cause 3, maybe I'll get him a reissue of that Tamiya Alfa Gulia, since one of the cars in the game is clearly modeled in inspiration/tribute to that.

Here's a subtle hint of MENG's own advertising literature says about the kit. In 2020, EVANGELION RACING ventured into international competition, collaborating with Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT at the 67th Macau Grand Prix GT Cup. The car in the spotlight was the EVA RT TEST TYPE-01 Audi R8 LMS. As a standout feature of the EVANGELION RACING team, the car's livery was a striking showcase of the Evangelion Test Type-01 theme, predominantly in purple and green, with orange highlights adding a vibrant contrast. Alongside Chen Wei An's exceptional driving skills and the Audi R8 LMS GT3's formidable performance, the team clinched an impressive third place in their debut race on the challenging streets of Macau. Here's what the race-run car looks like It's a matter ot MENG cheaping out and not paying the licensing for the Race Specific items, also notice the kit (actually both of the Audis) don't have any tire licensing either. Understand the "blank" Audi R8 LMS GT3 has a North American MSRP of $99.99. The EVA kit is extra on top of that and will MSRP in around $115.99. I think that's enough money - even paying the $47 it costs out of China, given that's a $15 premium on the NuNu Audi kit - to get the entire set of decals for the actual race car.

Unfortunately with this kit while the decals do match the box art they're only about 85% complete for the actual race car it represents. The literature about the kit proudly touts it as the 3rd Place finisher of the locally run (cause no FIA due to Covid) Macau GT Race in 2020. But it has none of the actual race day items like number placards, windshield banners, et al. In general it seems a pretty decent kit, but they somehow used the wrong sized polycaps and the wheels end up sitting way inside the wheel wells and camber all willy nilly due to the loose fit of the cap inside the receptacles in the suspension components.

The T3 van has one more part in this version than it does as presently reissued. So I suspect that's the roof sign.

Yeah but that SnapTite kit doesn't have anywhere near 100 parts to it.

Should be, I can see that argument. But the Nova Wagon was re-imagined from the full kit from the beginning and then was released as both a curbside and full kit because that's how the original was done in '63. The two GTOS were re-imagined from Promos that were surprisingly found in a box with some other leftovers from the 90s. So as they stand they are what they are, re-tooled unassembled promos. It would be up to Round2 to decide if they want to invest in finding original unbuilt versions of those two kits and then go back in and cut tooling for all of those pieces.

That's great, but really doesn't have anything to do with the idea of a bunch of ancient 1/32 SnapTite dragsters being made for 202x kids. They're being made for older guys who want to have some nostalgia of building them in 80s.

The Camaro is going to be a modified reissue of the Monogram kit.

Given that the kits were produced by recreating old promos, you're most likely looking at reincarnation - perhaps more than once - before you ever see either of them as "full car kits".

Latest shipment from HobbyEasy in Hong Kong, I ordered this right before Christmas and was stuck waiting for some piece of this order to be fulfilled for almost a month. Regardless this shipment includes the latest version of Meng's Audi R8 GT3. This boxing strikes me as being on the fine edge of false advertising. Because the literature mentions this is the livery for the 3rd Place finishing car from the 2020 Macau GT race, the decals are incomplete as they are missing all of the race-directed sponsors, windshield banners, number placards, etc...albeit none of those things are on the box art either. Also a load of parts. Looking at this picture now it's a bit more blurry than I wanted so here's a text list of the items...from top left Hobby Design GMA T.50 Detail Up, Studio27 Toyota 91C-V Detail Up, Decalpool 1990 JTTC PIAA Honda Civic, Hobby Design Ferrari Logos (I have a Tamiya 360 Spider with old decals), and three items from Far Frog Models - 3D Printed Grilles for the NuNu Audi A4 and Volvo S70 and Cam Covers/Wiring & Coils for the GMA T.50.

It's the Mustang II Concept Car, but there's no reason why Round2 doesn't have the '63 Cougar II lying around somewhere as Lindberg kicked that IMC kit out twice so it still exists. It might be far more trouble that it's worth to try to tool up an entirely new body(ies)for that though cause meshing 2020 parts into 90s era kits was a chore. Doing that to a 1965 era tool from a company thrice removed...I think there's a raft of better monetary investments.

Found an eBay seller in NJ who had a few Alpha kits listed with shipping for what they normally cost without shipping from overseas so I grabbed two that I have been wanting to snag.

The IPMS Germany page has some photos of a few of the booths, but they really didn't do a huge photo spread like they have in past years. There's only one picture at the Heller booth and it's of a random kit that's been around almost as long as Heller has been. So unless manufacturers upload their own, I'm not sure we'll see much as the Toy Faire is an industry show and isn't open to the public. This particular Hasegawa kit was just part of their monthly kit pre-orders, nothing to do with the Nuremberg show.

This will ride the chassis/drivetrain of the original "notch back" 1970 Celica (2003 tooling) with a new body and interior for the Lift Back body style. Something that's been desperately needed forever and a day since the only alternative is the Aoshima kit which was tooled up in 1982 and shows every bit of it's over simplified motorized age at this point.

This kit has been out for almost 4 months now. My LHS got it back at the beginning of November.

They're also reissing the Abarth 695SS version of the Fiat 500. Also a Clear Bodied version of their 300SL. For a show they have been dropping a new tool at for the past several years this go around was a major snooze-fest. I guess there's always hope for a Shizouka announcement...otherwise we're waiting until Fall for anything new.

With Salvinos JR being officially licensed by NASCAR, I can't see the financial viability of re-releasing the old 90s era AMT/Ertl kits. Aside from NASCAR probably not wanting to play ball, you'd have to get licensing from GM or Ford, the driver, the team and the sponsors, and Goodyear. Even if you skipped a lot the extraneous licensing and just did "blank" kits, none of the currently produced aftermarket decal sheets are produced in 1/25, they're all scaled to fit the Monogram kits of that era.

Point of Order - 1960 was in fact 64 years ago now 🤣🙃

Yeah...but the PZY stuff sells out pretty quickly and they occasionally might do a second half run, but it winds up being less than 300 pcs worldwide between direct sales and resellers. Very easy to miss out on them if you don't grab them when they're released.

Latest PZY/Kit Box resin multimedia kit. Liberty Walk's latest take on the Lamborghini Aventador in the cars final production Evo Spec. Also the latest from HLJ

Nope, posting into a different thread doesn't change what I said in my original reply to you. This is the box art for the '63 in all it's glorious 3/4 profile... It's one of their "silent" style with no printing on the art work, here the finalized box with the little AMT Kool Kats sticker.

If you look at the chassis plate & subsequent "side tree" that's molded to it, you'll notice on the '60 the side tree is on the right, and on the '63 it's on the left, with what appears to be the same chassis pan in between them. That would almost certainly be one singular tooling insert that has a gate function attached at the bottom to "throw" the plastic one way or the other depending one which kit you're running at the time. I suspect a great many other things are designed in a similar fashion so that in reality both of these kits are modular inserts that plug into the same overall larger tooling schematic.

Both kits share a majority of parts besides the body/interior/trim pieces and the "bonus" (trailer vs. camper shell). That's why they're being released at the same time, and ultimately what made the project feasible since it's basically 2 kits for the price of 1.5.

'63 has a rear 3/4 profile showing off the camper shell.

Because they buy in such vast quantities, directly out of China, and have (since Covid) chartered their own fleet of container ships and actually gone through and had Wal*Mart specific container trailers built. They undoubtedly bought (via Round2) directly from the factory and shipped to themselves directly from China direct.