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The kit and P/E were just reissued within the past quarter, so finding the set should be a matter of it coming back into stock. HobbyEasy has it available right now. https://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/yhscujkx2t21xduzokc7.html

There's a LHD dash in the IMSA race kit, so technically the kit can accept that set up. But so far they haven't offered it up the "civilian" parts for LHD.

Since BeeMaNuNu kits are male fitment wheels bringing them out the fraction of a MM they're too far inset should be a matter how hard your press the wheels into the polycaps, because the wheels are tucked in there pretty good on the real one. I think you're also arguing fractional rubber height profile as well that unless you have a picture available or are intimately familiar with the car no one else would notice. Given the tire sidewall height and 4x4 stance on a lot of other manufacturers kits, I can at least accept what the Corona/Carina E offers without wincing too hard.

While not a new announcement by any means, another up coming NuNu reissue that has a build up that will be at Shizouka is the Toyota Carina E 1993 BTCC kit. This kit will get new wheels, mirrors and rear spoiler beyond the obvious change in livery.

Other Hasegawa build ups for modified reissues including the SA22C RX-7, Late Face-lift Isuzu 117, and Early '84 MR-2.

Build up of the '73 GT-R.

Test shots for the new parts to modify the recently released Nissan Pulsar GTI-R into it's Rally Racing format. http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hc53b/

Some more decals for the pile... From RacingDecals43 From LB Production

Test shots of the Hasegawa new tool Ken & Mary GT-R... http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hc49b/

Unless something significant has changed their kits are made in the US from CAD to your bench.

I don't see why not. TD doesn't have copyright over that lighting equipment.

The Cop Out is a TD design, they can't use it. Nothing else, people like to try to drag their politics into everything on here even if it's verboten. Yeah New Revell ownership refused to pay him what he was owed from Hobbico Ownership and so he took his copyrights and went home. He'd rather have nothing than something I guess (since that all happened before he started working with Atlantis on their stuff they acquired from Revell).

It's a curbside (as all GT3 kits are no matter who has made them), but since the 12C is a mid-engine it does have an engraved engine insert with a few bits to glue on top since you can see it through the rear glass (similar to how NuNu handles the Audi R8 GT3 kits). Fujimi's GT3 are pretty rudimentary in areas you won't see them, the suspension components are more architectural structure pieces rather than any sort of actual equipment, but with the wheels installed the only thing you'll see is the brakes through the wheels. I have built one of these, albeit the later 2013+ kit (the one pictured is for the 2010-2012 seasons) and it was a no muss, no fuss build that did very well for itself in the show season it "ran". Studio27 livery and C/F decals installed.

It's quite simply the hobby life motto - Life's too short to build crappy models. It's up to the individual modeler to figure out where that line is, and make their purchases accordingly.

I appear to have HLJ'd again. Fujimi has done a "silent reissue" (not well publicized outside of Japanese vendors), which I hopped on as I have several decals for the 12C and these kits had been going for over $100 on the resale market with the kit being OOP for half a decade or more.

Foisted...does someone have you at gunpoint forcing you to buy this kit? Blink twice for "Yes"...

Another decals reissue coming up that is now open for pre-orders is a running of the Lancia Delta S4 under the Beemax label (this is particularly humorous to me since they just did a spot run of the original Martini kit with a NuNu label), for the winning car from the 1986 Rally Catalunya (one of the European Rally Championship stops). Decalcas did a decal set for this team & car for the 1986 Costa Brava Rally, but it didn't come with any of the gold decals, the Beemax literature promotes "large colorful decals" as part of the features of this release. Everything other than the decals should be a direct carry over from the previous two kits, and this is one of the only full detail kits that BeeMaNuNu has done in 1/24 scale. Fabrizio Tabaton/Luciano Tedeschini won a total of 6 events on the ERC Calender in 1986, and subsequently won the Season Championship.

Yes there are new coupe specific interior pieces included in the kit as well, not just a body crammed on the wrong interior set up.

Few more BeeMaNuNu pre-orders added this morning. These aren't new announcements if you've kept track of their promised ideas from pre-Covid with the exception of the M3 Rally car which is a new announcement, but is just a reissue with new decals (and maybe wheels). So under the Beemax label is the 1/12 Lotus 99T from the 1987 Monaco Grand Prix, which represents Senna's first victory at Monaco. There will be a sold separately P/E set. Pre-Order price is $188 based on current conversions. This was shown as a poster last year, but I believe there are at least partial test shots to be shown in May. Next a BMW M3 Rally for the 1987 Tour de Corse. This is an eeeeeebil tobacco livery, so purchase of the sold separately P/E set (or other aftermarket decals) will be required. Shown as a rapid prototype awhile back, is the official coming of the Mazda RX-7 253i as it ran (and failed to finish) the 1981 24hr of LeMans in IMSA GTO trim. This is supposed to be in that line of kits they touted as being "Easy Kits" that would have super simplified under pinnings, interiors and then have a lower price point. Be interested if there are actual plastic pieces to see next month to see what they actually looks like in reality. Lastly the next in the line of kits of the fairly new BMW 320i series. This advances the kit to the 2008 WTCC E90 version. This should ride the same chassis and base interior as the other two (2001 & 2004) 320i kits, but will obviously be a new body and all that entails. Will represent Jörg Müller's winning car from 2008 Brands Hatch (Race of the U.K. Round 1). BMW ran 5 factory backed teams in WTCC and there were a number of independents in 2008 as well.

FWIW those VW vans have been out for between 4 months and a year depending on which kit. Actually all of the kits in that German boxing pile came out in 2021.

Again the only new parts are the ones show on the CAD drawing. The windshield, interior parts and exhaust. Otherwise it's the same kit.

How did Moebius botch the roof to the Chevy II in two different directions? Better yet how did any of us ever build models without eleventybillion images on Google and a 24/7/365 social media forum to point out every "what has been seen can not be unseen" flaw in every kit? ? ?

The windshield surround is the same as it's always been, but it's not from the Roadster. The chrome parts and glass are different between the two kits.

The only stuff that was "retooled" (I mean the parts are new, not modified out of the old parts) are the Duval windshield, exhaust and the interior pieces which were specifically designed for the show. If you look at the CAD poster which is further up the page it shows the cycle fronts and rear quarter fenders in that rendition.