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I think that's where the apparent licensing issue involved with the Trike would now allow an exact replication of those decals if they can't even use the Black Max name. I'm sure some enterprising decal person can/will do them if there's enough demand.

Yeah it's been dumped into the 2021 releases. I don't have the list in front of me, but I want to say it's now scheduled for April or thereabouts.

So back when this kit was announced it was supposed to be Pre-Colored. They then released a molded in white (RS-002) version first. This morning Meng showed the box art for the Pre-Colored (RS-001) version. Unlikely to move anyone around here, but news none the less.

Finally after a 2x longer than normal transit (Rona + Christmas Volume = Month of Waiting...even for EMS), my latest acquisition from the Alpha Models line has arrived. The newly released Aston Martin DB11.

The original Campus Friends is from the 1980s. Tamiya added the "2" to this newly tooled set of figures and scooter that modernizes them to 2020.

Maybe basic proportions? The 934s were purpose built race cars based on the 930 (911 Turbo). The models as they're written up and pictured are more rank and file non-turbo 911 Coupé & Targa.

This thread right here be the epitome of this entire forum. If enough people actually...ya know BOUGHT SA...it wouldn't have been dropped. Mighty fine faux outrage in a place it was derided as "the other mag". Besides if SA and FSM individually couldn't float, what were they gonna do, merge the IPMS stuff into SA? Whether you want to admit it or not FSM is a broad enough title to fold cars into as opposed to SA being changed to Scale Auto...and planes, and armor...and SciFi. As much as it pains me to interject actual information into this weekend retreat of butt hurt...I mean the rampant baseless, fact less speculation is a hoot and all...here's the actual advertising I presume about 3.2 of you saw before losing your minds. Oh and it's $12.99 since looking up the price was too big an ask when you're off on a tangent about how evil the corporate overlords act.

Doesn't seem to be. Maybe they'll scale up the 911s next year if they sell well enough. That's basically what they did with the VW T1. The 356s didn't make sense to down scale I guess as the Fujimi EM kits still technically exist (even if there hasn't been a reissue of one in quite awhile).

Ford GT40 is a Fujimi rebox, the rest of it (albeit in German) is here. https://www.kitreviewsonline.de/revell-neuheiten-2021/

Aoshima and Beemax had a distribution, development and technical agreement earlier in the 2010s, that has since expired and Platz has taken over as the distributor in Japan, with the company changing it's name to NuNu Hobby and doing it's own distribution for the rest of the world. The parent company and it's two brand names are based in Macau, and the tooling and production are done there.

If they were doing their own carbon or photoetch it would have been announced with the kit. Senna will be out in 3 weeks in the U.S.

The site is based in Belgium, and has a heavily European user base, so it isn't going to be the epitome of U.S. kit knowledge unless people from here go in there and spruce the place up. I've fixed so much stuff over time there it's garnered me a high level access than most users and I would be happy to add, subtract, or recombinate (as one Japanese vendor calls combining orders) anything on there for the greater good if anyone has rock solid release dates and or box art photographs for stuff in particular.

If you mean a "service' carbon fiber - all the bits and bobs like splitters and spoilers and whatnot, I'd expect Studio27 will do one. But that will likely be a month after the Japanese release of the kit, and at this exact moment in time it doesn't have a pre-order there, but I'd suspect it'll be March before the decals will out. If you mean like a carbon fiber wrap for the actual car, then yes I know of at least one that will be done once the decal maker can gain access to the kit to template out the body. Probably March or so before it'll be ready as well.

Or it's because they paid next to nothing for it, and then sold the NASCAR stuff to Salvinos...

Also it might be hard to tell exactly how good/bad/otherwise the Edsel might have done if the ownership change hadn't just taken place. The Edsel and '57 Chrysler were Ertl/Mueller era designs, but they weren't released until 1999. By the time Racing Champions was a year into imploding the plastic model division, and the hobby as a whole was about to take a 5 year nap nobody wants to recall in great detail.

Not to mention the two Vega Drag projects, and the Oldsmobile re-body. Bodies are (should be obviously) the most expensive part of a kit to make, and you're not going to take a random flying leap off a cliff at tooling up 4 new bodies (and apparently 1 entirely new kit in the case of this Nova) without having a reasonably good idea where you're going to land. Everyone should remember 2021 will be Round2's 13th year of producing AMT/MPC products, and 9th since taking outright control of the AMT/MPC tooling. After a decade, I think they might have an idea what they're up doing over there in South Bend...

I guess...I mean the Italeri kits are weird subject matter of a vocational use 378 and aero 377 that nobody bought in real life and they're both 25 yrs old. Beyond that the last 379 (now 389) Pete was tooled up back in the 1980s. That's like saying we shouldn't have a Cascadia because we're drowning in AMT repops of the Single and Dual Axle Cabovers (one kit if each, plus the 75th Anniversary edition that can build either) plus the reboxed Italeri FLC. How many Freightliners do you NEED?

Doesn't actually drive any better than one though...having piloted both. And just because something is the "most popular" thing on the road doesn't make it interesting subject matter. It just means that all the big Mega Carriers have bought them as their the cheapest thing available and T/A & Petros are Freightiner ServicePoints. If sales = models then we should be drowning in F-150s, Camrys and Tauruses.

Tim is way more inside than I could ever be, at least here with the U.S. folks. I have a few friends in places on the sales ends, but Tim is actually working with those folks. My moles are all planted overseas as my interests tend to lie with that subject matter, especially with the high popularity of the "vintage" race car subjects from 1970s-1990s right now that I also share. Round2 just had a similar sales sell out with the MPC '72 Vega, that initial run of kits flat out evaporated at a rate that my LHS actually put a per customer limit on how many you could try to smuggle out of the building. The production re-stock of that just finally arrived this month.

Another thought, this kit would be a primo choice for the 15th Annual 24hr Build presuming you can get your hands on one by Noon on January 30th. Low parts, simple build, a blank canvass for your creativity, and you'll be the first on your block with one completed.

It's a volume play. They release it as a Craftsman "Plus" kit first, and it will sell a heap to people who love oddities. Then you reissue it was a full kit with the trailer ala this - And just when people thought their wallets were safe and no one could punch their nostalgia feels any further you drops this Drag Combo - Step 4 - PROFIT I got dollars to donuts I can sell AT LEAST 15k of those Nova Wagons kits combined worldwide, which would be enough to pay for the tooling and make a few money dollars on the side.

The decision to pull the plug on the 90s Duster/70s Demon idea because it wasn't financially viable, was made several years ago.

I heard directly from the distribution end of things, but I also recall someone with Revell contacts posted it here as well - that was back in 2013. I believe it might have gotten drown out at the time because the other major new tool kit that year was the '92 Mustang...and well that almost burnt this place to the ground ?. Plus all the ruckus the Cuda itself caused with whether or not the fenders flares are too wide and blah_blah_blah... I was told the kit had completely sold out from Hobbico's stocks and because of how many things they were running back then - all the Foose modified kits, the '62 Vette Gasser, and so forth - they couldn't get more molding time at the contractor until the Sox & Martin kit was set to run in the 1Q of 2014, which is what happened. There was a two month period or so when the only Hemi Cuda kits available were ones that existed "in the wild' (aka unsold stock at retailers) until March of 2014 when the Drag kit was released, along with a restock of the Hemi kit. The hobby is going to watch something similar to this unfold in Early 2021 after this weekend's fire at the Eduard storage warehouse. Eduard for the uninitiated is a Czech based model & accessories company that does a variety of things including their own line of model kits in the IMPS - primarily airplane - realm. Lost to a huge fire were 200,000 sprues in storage awaiting packaging into kits, along with the next 3 months worth of boxes. No employees were hurt, it seems the area where final products were kept, along with kit "accessories" (P/E, decals, instructions, etc) manage to survive without any damage whatsoever. But Eduard is now faced with trying to find time to run their planned 2021 kits, while also going back and manufacturing (at a separate facility in another town) back those 200k sprues at the same time. The reality being some of those kits may not be able to be reissued until the next planned modified tooling is scheduled - with an over run being done to resupply the destroyed production.

I'm sure they'll make more, and the North American supply is probably on a boat and/or dock somewhere. I wonder how busy the place in Poland that makes the kits is on a day to day basis. I think the last time a kit genuinely sold out very quickly (apart from the Model A damage story) was the new tool Hemi Cuda. In that case there wasn't a restock until a few months later when that tooling was run again to make the drag racing version.

My answer was based on the nature of the question given that the Camper is barely released, and that the Kombi and Camper are the same base with different innards. Also the Camper seems to have evaporated if you didn't get one in Europe the instant they were released. We haven't gotten them yet in the U.S., and neither has the rest of the world for that matter.