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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.

They've only made the Samba/23 Window and a Panel van. Then reissued both what seems like 19 times each with different decals.

MPC PLASTIC MODEL KITS MPC-897 1/25 Torque Custom Trike $25.95 TBA

So this prototype "box art" popped up in Japan for the VW T1 Micro Bus. I would presume this is basically the Camper Van just sans...camper stuff. New parts being a conventional seating arrangement for this variant?

The Landini tractor is just a badge engineered Ferguson, so the kit is a lightly modified version of their Ferguson 2680 kit from the 80's. I'm not sure if there are any actual new parts, or they just have you not put the front weight system on and drew up some decals.

The only G Series 911 Fujimi makes - if they're as pedantic about specifics as they were with that German only '68 Beetle - is the '74 Carrera RS. The G Series is specifically the 1974 model. Even if they aren't THAT year specific there still isn't a regular 911 between the '69 and the 1985 kits (as both the 73 and 74 kits are Renn Sports) and the only Targas are the 911 Carrera and 911 Turbo 1985 kits. Might not be ground breaking, but there's plenty of wiggle room in there to produce kits that don't exist currently.

The 911s will be new, the only ones that RevellAG has direct access to, presuming they even exist anymore, are 1/25 scale and none are the right model to replicate what the list says. There have been only four 911s released in 1/24 in a Revell box. The '85 Targa was a reboxed Fujimi kit, the Gembella Avalanche was a Fujimi kit with Revell parts added, and the 911 Turbo & Slant Nose Cabriolet are U.S. spec 911s based on older Monogram tools.

Any American subject on that list is something being reboxed for sale in Europe. In the case of the '70 Firebird it would be this kit which was just reissued here not terribly long ago. It's basis is from Mongram in the Early 80s as it has been for something like 4 reissues between the Monogram & Revell labels in the intervening years.

These are Revell Germany specific releases. They have no bearing on U.S. releases. Hannats has been accurate the past several years. RevellAG will make their official year-wide announcement at 00:01 local time on New Year's Day as always. There's a whole slew of the other "IPMS" kits up as well, but since we're a car forum I didn't requisition copies of those photos.

Some more stuff listed at Hannants for 2021...for some clarity Dr. Oetker is a German Multinational Food company, the Canada guys will be familiar. The 2021 new tool kit seems to be a "G" Model Porsche 911. The few times Revell released them in 1/24 in the past they were reboxed Fujimi Enthusiast kits. Depending on how literally Revell takes the "G" model will be interesting. A lot of people seem to think that any 911 built between 1974-1989 are Gs, when in fact the G model was specifically the 1974 911s. This is a bit of needle threading as the Fujimi kit of that specific window is a Carrera RS, and these seem to be more "mundane" 911 Coupe & Targa versions.

Well sure there's a bit of that, however death of your local hobby shop doesn't necessarily equate to less kits being sold. They're just being sold in different eCommerce ways - mail order, Amazon, eBay, etc. But beyond that, who exactly in the supply chain is supposed to take a pay cut. Obviously each of us individually would like to either make more or pay less, but then so does everyone from Indiana to China and back. Sorry folks, Round2 has a pay freeze for 2021, people can't afford to buy EVERY kit we offer rather than the ones they might actually build.

So here's the real question - If this were 1995 and you didn't have a billionteenth photos of E-Types at your finger tips in .000000009 seconds, would you honestly know the windshield frame was wrong? I mean I can clearly see it isn't right in comparison, but I don't know this car well enough to have an "Ah-HAAAAAAAAAA!!!" moment without the reference photos to compare it to...I'd judge 99% of the customers Revell will sell this to can't either. I'm also willing to bet 100% of these that get built will never be in the same room as a real E-Type, or an actual professional expert of the 1:1 car. I say all of that to say this - Using a "universal" windshield frame, which allows one windshield for both models (presuming a follow up Cabrio) is where the budget meets the road. Sure it's two pieces, 4 cavitations, so maybe $8-10k in tooling costs. BUT that also presumes you could wave a magic fairy wand and just add the parts to the existing parts runners as they sit. But those things all laid out in a way to make sure all that molten plastic actually makes it from one end to another, and it's not just as simple as adding an extra part. It might require an entire re-engineering of the clear and chrome runners, which beyond the CAD time to figure all of that out, might probably require the tooling to be cut in a such a way that it would be make the entire thing cost ineffective. These kits are on eBay for $37 US shipped from the U.K. (probably in a trash sack with no padding, but that's another story), and will most likely be under $25 at my LHS in the U.S. rebox. The McLaren Senna is $63 on pre-order. They both have roughly the same number of parts. Who here is willing to pay $63 for a Revell Jaguar? Exactly...

Couple of odds and ends from SpotModel...from Reji Model The 1978 & 1979 Kremer Minolta liveries for the BeemaNuNu 935 K2/K3. Then the Totip/Benneton livery for the Hasegawa Lancia 037 and replacement wheels for a Hase Legacy Rally kit (1993 RAC kit has the wrong number of spokes). Lastly a pair of sheets from Decalcas for the 1980 Le Mans IMSA class winning Dick Barbour Racing Sachs 935 K3, and 2019 24hrs Turner BMW M6 GTD

Couple of items from LB Production in Hong Kong. The new Land Motorsport/Monoplast sheet that allows either ADAC Masters GT or VLN liveries for 2016. This was a rare double championship as Land took top spot in both German Racing Series that year. Also a set of 3D printed wheels to correct the NuNu BMW 320i, kit tires are a drop fit.

I also appreciate the fact that Round2 has made an unfortunate error on that page and instead of "Trust AMT" it says "RUST AMT"...Freudian slip of the fingers...

But that summary leaves off the best part - that it's molded in Neon Green.

The 007 Mustang should be out in a few days.... Racers Wedge - Late December Nova Wagon & GMC Jimmy (will be coming with pad printed M&H Racemasters) are January releases. Other 1/21 releases as the distribution stands at the moment - Hostess Ford C600 w/27' Trailer, '77 Ford "Surfer" Van with newly tooled surfboard & roof rack, '53 Studebaker in USPS Tin, and '58 Plymouth Street Fury "SLAMMERS" SnapTite - molded in Neon Green

Another secret would be 95% of the models sold go to people who don't care if the real thing is 12" long or 17" long. They buy what the magic styrene fairy defecates into Hobby Lobby when the shelves reset. When the majority of your customers don't care and you multiply it by all the loud mouthed derpage who think models should be priced like Halloween candy at Veteran's Day you have neither the inclination or budget to try harder. Aoshima has been 3D scanning kits for over a decade, Revell (US) had to this point scanned three...vehicles. I'll let you guys figure out the difference in overall customer expectations, sales price point, and budgets.

Clearly you've been fortunate to miss the various - I'd get one, only too bad it's 1/24 (and/or) it should be redone in 1/25 *DERP* - that occurs around here every time one of those old Monogram kits gets reissued.