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  1. niteowl7710
    Well if the question is very specifically 1/25th scale...then no, there is not set of those wheels in any media I'm aware of in U.S. scale. As others have stated there's a slew of Fujimi and Hasegawa (many boxings beyond the two shown) kits that include them in 1/24th.
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    I remember seeing pictures of when Dave got in the '69 Fords and it required a semi with a pup trailer to make that delivery.
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    Well isn't that always the way? But what I understood from John (the above referenced hobby shop) was the first kits would come in Monday, and then he was getting a second larger shipment today (Wednesday 1/13 for those reading from the past), so more should be available soon from him at least.
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    It all depends on what wholesaler various places use. Hobby Lobby and HobbyTown USA do their own. So the kits have to be shipped twice. A lot of the new kit sellers on eBay are brick and mortar hobby shops as well. The "automodels2" that people are referencing here is Auto Models, LLC in Greensburg, PA who's a major show vendor on the East Coast and has an actual storefront.
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    That's my LHS, they have them.
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    I think part of this thing's design "charm" is probably related to the fact that at the time all Renault vehicles were supposed to be adhering to a company wide rear-engine/RWD mandate, but at the time the only rear engine van was the VW T1 and Renault designers didn't think a rear-engine arrangement would allow them to create the extreme low floor loading they wanted. The wanted the Estafette to be a smaller version of the Citroen Fourgon Type H which is a giant sheet metal can on wheels. So begrudgingly Renault allowed the design team to make it front engine, but only if they could make it work with existing parts which is how this thing ended up with the engine out of the Dauphine wedged the wrong way round with a van specific gearbox - which in the end allowed them to tailor the ratios specifically to the performance they were seeking from the van.
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    This kit should be in stock at most brick and mortar hobby shops (and probably the bigger mail order places) as of this morning.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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).
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    Ford GT40 is a Fujimi rebox, the rest of it (albeit in German) is here. https://www.kitreviewsonline.de/revell-neuheiten-2021/
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Or it's because they paid next to nothing for it, and then sold the NASCAR stuff to Salvinos...
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    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.
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    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...
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    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?
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    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.
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