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It's a couple of pictures of the placard Moebius had on their table at the Hobby Expo in Vegas in late 2023. Obviously they didn't quite hit that 2024 date. Somewhere on here in the Car section Dave addressed the development of their future projects and as I recall this was still in the design stages with other stuff coming before it. Sunward are some strange cats in general based on their YouTube channel content. I suppose it's meant to be humorous, but it just comes off as weird.

Back when I was less than thrilled with the back seat they actually sent me a couple of short videos showing at GTAm with something that appears closer to the kit seats except carpeted in really fuzzy nearly shag style sound deadening material. Imagine a carpeted speaker box except the entire rear seat area is covered in it. That's not what the current GTAm looks like at all, with a more spartan race car style stripped rear seating area. I kinda wonder if the problem is with them building it from an early prototype and not the production car. As the car in the videos didn't seem to have the production car Sport Seats either. It's still a disappointment considering the cost, but I took one look at the test shot and went - Well guess I'm filling in the rear seat holes and building a GTA out of that.

As others have pointed out there's still the T-Top headliner, which when you think about the tooling is the top of the bottom if you will. That stuff is engraved on the top part of the core (aka bottom) of the mold. So the plastic flows between it and the top part of the mold that has the outside sheet metal part. They very likely just created a new top flat metal inset that gets "tacked" into place to run the tool this way, which is why the door opening isn't quite the right shape. These era of Monogram tool is a large one piece (well two, top and bottom) mold that injects as a whole all at once. That's why the flat hood is just dangling off to the side of existing parts, and why all the other 3n1 parts are still there. It would be a huge pain in the rear to have to weld everything off and then cut the welds out to run it "normally" again.

I pointed out things were wrong prior to the public announcement of the release, but they didn't fix anything. This is a quick and dirty reissue that uses the prior parts with a couple of things added to it. There's a Mugen Civic coming at the same that appears to not have anything resembling the wheels which is a glaring part of the visible differences compared to the kit they're reissuing from... both are quick and dirty (and lazy) things to make sure they had some stuff on the market so they would have some sales prior to Lunar New Year break.

Wouldn't 65 and up Mustangs be all of them? 🤣

Just the one 1970 kit.

Body and flat hood. The Monogram '79 Camaro had always been a T-Top prior to this release.

There hardly anyone in the U.S. that will do plating anymore on commercial injection molded kits. You want chromed parts on an aftermarket kit being produced in a war zone?

In the previous post I mentioned being too lazy to take these photos, but I eventually overcame my procrastination. Shunko sheets are for the Tamiya Pajero Dakar kit. The others are all from Reji Model- The Audi is one sheet that builds either the '18 or '19 car. Another random sheet for the Belkits 6R4 and Bastos sheet for the Ascona. And the "logo sheets" for the 555s on Hasegawa Subarus and the Rothmans logos for the Ascona kit.

Yes this is the Circa 1969 everything opens Revell kit. Their box art is a homage to the original.

It's an "industry" standard within modern aftermarket that anything that doesn't need a donor and can be built directly "out of the box" is a "Full Kit" regardless as to whether or not it's a "full detail kit (aka w/engine)" in terms of injection molded kit parlance. Anything that isn't a full kit is a transkit, which within the name indicates your transforming something else with the resin parts and you'd need said donor kit (and probably a decent modicum of skill and experience) to build the item.

Put in an order at SpotModel after Christmas with a bunch of decals I'm too lazy to photograph, and also both versions of the Belkits Opel Ascona 400

The kit is out in it's North American boxing, it's running roughly $47-$52 depending on where you buy it which is a hot discount compared to importing the Euro boxing and dealing with Euro conversion and Int'l Shipping. There's boxings for both sides of the Atlantic as shown in the first post of this thread.

However in modern kit injection molding gates are no longer used. The tool runs with all of the parts, and you're suggesting gating out (if you don't want windows or chrome) 98% of a single piece tool to pop a body and hood for a kinda sorta the thing (previous messages about tooling changes to the original taken into consideration) you want. Ya know I guess if it were some sort of "One Run of Fun" release and you were personally going to be responsible for all the slings and arrows Round2 would take for releasing a "close enough" version of the kit. But I doubt Round2 is going to risk damaging their tool by welding gates into it and trying to figure out the flow rates on injecting a fraction of the tool on something that could never be reissued again. The UnReal Edsel is rapidly closing in on being 60 years old and the vast majority of it's customer base is closing in on (or past) 70. They aren't going to need another one when they're 80+ yrs old.

The 65 is probably tooled in a way the suspension/drivetrain can be run separately because it goes under all of the other AWB subjects. The question is whether the 90s Edsel body & Chrome can run without the rest of the tooling. It probably isn't economical to have to scrap 90% of the Edsel kit just to pack the body into something else, let alone tool new parts to boot.

Frankly I'd be happy if someone made new tools in 1/24 of both the Fiat and MkII Escort to ship those ancient ESCI kits off to purgatory where they belong 40+ years later. The other things you mentioned are Belkits, not Beemax. The problem is Belkits is still 3 years behind (given their one kit per year pace) given they still have the RS200 and 3 Renaults pending.

I just mean there are a lot of EF3 & EF9 Civics that ran stuff like Spa (which they did both R31 & R32s for), Macau, and more than the "famous 4" that were in JTCC. Hasegawa does love to release nearly every version of something no matter how obscure (see the AE92 & 101 Levins). Not sure they could do the Cabin one period as that's a eeeevil Tobacco livery. Interestingly the Fujimi EK they just reissued in Late Version boxing actually has a newly tooled body in it. But I'd still take a current "look" Hasegawa version of one. Not so sure about a 1996 version given how basic the EG Civics are (in comparison to the newer stuff). Also definitely a vote for a 3rd Gen Civic to "replace" the Tamiya kit and plug holes in early JTCC collections.

I didn't intend for this to be a Nissan only shipment, but sometimes that's the way the releases crumble. Latest box from HLJ.

Correct.

I'm guessing there will be an EF3 (Earlier 4th Gen than 1990) version to come along with a few years worth of racing kits out of this one. For those who are like - Ooo another Civic - Whoopie! - I can't help that exactly, but for JDM/Tuner folks there's (for whatever reason) never been a factory stock kit of a 4th Gen Civic. Beemax/NuNu have released about a half dozen racing kits of the EF3 & EF9, but you're only bet for making one into a street car was a lot of resin or 3D printing with some kitbashing mixed in there. This should be a strong seller, especially if they don't double up on the previous race versions already done. The 4th Gen Civics ran from the 1988 Season through the 1991 Season and were the most popular and successful JTCC Group 3 car, there's dozens of choices beyond the ones already done.

So after an arduous journey because HobbyEasy used some odd 3rd Party shipper instead of the usual HongKong Post - which involved this being handled by UPS Mail Innovations. The only thing Innovative about it is how long they take to deliver it to the USPS for the final mile. Anyways here's my Tamiya 911 GT3RS. Also with this shipment a set of Fat Frog (HobbyEasy house brand) "regular" GT3RS wheels, a set of decals from MixHobby for a random 2021 GT Sprint Challenge (Chinese National Series) Audi R8 [I'm a decalholic], and Studio27 P/E frets for the Hasegawa R32 GT-R and Mk 3 Supra race cars.

This is the typical Moebius reissue of a Model King "exclusive" kit. Pretty much every kit that Dave has helped to fund in some way (different engine, racing option, the ramp truck parts) is eventually reissued as a Moebius branded kit after a period of a few years at their normal production quantity. By the time this winds it's way around, it will have been two years since the original MK kit was released.

Some Ferds from the LHS Also the latest from the folks at PZY/Kitbox. A resin multimedia Liberty Walk Ferrari F40