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Just because they (any manufacturer) didn't make a new tool kit of the personal hot button item you individually want doesn't mean they didn't make any new kits at all.

This existential crisis over your shared childhoods is fun reading and all, but doesn't Customs Canada have an online catalog that covers the classification and taxation of imports? Because I would think that would be the answer to the original base question. Canada doesn't have a kit manufacturer, so they have to import every kit up there and I don't see how you could change the taxation status of a product once it's in-country. For what it's worth Model Kits are classified as their own item, but full under the General Category of Toys as far as the U.S. Customs is concerned when determining import duties and taxes.

Given the already existing kit logjam I'd guess it'd be the end of 2025 before there's a chance to see it.

The two newest releases from Alpha Model. The 458 Speciale A is a remastered version of the 4th complete kit they sold way "back when". New decals offering pretty much all of the striping options as well as pre-cut carbon fiber grace this reissue. The C63 AMG Black Series is a must for the Benzophile as it slots in right after the now unobtainium Aoshima SL65 Black Series chronologically.

S.K. Decals will be stepping up with a decal sheet of the GT3 RS stripes in the other factory colors beyond the 4 offered on the kit provided decals.

Newest sheets from LB Production, these are for the NuNu 2018 Porsche 911 GTE kit.

I think speculating on tariffs is at best reckless and at it's worst fear mongering. No one know what tariffs, if any, will actually be applied to Toys (which is how model kits are considered by U.S. Customs). Removing politics a giant smothering blanket of high tariffs would just result in counter-tariffs on U.S. Goods and once U.S. businesses start howling and people's 401(k)s crater from the drop in the markets there would suddenly be a magical change in policy. Any tariffs would have to be targeted as they were in the last go around - to whit the present administration never rescinded the majority of the one's put in place by Trump 1.0 and we somehow all managed to survive. Tariffs would also be applied to the wholesale taxable value of the item, not the MSRP so presuming the end cost would jump that high is incorrect. A flimsy "did it just cause I said I would" 10% tariff would add like $1.80 to the price.

No one will mistake me for Tim, but here ya go.

That kit was released as the Saldana car AFTER the implosion. It was run in China and labeled under the Revell GmbH ownership, so they still have it.

The kit came out 2 years ago, and this thread would have stayed dead if someone hadn't decided to raise it like a zombie.

Usually 1-2 months in advance under the Pre-Order tab. Right now the December kits are up there (there are no actual kit releases coming this month).

Today's box of goodies fresh off the DHL Flight from Japan.

Round2 posts all sides of the box and the bottom on Auto World Store their direct to consumer retail site. So it's out there to ponder to your heart's content, if you know where to look.

Revell Germany reissued the Type 3 kit last year and it also has a Yellow & White van on the box. That's probably what you've seen floating around. When I talked to Ed last end of the year was the expected release date for the Stranger Things kits.

I believe technically they're all "our" (Revell US) kits that are getting reboxed for the European market.

Catching up on this month's wares...I went to the Plastic Undercover Show outside of Akron. Then we have this month's HLJ crate. Got a few "regular" kits. And the rest of my lifetime supply of NuNu Hobby Porsche 911 RSRs and the corresponding etch set. I already have decals for all of these.

Heh..I do find it amusing that this kit is supposed to be released in a month or so and they're using CAD teasers instead of actual parts...or even a built test/production shot of the models. I wonder if that isn't to try to...for lack of a better term - trick - people into buying it sight unseen. A number of Italeri's new tools across the spectrum of their ranges have been critiqued for bad dimensions or odd/bad engineering choices.

No love it's a straight reissue. The 64 could get tweaks as it was a new tool.

Oh I wholeheartedly agree Chris' channel is a fantastic one stop "shopping" site for seeing kit contents/minute changes, especially on all of the eleventyhundreth reissue of the same AMT kit with new decals.

Well I mean this thread was drug out of the depth of the dungeons. He suddenly replied to a comment I made over TWO YEARS ago. At any rate my comment still stands. His quick and dirty builds show all the warts a kit posseses (whether that's intentional, or just a by-product of 48 hr rush jobs) and I don't understand why anyone would want their product featured in such a way as to imply a new/returning modeler can't build a decent looking model out of the box with a bare bones set of skills. I'd want my products sent to someone who was either gonna take the time - or possess the skills - to make it look as excellent as possible. He gets all this stuff for free, it's in everyone's best interest if it showcased the product in the best light. For all the static Revell has gotten here over the years, other than some 4x4 ride heights on sports cars you never see their kits look bad when Chris builds them compared to how the F-250 that was the subject of my comments back then.

And one that doesn't exist in any kit form. The Alpha Models GT3RS is close, but still not the right model year. But the Tamiya kit is an entire chassis platform newer than the one he wants.

SnapCar is a brand new 1/24 line of kits which have a traditional style of parts. These '22 GTRs are the second kit. Next will be a current Suzuki Jimny. Next three after that will be a '17 GTR, a Mk4 Supra and Mitsubishi Evo III. SnapKit (what you built) is a 1/32 Scale Series of very simplified starter models.