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The '70 was just reissued in 2012.

Diolex did a civilian interior for the Volvo, that's probably your best bet.

The box art says "Authentic Engine & Suspension Detail"...apparently we're stretching the meaning of authentic and detail a bit these days.

Tamiya did the F1 car from last season.

Based on the new licensing rate for Ferrari, I'd save your incense. The rumors I'm hearing directly out of Japan is that Tamiya is seriously considering not continuing their longstanding license.

At the time Tamiya's 1/24 kit line was in it's infancy. The Audi Quattro rally kit was only the 36th one ever produced - in 2019 they're up to their 349th. Also Tamiya's kit represents a different car number/drivers (possibly the Rally event itself) than the ESCI one does.

Went down to the LHS on Monday because he got in the Ford kit, couple other things followed me home.

I'd like to have one of those G-Wagons for less than they've been selling for recently. I have to think that Fiat is going to be a reboxed Fujimi kit, they're the only ones who ever made a new one that I've ever seen. Also the Renault 5 Alpine (along with the Abarth Rally & the Escort Rally) are already all released for several months at this point, the MKII Escort is a reissue of the Italeri Reissue just with a Rothmans Livery.

Why is it that once a week or so, someone has to get faux offended about the price of something on eBay? That's the real question here. Did you guys take Polaroids of overpriced stuff at garage sales/flea markets back in the day and then gather your family around to tell them how appalled you were? What a hoot that must have been. You're not paying that price, and unless we're talking some serious vintage MIB toy/slot car or whatever neither is anyone else.

My local plastic pusher got his supply in this morning.

Both sets of the new Shunko decals for the Revell Ford GT LM kit representing the 2018 liveries.

Now that it's been officially announced, I feel I'm safe to mention here that Diego at Racing Decals 43 will be the one (or the first anyways) to do both of the "retro" Ford GT liveries as well as this year's Turner Motorsports M6 and P1 Motorsports AMG GT design from Daytona.

It would easier and I dare I say a lot less frustrating to 3D scan the real 1:1 than trying to make anything from the realm of $15 slush casts be spot on accurate. Because in order for accuracy to be determined you'd have to measure out a 1:1 anyways, because if anything has been proven over the past years is you get into a heap of trouble trying to eyeball stuff from pictures. The other downside would be you would then have to create an interior and chassis that fit the confines of this "corrected" resin body rather than reality. What happens when you design the interior from the 1:1 and find out the seats are too wide to fit because the resin kit isn't as wide as it's supposed to be? Or the wheels don't align with the wheel wheels because the 1:1 and resin body don't sync up after all. Sure you could stretch and widen the CAD, but now your lengthening or widening something and that might play with proportions in other ways.

Well there's only so many ways to make decals of a product logo. Frankly you'd have to really want to not use the P/E set to justify buying any of these logo only decals sheets which would wind up being at least half the cost of the detail up by the time you ship them.

Do people on Shapeways get charged for being on Shapeways? I'm not sure what increased prices for prints requires the retirement of a digital file. It's not like it's a tangible physical object until someone decides to buy it.

All of the Tamiya Mica colors are more of a pearl "tint" paint that they anything else and are best when sprayed over a white or silver base. So Mica Silver is effectively a Silver Pearl. As you pointed out there are a great many 80s/90s Tamiya kits that ask you to mix colors that now exist in the X/XF acrylic line or there are TS Colors 20-30 years later that might be closer matches.

ICM is releasing a couple of new figure sets to go along with the Model Ts, along with this new tool car kit. Hope you like the past and Renaults

It's curbside, none of Hasegawa's Group C cars have engines, just parts of the rear transaxle that would show from outside the body work.

MFH has dropped their Ferrari license in the past, I imagine they can only afford to keep it active for so long.

It had been a long before the divorce while since Gravity here got anything from Spain. The divorce pre-dates Mate's inability to fill orders without threatening him with PayPal. I can't say I blame the guy in Spain for using Mate's issues against him to promote his own sales, but at the same time it's been nearly two years (went back and looked at some old posts) since it all happened. It's sort of like when divorced parents still speak ill of each other.

That split happened over a year ago.

Bonus the "Type I" is gonna have a resin "blonde" figure to sit on the hood.

Decals will be made, I've already spoken to a few of the usual suspects and gotten one confirmation.

I would suspect Revell will be running an auto pilot for a year or two over here. There are a number of tools they could run the variations off of before needing to truly worry about investing in an all new tool.

Well arguably that's been my whole reason for existing for the past 3 1/2 years. Separating hobbyists from their money...