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I suspect the letter they published was just one of many of that same content based on the mumblings I've heard at the shows since Don & Carol announced their retirement.

January 2019 releases are (at least, more may get added later in December) '60 Chevy P/U, Chevy NYPD Police Van, and the Coke liveried '32 Ford Sedan Delivery.

The first two sets are December releases. Those along with the Vega Modified are the only releases for December.

The product manager at Aoshima? Their fresh reissues of their older kits say so on the side of the box.

It appears to be directly lifted from the 1977 brochure.

FWIW if you put cabriolet into a French to English translation you get convertible. If you put convertible into a English to French translation you get both cabriolet and the more formal decapotable. I'm guessing since Canadian French is much like Mexican Spanish - eg not precise formal uses of the mother language - Cabriolet is probably acceptable for the North of the Border legal crowd.

Who says it isn't selling good? The last time the Convertible was reissued was in 2007, so it's been awhile since this kit was regularly on retail (read Hobby Lobby) shelves. Really no one here should be surprised at the contents, the Grease pieces and the factory stock building option were known back at the beginning of the year prior to Hobbico even declaring bankruptcy.

I suspect it's due to what we saw with their announcement of the 6R4, then Beemax showing a 3D print of one a few days later. There are only so many Gr. B subjects to begin with, and these two are "fighting" over them, so declaring a claim on something would probably discourage Beemax from attempting that same project in the future. It's especially important to Belkits which doesn't do anything other than Rally subjects, compared to Beemax which has spread themselves around auto racing in general. When Belkits got together with their group of backers and distributors at the 2018 Nuremburg Toy Faire they made kit plans through 2025. How many AMT/Revell kits don't exist at all because of the old stories of - Well AMT had one in development, but heard Revell was doing one and so they scrapped it and then neither made the kit at all - and vice versa.

There really hasn't been any news to speak of beyond the list of products they put out that's the thread Casey referenced. Then again that takes them through the end of 2018 and included a handful of new/modified kits, and for the hiccups in U.S. distribution they've been making the releases so far as the Escalade reissue is on the shelves this week.

Got the box art today for the Citroen C3s

I dug and dug and I found someone who made a tribute Martini 934 with that exact livery and car number, which means it must have run some race somewhere at some point in 1974/1975, and Martini was sponsoring pretty much every other 911 variant at the time and there are definitely 935s pre-Kremerfication.

The 1Q filler stuff is always shown at Telford, and it's always a snooze fest in automotive terms. The question to come will be does the new The Revell follow the existing pattern for its European operations and show the rest of 2019 at 12:01am New Years Day?

From playing around with the GT configuration tool on Ford's website, it looks like all the trim is matte black plastic as Standard. Getting it all in either matte or gloss carbon fiber is an option.

All of the Stateside pre-orders seems to be in the $45 range, so this is probably going to be about $30-32 in Japan (have to wait til tomorrow morning for those pre-orders to open since this kit was announced on a Saturday morning over there). If Tamiya was doing any accessories they would have been announced with it, so it looks more like the NSX in contents. But Hobby Design and Studio27 aftermarket exists to C/F and P/E that one up to your heart's (and sanity's) content.

Ahh good I've wanted one of the Büssing trucks ever since I realized it was discontinued (isn't that always the way), and haven't felt like paying the rabid "VHTF SUPER RARE" eBay pricing.

The parts were molded there and then sent over in bulk and were packaged stateside. Revell was effectively contracting with AG to do a production run for them.

Since the tooling for the Chevelle is complete, and everything gets tooled at once, multiplied by the fact they effectively paid next to nothing for it, any sales will be satisfactory and spin off the rest. Also Pinto would be this -

Throw me in the I'll wait for the Revell one. Yes the initial release is a '68, but like there isn't a '69 cooked up in there as well along with Motion and Yenko kits.

For anyone keeping track at home this is Tamiya 24346 - aka the "Missing Number" kit. So that mystery is solved. I don't begrudge the choice, but with both the TS050 and Mazda 1:1s on display, a cynical part of me thinks they could have gotten at least as much mileage out of doing a TS050 and then reissue the Mazda so you could have both Japanese Le Mans winners on the shelves at the same time. Studio27 did a C/F sheet for the Mazda this spring, so support still exists for a kit that hasn't seen the light of day in over a decade. Plus Tamiya would probably move a few additional 050s for people who wanted to do other WEC races outside of the 24hrs.

I'm guessing he WANTED it molded in red, since there's a sticker on the box that's says that is what the contents should be.

So that's a no for Tim. Alright next in line.

The line for everyone who always claims they'd buy Tamiya kits if they made U.S. cars starts over there. Put up or shut up in January. ---------------------->

All of the current/future tech is very promising, but still runs afoul of the normal issue that isn't budging - licensing. It could theoretically work for parts and bodies so long as you ran them on a small enough scale to be seen as cottage aftermarket, but as soon as you try to crank out something in a significant enough volume and/or size (aka a full kit) the Cease and Desist Police are gonna come knocking. The question then becomes does someone with the technical wherewithal, financial abilities to buy the machinery and not living on borrowed time (well that last part is impossible) then also have enough bank roll - or ability to crowd source the funding to cover that up front and per unit % fee that is going to be required.

Correct scale...in your opinion. Even though there are only something like a half dozen tractors ever in 1/2x, and only a couple or other pieces of construction equipment. Yet the majority of tractors and all the rest of that stuff (including the rest of Hasegawa's newer line) is 1/35 military scale. I mean I understand the "that would be nice" of it being in automotive scale, but based on the actual evidence involved it seems like 1/2x would be the wrong scale.

Tobacco and Alcohol sponsorships got yanked out of model kits in the early 1990s starting with AMT/Ertl's NASCAR kit when a Rusty Wallace Miller Beer car was mid-planning changed to "Pontiac Excitement" - a livery it never ran - because a bunch of do gooder busy bodies had put pressure on the kit manufacturers that seeing such things would cause teens and young adults to stop huffing paint and glue and go get a serious adult addiction. Revell got around it for a hot second at the end of their run of NASCAR kits (early 2000s) by branding the kits as "Adult Collectibles" and not allowing them to be sold by major chain stores or anywhere else those eeeeeeevil liveries might prey upon children. For some reason only Martini and Jaegermiester have some how survived this prohibition, perhaps because the fame of "Martini Racing" supercedes the fact that Martini & Rossi is an alcoholic beverage company.