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We'll see what they have to say when it get closer to the kit being reissued. When the restore/reissue something that's "historically significant" they tend to make a big deal out of it in the literature. If it's a straight reissue of how it's been the past several times it will just mumble something about vintage box art and new decals.

Tomy kept the Ertl brand and still uses it to produce all manner of diecast farm implements. It's been 10-11 years now, but I distinctly recall Round2 saying they didn't get anything from that Ertl farm line, including the plastic kit tooling. So presumably Tomy still has it hidden away somewhere if they didn't scrap it.

I wonder how long it will be before Moebius or Burkett sells the bed itself. The thing is also a drop fit onto the LWB '67-72 Fords as well, I have to think once the initial run of kits has sold out, there's a pile of money sitting there waiting to be spent on that bed as a stand alone.

Round2 doesn't have the licensing or tooling to those old Ertl tractors.

I bet it's the wagon, it's been a little while since that was out last (6 yrs), and I don't think it was ever released in Europe.

I've been working with S.K. Decals to get some commercial grade silk screen decals done of some of the more remarkable liveries. This month Battlefield 1 and IWC Watches liveries were released to anyone interesting in those who haven't already built them. The other bug-a-boo to me about Slotfabrik is that they are just created on what seems like a whim sometimes with very little eye given to the accuracy of any given livery. To his credit he will go back and fix things if you notice errors, but for decals that cost more than anything else out there when you factor in shipping to the U.S. they shouldn't be so hard to work with, and then need constant "updating" to make them correct. I have 13 of the AMGs and 5 of the M6s, but no time to build any of them...

Platz just footed the bill and distributes the kit. NuNu "makes" it, but is in fact a separate operating arm of Beemax - ergo the references to the BMW licensing being from Beemax on the box lids. This is a very nice set of builds, and I commend you for pistol whipping those SlotFabrik decals into something presentable.

Remember a body mold is at least four pieces - two sides and a top/bottom (some times if the front and rear are molded to the body then it would slide mold into 6 pieces) - so to remove the window vents and side trim would just require the separate '69 side pieces. There are also obviously gated off parts, and the way the chrome runner is engineered there's a mirror image part gated off that would line up on the opposite side of the bumpers and front grill. That mostly likely has the '69 parts tooled on it. One last point- broken record time - it's already all tooled! No matter what is or isn't there, it's all cut at the same time on modern tooling. This is also the "last" (in terms of ready to market kits we know about) of the old Revell tools. So they no doubt had 3-5 versions planned in order to make this a viable investment.

MicroSet & MicroSol (or any of the branded two sets like Tamiya's) are sort of the intro to a misbehaving decal. Solvaset is the nuclear option by comparison. It will pistol whip almost anything, but it can also eat decals if you get to heavy handed with it.

Lobby Hours and the hours the employees work are unrelated. They are there well before and after the lobby hours every day.

My only issue with EMS tracking is that if it doesn't get scanned properly at Narita (the airport in Tokyo for the uninitiated), then that leg of the trip is dark and it will sometimes not reappear on the USPS tracking until the package is being held at the Post Office. The box I just shipped was picked up 2 1/2 days ago...and that's it, but I bet it shows up magically the day after Christmas.

Shipping cost more from everywhere to everywhere, the shipping out of Japan in "bulk" (more than 3 kits) has gone from around $6 per kit, to around $10. FedEx used to be cheaper than the Postal Services, but they've jacked their rates up to the point it costs 1.5x MORE than EMS, when it always used to be far cheaper option. Meanwhile FedEx is having all sorts of losses on their International Shipping...Wonder why...

I feel sorry for you guys up there sometimes, you just get relentlessly hosed. ICM Ford kits sell for $35 all day long on eBay.

New tool stuff says so, that'll just be a rebox of the ICM kit.

There was a discussion of the Land Rover III, but that list says it's a new tool, not some rework of someone else's ancient piece, so that would be somewhat interesting. Also on there as a new tool is Deutz D30 Tractor - something to go with that Porsche, and would fulfill the foreshadowing of the pre-bankruptcy Revell US rebox that said "Tractor Series".

I'm going to presume you mean Fujimi, as in the Enthusiast Series, as Tamiya kits don't have 174 parts in 1/24 and they certainly didn't do any 356 Porsches.

I'd say two things to that. First off, they're not very expensive if you direct import them from Japan yourself vs. paying the ridiculous markup that gets placed on Hasegawa kits in North America. Secondly I believe the body for this is more or less directly lifted off the Johan kit, which upon a quick glance seems to sell from the $70s for a promo, to well in excess of $120 for the actual kits themselves. Might be the most effective way to restoring one of those if you have a rebuilder or partial kit lying around that needs a new body/glass/bumpers.

I guess I should have been more specific that the insanity "era" was only 2.5 seasons. Beemax also makes kits of the Nissan 240RS & TA64 Toyota Celica which are both Gr. B cars. Belkits makes a kit (two different ones, the only difference being liveries all the parts are in both) of the Gr. B Opel Manta. Beemax of course has the Lancia Delta S4 coming this month and Porsche 911 SC/RS, and Belkits have the Rover 6R4 and Ford RS200 coming, so Gr B. is finally getting some love outside of resin garage items 30 some odd years later.

There plenty of things that don't move my needle either, but I don't go into the in-box review thread about it and publicly declare it a waste of time. Modeler's is a Japanese resin company catering to a Japanese market, which has bought and built these things like proverbial breakfast items.

Yes. Quite literally the only one.

Seller is from Taiwan, not Hong Kong. Or at least that's where that package is coming out of as "TW" designates it a Chungwha Post which is the Taiwanese Postal Service. As far as shipping time goes, well it's enamel paint and that's considered flammable HazMat by the International Postal Treaties, so you may literally waiting on the slow boat from China to come in as it will have to be shipped via Surface Routes if the seller was honest. If not it'll probably take a week or two, i find a lot of International sellers pad out their shipping times simply because if it shows up in 15 days, when you go to fill out the feedback you'll check off that part where it says "Did it arrive by xzy", and it keeps people from filing PayPal disputes when they don't get their package from halfway around the world in 2 business days.

The fenders on that kit are part of the body and it's been reissued a bazillion and a half times sans D1 tie-in as the URAS R34 Sedan. As Rob stated it's a completely new tool kit, the front clip pieces being separate allow them to tool other variations by swapping out some parts rather than creating entirely new body cavity pieces. We've seen this from Aoshima with the Toyota ProBoxs - which will presumably be backdated to their earlier sheet metal at some point and probably see some VIP action. As well as the Toyota Vellfire/Alphard van kits from Fujimi. I suspect this kit will see either GT-X or GT-V spec at some point which was the more base model More Door Skyline as well as backdating the car prior to it's 2000 face-lift.

Well no there wouldn't be. Even before everything went under German ownership there was never an *Official* announcement that the U.S. side was going to release the kit itself. With the consolidation being done and everything day to day effectively under Revell"AG" management I'll be curious if anything they make specifically for the European market is reboxed for North America.

Pretty sure if small "one man" operations like Galaxie and Salvinos JR can magic up GM licensing, Moebius wouldn't have an issue either. The new Fords are just further in development because they share a mess of the tooling with the first batch of F-Series kits.