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I get what you're saying, but at the same time they're reissuing a specific kit, and that kit didn't have all those parts in 1977, so it's not going to now either. As for getting excited about a 41 year old van kit, I can't see how anyone would be, but it'll float someone's goat I'm sure.

From what I've read of their back and forth, there is no plan to fix the mostly-sorta "it started at a Mopar project" front suspension. Also when you're being "forced" to run extra tooling to cut new front and rear bumpers and grille inserts for the Oldsmobile, maybe that's a clue you should fix the "universal" nature of your Monte Carlo bumper. I mean do I need to buy the Mopar Wing Car kit to get the correct '74 Monte Carlo bumper? Is that going to be the way they sell extra kits - just make you have to buy the next new tool kit to get all the fixed pieces for the last one? How very Yenko/"COPO" Nova of them.

Some more CAD images today. *sigh* I guess they're just gonna plow on ahead with no actual 1974 bumper or marker lights cut outs on the front fender Although I suppose the latter might be addressable via decals to represent the sheet metal inserts. I'll just sit here and wait until the "You should shut up and be happy we still have model kits" brigade shows up and defends how this is even plausibly O.K. in 2018 for a $35+ model kit, when people have been screaming at them since Day 1 the first CAD images dropped that the bumper was wrong. EDIT - Also does the chassis really sit in the rear end like that - a country mile short of the back bumper and a scale half foot short of the rear quarters? Sooooo there's just a giant gaping hole to the inside of the body?

Oh I don't know, usually it looks mediocre and goofed up. Then people exclaim it's just a test shot and Revell will fix it, and not to judge until you have the model in your hands. Then the day comes and it's still the same pile of mediocre unfixed nonsense inside the box. The fact that it looks pretty decent on the box art buildups would lend me to believe they might have actually pulled it off more than the last several attempts.

Got shots of the completely built and finished Beemax Lancia S4 they put together for the show next weekend. December release. Replacing some of the mesh with the P/E vents oughta really make this one quite nice.

At the same time, if you want a '68 Chevelle - unless there's something really goofed up and wrong about the Revell proportions - why on earth would anyone pay $170 for a built kit, when an minty fresh new one would be $25 or less?

Well remember all of this box art was drawn up pre-bankruptcy, and for the financial and practical reasons (further delaying an already delayed unasked for reissue) they weren't going to have it re-done.

The South Hills Modelers Association is proud to announce their 10th Annual Model, Toy, Diecast Expo and Contest. Sunday March, 31st, 2019 (9am to 3pm) at the venerable Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Department Hall. 3600 Library Rd (PA Route 88), Pittsburgh, PA 15234 14 Classes * People Choice "Judging" * Special Club Awards This year's theme is - Flashback to the 70's!! From AMC to Willys and All Vehicles in Between. CAN YOU DIG IT? Admission is $5, Children Under 12 - Free. Floor Rights $10 at 8am. Free Parking, ATM & Food ON SITE.

No reason a 288GTO should be anyone's grail kit, Fujimi reissued it in 2015 and it's available all over the place in Japan for less than $20. Fujimi never made a curbside version of it like they did with some of the other the Enthusiast Series kits, so any 288 is the same as the original.

It's some sort of diecast Dale Jr. thing from Action Race Collectibles.

Well now that you have a company in control that effectively doesn't need to make the same sort of profit to make a profit - once they make back that $100k investment in Revell USA it's all gravy (beyond operation costs of running the kits and printing boxes, instructions and decals) - perhaps those "hidden" variations of existing tools will be pushed out faster.

Mine had an entire endcap of those Revell CARS licensed Junior Kit "kits", I wonder if those came from Toys R Us...

I would expect three or more considering they're carrying around all that Yenko and Baldwin-Motion licensing still. '68, '69, Yenko, BM, and something that can feature a drag racing version ala the '69 Nova with the SBC

We got a new end cap here in SW Pennsylvania, none of these were in the first "blowout" of kits that had all the Danica NASCAR kits and pre-paint Revells.

The tooling for all the versions would have been cut by pre-bankruptcy Hobbico Revell given it was in test shot phase before the wheels came off. It would be somewhat silly to not run what is basically a free new tool mold considering if they sell out a run of the '68 if would effectively pay for the entire cost of the U.S. tooling & company trademarks/licensing.

The one '70 Challenger is the 1980s 1/24 Monogram kit, the newer one is 1/25, and as I recall is plastic run through a diecast tool.

As has been discussed elsewhere before there's nothing special about the Special Edition kits, it's just one of Revell's many marketing "segments" that allows retailers to order mixed case assortments of kits. They have no higher or lower parts count than any other new tool offering.

If your own model with a new owner beat you, and he entered it as his own work - I gotta admit I'd be tempted to go up and help him claim his award. Ya know raise his arm up like you two won the Tag Team Championship...

I really wouldn't care, I haven't gotten to the point of selling anything as of yet. But if I were to sell a contest quality model, it would have already made the yearly circuit with me in the first place. At that point it's a nice shelf piece, or something to bring out for the club display, but I wouldn't be entering it into another regularly attended contest anyways. I know *gasp* actually building new models for the same contests - a bit shocking and unheard of these days. One group of old fuddy duddies actually had the audacity to talk VERY LOUDLY about re-entering the same models over and over again every year. To the tune of - "What do they expect us to build new models every year? REAL CAR BUILDERS DON'T DO THAT!!!" I personally would love to see the reaction at AMBR or similar show if someone drug out the same car and re-entered it again the following year. Seems like the people who build real cars - and by that I presume they meant professionals of that level - most certainly do build new cars all the time, especially for "competition". Sure Joe Schmoe might only ever own a '69 Nova in his life, but going to Cars n Coffee every weekend and a couple of summer cruises isn't a competition either.

The Linkin Park/320 Change Direction AMG GT entered by Gruppe M Racing at the 2017 FIA GT World Cup race in Macau. 320 Change Direction is a mental health/suicide awareness organization run by Chester Bennington's wife. Irony...or perhaps a bittersweet twist of fate Chester never got to see the car run that race.

Couple of things floated over on the SAL Donkey.

Yeah the leg to Customs is never actually put into tracking. If people knew what did or didn't get secondary screenings they'd be able to avoid it.

There's a couple of them in there about waiting multiple years for parts. I mean if you're that...patient...keep waiting and maybe someone will remember to put "Never Got Those Parts" on your headstone, because obviously you should have dealt with it 2+ years ago when the request wasn't filled within a month.

Well if your package has been "Processed Through the ISC" as far as the tracking goes, and then it disappears, that means USCBP has a hold of it - and they'll give it back whenever they dang well please. Packages don't hang out at the ISC, there's no room considering the 2 way volume relative to the size of the facilities - I worked hauling mail in and out of the Chicago ISC (at O'Hare) for several years, most days you'd lose an hour or more just in line waiting to dock the truck into the building, Christmas time is sheer insanity.