niteowl7710

Well the Colt Galant GTO was never exported to the U.S. at all. In fact very few were exported outside of Japan, and those that were wound up mostly in New Zealand, England & Ireland. So all of the exported versions were RHD. There is no LHD version of this car, nor is there one of the 1st Gen Civics they've made - so far they've all been Japanese only trim levels. Nor the Isuzu Gemini which again only came as an Imscher Turbo & ZZ Tuned by Lotus in Japan. I understand what you're saying, but at the same time they can't just make a LHD MURICA! version of something that didn't exist.

I'm sure they could do that from Germany, but that still wouldn't give them an actual agent in the U.S. to accept all of these imported goods. I mean they are shipping in models by the container or at least partial container load, not Fedex'ing each box. This is the whole reason Revell has no way to distribute their own German (well Polish) made kits into the U.S. because Hobbico via Revell USA was their importing agent - whereas they have agreements with other companies and vendors around the globe, which is why other places continue to receive their kits unabated.

They have made some semi-full stuff since then in 1/24. But nobody anywhere really makes stuff to the level of the Enthusiast kit (and Revell Premium as well) anymore with maybe the exception of the Tamiya LFA which was way more kit than it really needed to be.

Revell has distribution everywhere BUT the U.S., which is being remedied by the building of a sales office. If they can import things from China, they'll be able to import them from Germany too. Also for everyone note - SALES OFFICE - at the moment there isn't a plan (or a public one anyways) to put back in a R&D/Design department. But they need on the ground sales people to handle accounts for the Hobby Lobby, HTUSA & Stephens Int'ls of the world.

Cost and convenience. The Enthusiast 911s were tooled in 1985, so it's not like there are CAD files to go in a quickly modify. This kit is a new tool, which would mean a new engine would have to be created which would raise the price on an already spendy (for Fujimi) kit up close to the $50 mark considering the engine would have no practical use in anything else in Fujimi's catalog. It's a puzzling choice for a model kit in the first place, Porsche only made TWO of the 1:1 cars to begin with, and they weren't entered into that many events.

Well it's not exactly like anything Revell has made - with perhaps the exception of the '30 Ford - has exactly been made in limited quantities. Just because you can't find kit xyz at Hobby Lobby doesn't mean there aren't 150 of them floating around at various model shows and eBay, etc. Another form of life can come to this planet in 1,000 years and ponder why on earth there were so many "every body panel opens" 1957 Chevrolet kits manufactured.

Pretty sure - at least in the picture included on Spotmodel - the 935 Gr. 5 car is the Dick Barbour #70 that finished 2nd in the '79 24hrs Le Mans.

I'd be good for a set of those decals, but the kit is going to come with the livery in the picture on Spotmodels for that 24hrs of Le Mans car - although that sort of thing could be subject to change in the next 6 months depending on licensing. So best bet is the aftermarket on this one, it almost has to be. I'm not really sure I wanna think about how much licensing would cost to use the Apple logos & names...

Well it's the first time you've seen one (although it's a reissue of an earlier version of the same kit) because there is no 87C kit. It's their 88C kit with a 87 livery and instructions in the instructions on how to at least partially backdate it - including adding sheet styrene to the rear wheel arches to square them off. FWIW the Brun 962C would require a substantial re-work to make it accurate to that car, but then again 99% of the people who'd see it would never know what the 1:1 looks like vs. any other 962C.

Those will have to wait until the tooling is done for the Monte Carlo which is still a few months down the line right now, none of the revised pieces - be it bumpers, or suspension - is being run separately before hand. Once that stuff is done, it should be able to be included in Oldsmobile kits released into 2019.

Powerslide already makes this livery that also has pieces to fit a '73 Laguna, and '77 Monte Carlo, so there's no real need to buy the uncorrected kit especially for the decals.

I'm not starting a new Oldsmobile thread for this - but Salvinos JR announced a run of 2,500 Hawaiian Tropic '79 kits for delivery in mid-September. Same kit as the Gray Ghost, none of the fixes and/or "upgrades" to the tooling are done yet.

I have no idea if you guys had any plans to build anything other than Porsches and BMWs in 2019, but you were very, very wrong...

Here's an example of how the mylar and decals are being done in the "Next" Series of kits. These are effectively SnapTite kits that don't need paint or glue - and they take that to the edge by including things like the window trim, interior "wood" trim, etc on the sticker sheets. But then also include a small water slide sheet for the more experienced modeler who wants no part of a press n stick nightmare. Some of the scripting is in two colors on the mylar sheet because they're releasing this same kit molded in black next month. These are for the new Alphard van released this morning, but they're representative of the series as a whole.

Why would Hobby Lobby have anything other than the kit that just got reissued this week? Did they start buying old kit collections to replace the stolen antiquities?

That would be in order. They don't really make new kits, they don't exist anymore, and they would need 3-5 variants to make the tooling viable financially.

Reji - S.K. (1982 & 1983 Guia Race of Macau)

Should be noted too that even though every test shots and box art shows the fender pod mirrors, the kit does come with the door mirror parts as well, so you won't have to conjure up something to make that part accurate to the 1:1.

There are as of this point - publicly acknowledged at least - 7 livery sets for the 935 K2. 2 from Decalcas 3 from Reji 2 from S.K. Decals

Decalcas (from Spain) is supposed to be doing that livery set. I suspect it'll still be a month or two before they come out since the kit itself was just released last week beyond Hong Kong/Macau. Spotmodel carries their stuff, but I think so far it's just under the "Soon" tab without the actual ability to pre-order.

I can understand a certain level of frustration with the moderating team, but frankly this is probably the best the place has been handled as a whole in awhile. This place would regularly erupt into personal thermonuclear flame wars in the years prior to you joining. The current level of moderation is informed by the past track record of proving that in fact people here can't act like mature grown adults. Which was exacerbated by the management playing favorites, never handing out warnings and/or suspending people. This forum is devoid of a number of talented builders because of how it was managed in the past.

Looks like the on the fly fixes for the Oldsmobile continue, which is a good thing in my estimation.

The only real "problem" I've noticed with this kit is since it's a "cage" there's about eleventybillion man hours of fixing ejector pins marks - assuming you care. Because every..single..piece - short of the bottom of the main piece which you wouldn't see again in theory so I wouldn't worry about it - has one side completely covered in 1980s era tech ejector marks.

And I have a basement full, and frankly couldn't care less if another "domestic" Revell kit is ever released again. I'm commenting from a strictly business operations view. Which is Revell has contract with company, Blitz assumed or canceled all contracts held by Revell. Going backwards in court documents I find no canceling of contracts with West Chicago or Hong Kong facilities. Make sense to continue contract with West Chicago facility since they have practical experience, proven track record, and wherewithal to operate this older tooling. Even sweeter if you can modify said contract to make them warehouse the stuff for you.

That place technically has a West Chicago, IL zip code, and that's where Revell was having their tooling run on the non-H.K. based molds for the past 18 months. Looks like Blitz retained them, and has turned them into their tooling warehouse for the moment.