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I can wait to get started, so here we go, I am starting the Volk Racing Ver, which is this box art body and the all so very important Rocket Bunny parts, well most of them

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81842

Cheap and lazy

No, they are rubber, my camera seems to not liked me trying to take a pic of a black object on a black back ground

Here is the box version parts tree and here is the bed version parts tree

Up next and last for the day is Aoshima's Subaru Sambar kits, these have been out for a few months now, there are two version, the box and bed version, I will cover both the next pics are are going to be the same in both kits

I thought I posted it, thanks James

Up next is the Enkei Version, this is molded in both red and black , all the pic that I am going to post are all the parts that are molded in red everything else is molded in black.

As promised for the few on here that will care, after a bit of delay, the Rocket Bunny kits have arrived , I am going to cover both kits , as there really isnt much different other then the wheels and decals, and one has the a P/E set included. I am only going to provided pictures of one set of tree pics , as those are going to be same in both kits, and are the same in all the previous 86 kits . I failed to included some useful information in my hast to get this posted, both of these kits include both RHD/LHD options, as well decals to do either the US spec Scion FRS, or the EU Spec GT 86 Up First is the Volk Racing version, this one is molded in black

My payment email came in for it

And dont forget , it got delayed leaving Japan because they had to many big packages trying to go out , gee, I wonder why

James won the race the we had, Fedex dropped mine off about an hour ago, our orders were shipped at the same time

I gotta admit, I like what you did

Hands down the best kits are anything from Aoshima

Um, how is that?, nothing is changing in 2014 for the engines , so I am not sure what you are talking about

Okay................., um, you know that NASCAR switched to EFI in the Cup series in 2012, so that has eliminated the distributor . So any Cup model built for the 2012 year that has an engine needs to be converted over to EFI When Chevy went from the SB2 to RO7 engine is when it was shifted to the front The SB2 engine was used up tell 2008, and the SB2 had the distributor at the rear , and that is the only current NASCAR Chevy in plastic form. I do believe the engine block used by Dodge had the distributor at the rear tell sometime in the mid 2000's, I believe it might of been around the COT era that it was switched to the front. But that is not fact, just going by images that I can find Ford has had theirs at the front for a very long time Toyota, always had theirs at the front as well. So, yes, in theory, you can put the distributor on the front of the SB2 kit engine, will it be accurate, no, but that is up the builder if they want to be accurate for that engine code , but if you move it to the front, then you are going to have to find a new place for the upper radiator hose to connect at the engine.

I have a tracking number and have no idea where my box is, the box weighs 9.3 lbs, not like its easy to misplace , from what I could understand from the lady I spoke with it, its either still at the airport, or at the sorting center

Dont you hate when a shipment of models gets delayed in transit for whatever reason

I slept through Fedex not showing up

Mr Duff, how many "how to open a model kit box 101" classes are you going to be teaching here ?

Seeing how tomorrow 18th of Nov, I will have the kits in my hands, I am locking this thread, and I will be doing a whats in the box review of both versions , it will be posted tomorrow

For the most part, I have finished up the chassis, I forgot to take a few progress pics

Its not a very good kit