martinfan5

This needs be change to something more black and white Mod, and in general, yes, you do have control over that, you do issue warning points, you did it to me, things that are said here in PM are not private , so you need to be very clear that if you , the mod wants, you can issue warning points to members for things said in private to another member. That needs to be there as warning, Its very vague "bringing it to our attention", its needs to say something about we can and will take action against things said in PM. I like transparency. I know you disagree, but things said in private are just that, private, and we members should not have to worry about getting in trouble for things said in private. ( not counting things that are illegal or threatening or things on those lines)

I would second Brian's suggestion.

The closet to a kit you are going to get is using the resin body or resin nose and the new NASCAR kits, Revell tried to do the Camry but Toyota would not grant them permission, they want a Japan company to do it, and the chances of that happening are about slim. So its resin or diecast, that is your choice.

It needed this Brett

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Not me, I wasnt alive yet.

That too, their prices were always at MSRP or above, I really dont have a nice opinion of Hobby Town USA , for the ones we had here, model kits always seem like a burden to them, a passing thought, R/C was what kept them in their bacon, for a short time anyways. Ditto, the last one, I too used it for supplies only, if they had stock, which the last few times, they didnt, if it wasnt R/C related, they didnt care to restock.

All the Hobby Towns here that I went to( some that I didnt) never had what I would call a impressive selection auto model kits.

Thanks for the data. Interesting though, new tooling is coming in both scales, so how long ago was this , it doesnt sound too recent meow.

The new NASCAR kits are..............wait for it...............1/24th scale

I dont understand why you are saying this to me, all I said is prefer 1/24th over 1/25th, and you get accurate representations in both scales. I only build 1/24th or 1/25th scale, so if something is more accurate in 1/16th scale, great, I wont be building it and that does nothing for me. The scale matters to me just as much as how accurate the kit is.

I would love to see the data you have to support this Last I checked, I am a US kit builder and I like 1/24th way more than 1/25th

I agree as well that they really didnt want Revell US either, but we have to wait and see what is going to happen, they could very well regroup and open up a US sales office, something like Tamiya USA has.

Or maybe you just dont make a statement when things havent been finalized ,just food for thought

We dont know that Peter, we dont know anything more than what we know, its way to early to start saying they dont care about us, we all need to wait and see what is going to transpire. I understand why you are saying that, but its business, and the US side is why there is no longer a Hobbico, things needed to change if Revell is going to live on, tough pill to swallow, sure, I agree, but changes needed to happen. Again, let us all wait and see what is going to happen before we bring out the pitch forks at the ze Germans.

Minus the part about people losing their jobs, I think the Germans running things might prove to be a very good thing , but we just all need to be patient , and wait to see what is going to unfold , the ink hasnt really even dried yet.

The sale is not finale till early May, so its a bit early I would think to make a statement, they will probably just tell us what we already know at this point.

More pics I took

What's a Hobby Town? * that is sarcasm.

First look at the very frist one casted, its here at DSC

Please take my word for it for the time being.

Thank you William.

Progress

That is cool, did not know that.