Revell RoG 2017 releases: Panamera 2 and Porsche Junior 108

[The Creative Explorer]

 

So, I was just browsing on the Facebook app and noticed a small, half photo of some new Revell products. I noticed quite quickly that it was going to be a 4-door Porsche and dug some further; they are going to release a Panamera 2! Not the prettiest of cars, but something I wouldn't mind getting.

But I also noticed that they are going to put out a Porsche Junior 108! And that is very awesome!

 

And some other (re)releases:

 

And the 'Black Pearl'

[stavanzer]

Wonder if they've added some new wheels to the Buggy? They look different, but it is very hard to tell.

[The Creative Explorer]

I think it is just a new sheet of decals, wheels look similar to what they had and I don't think new wheels would be much of an addition to such a release.

[GeeBee]

Sadly the beach buggy is 1:32nd scale

[Luc Janssens]

The Panamera is all about bling bling, so guess RoG chose that, on the same merit as Revell-Monogram did with the Escalade and Hummer H2 kits a decade or so ago, Hopefully they will include some neat wheel options.....

The Porsche tractor, I know nothing about, and hope some of our German friend here can shed some light, on why this is being kitted.

BTW..

Wish everyone here a fantastic 2017!!

Edited January 1, 2017 by Luc Janssens

[lordairgtar]

Maybe the Porsche tractor is in response to Heller's tractor kit. i certainly would enjoy building this kit. The Buggy will be bought for going into my 1/32 shelf. Great quick build to break slumps. Nothing sad about it.

 

 

[Matt Bacon]

There's a 1/24 Aston Martin DB5 in the list as well...

best,

M.

[Luc Janssens]

There's a 1/24 Aston Martin DB5 in the list as well...

best,

M.

Where?

New release newsletter

[lordairgtar]

Where?

New release newsletter

Must be a British only issue....LOL

 

[Bennyg]

Wow. Revell is stepping up their game. That Panama 2 and tractor should be good.

Ben

[Luc Janssens]

 

Must be a British only issue....LOL

 

Looks Matt, is right...the subject he mentions is on a list, I just found on the IPMS Germany page..

Aston Martin DB 5 1/24 (James Bond Lizenz)

2 reasons maybe, for not being in the newsletter, one being licensing woes, or secundo, they want to save this announcement for the Nuremberg trade show...time will tell.....

[Junkman]

The Porsche tractor, I know nothing about, and hope some of our German friend here can shed some light, on why this is being kitted.

Because it's total cult in Germany.

[Luc Janssens]

Because it's total cult in Germany.

Kewl!

[Junkman]

I really hope Heller and Revell will expand their tractor portfolios.

[Atmobil]

I really hope Heller and Revell will expand their tractor portfolios.

Same here, really cool with another tractor kit. I don't know much about Porsche tractors but I have seen some of them in real life and they are not very big. Could be a great load on a trailer or a cool addition to a diorama.

[Junkman]

Porsche tractors were deliberately small.
The whole thing was started by - you guessed it - Adolf Hitler, who in 1937 asked for a "Volkstraktor".
While big farms were well served with the Lanz Bulldogs and steam ploughing engines, the ten thousands of
small agricultural holdings were still overwhelmingly relegated to using draught animals in the 1930s.

The parameters were:

- small enough to be suitable for small companies
- simple design for easy maintenance and repairs
- suitable for mass production to keep the price low
- about 10 hp

Porsche built a few prototypes with two and three cylinder air cooled diesel engines from 11 hp to about 20 hp.
For obvious reasons, no serial production commenced.

It took until 1950 for Porsche to dust off the Volkstraktor. The design was modernised and a new company,
the Porsche-Diesel Motorenbau GmbH was founded.
Production facilities were built in Manzell on Lake Constance in cooperation with the company Allgaier of Uhingen.
About 16,000 Porsche tractors where built there between 1950 and 1963.
In 1962 the company was integrated with the tractor department of MAN.
In 1963 MAN sold the Porsche tractor production tooling to Renault, who used components of the bigger
three cylinder Porsche 329 for their Super 4.

Germany was still awash with small tractors on small farms when I was a child.
Often the farmers let us children drive the tractors in the fields, imagine that today!
Then Germany rolled out a massive sweep of agricultural land consolidation in the 1970s to meet EU regulations,
rendering small tractors obsolete. Due to their size and simplicity, they became popular collectors' items there,
with particularly the Porsches having acquired cult status.

 

Edited January 2, 2017 by Junkman

[Rob Hall]

A saw a Porsche tractor at a Concours 'de Elegance car show in Denver back around 2010...took a few photos, have to find them..  was a neat tractor.

The Panamera kit will be nice to have, didn't care for the 1st gen, but the 2nd gen is a good looking car...though I'd really like to see a current 911 kitted, maybe in GT3 or R trim.

[Junkman]

Could the JB Aston Martin be a captive import of the Doyusha?
 

30 days until Nürnberg - I shall deploy my local spies...

[charlie8575]

Judging from how the Fergusons sold (very quickly, and we're waiting for more,) I'll bet that little Porsche tractor will be a brisk seller, perhaps not in North America, but definitely in Europe, athough it's so good-looking, I could see people here buying it simply because it looks good.

Charlie Larkin

[Junkman]

It would also be a nice curio in any Porsche collection.

[935k3]

Speaking of the Porsche tractor, check this video out  Porsche Tractor

[niteowl7710]

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the Panamera become the first 4 door automobile tooled by Revell of Germania since way back into the early 1990s when they did that M-B Wagon and the BMW 325i & 740iL?

[MrObsessive]

Looks Matt, is right...the subject he mentions is on a list, I just found on the IPMS Germany page..

Aston Martin DB 5 1/24 (James Bond Lizenz)

2 reasons maybe, for not being in the newsletter, one being licensing woes, or secundo, they want to save this announcement for the Nuremberg trade show...time will tell.....

Too bad there's no pics of the Aston, but it may not be out till near the end of the year. About the Panamera-----Porsche's updated styling of this car I think is MUCH better than the last gen. Hopefully, this one's full detail but a curbside wouldn't be bad for this type of car. 

[niteowl7710]

Could the JB Aston Martin be a captive import of the Doyusha?
 

30 days until Nürnberg - I shall deploy my local spies...

Good gosh I hope not.  It's not the absolute worst kit in the world by any means, but that's gonna wind up being a huge box of disappointment for a lot of people if it is...way way basic curbside, and looked old and somewhat substandard - particularly in the chassis and interior areas when it was released 20 years ago.

[The Creative Explorer]

I doubt if it is going to be a old Doyusha release, it doens't make sense. So let's hope for the positive and hope it is also going to be a new tool, I mean, RoG has done quite some new tools in the past couple of years with older cars, so why not?