Revell Porsche 917 - New, re-release or rebox?

[Monty]

This car has always been a favorite of mine, but the only model I ever had of it was the notorious Heller kit, which I ended up trading off to a board member here.

Someone posted a video the other day featuring some kits Revell will be releasing soon, and one of them was this Porsche.  So, as the title says, is this new, a re-release of a previous Revell kit or just a rebox of the Heller or some Japanese kit?
 

Edited July 31, 2022 by Monty

[bigryan18]

It's new

[unclescott58]

Revell is coming out with a new 917? I missed that somewhere a long the line. I’m very interested in that. Next to the GT40, its still one of my favorite race cars. 

[niteowl7710]

It's the Fujimi kit reboxed as a RevellAG kit. It's been out for for a month or so in Europe. It's been a little while since the 1970 LeMans winner livery has been out, but Fujimi released it with that livery in the past as well.

Edited August 1, 2022 by niteowl7710

[Jon Cole]

Found this pic from Revell/de:

[OldNYJim]

Ohh, I had missed that this one was on the way too - cool!

Ive always admired these cars, I’ll be picking one up.

Random question - has Revell actually ever released a Skill Level 5 kit to date?  I’d be curious to find out what their self-proclaimed hardest kit to build actually is

[niteowl7710]

55 minutes ago, CabDriver said:

Ohh, I had missed that this one was on the way too - cool!

Ive always admired these cars, I’ll be picking one up.

Random question - has Revell actually ever released a Skill Level 5 kit to date?  I’d be curious to find out what their self-proclaimed hardest kit to build actually is

The Skill Level is based on parts count, I believe the kits needs to have more than 125 pieces to qualify. The Fujimi 917 is around 90 or so.

[OldNYJim]

13 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

The Skill Level is based on parts count, I believe the kits needs to have more than 125 pieces to qualify. The Fujimi 917 is around 90 or so.

Huh!  Did not know that!  Thanks for the info!

[Jim B]

The Porsche 917K is one slick looking car.