1/12 Lancia Fulvia teaser from Italeri?

[niteowl7710]

[Luc Janssens]

Here's a build by Simon Antelmi.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A7Xjirx1L/

Photo's courtesy of Simon Antelmi and Italeri.

 

[dino246gt]

WOW! Nice build by Simon, cool kit, I want one!

 

[Junkman]

The 1/24 kits hit the shelves in Europe now.

[Justin Porter]

 

[1959scudetto]

On 10/27/2025 at 12:48 AM, Justin Porter said:

 

I like it and will get me at least 2, but they did make a mistake in their instructions as they took the restored car from the museum and therefore the Monte Carlo number plate is mounted in the wrong position: it should not be on the trunklid, but in the right corner of the rear window!

Here you can see photos from the 1972 rally Monte Carlo:  http://rallyemontecarlo1972.unblog.fr/

The back side looked like this (different wheels and tires were used, depending on the road surface: tarmac, snow or gravel):

 

Edited November 7 by 1959scudetto

[Junkman]

The fact that the standard wheel arches are carefully moulded, despite them being completely covered by the flared ones when the model is built, makes me think we will see a street version as well in the near future. Hopefully a non-HF, i.e. with chrome bumpers.
The overall engraving says 'suddenly it's 1980'.

I've owned this Fabbri diecast for over twenty years now. It really makes it difficult to justify the purchase of the kit.

 

Edited November 11 by Junkman

[Justin Porter]

So. Good News and Bad News. 

Good News - at last ONE of my wholesale distributors has listed the Lancia Fulvia as inbound. If your local hobby shop deals with Hobbytyme out of East Hartford, CT, then they ought to be able to stock kit #3670 for anyone interested in what genuinely looks to be Italeri's nicest 1/24th scale automotive kit in a long long time. 

Bad News - MSRP according to Hobbytyme is a blistering $81.99! Even being full detail, nicely engineered, and including photoetch, this price definitely moves the kit out of impulse purchase range. There's no listed MAP so far, so certainly shop around for whichever shop is offering the price that suits you best, but it made me quite sad to see a kit with such potential basically being priced out of the market. 

[rrb124@sbcglobal.net]

This price is sky high. Even though I'm a huge Italian car fan having owned 8 real cars, this price gives me pause.

[Luc Janssens]

3 hours ago, Justin Porter said:

So. Good News and Bad News. 

Good News - at last ONE of my wholesale distributors has listed the Lancia Fulvia as inbound. If your local hobby shop deals with Hobbytyme out of East Hartford, CT, then they ought to be able to stock kit #3670 for anyone interested in what genuinely looks to be Italeri's nicest 1/24th scale automotive kit in a long long time. 

Bad News - MSRP according to Hobbytyme is a blistering $81.99! Even being full detail, nicely engineered, and including photoetch, this price definitely moves the kit out of impulse purchase range. There's no listed MAP so far, so certainly shop around for whichever shop is offering the price that suits you best, but it made me quite sad to see a kit with such potential basically being priced out of the market. 

Soon it will be, not worth it importing kits from foreign manufacturers, kinda wonder if this made the decision to pull the plug at a certain distributor a bit easier.

Edited November 30 by Luc Janssens
Thick fingers vs small buttons

[PowerPlant]

They are not cheap in Europe, at about half that (40 eur or so), but 80+ dollars seems a bit unreasonable. May well be cheaper ordering from Europe. 

[Luc Janssens]

3 hours ago, PowerPlant said:

They are not cheap in Europe, at about half that (40 eur or so), but 80+ dollars seems a bit unreasonable. 

And prices in Europe include VAT (sales tax) while in the US you have to add that to the sticker price.

Edited December 1 by Luc Janssens
Fingers can't follow the mind pace

[niteowl7710]

On 11/30/2025 at 10:25 AM, Justin Porter said:

Bad News - MSRP according to Hobbytyme is a blistering $81.99! Even being full detail, nicely engineered, and including photoetch, this price definitely moves the kit out of impulse purchase range. There's no listed MAP so far, so certainly shop around for whichever shop is offering the price that suits you best, but it made me quite sad to see a kit with such potential basically being priced out of the market. 

So it'll shelf price around $65? That's the going rate for a new tool, "single use" rally kit these days. That's going to be $15 or more LESS than anyone is going to be able to import from Europe themselves given the cheapest one on eBay right now is just shy of $75 shipped and that doesn't take into account the 15% Dopey Old Man Tax (plus any other fees depending on how it's being shipped from Italy) that you'd owe when it gets here.

22 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

Soon it will be, not worth it importing kits from foreign manufacturers, kinda wonder if this made the decision to pull the plug at a certain distributor a bit easier.

Why can't people just retire without it turning into a vast conspiracy? It seems like anything attached to this hobby where the proprietor doesn't die physically in the act of running their shop, casting resin, et al - then the person is failing at business, going broke, a fraud, et al.  Given the demographics of this place, I presume most people were congratulated at a job well done and sent on their way with a plaque or something without everyone in the background being convinced they were skipping out before the embezzlement charges came down or something equally as salacious as some of the rumors I've heard about why Stevens is closing their doors.

[PowerPlant]

11 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

And prices in Europe include VAT (sales tax) while in the US you have to add that to the sticker price.

I understand, of course, plus shipping, but it still might work out cheaper than 80+ dollars, which really does seem a bit excessive for an Italeri kit in 1/24 scale, anywhere in the world. 

[Luc Janssens]

2 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

So it'll shelf price around $65? That's the going rate for a new tool, "single use" rally kit these days. That's going to be $15 or more LESS than anyone is going to be able to import from Europe themselves given the cheapest one on eBay right now is just shy of $75 shipped and that doesn't take into account the 15% Dopey Old Man Tax (plus any other fees depending on how it's being shipped from Italy) that you'd owe when it gets here.

Why can't people just retire without it turning into a vast conspiracy? It seems like anything attached to this hobby where the proprietor doesn't die physically in the act of running their shop, casting resin, et al - then the person is failing at business, going broke, a fraud, et al.  Given the demographics of this place, I presume most people were congratulated at a job well done and sent on their way with a plaque or something without everyone in the background being convinced they were skipping out before the embezzlement charges came down or something equally as salacious as some of the rumors I've heard about why Stevens is closing their doors.

Kinda wonder if! Is that a conspirancy!?

 

Edited December 1 by Luc Janssens

[Junkman]

On 12/1/2025 at 4:37 PM, PowerPlant said:

I understand, of course, plus shipping, but it still might work out cheaper than 80+ dollars, which really does seem a bit excessive for an Italeri kit in 1/24 scale, anywhere in the world. 

Plus, the European sales tax would be deduced if the kit is exported.

[Justin Porter]

On 12/1/2025 at 11:31 AM, niteowl7710 said:

So it'll shelf price around $65? That's the going rate for a new tool, "single use" rally kit these days. That's going to be $15 or more LESS than anyone is going to be able to import from Europe themselves given the cheapest one on eBay right now is just shy of $75 shipped and that doesn't take into account the 15% Dopey Old Man Tax (plus any other fees depending on how it's being shipped from Italy) that you'd owe when it gets here.

Running my math against cost, $65 might be cutting it a bit thin but I could see it as a reasonable enough price given that the NuNu Lancia S4 is on my shelf for that same price. Thing is, the tooling of this kit doesn't FEEL even like a $65 kit. It's most immediate comparison - to me - is the Tamiya Alfa Giulia GTA and that was a kit that I put on the shelf for $32. Even if I stuck a "new tooling" cost creep onto this and bumped it up to $47 dollars like the Tamiya 240Z Street Custom, I'm still feeling comfortable. 

I feel badly too because I WANT to encourage Italeri to tool up new kits. There's a host of neat Italian cars that they could tackle that would be amazing. Maserati Mistral? Alfa Romeo GTV6? Fiat X1/9? It's fertile and untraveled ground. But good heavens does it look like we're going to have to pay dearly for it. 

[PowerPlant]

Just got mine from a vendor at a local model contest. He wanted 40 eur initially, but let it go for 35, which is a fair price. Not a bad kit, it even includes a small PE fret with the grille piece, among other things, but really not worth much more than what I paid for it, to be honest. 

Edited Saturday at 12:59 PM by PowerPlant

[PowerPlant]

On 11/11/2025 at 8:51 PM, Junkman said:

The fact that the standard wheel arches are carefully moulded, despite them being completely covered by the flared ones when the model is built, makes me think we will see a street version as well in the near future. Hopefully a non-HF, i.e. with chrome bumpers.

Having purchased my kit yesterday, I had a closer look at it today. As Junkman suggested, there are indications another variation of this car may be in the pipeline. Apart from the separately moulded wheel arch flares, there is a faint outline of a fuel tank opening on the side of the right quarter panel, as on the street car (this kit has a rally fuel tank cap assembly on the top of the quarter panel). 
 

Edited 4 hours ago by PowerPlant