Will R2 going to put any models this month?

[slusher]

Do you think R2 putting out any models in March?

[niteowl7710]

14 hours ago, slusher said:

Do you think R2 putting out any models in March?

There aren't any on the distribution list for this month going into March unless something gets added this week.

[Motor City]

here it is:

 

[Radretireddad]

Hmmm, plastic doesn’t seem to be a priority at Round 2 at the moment.

[Junkman]

Give those guys some slack, they just returned from the two biggest shows in the industry.

They hired a new guy for the kit department last month.

[ChrisBcritter]

This frame from the movie looks like the artist's inspiration:

[Jon Cole]

I built the first issue of Polar Lights Herbie Bug. Had crappy stickers- no decals. Hope that changes. Would love to see a separate wheel & hubcap so we can just go with lugnut exposed VW wheels.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

^^LOVE it!^^

Wonder if they took any bets on which would swap ends first...

(and actually, I think I'd like ALL those little JL cars - the '70/'71 Sport Fury?? Only American subject there without an immediate plastic kit antecedent... or is it? 😮)

[Junkman]

I was actually waiting for a reissue of the PL Beetle, since it's one of the better renditions of the real thing.
I built the old non Herbie issue, painted ruby red, gave it away and regret it.
There is no better early 60s Beetle out there, unless you go diecast, and they all are 1/24.
Since the PL originated as the Herbie, it depicts an 'Export' spec 1200, which I consider an extra bonus.
IIRC, you can leave the Webasto away, all you need to do is fill four holes in the roof.

If you really want to go to town in regard of open wheels, use the surplus set out of a Fujimi Porsche 356 kit.
They all had early and late wheels on the sprue, thus you only need one of the two sets to build your Porsche and the other one can be used for other things, such like this.

Edited March 7 by Junkman

[Junkman]

31 minutes ago, Chuck Kourouklis said:

^^LOVE it!^^

Wonder if they took any bets on which would swap ends first...

(and actually, I think I'd like ALL those little JL cars - the '70/'71 Sport Fury?? Only American subject there without an immediate plastic kit antecedent... or is it? 😮)

I appreciate your train of thought, but alas.
I guarantee you, the closest thing to our dreams we will ever see is this fake box art I did years ago, and it's not even the same year.

There will never be a kit of a full size Mopar from the Fuselage era.

Edited March 7 by Junkman

[Motor City]

A '70 or '71 Sport Fury GT would be an interesting kit subject.

[LennyB]

37 minutes ago, Junkman said:

I appreciate your train of thought, but alas.
I guarantee you, the closest thing to our dreams we will ever see is this fake box art I did years ago, and it's not even the same year.

There will never be a kit of a full size Mopar from the Fuselage era.

I've been wanting one of those for decades to replicate the car my parents had. Just needs two more doors.

[tim boyd]

17 hours ago, Radretireddad said:

Hmmm, plastic doesn’t seem to be a priority at Round 2 at the moment.

Let's see what, if any, they unveil at the DAAM show in Detroit in a few weeks.  Betting man would hold some money to place on that event....just sayini'....TB

[niteowl7710]

42 minutes ago, tim boyd said:

Let's see what, if any, they unveil at the DAAM show in Detroit in a few weeks.  Betting man would hold some money to place on that event....just sayini'....TB

They've got a bunch of things coming, they just re-showed - for much larger public consumption on YT - the '72 Duster, '65 Cuda and '60 Chevy Wagon just last month. They released a whole slew of stuff in January, one kit last month, and March is usually iffy because of Lunar New Year shut downs. It's hard to get to worried about them not shoveling out the 100th reissue of some 60 yr old kit for a month and suddenly deem that as being a huge indicator that Round2 suddenly doesn't care about models as I've seen people here and elsewhere on social media claim. 

[Jim B]

Not that I'm currently in the market for any new kits (you never know!), but Round2 does seem to have a large selection of 1/64 & 1/18 diecast cars.  Now I understand that it's a good thing to diversify your business so different the sections can cover each other when sales of one slump a little, but this has always made me wonder if there isn't a larger ROI on diecast than there is on injection molded kits.  Just a thought.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the Italeri Lancia Fulvia HF, but that's a discussion for another thread.

[Volzfan59]

I’ll pick up a “Herbie” kit

[DJMar]

On 3/7/2025 at 1:12 PM, Junkman said:

There will never be a kit of a full size Mopar from the Fuselage era.

As some who drove (piloted?) a '71 Fury III during my first two years in college, this is disappointing. I would like to disagree, but...I can't.

[Sport Suburban]

You know I'm down for a 70/71 Fury in plastic! But I may be a bit biased...

[Luc Janssens]

On 3/7/2025 at 10:12 PM, Junkman said:

I appreciate your train of thought, but alas.
I guarantee you, the closest thing to our dreams we will ever see is this fake box art I did years ago, and it's not even the same year.

There will never be a kit of a full size Mopar from the Fuselage era.

If they would do the Bluesmobile, the chassis with drive-train and floorpan including wheelwells would be a great starting point to add the already available 3D printed bodies, no?!

Edited March 9 by Luc Janssens

[Junkman]

Yes, but they won't do a Bluesmobile.

[Luc Janssens]

46 minutes ago, Junkman said:

Yes, but they won't do a Bluesmobile.

Well if one seeks more exposure to get more middle aged men into this hobby, this one might be the ticked. Cus think that side effect from the pandemic has passed, besides the movie fits into that age bracket as well I think, also maybe time to bring back the A- team van as wel, most rather remember it from the TV series than from that movie, same goes for the TV series CHiP's. 😉

 

Cheers

 

Luc

[niteowl7710]

5 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

Well if one seeks more exposure to get more middle aged men into this hobby, this one might be the ticked. Cus think that side effect from the pandemic has passed, besides the movie fits into that age bracket as well I think, also maybe time to bring back the A- team van as wel, most rather remember it from the TV series than from that movie, same goes for the TV series CHiP's. 😉

 

Cheers

 

Luc

Looks I'm a huge Belushi fan because of my dad, and I'm also closing in towards the middle age of 50. But the fact is Blue Brothers came out when I was 3, and Belushi was dead by the time I was 5. People who were in their late teens and early twenties when Animal House and Blue Brothers came out are now in their late 60s and early 70s. Those folks are already pretty well represented in the hobby already. With Revell putting out models of a "TV" show currently in production which features cars that actually appeal to the current middle aged gentleman, it pains me to say there's probably not really a market for a '74 Dodge Monaco (2n1 of course) in 2025.  The movie, glorious musical that it is, just isn't relevant anymore.

[Mark C.]

It’s not hugely difficult to adapt a chassis from one of the many B-bodies to a 3D print C-body.  Though I haven’t tried it yet, I suspect that the Monogram (Revell) ‘71 Road Runner/GTX should work well due to its larger size (probably still have to stretch it a bit), just literally a bit of cut and paste.  Drivetrains are virtually the same in all Mopars, so no problem there.  The biggest challenge as I see it, is cobbling up a reasonable interior, and what to do about the glass if you don’t have a vacuform machine.

I’d love to see a regular kit of a C body, but since I probably won’t live long enough to see one, I’ll make do with whatever the 3D world has to offer.  Just my 2 cents worth… nothing more.

[mikemodeler]

On 3/8/2025 at 1:41 PM, Jim B said:

Not that I'm currently in the market for any new kits (you never know!), but Round2 does seem to have a large selection of 1/64 & 1/18 diecast cars.  Now I understand that it's a good thing to diversify your business so different the sections can cover each other when sales of one slump a little, but this has always made me wonder if there isn't a larger ROI on diecast than there is on injection molded kits.  Just a thought.

I think the distribution is greater for the diecast cars than the plastic kits. Sure, when I was kid 50 years ago model kits were everywhere, but so were Hot Wheels and other die cast cars. Fast forward to today and model kits are primarily at Hobby Lobby and hobby shops, many of which are either online or hard to find. But I can hit up my local grocery store and they have Matchbox cars. Look at Target and Wal-Mart- they have all kinds of die cast cars in varying scales. And given that people of all ages collect die cast cars, likely a greater ROI with fewer issues than model kits.

 

Round 2 is not going to stop offering model kits, but they have many different distribution channels to cater to and it stands to reason that there will be times when our model kit fix will have to wait a month or two.

[tim boyd]

6 hours ago, Mark C. said:

It’s not hugely difficult to adapt a chassis from one of the many B-bodies to a 3D print C-body.  Though I haven’t tried it yet, I suspect that the Monogram (Revell) ‘71 Road Runner/GTX should work well due to its larger size (probably still have to stretch it a bit), just literally a bit of cut and paste.  Drivetrains are virtually the same in all Mopars, so no problem there.  The biggest challenge as I see it, is cobbling up a reasonable interior, and what to do about the glass if you don’t have a vacuform machine.

I’d love to see a regular kit of a C body, but since I probably won’t live long enough to see one, I’ll make do with whatever the 3D world has to offer.  Just my 2 cents worth… nothing more.

For all you c-body fans, the best underbody by far is in the MPC 1965 Dodge Monaco HT and Custom 880 convertible, 1966 Monaco 500 HT and Polara 500 Cnovertible, and the "Magnum II MPC custom bodied spinoff kit.  This basic C-body floorpan/chassis/suspension design was introduced in 1965 and ran mostly without changes, to my understanding, through the end of Chrysler C-Body production in 1978.  While nobody is going to tag a modeler on this, the B-Body chassis/underbody was very different then; unlike the B-body, the C-body used a separate subframe that did not incorporate the "K frame' engine mount and suspension cradle of the B-body that you see in the best B-Body kits (thinking Revell 1968-70 Chargers and AMT-Ertl 1971 Chare R/T her)e.  The MPC kit chassis mentioned above, with just the addition of accurate front suspension components, is about the best you'll get for an accurate C-body underside. 

Here are two images of that MPC underbody, albeit not with the aforementioned front suspension details....