2025 Shizouka Hobby Show

[martinfan5]

A few more kits from Aoshima , the 2017 NiSMO GTR part of their Snap Car Series,

And the Black Lagoon

Edited Thursday at 05:55 AM by martinfan5

[martinfan5]

5 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

There's going to be an interesting story for this someday. This is a Toyota Celica ST205 Rally Car, which was supposed to be the next kit out of DModelkits as the follow up to the Ford Sierra 4x4 Sedan they did. The project was supposedly canceled, supposedly not, then supposedly was...but if you go on their website they're still taking pre-orders for it. Then today it magicly shows up on the BeeMaNuNu stand. If you find the couple of Beemax produced TikToks (Reels/Shorts) these tooling mockups were not on the stand when those were made.

People were of the opinion that the factory in China that does Belkits stuff was the one to tool the Sierra and Beemax's stuff is done in Macau...so who knows who owns what as it corresponds to this project at this point.

It's an interesting story now 😃, but, I thought it looked familiar

Edited Thursday at 05:56 AM by martinfan5

[Ulf]

2 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

A few more kits from Aoshima , the 2017 NiSMO GTR part of their Snap Car Series,

And the Black Lagoon

Oh dear, I guess I have to re-prioritize on the workbench again... 

[happykyle]

oh... I just got 2 sets of the AMT Supra recently.
But never mind, finally Aoshima able to provide the Fast Furious 1 and 2 cars, Love that,
also more Honda's from them, can't wait.

[niteowl7710]

6 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

A few more kits from Aoshima , the 2017 NiSMO GTR part of their Snap Car Series,

Interesting that they're releasing them again in two different colors when they just released this kit in the MF Ghost boxing in February. Other than decals and the fact you don't get a 1/24 drone in these two kits I'm not sure I see the point in the repeat. Although maybe they're a few bucks cheaper without the Manga license. 

[niteowl7710]

Parts for the new Hasegawa Skyline R30. 

Body already shows the indents below the trunk deck for installing the fuel fillers in the Gr. A/JTC car. Plus the brakes and civi gas tank are a separate sprue. Expected, but nice to have confirmed. 

[niteowl7710]

Some more from the Beemax table of upcoming Pork and Bimmer goodness.

Straight reissue of the 2018 911 GTE with new decals to reflect the other team car with the Rothmans heritage striping.

1979 24hrs of Le Mans Class Winning Hawaiian Tropic 935/77A driven by Paul Newman. This gets a new body, rear fenders and other odds and ends.

Porsche 953, (colloquially the 911 4x4) the heavily modified 4WD platform that won the 1984 Paris Dakar Rally. This is based on the earlier 911 SC/RS Rally kit with many new parts.

BMW 320 (E21) Gr. 5 - Brand New Tool. This particular kit is being boxed as the 1980 DRM Zolder Westphalia Cup Winner

[niteowl7710]

More from Hasegawa...

Celica LB 1600ST. New wheels and ST Badging added to the fairly recent 1600LB GT body/interior tooling.

Isuzu 117 Late - New Wheels and another Japanese "Screaming Chicken" decal

New Parts that are included to change the EF9 (shown earlier) into race trim.

Mazda SA22 RX-7 Custom. This takes the civilian kit and adds all the aero and over fenders from the 24h of Daytona IMSA kit to make a "race" themed Street car.

Edited Thursday at 03:11 PM by niteowl7710

[niteowl7710]

Back at the Aoshima F&F land. The built production shots of the R34 and RX-7 and the new parts tooled for each. 

[stitchdup]

I can see i'll be spendig a lot of money this year. the fendt and celica are the stand outs but theres others i'll end up with too

[Rob Hall]

The F&F kits are neat...maybe they will tool up an Eclipse eventually, with the removable floor pan plate and a laptop with a screen sticker with 'Warning!!! Danger to Manifold' message. 

[Mark C.]

The Hasegawa LB 1600 Celica ST is sweet!  Was wondering what are the differences between it and the GT?  Are the taillights different, for example?

Edited Thursday at 06:45 PM by Mark C.

[martinfan5]

Another look at the Celica, this time with the interior bucket.

[martinfan5]

More Aoshima,  86BRZ twins with HKS tuning 

Edited Thursday at 06:41 PM by martinfan5

[niteowl7710]

14 hours ago, Mark C. said:

The Hasegawa LB 1600 Celica ST is sweet!  Was wondering what are the differences between it and the GT?  Are the taillights different, for example?

It's the parts shown above the built model. Wheels and ST scripts. 

[Mark C.]

3 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

It's the parts shown above the built model. Wheels and ST scripts. 

Thanks!

[Matt T.]

Thank you for the show coverage! 

Nice big and little 5-lug Cragar mags in that Black Lagoon kit. 

Does Aoshima offer a parts pack of just those? Or will they? 😎

[Spottedlaurel]

7 minutes ago, Matt T. said:

Thank you for the show coverage! 

Nice big and little 5-lug Cragar mags in that Black Lagoon kit. 

Does Aoshima offer a parts pack of just those? Or will they? 😎

They may already have done so. If they're the same as the ones I got in a Nissan Cedric Y30 kit and used on a Monogram Corvette build then they're pretty wide and they've done well to vaguely get them under a Celica - I can see why it's got that rake!

Aha, here they are on June re-release: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10956550

[niteowl7710]

28 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

They may already have done so. If they're the same as the ones I got in a Nissan Cedric Y30 kit and used on a Monogram Corvette build then they're pretty wide and they've done well to vaguely get them under a Celica - I can see why it's got that rake!

Aha, here they are on June re-release: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10956550

They're the same wheels. My LHS at one point had 27 sets of them for whatever reason. I haven't checked back recently to see how well they sold. The Cragers and the 5 slots both came from a series of "Hot Rod" kits that were done about 30 years ago and while the wheels have been reissued repeatedly I'm not sure the actual raked suspension has been included since then.

[stitchdup]

33 minutes ago, niteowl7710 said:

They're the same wheels. My LHS at one point had 27 sets of them for whatever reason. I haven't checked back recently to see how well they sold. The Cragers and the 5 slots both came from a series of "Hot Rod" kits that were done about 30 years ago and while the wheels have been reissued repeatedly I'm not sure the actual raked suspension has been included since then.

when they were released people on here went mad for them, esoecially the aircooled vw guys cos the rear tyres are on every cal looker. I struggled to find any to order even at 1999 and hlj

[1930fordpickup]

Thank you for the nice photos and coverage. There are some interesting subjects from the other side of the pond.

I wonder why wheei sets seem to be more of a thing over there and not here. I guess the 3d printer people will take care of that for us here. 

[Matt T.]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

They may already have done so. If they're the same as the ones I got in a Nissan Cedric Y30 kit and used on a Monogram Corvette build then they're pretty wide and they've done well to vaguely get them under a Celica - I can see why it's got that rake!

Aha, here they are on June re-release: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10956550

Thanks! I’ll be pre-ordering a few sets. My Revellogram 1/24 muscle car builds need them. 😎

[Ulf]

I seem to recall that five-hole slot mags are four-bolted.

[stitchdup]

4 minutes ago, Ulf said:

I seem to recall that five-hole slot mags are four-bolted.

they are indeed

[niteowl7710]

On 5/16/2025 at 12:00 PM, 1930fordpickup said:

Thank you for the nice photos and coverage. There are some interesting subjects from the other side of the pond.

I wonder why wheei sets seem to be more of a thing over there and not here. I guess the 3d printer people will take care of that for us here. 

I suspect heavily it's because of polycaps. Now you can have the argument about male fitment (Tamiya, Hasegawa, Beemax/NuNu) vs. female (Aoshima & Fujimi) which is all about which side of the wheel the peg is located (eg on the wheel itself or the suspension components) but nearly every single set of wheels in Japan all attach through the use of those little nylon donuts and it's easy enough to cut off the peg and/or make one out of styrene rod (or metal rod for that matter). 

It's not the relentless goofy nonsense of U.S. kit manufacturers where no two companies can agree which way to mount their wheels for a given 12 month period let alone over the long haul. 

Edited Saturday at 05:10 PM by niteowl7710