What's Happening With the Decalcas Ford Capri?

[Junkman]

Announced five years ago, still not available.

Edited October 21 by Junkman

[stitchdup]

it sold out

[Junkman]

So it was actually available?

[stitchdup]

i just looked on the decalgas website. it said sold out, no more stock. If the decide to do more i'd be a customer

[Bainford]

Me too! This is the first I've heard of it.

[niteowl7710]

There are a couple of decal sets they promised to do but never have done that are "Sold Out" as well.  This item was never made, and it this point I'd doubt it ever will be.

[Luc Janssens]

Pure speculation on my part, but if DModels and Decalcas are one and the same company, then maybe the IXO diecast model it would be based on, needs too many changes to scale up to 1/24th scale, Also unlike the Sierra there are no OEM CAD files to fall back on.

Again pure speculation...

[niteowl7710]

1 hour ago, Luc Janssens said:

Pure speculation on my part, but if DModels and Decalcas are one and the same company, then maybe the IXO diecast model it would be based on, needs too many changes to scale up to 1/24th scale, Also unlike the Sierra there are no OEM CAD files to fall back on.

Again pure speculation...

The Decalcas "kit" was supposed to be a poured resin multimedia piece (ala Alpha, PZY, Renaissance, etc) not an injected styrene kit.

Like so many things it seems to have been killed off by the abrupt shut downs during Covid and seemingly didn't make financial sense to continue sinking money into developing it.

[Luc Janssens]

10 minutes ago, niteowl7710 said:

The Decalcas "kit" was supposed to be a poured resin multimedia piece (ala Alpha, PZY, Renaissance, etc) not an injected styrene kit.

Like so many things it seems to have been killed off by the abrupt shut downs during Covid and seemingly didn't make financial sense to continue sinking money into developing it.

A pitty tho, a kit of a Mk1 Capri would be nice. 

Cheers

[unclescott58]

Why is a nice “stock” Capri mk 1 not available? The car was such a big seller in real life. And in so many different markets. I’ve never seem a plain/stock mk 1 kit ever in 1/25th or 1/24th scale. This has baffled me years now.

Make mine a US spec version of course. Or at least a left hand version with a V6.

[Luc Janssens]

2 hours ago, unclescott58 said:

Why is a nice “stock” Capri mk 1 not available? The car was such a big seller in real life. And in so many different markets. I’ve never seem a plain/stock mk 1 kit ever in 1/25th or 1/24th scale. This has baffled me years now.

Make mine a US spec version of course. Or at least a left hand version with a V6.

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