stitchdup Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 11 hours ago, niteowl7710 said: On the eBay shipping discussion of the last couple of pages. You don't *have* to use eBay's shipping services. The benefit to the seller is so long as the package arrives to the 3rd Party repack for DHL then you're covered if it never arrives at the other end. That ends up being on the 3rd Party & DHL. If you go around and ship it yourself via USPS or UPS and it no shows, there is no such protection provision. So sellers who already don't sell much Internationally have no incentive to work with Buyers. Onto more exciting things, receiving International Parcels. Fresh from Hong Kong. Of special interest to BMW fans and collectors this new Beemax 320i is a massaged and added onto (new parts tooled) Dragon BMW 320i. Finally after about 3 decades the fate of the Dragon tooling is solved. I'd love to get the back story as to where it's been, and how BeeMaNuNu got ahold of it. They've reingraved every sprue with "NuNu Hobby" on them so they now own this tooling. I would presume it would also allow them to release the E36 M3 race cars as well. It's was a matter of intrigue because there was no press about this kit and it's contents going into the release, but I sat down and compared the two and they're the same tool. Also that Hasegawa 318i is a kissing sister of the Dragon tooling that Hasegawa did their own tweaks to and produced their own kit out of, but the same design engineer came up with the whole ball of wax. didn't revell have the tool last. the last release of the m3 was in their box at the same time as the M compact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 43 minutes ago, stitchdup said: didn't revell have the tool last. the last release of the m3 was in their box at the same time as the M compact Revell reboxed a lot of people's stuff in the 90s, and they still do. For even more intermingling intrigue Dragon's importer into Europe in the 90s was Italeri. The last time the Dragon kits were seen were right before 2000 when both Revell and Dragon offered different version of the 320i race car for 1997/1998 season cars. There is an extension piece for the rear of the chassis that makes it fit the sedan body, but otherwise the chassis fits under both the 316i/318i Compact, M3 and 320i with the same parts. The road cars and race cars all share the same base interior pieces which is helped along with separate door panels so they can swap between Coupe & Sedan and then tooling insert swaps make up the bulk of it being a race car or a road car. If you look at how Hasegawa handles their 318i/320i sedan kits it's the same thing except Hasegawa chose to have their chassis molded in one piece at sedan length, and the interior as a tub with the door panels attached which pins the interior to sedan configuration only. When kits are shared the tooling doesn't physically move around, the owner of the tooling does a production run and then sends the bagged "blank" kits to the second company to put into their boxes with their instructions, decals, etc. So the most likely story is the tooling has been sitting around in some warehouse in Hong Kong/nearby China wrapped in Cosmoline waiting for the next ice age. Somewhere along the line a deal was struck, and the tooling moved onto Beemax. Dragon itself has started to make models again for the first time after a long pause of regurgitating reissues. I don't know what happened between 2016 and last year, but they "woke up" and began working again. Possibly when whomever spurred the move to produce kits again went through the tooling warehouse, they decided to sell the stuff they weren't going to use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 Â Found a farm truck camper fits that era truck.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bainford Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Just picked up these kits. The Porsche, because I've wanted one since its release. The Demon, because I was feeling left out. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64SS350 Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Some parts for future projects....may have something to do with the Top Kick resin cabs I acquired a few months ago. Â 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 19 minutes ago, 64SS350 said: Some parts for future projects....may have something to do with the Top Kick resin cabs I acquired a few months ago.  Good looking bodies you got there…   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 A small box *cough* from HobbyLink Japan... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 2 hours ago, niteowl7710 said: A small box *cough* from HobbyLink Japan... what do you think of the isuzu bellet kit? its been one i'm thinking about getting but i haven't seen any built yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 7 hours ago, stitchdup said: what do you think of the isuzu bellet kit? its been one i'm thinking about getting but i haven't seen any built yet It's typical of most new tool Hasegawa kits over the past several years. This particular kit has a bunch of new parts to "backdate" the 1969/1968 kits they've already done to the earlier one. Better kit than the Fujimi option as that one was showing it's 30 yrs of age, half-hearted "4n1" tooling at this point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabbysdaddy Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Went to the LHS today. Surprisingly, they didn't have anything I was looking for. Not wanting to leave empty handed, I picked up these two. The Jeep was $23, the Stude isn't really my thing but it was only ten bucks. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exotics_Builder Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Stopped off at a small swap meet today and got these for a very decent price. Â 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerS Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Went to Atomic City Rod & Custom Model Car Resource today as I missed the first run on the Warlock pick ups, but while there saw a couple other things I had to grab. Daisy's Jeep is F/S. Eldorado is the 1976 release and appears to be complete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Went by the flea market to check the ultra-cheapo HO salvage stuff, and snagged a few more rescues. I'd been walking by some car kits in another stall, pretty reasonably priced, so I asked Mom if I could have a few. She didn't say anything (would have been creepy if she had...), so taking that as a "yes", I let these follow me home. 70 1/2 AMT Camaro, body painted with easily stripped enamel, otherwise complete and relatively unmolested; AMT '40 Ford Tudor recent issue, sealed; Revell '68 Hemi Dart, sealed inside; and a Revell Miami Vice Daytona Spyder fake kit-car, also sealed inside. About $20 each.                                Nothing I'd particularly been lusting after, but I've had a road-racer gen-2 Camaro in the back of my mind for a while.                         The AMT '40 Tudor is one of my favorite kits, every car modeler needs a Hemi Dart, I'd kinda wanted to see what greasy bits Revell had put under the kit-car Daytona body (turns out it's a relatively correct Corvette underneath)...and my expensive Japanese Daytonas are too nice to hack into hot-rod outlaw or drag cars.   5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerS Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Auction wins over the weekend..... The Galaxie has excellent chrome and complete......no so sure what colors are going on here No clue what issue the Pinto is. Decent, unpainted build. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpate Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 All this came in today. Lego, megahobby, and Burbank house of hobbies orders. Still waiting on my gravity color order. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinfan5 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Got this yesterday after a few weeks, 22.55 shipped .......... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modlbldr Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) Bought a storage unit of semi model kits recently and these were some of the odds and ends included.  Also made a trade for several pieces of resin. That should be enough projects to keep me busy for now. Later-  Edited August 14 by Modlbldr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Tom, the Chevy Panel reminds me of the one my Dad owned when I was young... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabbysdaddy Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 "To the bat-vette." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersworry Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Bought another collection today...A little bit of this, a little bit of that...some kits of minor interest. Passche paint booth is new, never used. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpate Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) 2 hours ago, Mothersworry said: Bought another collection today...A little bit of this, a little bit of that...some kits of minor interest. Passche paint booth is new, never used. WOW!!! Awesome stuff man. Not sure how much you got this for, but that MENG F-350 can go for $3-$400. Edited August 15 by Dpate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelson Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 1 hour ago, Mothersworry said: Bought another collection today...A little bit of this, a little bit of that...some kits of minor interest. Passche paint booth is new, never used. Lot's of great stuff in there!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransAmMike Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Wow, what a haul ya got there...and quite a variety!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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