Erik Smith Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 I bought the new Revell Mercury Wagon a couple days ago and thought "This has been a good year for new models!" So, kudos to the kit makers for some great kits. We like to bemoan some of the new products - and some, rightfully so - but overall, these kits we saw this year were well worth the $: What else am I forgetting!! I probably overlooked some other genres (trucks?) and reissues too, but I gave 'em all some money this year!
rmvw guy Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 Agree, nice line-up this year. My want list keeps getting longer even though, I already have enough to last 100 years. Thankful for that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
martinfan5 Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 It was a great year for me of models From Aoshiam and Tamiya
niteowl7710 Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 The original '57 Ford was a 2011 kit... The hobby was also graced with the Subaru BRZ./Toyota 86/Scion FR-S kits and their Rocket Bunny variants, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, La Ferrari, Subaru Sambar kits, and International ProStar.
Chuck Most Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 The original '57 Ford was a 2011 kit... That long ago already? Wow. I will say I'm awfully fond of the new for '13 police version.
Brett Barrow Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 The original '57 Ford was a 2011 kit... Announced at 2011 iHobby, came out in late 2012 (December, IIRC, first WIP posted on here was Dec 23rd). I'd count it as a 2013 kit.
Erik Smith Posted December 23, 2013 Author Posted December 23, 2013 That long ago already? Wow. I will say I'm awfully fond of the new for '13 police version. Seems like yesterday to me too. Well, two great versions of it in 2013!
Greg Cullinan Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 I agree. Personally i really dig round 2 reissues, Galaxie and Falcon for Xmas hopefully.
Tom Geiger Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 These! I just ordered and received both from an eBay Store. The Trabant is different from the earlier ROG release because the older one was a curbsider, while this one has the punky little engine. The Citroen is a really nice kit, very well done. The parts all look great, only that they give you the options of having the doors (both side and rear) open or closed. We'll have to figure out how to hinge them. The silly part is that the Japanese put British commercial logos on it AND left hand drive. I did check eBay of Great Britain and saw that there actually were RHD 2CVs, so Tamiya should have given us either option like they've done on a lot of kits.
martinfan5 Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 From just Aoshima new issued kits this year, I spent $363.91
lordairgtar Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 ICM has entered the 1/24th scale arena with their Opel Admiral and Mercedes Benz from the WWII era. This Ukrainian company is more known for it's military subjects. I'm hoping they do a Tatraplan soon. Yes, I like weird cars
niteowl7710 Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 Announced at 2011 iHobby, came out in late 2012 (December, IIRC, first WIP posted on here was Dec 23rd). I'd count it as a 2013 kit. Whoops typo, I meant 2012...I guess I can technically accept it as a 2013 kit, but there were enough 2013 kits that legitimately came out IN 2013 to not back-count Revell's end of year releases.
niteowl7710 Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 (edited) These! I just ordered and received both from an eBay Store. The Trabant is different from the earlier ROG release because the older one was a curbsider, while this one has the punky little engine. The Citroen is a really nice kit, very well done. The parts all look great, only that they give you the options of having the doors (both side and rear) open or closed. We'll have to figure out how to hinge them. The silly part is that the Japanese put British commercial logos on it AND left hand drive. I did check eBay of Great Britain and saw that there actually were RHD 2CVs, so Tamiya should have given us either option like they've done on a lot of kits. Well the Fourgonnette is a mish-mash of tooling. The head designer at EBBRO is formerly a Tamiya employee, and struck up a deal to have Tamiya supply the engine, running gear, body and interior pieces from their "Masterpiece of the 80's" kit which as far as I know never had a RHD option. The Fourgonnette cargo parts were tooled up by EBBRO itself in 2013...probably not economically viable to tool up all the required RHD parts, especially considering you could never use them again as the bulk of the kits tooling doesn't belong to the company making the new parts. Tamiya for their part seems to enjoy cashing the checks from EBBRO, but isn't in a hurry to re-tool a nearly 30 year old kit to add in a Great Britain specific building option. For the ultimate purposes of this conversation the Trabant really IS from 2011. Edited December 24, 2013 by niteowl7710
slusher Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 I bought the new Revell Mercury Wagon a couple days ago and thought "This has been a good year for new models!" So, kudos to the kit makers for some great kits. We like to bemoan some of the new products - and some, rightfully so - but overall, these kits we saw this year were well worth the $: What else am I forgetting!! I probably overlooked some other genres (trucks?) and reissues too, but I gave 'em all some money this year! Well said, Eric I agree...
Roadkill2525 Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 Blockbuster year! For fails from Revell?
Greg Cullinan Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 For fails from Revell? I see your the half empty type,lol.
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