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I hope this is in the right area of the forum. just joined in the last 2 weeks and in my initial post I mentioned that I had bought 3 Moebius kits as my first go after nearly 50 years away from this hobby. Kits are here and I have started preliminary work on the 56 300b Chrysler. My paints should be here tomorrow and I will commence work on them in earnest over the weekend. I am very excited about this and have already been looking at future kits to buy. I saw the gorgeous Ferrari kits from Fujimi and through a bit of research it seems that the Ferrari is somewhat of a limited time frame run.

1. Does that mean I should order what I want now or will these kits be available at a later date? I really like the Italia and the Enzo.

2. Are these kits any more difficult or challenging than the Moebius, AMT or Revell kits?

3. If they are more challenging, will I be ready to do these kits after I finish my 3 Moebius or should I wait until I gain more experience?

Sorry for the base level of these questions.


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The Moebius kits are rated as "skill level 3", and I think most modelers would agree the Fujimi full-detail or "enthusiast" kits are maybe just a tad more challenging (assuming you mean the 1/24 scale offerings). A version of the Fujimi Enzo includes photo-etched parts, and working with PE requires an additional skillset beyond assembling plastic.

The 1/24 Fujimi Enzo kit is easily available on ebay for reasonable money, and probably will be for some time. Revell, offers a fine Enzo kit as well (actually, they have 2...a full-detail glue kit, and a snapper), and Tamiya has one in 1/24 too (full detail, and more expensive than the Revell or Fujimi versions). Tamiya has a mostly well-deserved reputation for making exquisite model kits.

If you're happy with the results you're getting from the Moebius kits, there's no reason not to try a Fujimi...or any others.

Edited by Ace-Garageguy
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The Fujimi Italia and Enzo are reasonably nice kits but not terribly complicated... both are curbside kits with engine detail mostly limited to what can be viewed through the clear engine cover. They build up into nice shelf models for an intermediate level builder. I wouldn't worry too much about availability... they're always available on EBay. Another excellent Italia kit is the Revell kit, which is a full-detail kit that is more readily available at a better price than the Fujimi. It was originally tooled by Revell Germany and is outstanding in pretty much every way.

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Wow, what a nice kit and full detail too. Speaking of this car, I had an opportunity to track it, a Scuderia and Audi R8 in whats called Exotic Racing. You pay a few hundies and lap 5 or 6 with an instructor at the passgner side.

Nothing like some one yelling go go go as you approach a corner at 80MPH! OMG what a hoot.

These are are amazing!

Curious about model runs though. So much to my surprise, Revell had a Porsche 956, 962 and Audi R10 which are discontinued, why so? These seem very cool models so is it a licensing thing in terms of Revell paying various OEMs to scale kit there cars?

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Well, as a child Tamiya was my go to for foreign and Revell was my go to for dometic. Now, well I just wished Revell had more LeMans and F1 kits, but they market to a certain audience so it is what it is.

They should have an amazing Ford GT40 and GT kits but thats just me speaking patriotically even though I know the GT40 was British designed and built through Mk3. However the MkIV which I feel is the best GT40 was USA built, too bad those scale model kits are boo-koo dinero!

Why doesn't Revell do those? At any rate I am digressing from this topic big time, my apology.

Edited by aurfalien
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Models aren't necessarily produced continuously. There's a production run, the things are distributed, warehoused and sold. If a sufficient market is seen by company management, you'll get re-issues over time...as long as the tooling hasn't been lost or destroyed. Most everything ever produced can be obtained at some price, and we're currently seeing a LOT of reissues of kits we never thought we'd EVER see again.

I've bought Revell reboxings of some of the GT40 variants for reasonable money in the not-too-distant past...but to commit to the huge expense of designing and tooling to produce a completely new kit, the potential market has to be pretty large. Obsolete race-cars, even as iconic and beautiful as the GT40, don't strike me as being massive sellers...especially when pristine kits can still be had.

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Ah, excellent points. Plus I think model kits look to be more for the older then kids these days as video games and Face Book are there main interests, seeminlgy anyways.

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Well I ended up ordering the Tamiya Enzo and LaFerreria kits.

You'll love the Tamiya Enzo kit. Just take your time and proceed with caution and you'll do fine. it's a very challenging but very rewarding kit. if you go to Alex Kustov's site at www.italianhorses.net he's built a couple of Enzos and details his building process very carefully.

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