Shite in Miniature II

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[mercrocker]

Please refrain from giving me likes.

 

I'm not doing anything special here, only my civic duty.

 

In which case I have thanked you instead. 

 

Despite my lurking on here I have no internet interest and do not see this stuff elsewhere....

[Junkman]

So far it's a tad lukewarm shite wise.

[Junkman]

Heller celebrates 60 years of continued bankruptcy.

 

 

 

 

That's an HY low loader on the top shelf.

 

 

 

They shared the stand with Zvezda, so there seems to be a cooperation going on.

 

 

 

The good news is the Estafettes were only delayed, not scrapped.

 

 

R8 RMC is a welcome reissue.

[Split_Pin]

Wow as always.

 

Very pleased to see Wiking still going. They were my awakening in the 1980s tjat there was a world outside of Corgi Juniors.

 

Also as always, its the Norev products that I'm drawn to.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[Junkman]

That IXO 'trelle is the dox bollox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Stig was there:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[mercrocker]

Phwoar! at that GT380.   

[Junkman]

Tamiya mostly showed reissues as far as I can see.

Welcome reissues, though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Junkman]

OTTO and GT Spirit are no shows this year

We know that OTTO is in meltdown mode, but the absence of GT Spirit is weird.

 

 

Further news:

 

Jada announced a 1/24 ECTO 1, but didn't bring a sample.

 

Greenlight announced Christine, Dennis's Charger, Buddy's Camaro, B.A's '83 Vandura and Face's '84 Corvette, all in 1/24 scale.

 

There might be further news once the guys hit their hotels.

[Mr Lobster]

OTTO and GT Spirit are no shows this year

We know that OTTO is in meltdown mode, but the absence of GT Spirit is weird.

 

 

Whats happening with Otto then? Not heard anything but then we don't really do Otto to any extent these days.

[Junkman]

They're fucked.

[Junkman]

Phwoar! at that GT380.   

 

I put in a pre order at HLJ.

[Mr Lobster]

In terms of run out of money / not making enough? 

 

Wouldn't be a massive surprise as they've pretty much obliterated all their trade custom by selling direct to retail at trade price or lower.   Product itself is decent enough but it's just not worth stocking these days. 

 

They should have done so well with Solido too but something appears to have gone wrong there. When we can get the product its good and its popular. But thanks to UK importer its also way too expensive - 1:43s in particular - and importer seems reluctant to actually import it.  Its a shame because the 1:18 Solido range is good and should have complemented the Otto range nicely. I won't even get started on GT Spirit...

[Mr A Lawrence]

that looks like 59impala's front room.

[andy18s]

Whats happening with Otto then? Not heard anything but then we don't really do Otto to any extent these days.

Had an email from Otto today funnily enough

[Junkman]

But thanks to UK importer its also way too expensive...

I have no idea what those UK importers are there for.

 

Round2 et al are internationally marketed by a company in Chicago, which shows two UK importers on their website.

I have yet to see any merchandise they are supposedly representing, despite I wouldn't buy it anyway, because their

price ideas are a bit on the funny side.

 

Hence I order anything from abroad and I do mean anything.

The inherent problem though is that idiotic distributors can be the death of a manufacturer, considering how thin

the financial blanket is for most.

I sent that Chicagoan company an email describing the situation in the UK.

[Spottedlaurel]

That 1:18 Honda kit is a new one to me.

 

Hasegawa appear to be releasing some interesting kits. I'm not really a BMW person but that '02 is rather appealing. Impressed that they've released the Isuzu too.

[Felly Magic]

A lot of model manufacturers seem brilliant at pressing 'self destruct', looking at Hornby group, they are doing the same, and Corgi used to be absolute sods for dumping stuff at half trade price or less, they did that with the overstocks of Vanguards models not that long ago, which damaged buyer confidence, and peeved many retailers who still had full priced stocks they suddenly couldn't sell without making a loss. I am puzzled at Lyndon's appointment, I personally think he has ulterior motives, and it is a massive clash of interests, I'm suspecting that he's after running the firm on to the rocks, then buying up from administrators, a very Chinese business practice.  It's not helping us in the UK that our currency is de valued, and once Brexit happens, we will be worse off trade wise, and reading that from Andy, it looks like more discounting from Otto will happen to clear stocks and free up capital. 

 

Hornby & Oxford still seem to be churning stuff out for Atlas, which seem to be flooding the market cheaply at the moment too, the whole model industry seems to be in a real mess.

 

I'm watching Bachmann make a right bollocks up of dying brand EFE, the RRP of these now very crude models, many of which have nigh on 30 year old tooling is beyond a joke (£34.99), and Bachmann are notoriously awkward to deal with, and we've recently seen B.T Models, formerly Base Toys collapse, clearly their lowish price point didn't give them the margin to stay afloat

[Junkman]

That 1:18 Honda kit is a new one to me.

 

 

It hasn't been reissued since the late Seventies. There was also a Subaru Fronte,

which I have somewhere, a few Can Am racers and a Porsche 906.

For their time the kits were sensational, they might be a tad 'nostalgic' now.

[Junkman]

There are elephants in the living room.

 

 

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

I'm surprised Revell doing a 1:16 scale Porsche 356 in an easy to assemble kit, seems a very unusual angle, but it does look like they are pushing the easy to assemble range, nobody around here stocks kits in any quantity, so if I wanted to start building kits in my spare time again, I have to resort to mail order

[Junkman]

Note that the skill level 4 Porker floppytop glue kit has 50 parts more than the 'easy-click system' koopay.

I really do wonder what the differences are.

 

I'm currently building the tractor and as of yet haven't figured out what the 'easy-click system' really is.

IMO It's merely a very well fitting glue kit, there is no way it would stick together if you'd just stick it together (see what I did there?).

[Felly Magic]

Sounds like Revell are confusing people then, can see people getting pissed off with so called easy click kits to be honest. I'm a bit annoyed that Hornby missed a great chance to develop their Quickbuild series, and just re issued the same stuff with different colours, after offloading huge surplus stock on the trade again, the oddball scale of them certainly has harmed sales I think, if they'd done the VWs in say 1/24 scale, I bet they would have sold like hot cakes