Fortunately, the hobby is in better shape now than it's been in YEARS! Bravo!!!!

I miss walking into literally any store and being able to find a model car section. Online is great, but there's just something special about being able to see all of the cars in a physical store.

GREAT VIDEO!!!! I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL. PLEASE CONTINUE TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH.

We definitely have some really exciting kits on the way. I can see myself buying several of those. Thanks for sharing.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. GREAT VIDEO AND EDUCATION. THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

Good info James, the moebius trucks is good news for me, can finally build a 67 I used to race

Revell usually likes to get two body style variations out of an all-new tool, I wonder if there's going to be an '80s squarebody C-10 pickup coming? Preferably a Fleetside with 2wd parts and all the low-series work truck parts already tooled for that municipal Blazer. (it always bothered me that there was a scene where Hopper and Mike were fighting over the power windows, it should have cranks).

As an avid modeler and collector, and even a real 1/1 scale guy, I bitched at and prodded Moebius quite a lot when their Ford pickups first came out regarding different platforms, 4x4 set-ups, motors, and just about anything else that I could come up with as an idea. I bitched so much about the incorrectness of the 1967-72 dog-dish hubcaps that they made the newer 3/4-ton trucks with the correct caps, but didn't correct the original hubcaps, which of course would have costed them money to do. I made comparisons about how the 1965-66 Ford Pickup platform was basically unchanged related to the 1967-72 Bump-sides I was highly critical about why the initial offerings were only of 2x4 pickups and made many suggestions about which products they should come out with. Of course, I don't expect them to ever give me any credit regarding these ideas, but practically everything I mentioned to them came to fruition eventually. Even back before they came out with the '65-'66 Fords, I suggested that they should probably come out with a 1967-68 Chevy pickup. I know that many would never let me just say that it was all my idea, but just saying, if it wasn't me or a group of customers like me, I wouldn't believe that. I mentioned small tweaks that would improve details, accuracy and even functionality. They all came into being. I could make predictions about what they will come up with just based upon what I suggested to them almost 10+ years ago or more. IMHO, they are still screwing up on several of their kits in details and correctness, but I'm a nitpicker. I think most old modelers like me are. One thing that really amazes me is how the 3D tech side of things is actually improving how these models can look.

@niteowl7710

7 ай бұрын

Actually they've made corrected F-100 wheel covers now too per a post they made on a forum back in July - to be released in a later release. At this point the only light duty truck (because the tow truck is still out there pending in the future) idea they haven't released yet is a "Day 2" F-100 4x4 that comes with custom rims, a gun rack w/2 guns and a bumper mounted winch. In theory I suppose that release could carry the new stock wheel covers as an option to using the custom wheels. There was also talk of those wheels being offered through the Pegasus Shop online, but as of yet they aren't up there. The Dually Wheels (plain and plated), the Snow Plow, and the Gun Rack w/guns are available for purchase as individual "parts packs".

Not dying just evolving...

Thats great to hear. I wish wed get more in 1/24. I like building that scale to add to my 1/24 diecast collection.

I believe our hobby is thriving even more by today's standards. My worry is the hobby shops are dying due to competition with online stores. I grew up walking into my local hobby shop as a kid and spending my well earned allowance. I don't want to deprive my kids of that enjoyment. Thank you for all the wonderful stash reports and waiting for more.

@lincoslam

8 ай бұрын

Hobby shops are dying.....and they aren't coming back. I hate to say it. I belong to a local model club and we get our kits online, or through a local distributor connection. LHS have shown little support for car modelers often being out of stock or charging insane pricing. If Ollie's is selling a Rat Fink IH tractor fpr $19.99 and making money Then the LHS that had it at 69.95 is out and out gouging. Guess where I'm going. Most shops are after the R/C crowd anyway....apparently their members are all related to Jeff Besos .

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, but Ollie's is selling dead stock from Wal*Mart at $19.99. They're making a profit because buying old dead stock is how they make their money. There have been a few runs of kits out of Round2 and Revell that were manufactured specifically for Ollie's, but the most recent batch of kits they got in are leftovers from last Christmas' Round2 shippers that most Wal*Marts received. My local Wally World has gotten another one for this Christmas season, but it's about 1/4 the size as last year. Beyond that, brick and mortar Hobby Shops are very much a regional thing. Here around the Pittsburgh Metro area we have 7 of them spread across four counties. We have 4 local model shows a year as well, a few have closed, but they've been replaced by new ones that have opened. I realize we're very lucky in that way, but it seems like so many shops close down because the original owners retire and either no one wants to buy out the business, or the new owners immediately crash it into the ground.

@lincoslam

8 ай бұрын

I get the "closeout" aspect of Ollies. I buy stuff there all the time, and I remember the discussion on the box dating making no sense as far as closeout sales...but regardless, all the LHS we have had were 12th rate and had nothing, or car models were of secondary interest. So I have little affection for them. Point being....if you are going to take a $39.95 list kit , jack it up to $69.95 then cry when no one comes in to stare at your empty Tamiya paint rack or thumb through some year old magazines, what did you expect? I get the manufacturers make their margins on much slimmer volume then when i was a kid, so pricing is higher overall but paying 49.95 for AMT's 56 Ford is insane. Is the hobby dead? Of course not. But those trying to squeeze every last cent out of modellers are of no use, and shame on some of these online sellers also. Common kit is discontinued and the next day the price goes up to the stratosphere. Enough crying.....time to build. @@niteowl7710

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

@lincoslam Very true, hobby shops that want to price out at (or in some cases above MSRP) aren't doing themselves any favors. We have one around locally that does that, but then has a flyer up on the shelves saying you get 15% off at the register. He's convinced he sells stuff because people think they're getting a deal with the "sale" rather than just pricing the kits at a better price to begin with...

Hobby won't die, with 3d printing, companies will eventually work on producing files and such. Hope it die any time soon lol, new viewer, still watching the video :)

@niteowl7710

7 ай бұрын

I think that in order for 3D Printing to truly "take over" in a significant way there will need to be some sort of industry standard applied within the software & hardware of all the various machines. There's still a bit of dark arts magic required to get one to work, especially in the realm of support placement. Until and unless you get to a point where you can all but guarantee the files will print no matter what printer you're using, what resin you're using, et al I don't see a mass market solution for replacing injection molded models with 3D printing. Plus there's just some things that injection molding just does better than printing, so I would imagine a would where you buy a plastic model, but it comes with (or has DLC available) for additional engine, wheels, etc.

There some cool stuff coming out and recently released, wish there was an actual hobby shop out my way though

I dont think its dying at all. Its just changing. When us older guys and gals finally cant build some of the muscle type cars may finally go away but there are still many gundam and military kits plus the figure market is still going strong. People used to think the muscle car market would fade away to😅

Im 72 ,born in 51 ,started with modeling around 8 or 10 ,they had the best assortment of models back then ,and i only paid around 1.65 back then .

Were I lived growing up there were plenty of hobby shops around us and my friends and I couldn't wait for the weekend's so we all could hang out at the hobby shop's, we all would grab are slot car cases because they a track there so to race or test them and if you needed parts you could buy them there , they also had all kinds of models , damn I would spend my hole paper route check there every weekend 😀 . BUT now a day's can't find a hobby shop anywhere close , the close's one is like a 20 minute drive and I still live in the same area were I grew up 😒☹️

The 2nd grill on the T3 VW bus is for the Diesel version!And they all had it Even here in Europe😉

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Ahh good information! Well I don't suppose their going to tool up a diesel for it, so now I'm further intrigued by what "new parts" it will end up with...

👍👍👍👍

The problem with Salvinos are the prices here in Europe!Over 68-75 Euro for the New NASCAR kits is ridiculous especially they are not THAT quality for that price!Mobius is about 40,AMT about 35-40 and Revell about 30-35 here!Even Tamiya is only around 40-45 Euro!Many people and NASCAR fans here in Europe complain about this prices of SJR but it seems they earn enough money and they dont care!Would like to see an Arkansas Little Rock police car to recreate the car of Trooper Byrd! 😉All in all great news and great Vid

Great news about '67-'72 Chevy and GMC trucks. AMT and MPC both did promo's and kits of those trucks, and what is offered currently is a mash-up of those old kits.

With the popularity of Street Outlaws and local drag strips seeing a resurgence, why won't they retool or re-issue the tubbed out drag kits. Gassers are cool, but there are a lot of us out there that are dying to see pro street and bracket style cars get produced

New subscriber here

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Welcome!!

Thanks for the heads up on what's to come! Pretty exciting for sure! Do we know anything on what's going on with the Moebius 1971 F250 and the '67 F100 step side that was supposed to be out? I haven't heard or seen anything about it!

To me, the `64 Chevelle Malibu SS and the `60 Ford pickup kits are the ones I'm anxious for. Q: I wonder if the `64 Malibu kit will be a re-pop of the Craftsmen Series kit from `68?

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Craftsman Series from 1964, they're doing it as it came out originally.

Yes, I think I will be parting with some of my money and expanding the collection. That Blazer is interesting and that’s not really in my wheelhouse. To quote someone the hobby’s death has been greatly exaggerated.

It will die if it doesn't catch on well enough with the younger crowd but in the mean time us older folks are keeping it lit pretty good at the moment

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Legacy Models may slow down overall, but younger folks are active in the hobby. They're building Gundam and SciFi. My local "car only" hobby shop started carrying Bandai and other Gunpla/Gundam right before Covid and in 2023 those kits represent over 50% of total sales. Some of those Perfect & Ultimate Grade kits are the size of a roller suitcase and cost in excess of $200. Yet there's always some guys in their twenties and early thirties in their on the weekends carrying them out of the store.

@modelrestorations

8 ай бұрын

Hello modelerjerry. I am also a Jerry. We are so badass. 😂

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Alright don't make me separate all the Jerrys! 🤣

Like to see a 65 dart Oh cool warlock Vdub OK OK blazer cool 85 ok

I see the stranger things models are 1/24 and 1/25? Won't that be hard to build them and park next to each other? Or maybe that is the stranger thing? Lol.

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

The VW is a Revell Germany tooling so it's "International" Scale and the Camaro is ex-Monogram and they always embraced 1/24 when they were their own entity. Lot of these licensed items end up being sold to collectors of TV/Movie memorabilia and never get opened, let alone built.

I am curious to why many people find it necessary to have multiples of any one particular kit.. I understand a cheap sale or so but more than an extra maybe 2? .. Especially if its a private stash and not for resale profit...

@niteowl7710

7 ай бұрын

Some people seem to fall in love with certain model kits. Every so often on here someone stirs up a "Favorite Kit" video and the replies always center around building multiple examples of the same model. There are a handful of people who want to build "xyz" in every factory color it came in...and race car builders tend to have multiples of kits to serve as "blanks" for the variety of aftermarket liveries on offer. Collecting kits just to say you own every boxing of a specific kit and never building any of them...that leans hard into the hoarding tendencies of this hobby.

The Cop-Car-Kit Curse strikes again. Just as with the Lindberg '97 Crown Vic and Revell 2005 Impala, the model kit arrives just as the real car goes out of production (or in the two earlier cases was heavily restyled).

@niteowl7710

5 ай бұрын

I know right? Light Commerical guys never catch a break!

I have been building model cars for 50 + years....the last 40 years of them were the final death throes of the hobby. This has got to be the longest, drawn out expiration ever recorded.. At this rate I hope it keeps flailing about. Meanwhile, it's nice to see everybody thinking outside the box, domestically. Being a Ford man I have been living in fantasy world with Moebius' '65-'72 F series trucks. A Ford kit bashers heaven if there ever was one. The wrecker is a perfect piece. I always had a feeling that Chevrolets were coming and if they do them like the Fords they will do well..So much for the collectors' overpriced and underwhelming '67-'72 AMT/MPC kits. Funny how the '72 Chevrolet pick up in Coke Livery was at Ollies these past two weeks en masse. Now..if we could get them to do a '61-'71 Dodge Pick Up....or dare I say 50's International....obviously crazy talk. Nice how Round 2 is grabbing the baton on the older F series....I see a '66 F250 4x4 with a "wrongbed" coming. Kudo's on the '85 Blazer from Revell. Now just give us a Ranchero and a Courier based on the the '57 Ford. Yup....sprinkle the lime, this hobby is so dead it stinks.

@1972Ray

8 ай бұрын

The model kit industry is actually growing. Expected growth is 200 million thru 2027, with the US leading with 40% of the model kit market. Hobby shops are dying out though.

@tieneeddoawestruck2036

8 ай бұрын

I just got back into the hobby when my son came up and asked if we could build a drag car. I was confused til he showed me an old Bob Gliddon T-bird kit on e-bay. So I bought it and now we have 7 finished cars and 21 more on the shelf, lol.

SUGGESTION: MONSTER JAM AND NHRA AND FORULA DRIFT.

Your mice must be huge

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Or my kids pick the worst time to have a dance party, gymnastic, wind sprint competition...with the 125lb dog chasing them around. 🤣🤣

holmes 440 wrecker bed

camper shell, not a slide in camper

Nice background noise

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it's like 200% louder on video than it was in real life. I know I'm taking this Webcam with me if I ever need to investigate a haunted house...😬

Hahaha! Moebius will have those chevys out in 26 or 27! Not a chance you will see them in 24...

@autobug2

8 ай бұрын

I notice with Moebius, their kits arrive a couple years AFTER they are announced! The "news" catagory on their website has been blank for well over a year now. I'm thinking they are struggling financially. We may see them close business.

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Unlikely, Moebius is well funded.

To me $30 is way to much for a kit. My brother works in the plastics industry and says none of the stuff has went up in price to warrant that price. In the 80s you could get just about any kit you wanted for $10 or so.

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

With respect to your brother is what he produces heavily licensed the way everything in models are? The agreements don't exist in perpetuity, the major brands (GM, Ford, Stellantis, Coke, Hostess, etc) have to be renewed every three years and there is an individual licensing fee on each item tacked onto that. While the cost of raw materials may not have increased substantially, I also presume your brother makes significantly more than he did in the 80s as well.

PLASTIC MODELS ARE HOT IN 1984!!!!! WITH NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN!!!!

The car side is going down because nothing new is coming out just the same old repops and bad quality new kits now on the military modeling side it's booming new kits is coming out every day with slide molding photo etch, new paint is coming out every day 3d printed parts included in kits. Truthfully the car side is stuck in the past

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

I won't argue about being stuck in the past and sometimes lackluster quality, but the amount of new kits in Military vs. Automotive also comes down to how many more companies based in Asia are doing Military subject matter vs. the fact we have 4 companies in the U.S. period at this point. It's just a sheer volume thing.

@waynesworldofmodeling2574

8 ай бұрын

@@niteowl7710 truthfully everything is made overseas except for them poorly made nascar kits the decals are amazing but that's it

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Except for the old Monogram tooling they have their tooling is cut in China as well. It's *Made* in the U.S. as far as the plastic going into the machine, but they use overseas vendors as much as anyone else.

@waynesworldofmodeling2574

8 ай бұрын

@@niteowl7710 damn I didn't know that monogram still made kits I thought they went out of business in the 90s

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

@waynesworldofmodeling2574 The trademark of Monogram has been something Revell has owned since they merged back in the 1980s, and occasionally it still gets used today. But what I meant was Salvinos JR has three clumps of tooling. The 1/25 Vintage kits from the 1970s (Charger, Roadrunner, Olds & Monte Carlo) are new tools they created with the actual tooling work done in China. The 1/24 NextGen kits are again new tools they made (in China). But the Salvinos kits they've released in 1/24 from the 1980s (Regal, Grand Prix, Monte Carlo SS/Aeroback) are the original old Monogram tools. New bodies were tooled (in China) for the Grand Prix 2+2 and Le Mans which fit onto the old Monogram chassis/running gear.

Old guys hoarding re-releases of model kits is not going to perpetuate the hobby.

If it's manufactured in china they can keep it.

@niteowl7710

7 ай бұрын

I can appreciate your overall sentiment, it sure does limit what you can buy down to the stuff Atlantis makes. The Monogram NASCAR tooling Salvinos JR has, and the random odd and end Revell and Round2 kit run from tooling that wasn't sent over back in the 90s.

The hobby is dying, within 20 years it'll be all over, it's getting close now can't even buy a model for under $30

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

Hobby has been dying since I started building just short of 40 years ago...I'll be long dead before the hobby passes on...

@autobug2

8 ай бұрын

When I was a kid, most all kits were $1.50-$2.00. retail. My, how times changed!

@modelrestorations

8 ай бұрын

I know there getting up there in price but I don't think it will kill the hobby. There is a big variety and lots of the younger generation love to build. Maybe not muscle cars but the Gundam market is huge and thriving.

@niteowl7710

8 ай бұрын

@modelrestorations That and kids (I have two who are still under their teenage years) don't necessarily have the connection to the "norm" of Hot Rods & Muscle Cars. The prices of those cars in 2023 are more than I paid for my house in a lot of cases at Mecum so they're not a reality to anyone who didn’t physically live through that era. I think there will be a drift towards subject matter from the 70s/80s/90s as GenX becomes the larger component of their customer base (see 71 442, 84 Porsche 911, 85 Blazer, not to mention the large investment in 80s/90s era racing subjects at the likes of Hasegawa, NuNu/Beemax and Belkits.

Is it going to be like new model kits for next year