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That’s a completely fair price. Hopefully it’s more detailed than say the Porsche 935 kit they recently released. I’ll wait for a US retailer to offer preorders and hope they’re able to fulfill it, or just get it on eBay.
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Unless it’s grossly inaccurate and it doesn’t look that way from what I have seen, I’m in. At a bare minimum, it will be a good starting point for a super detailing exercise.
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Grypham wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:15 am If we were to look at Tamiya's "recent" all new 1/12th kits, the Ferrari Enzo and Porsche Carrera GT, they were more than double the cost of the 1/12th re-releases at the time. It would be a tough decision to choose what F1 car to release in order to recover the huge costs involved. I suppose a Senna car is a pretty safe bet worldwide. Revell DE gambled on a Schumacher car, and managed a reasonable price. I don't know how big a seller it was, but there seems to be quite a few out there. Italeri manages to produce Alfa 8C 2300's, etc. at fairly reasonable prices.....
Not to be argumentative but you are not comparing apples to apples. Tamiya's Enzo and Carrera GT both were released as Simi-Assembled (Die Cast) models before they were ever released in kit form so again the tooling/development cost one would assume was taken up in the initial run before it hit the market in kit form. Also you are comparing a full bodied car to and F1 car if you are using the 99T to compare against. If MFH is any indication their F1 models sell for around $200 USD cheaper than their sportscars so I don't think that the Tamiya sportscars are too out of line cost wise. Italeri is just a bad example to use since these models are nothing more then re-releases of Protar kits so again no development cost associated with those. Those are more of a plug and play model kit. Meaning set up of the mold they purchased and run parts. I thought someone was working on releasing a new 1/12th scale Lancia Rally car. It would be interesting to compare the cost of that kit with the 99T if you want to get a true comparison between sportscars and F1 in 1/12th scale
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Italeri is just a bad example to use since these models are nothing more then re-releases of Protar kits so again no development cost associated with those.
They did made some new 1/12 kits, like their Alfa 8C, which is a completeley new development. This sells for 130€ here in Germany.
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And the Lancia Delta Integrale in 1/12 will also come from Italieri.
I don't think the Tamiya 935/934 are too expensive. These are great kits that fit perfectly together. Before the re-release they went up to 200€or even more. Now they are really cheap, I think.

But the Lotus is with much over 220€ not a bargain in my mind.
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capri-schorsch wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:54 am
But the Lotus is with much over 220€ not a bargain in my mind.
Maybe. We will have to wait and see.

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I've pre-ordered mine. It's a 1/12 Lotus for under 200 quid. There are jokers on eVilbay wanting more than that for a Tamiya Lotus 78.

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Can’t trust evil bay for anything. When you see 100% markup on kits that are available in the stores, you know its become a joke.
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leafs004 wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:49 am Can’t trust evil bay for anything. When you see 100% markup on kits that are available in the stores, you know its become a joke.
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Greater fool theory ;)

Anyway, one problem may also be that Italeri is expecting to sell a quantity of models that Nunu is not expecting...
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