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Preludevenom wrote:Hybrid injection kit's could sell a lot too !! it's a big difference between a 170.- or a 290.- kit for lot of buyers out there

That seem to not be the case with MFH 312T4 hybrid kits. And it could be one of reasons why MFH stopped making hybrid kits.

I do dream about more hybrid kits from MFH myself. I think they were of an excellent value. I've bought 2 and I think I did
my job supporting MFH efforts. I don't think too many others bought them and did their jobs supporting MFH, though

i've buyed one, but 312 T4 was not the right car to do for testing..... 312 T4 has ben made in all scales dozen of times..... if they would have make a 643 for example i think it would be a best seller at 170 euros full detail kit.....

Are there any substantiated rumors for modern sports racing cars from MFH in 1/12 scale?

It would seem obvious for them to continue from the 956 to make the 962 in several liveries but beyond that has anything been talked about?

I am sure that licensing and technical secrecy play a big part in saying "NO" to most recent cars but perhaps the sales would support a Toyota Eagle Mkiii or a Jaguar XJR-14 or perhaps even a Bentley Speed 8?

Well, we can dream anyway!

I'm looking forward to more full bodied cars. What surprises me is to see things like the MS11 and Bt44 on the list .
MFH models are $600 or so. Tamiya's versions are very very good and 1/4 the price??

jmpsebring wrote:I'm looking forward to more full bodied cars. What surprises me is to see things like the MS11 and Bt44 on the list .
MFH models are $600 or so. Tamiya's versions are very very good and 1/4 the price??

Notice that Tamiya have not done a new 1/12 scale kit in many years. I suspect that the cost would be much higher today for them to produce a totally new kit.
Also - while the investment in molds is much higher for Tamiya than for MFH - Tamiya were able to spread the cost over many thousands of sales not the few hundred that Hiro can expect.

Ancient history: the first Tamiya 1/12 I bought with my own money was about $30.00 sometime around 1976 or so.

jmpsebring wrote:I'm looking forward to more full bodied cars. What surprises me is to see things like the MS11 and Bt44 on the list .
MFH models are $600 or so. Tamiya's versions are very very good and 1/4 the price??

The list was authored back in early 2011, 7 to 8 months at least before MFH dipped their toe in the 1/12 (or 1/43) water, so it was understood to be 1/20 at the time. How times have changed though. It would be much better if someone started a more contemporary list with 1/12 on it (fair to say 1/20 is stone cold dead at MFH) but my old wish list keeps popping back up like a bad smell