Beemax Porsche 935 K2

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SpotModel is showing this on their website as coming soon!

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Both that and the Audi Rally car should be available this summer.

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[Chris K. Hale]

Where is the Top of the engine?? It would be really nice to have a fairly well detailed full 935 single or double Turbo engine to use in the Tamiya and other brands in the proper scale... Chris

[dustymojave]

Like Japanese kits of the 70s and 80s. You would think that SOMEBODY would have provided a complete engine in 1/24 for a 935 by now. I've never even seen one advertised in resin. Hell with it...just put in a small block Chevy ... hmm, no emoji for "looks down and shakes head"...

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It's the classic tooling Catch-22. If they tool up a complete engine, they're going to need to add another 20-25 parts into the kit (since the bottom of the block is part of the chassis plate like pretty much every other Porsche tooled up that isn't a Fujimi Enthusiast Series or the newer RevellAG 934 RSR). The average cost of an "impression" (eg part) on a piece of tooling is around $2,500, so that's an extra $50,000 to $62,500 in tooling costs. Beemax, like most everyone else these days does runs of 5,000 pieces. Now you're talking about adding over $10 to the cost of a kit that's already going to run into the mid-$30 range directly in Asia. Is the inclusion of the engine going to sell enough extra kits at $45 to recoup the extra tooling costs?

I get people wanting the engine, I really do, but budgets are finite, and your talking about the difference between a project getting the green light or not done at all in most cases. If you don't think this thing as-is isn't a quantum leap over that janky ex-motorized Tamiya crate, then I invite you to revisit that kit to remind yourselves what the 1970s/80s in Japanese modeling was really like.

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