Testshot: Revell Ferrari SA Aperta & GTO

[ShadowBroker]

The wheels and tires look way better than the 458 italia wheels,

[Exotics_Builder]

Originally Posted by tmathew1us

My thoughts exactly. In fact when I heard that they were making a 599 model, I sent the following email:



" -----Original Message-----
From: tmathew1us
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:45 PM
To: Revell Consumer Service
Subject: new models

Dear Revell

I am very impressed with your recent offerings, especially with modern sports and racing cars.
However, while the moldings have been generally very good, I would
encourage you to consider enlarging the wheels and tires.

For example, on many of your recent ferraris (360, 458) the wheels and
tires appear to the eye on the finished model to be a scale inch or two
too small. For the upcoming Ferrari 599, where large wheels and tires
are essential to the correct appearance of the car, I would suggest even
molding them in 1:22 scale. It is rare to have a scale model with tires
that appear slightly too large, and even is so, I believe this can
somewhat enhance the appearance when compared to wheels and tires that
are too small, which always detract from the appearance.

I hope you will take this as constructive criticism.

All the best,
tmathew1us

Sent: January 24, 2012
To: Revell Consumer Service
Subject: re:new models

Apologies for late response.
Thank you for your comments regarding recent Ferrari releases. Any and
all input enables Revell to bring a better product to market. Your
comments have been forwarded to the Product Engineering Team.
Regards,
Vicki
Revell Inc.
Consumer Service"


We'll see when we finally get our hands on this kit...

You should have also sent this to Revell AG, as Revell USA is not the producer of this kit and it appears your letter was sent to the USA unit. They would likely forward to Germany, though.

Now that Hobbico also owns Revell AG, there may be better communication, but Revell AG does have separate product development and product planning teams.