Does anyone know if the new “I love kits” CCKW 352 is a new tool or just a re-box of the poorly dimensioned Hobby Boss kit?
Looks to be the same- CCKW-352 w M2A1, I Love Kit 63567 (2024)
In this case is it now “I Hate Kit”?
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I wouldn’t take the Scalemates linkage as gospel. Remember that the data in Scalemates is user maintained. When adding a new kit, it recommends linkages to other kits of that subject and scale. The user that entered it into Scalemates may have been guessing. Until sprue shots are available, I’d withhold judgement. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it is new tool…
Rick
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Considering that HobbyBoss, I Love Kit, Merit and Trumpeter (and a couple others) are under the same parent company I would expect it’s a re-box. Nothing more. I’d be truly surprised if they re-tooled the mistakes.
Jimbo
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That’s exactly what I wanted to post, too 
It’s not a company that seems overly intent on correcting well-known errors and mistakes in their kits, so why would they make an entirely new CCKW kit if they already have the moulds for one?
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A rebox does make some sense however like Rick, I think waiting til sprue are shown is wise before claiming one way or the other. They released a Dukw so they could have had their own CAD for a CCKW. Hard to know at this point.
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Though I have zero actual knowledge about the internal structure of ZhongShan YaTai Electric Appliances Co.,Ltd., I kind of doubt Trumpeter, Hobby Boss, and I Love Kit all have their own separate design departments. More likely, IMHO, there’s just one, and it’s some managerial decision which brand name to stick onto any given kit.
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I agree I doubt they all have their own design teams. Merit before being I love Kit could have had the cad work already done or close to it before release. I say that cause I do know another manufacturer that told me they have a kit ready to go but have not released because the market is not ready for its release.
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It should be said, that, AFAIK, Trumpeter went to some lengths to re-tool one of their first issues, the 1/32 Wildcat, after they were made aware of some errors. And much more recently, they re-tooled their 1/200 Titanic hull, after the Titanic fan-boy community went berserk about the shape of the bow of that (massive) kit (which hull is tooled from like 6 segments to accommodate such a large molding (the biggest injection-molded styrene part I’ve ever seen, BTW)).
SO, there is precedent for them (they are all the same company after all) re-tooling mistakes. As a fan of WWII Allied softskins (and an owner of, what, 5 HobbyBoss errors), I’d LOVE to be proven wrong.
Jimbo
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