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Careful people!
Let's tone this down just a bit.... no personal attacks will be permitted!!!
Marc thus far has been very cordial in his posts. I would hate to have to ban Alan after only one post...
And I will continue to be so. Remember the Golden Rule...treat others the way you want to be treated.
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I didn't want to take it to this but here it goes.
No need to get worked up I now you defend Mr Reliable because you are in bed with the guy. Mr Reliable is from the Philly area and everybody that has dealings with him get shafted nobody in this area even wants to deal with the loud mouth. I am sure alot of guys here do this hobby on a budget. not that they are going to stop living because of this hobby but like to do the hobby and they enjoy it with thier limited resource.
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Ariel,
My reply regarding the hobby and budgets had nothing to do with defending Reliable Resin. Just trying to make a point that if money IS an issue, one has no business spending $40-50 or more on a model kit, from Reliable Resin, Tamiya, Harold Bradford, Model Factory Hiro, Aardvark Models, or whomever. That's all, nothing more.
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For some people with families 40-to 50 dollars is a great deal. . .
And for those people, if you have families and $40-50 dollars is a lot of money to you, you shouldn't be spending it on a model kit.
Let's see, shoes for the kids or a model kit...I'll buy the model. The kids can go bare footed for another month or two. Electric bill or a model??? Food on the table or a model???
I for one, NEVER take money off the table to spend on my hobby. And those that do should have their head examined.
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Marc,
I am part of this model culture and like to think my ear is securely on the rail of the hobby train. I spend a lot of my time studying trends within the model culture and have to totally disagree with your “general statement about the hobbyâ€.
It is true that there are a lot of collectors out there but they are in no way the larger percentage currently! Nearly everyone in this hobby that I talk to usually gets around to telling me, in painful details, about their latest build project. NOT about their latest acquisition!
This will probably change as time passes due to the fact that fewer and fewer younger modelers are joining while huge amounts of builders AND collectors are dieing off…
“Thus far the mortality rate is 100%… nobody gets out alive!â€
J
Thanks for your comment, Jairus. I was referring primarily to the "internet modelers". Many model builders I know never go to the internet or if they do, they stay away from these forums. It's probably why they build more than some of us.
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Ouch! Not.
It's true I don't post anything on the In progress section. I think 25 years of SAE event coverage, etc. is enough. I average 10-15 finished models a year for myself. I have built well over 150 in a few years but of course those were all sold through my business Aardvark Models. We all collect but you and I do build a lot of them too, Marc.
Hey Andy!!!
This wasn't a personal attack on you, but a general statement about my observation of the hobby. This board and the one at the "other" magazine do have more builders that post their builds on average. But many of the other message boards are full of regulars that in the eight years or so I've been connected to the hobby thru the internet I have yet to see a build of theirs or even see them discuss a build.
There are a great number of people in the hobby that are just "collectors". They talk a good game but I would just like to see them build too. There are guys in my local club that I've known for 5 years that do not build. They are at every meeting at the LHS and always go home with some new models, resin bodies, paints, etc, but they never build!!!
It's only when we get the urge to build that resin kit we purchased years ago only to discover that it warped in the box, the quality was not what we remembered it to be, etc, that the tirades begin.
You mentioned Modelhaus in your earlier post. I have one of their '57 Ford Custom 300 kits. It's a beauty, but it is THICK and will take lots of grinding on the sides to get the AMT '57 chassis plate to fit properly. Did I go into an online tirade when I discovered this? No. I'm a model builder and I have the skills to correct this issue. If I start one and find it to be unbuildable, I put it back in the box and move on. Write the money off too. It's not like we spent $200k on a rare musclecar only to find out when we got it home it was a total rust bucket underneath the shiny finish. We're talking at best $40-50 for a total resin kit in most cases.
When it comes to resin, NO resin kit is perfect. Resin has gotten much better over the years and as such, expectations have risen. But bottom line, a resin kit will always require more work and a higher level of skill from the model builder than a styrene kit. Successfully building any resin kit will no doubt make one a better model builder. Hopefully, Modelmartin will come out with a resin kit that I would be interested in building. I would like to compare the quality of your castings with the others that are out there.
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How many on-line tirades have you seen about any other resin casters? Has anyone ever heard anyone trash talk Modelhaus???? There has been a lot of chatter about A/FX who kind of disappeared and the current subject. Anyone else? That is most telling.
You usually only see the tirades when a resin caster "takes the money and runs". The vast majority of people in this hobby are "collectors" and not "builders". Just look at the message boards and the percentage of posters who never post progress threads on their builds. We all collect, but few of us actually build. Just my two cents worth and the Nomex is on.
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According to my guy over at NAPA, they sell a Purple plastic bottle with a purple liquid in it, that removes paint just like CSC. In fact, my guy says it comes in cases with tha name Castrol on tha box, but tha bottles just say..."Super Clean". It works just like CSC, smells tha same, does tha same. :wink:
zeb
Same here in Oklahoma...just bought a new bottle at Wally World and it only says "Super Clean". No Castrol, same purple pond water.
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It's been almost a year since I ordered one of A/FX's '71 Dodge Demon bodies. I've purchased from them before a couple of years ago and their quality is amazingly good, easily one of the best out there. But I have yet to receive the Demon body, and all e-mails to Wendell and Monica go unanswered. Has my money flown the coop? Have any of you had similar experiences recently? Clue me in please.
Probably out of luck and out of $$$ too. One just sold on Ebay last week for $93!!!
I guess mine with some Modelhaus chrome and some Fred Cady decals should be worth at least $150 LOL!!!
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And, as waz drumed into me in Paralegal school...never, never accept the first discourse that yu read. Always, always....check yur sources, do tha deep research that is required to support any "argument" with 2 or more supporting documents. Word of mouth is just that, words and with tha prevalence towards accepting rhetoric as truth...anyone remember why we are in Iraq? I still say it waz meant as a joke, however IMHO it is "bad form" and if it turns out to do harm to Reliable Resins "goodwill" I see a lawsuit on tha horizon.
Re: tha old saw...Opinions are like dark holes, ever body has at least one.
And a gentle bit of a suggestion, be very careful where and how yu express yur opinons, we Americans unfortunately live in a litiginous society.
(Note: Harming a business' "Goodwill" capriciously is "grounds" for a legal lawsuit for punitive damages.)zeb
It was not meant as a joke....this is serious and will no doubt result in serious consequences.
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It's no joke, Zeb. The seller bought 6 bodies from Reliable Resin and they're all terrible. He put the auction up to advertise the fact that Reliable Resin is a ripoff. You can read more about it at the Straight Line Modeler e-mail group on Yahoo!. On that group, one guy says he tried to return a defective body and Don of RR accused him of defacing it so he could get his money back.
I have also been stung by unscrupulous resin casters. Just wanting to share your hobby with others is not enough. You have to make quality parts and have a little bit of business sense...even if that business sense is knowing that you don't really have a small business. If it's a part-time deal, just sell on ebay when you have parts made up. Don't advertise and let people send you money then give them excuses. When you take their money, you agree to give them a good product in a timely manner. Bad resin sellers deserve to be outed.
Don't believe everything that is posted on Straight Line Modeler. Don is not an unscrupulous resin caster. In fact, the body that is posted on the Ebay auction was given to the person in question at the same time he purchased a good body in order to build a replica of Art Chrisman's flat top Cyclone flopper. Don does NOT sell resin like what is pictured in the auction.
Don has been casting resin for 5 years this weekend and his positive feedback on Ebay proves his worthiness. I just won a first place and third place trophy with Reliable Resin products.
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Go for it!!! What kit has those rims and tires? They are awesome!!!
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Simon,
It was a pleasure and an honor to meet you and your friends in KC last summer. That model was worthy of all the praise it received. Here's a picture I took of it.
Hope you guys come back to KC in the future.
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How come so many of these models have been painted orange or some similar shade?
Just like the original, orange is a natural color choice.
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Wow Mark Thanks for posting this, I have a few bodies that I have been wanting to do this with!! I would like to start casting a few things as well, would you be generous enough to share the name of the Mold RTV and Resin you use??
Micro Mark is what I use. I recommend their starter kit as it comes with almost everything you need to start casting resin.
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Hi Marc, Gotta question, other than the rear clip. The model came out very clean. what did you strip the paint with? also Ive seen your other posts of your models. very,very nice work. Its like you have been doing this for a while, but I get the impression that you are between 25 to 29 years old. Im not asking you to tell your age but are you over or under 30. just curious. keep up the good work and post pics often.
thanks Ron.
Thanks for your comments, Ron. I stripped this one with Super Clean. It works the best on good old Testors enamel.
As for the age comment, how did you know that I'll be 47 on the 17th? I built models from the age of 7-16, then started back into the hobby in 1995. Got serious about it when my lovely Wife let me have part of our 4th bedroom for a workspace. As of December 2006, I now have the whole room. I'm not a prolific model builder, but I have lots of fun!!!
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I've been collecting MPC '68-69 Chargers lately. I took a chance on an auction a few weeks ago and got this trio for $10.
The one in the middle is an original '69 annual. Underneath what looked to be FIVE BOTTLES :roll: of brush applied Testors blue paint, here's what I had.
But the rear end didn't look too hot.
What's a modeler to do? Make a mold box on the rear clip of a good '69 Charger.
Pour some RTV.
Remove mold, dust with talcum powder, pour in resin, let cure and remove part. The damaged portion of the original body has been removed with a razor saw and is shown at the bottom of the picture below the new part.
Stay tuned while I attach the new rear clip and finish the body work. Isn't model building fun!!!
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Perhaps Reliable Resin should open a store on here....
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it's always a rough time when you get hit by the missing parts gremlin; i guess i've been fairly lucky to only get a few kits in 30 years with this problem...
It's one thing to purchase a current kit with missing parts. Try finding parts for a Johan Rebel Machine!!! I purchased what appeared in the pictures to be a complete, unbuilt kit with all parts off the spure only to find when I received it that the bumpers were missing!!! :x And when Modelhaus doesn't have replacements, you're basically screwed. And I paid $65 for this one. Lucky for me, I've learned to resin cast and a fellow model builder loaned me his mint unused bumpers to cast. He even had to cut them from the tree!!!
See, it could be worse.
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I bought it from a local hobby store, and theyre policy is, if its opened , it cannot be returned or exchanged. I paid 22.00 for the kit (bent over in the first place) opened it and took it back 20 minutes after i bought it, ad he wont exchange it.
TWENTY TWO DOLLARS!!! :shock:
Where do you live? I can tell you one thing...I would NEVER go back to that LHS. Is there a Hobby Lobby near your town? They often have 40% off coupons for any one item in the store. A quick search of Ebay turned up a seller with two kits like yours for sale at $11.50 US shipped.
Buy another kit and use the one you got for parts. It has some good ones that can be bashed on other projects. Good luck!
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Hey all, I just picked up an AMT street custom 76 Nova kit, got it home and opened it up, and it is missing one whole parts tree ( I compared with a friends kit) it is missing the tree with the Hood, and front suspension parts.
How do I go about contacting AMT/ertl, and will they supply me with the parts, or tell me tuff luck?
I am alright with picking up a resin cowl hoof, but what to do about susp. parts?
any help is greatly appretiated
Did you purchase the kit at a retail store? Take it back for an exchange or refund. If you purchase your kits at an online source like Hobby Heaven or most LHS's, they will stand behind their products and make it right for you.
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'bout darn time!!!
This is gonna be one awesome Vette. Can we expect to see it on a table @ Heartland? At least the Project Table!!!
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I heard an August release date.......but with Revell who knows? :?
Hobby Heaven lists the release date for the '55 Chevy as May and the '58 in August. Can't wait!!!
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I'll be watching this one too. Looks like you stole a page from the MPC Motorsports shop manual!!!
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You can clearcoat decals w/Tamiya, but you have to sneak up on it with mist coats when you feel like laying it on glossy. Airbrushing is best. If the decals were coated w/Microscale liquid decal film they'd probably have held up to the Tamiya.
Ditto what Bob said above.
(Note: Harming a business' "Goodwill" capriciously is "grounds" for a legal lawsuit for punitive damages.)
Am I seeing things?? You've GOT to check this out!!
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Here's your break, Alan.
Let the public decide who was polite here. I only mentioned "POS bodies" because he claimed in his other Q&A's on the auction that he had FIVE other POS bodies he had purchased from Reliable Resin.
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What about the other POS bodies you paid for? Where's the pics?
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From: Alan <professionalenforcer>
To: marc_nellis@xxxx.com
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2007 10:54:00 AM
Subject: Re: Question for item #140105114058 - Resin 66 Comet FC Body
Hey Marc Nellis,
So Theune is STILL telling people that he GAVE me that POS .... think about it , why would you GIVE someone such a pile of ###### !?!?!?!?! I resin cast myself , and there is NO WAY something like THAT would see the light of day !!! Make no mistake, I PAID for everything that JERK SOLD to me ........... He contacted ME and was practically BEGGING to get it back. He said he would go good for it, and the other stuff I was unhappy with, so I waited, then after some time I asked him if the stuff had been sent and he told me to go f*ck myself, as this A Hole has done to countless others ........Ya, he is a good businessman , and a great guy too ........... moron
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What a bogus auction!!! Even if this was legit, at least you got something in return for your money. Much more than you can say about Lookout, A/FX, and other resin casters who STIFFED many model builders out of their hard-earned cash. I've never had any problems with Reliable Resin and have won contest trophies with his resin products. I think the MOTTZ is on you!!!