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4 minutes ago, Scott - Elm City Hobbies said:
what was once a large office and warehouse staff at RUSA, was reduced to one person, that was pretty much responsible for all of RUSA operations in receiving kits from China and sending the kits out to distributors and retailers. (the company is now has a second person in Ed Sexton), so now you have 2 people doing the job of a fully staffed warehouse, save for the kit development and most of the marketing, things move a little slower when all that work that was done by an office and warehouse full of people are now done by 2 people.
Nope, you folks are still incorrect.
I speak to more and emailed with more than one person at Revell USA in the US and I've never spoken to Ed personally in any capacity. I've also spoken directly with people at RG but that's besides the point.
Can we still stop pretending we're know it alls on that company already and drop it? -
I LOVE threads that devolve like this. And they always do.
All this speculation and certainty from people with zero professional connections to a company on what really went down, who got fired, why, why a product isn't out yet, what the financials of a company are, etc.
Always a good read. Like a knitting circle of plastic model gossip.
Instead of correcting people with facts, it's more entertaining to let it unfold over time and see all the 'experts' proven wrong. Again and again. Stay tuned, you'll see.
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13 minutes ago, Casey said:
I can't blame them for diversifying as a company. Round2 has done the exact same thing, yet it flew right under most people's radar...:
Yeah, did a promo video on that for them.
Nice kits, very easy to build and kids should like it. -
My full build review is up for those interested.
I enjoyed it all. Awesome kit, perfect fits, even all the glass just presses in. And it has a lot of glass of course. -
4 hours ago, Force said:
the problem is the tires as the white Bandag scripts are not there on these upcoming re-issues and there are no tire markings on the decal sheets.
I have both of these kits sitting here right now waiting to be built for the channel.
The tires say Bandag and Tyrone Malone on my copies. Both kits. Pad printed in white of course. I have to assume these are full production kits as that is what I request for my reviews, I only want what the customers will be getting in the same boxes, etc.
They are molded in black, that is correct, which will make black painting easy, no white marks or streaks as paint pulls away from rivets and such.
There are no Bandag logos anywhere else that I can see, just the tires on both kits, which look great. -
On 11/30/2019 at 6:14 PM, Tom Geiger said:
I just had to chuckle today!
Here we have Revell giving us a really nice new kit... and we're all complaining about the box! ?
Did you expect any less?
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Thanks guys, diving into it soon.
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I'm going to be building a larger scale Mustang 289 V8.
The block is clear but I want to paint the oil pan and air cleaner which are cast in silver plastic.
On some cars I google see the air cleaner is chrome with the 289 decal, some all blue with the 289 decal.
Also, on some the oil pan is black, on some it is Ford blue.
Any consensus on which is most 'correct'? If not I'll just wing it and do blue oil pan and chrome air cleaner.Thanks! -
I may or may not have one of these Vegas in my hands right now....
Guess with all this interest I'll have to set in the front of the line for a look see soon. -
1 hour ago, PierreR89 said:
Thats good to know that you can do that with this kit.
I am waiting untill i have seen your video of it to decide if i want to buy it.
I did not buy the Italeri verison because i just did not like the box for some reason, it looked booring somehow, just a truck sitting in a driveway.
I'm looking at an Oct 30th video for that one I hope. Others done before it are set for this Weds and Saturday.
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1 hour ago, PierreR89 said:
The multipart cabs are not that difficult to assemble.
When i build them i usually testfit the cabparts to eachother first and fix any problems there might be (almost never anything exept some flash) and then when i know it fit togheter i paint the cabparts.
While those are drying i start to build the interior of the cab and after all paint have dried i assemble the cab by starting with one of the sidepanels and floorpan, then i just go in a circle untill it is complete and straight.
The roof can wait untill last because it just sits ontop and does nothing the keep the cab togheter, i usually use it to check it everything is straight and are not leaning anywhere it should not.
Then glue it on or leave it removable, all my cab roofs are glued on as they sometimes dont sit flush with the walls and have to be held down while the glue does its thing
The sleeper is easier then the cab.
Those i also paint before i assemble them and when i start assembling them i start with the backwall and then i look for the driverside wall as it is the one that also help to hold the bed up.
After i have found them i glue the backwall and sidewall to eachother, then i put in the bed and glue it to where it goes, that way the bed will help hold those parts togheter and then you can put in the floor and continue building the walls.
Leaving the roof for last once again and just leave it loose to have it removable, there are tabs that goes in to but out sections on the inside of the walls, (i think you have seen them if you have looked at the parts)
Or glue it on.
I have some that are removable but most of them i glue on because there is really not much to look at inside the sleeper.I can happily say that I'm impressed by this Italeri rebox.
The AMT Wrecker took me two days of assembly and was very fiddly, lining up axles and such.
This kit is light years different. 6 hours of assembly and I was in paint.
Figured out the cab quickly, and the floor inserts from the bottom so bang zoom and it was done, ready for paint without having to do the interior and paint it first.
Like you I sealed the sleeper up, you won't see it anyway.
The seams on the chrome bits are nice, little super glue and touch up with molotow and they look nice enough that I'm not repainting any chrome at all.
6 hours from intro video of parts and built in subsections ready for paint (frame, engine, cab, sleeper and chrome bits) A sign of a well fitting and easy to assemble kit.
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1 hour ago, Spruslayer said:
I know this is gonna be a bad idea but the attitudes presented by some folks here is likely the reason people quit coming here. I have read plenty of post raging some for their methods and wile it may not be the way you do it doesnt give you the green light to flame someone.Chris produces 2 vids every week, look very well done on top of building the featured kit.
I for one not only have learned skills here but also from hpiguys videos.If you produce show winning builds i'm glad for you and i do enjoy looking at the detail that goes into them.Plus,as only 2 plus years into building models i like to see the kits i could be interested in buying before spending what little funds i have for this hobby.i see now who the instigators are here and for the most part let it go.
I feel if folks want to see more new tooled kits the target audience is going to have to grow to get that to happen and someone like hpiguy or others is, i feel a way to get that to happen.
Mods, i hope i dont get sent to the wood shed for this but enough is enough all ready.
Like Micheel said,lets play nice for the benefit of the hobby
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Thanks man it's all about the fun and showing folks how easy it is to make a model, any model, any age, any brand.
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3 minutes ago, chuckyr said:
Italeri has been doing this for 30 years. The cabs are much more accurate.
Get with the program!
Definitely worth yelling over for sure.
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43 minutes ago, High octane said:
I wouldn't hold my breadth on the return of the '29 Roadster of the '30 Coupe, as right now it doesn't look too good. Not saying that it won't happen, but if and when is anybody's guess.
What is the source you are basing this on?
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I happened to enjoy mine but I don't know enough about GTOs to think it's 'Junk' like others here do.
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Boy that looks like a nice kit. Thanks for opening it up.
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I noticed this year there aren't a lot of those goofy rods being issued. I have the most recent reissue of this and liked it.
I hope they come back out next year with a few of the caricature rods as I call them, love them! -
I stay motivated by building every single genre of models under the sun. Two full builds per week can kill your motivation really fast if you don't find ways to keep that fire going. Cars, trucks, all scales, ships, planes, helis, sci fi, figures, buildings, resin, metal, plastic, whatever.
I love models and model making.
I'm not at an amazing level of skills and likely never will be, but I love the assembly, paint work and just zoning out in my shop on whatever kit I have to build next.
Any brands, makers, styles, love it all. I'm not an expert on any of it. I make mistakes, I call a part by the wrong name, I stick a tiny sci-fi laser gun on in the wrong direction, so what.
If I only built muscle cars, or one type of car, or only did weathered things, or just shiny new things, I'd lose my motivation in a couple weeks. Kudos to those that can be laser focused on just one type of model all the time and not get burnt out.
I also love watching other people build and get a kick out of seeing what others are doing. There is a guy on this forum that shows off all the new Japanese kits on his videos, I watch that stuff too.
I stick with the positive channels, those that don't drag drama or sniping at others onto their videos. Folks that are as eager as me to just make a model fire me up to keep working on all mine. I simply do not get those that have to try to start stuff between channels, or troll others or cut others kits or work down. Terrible. We should be lifting each other up and having a blast. It's models! It's supposed to be a fun past time!
I refuse to drag drama or anything else but models and fun onto the model videos I do. There is enough bad stuff in the world, my model videos are about the model and that's it. And having fun doing it no matter the skill levels. I have bad paint jobs and slipped marker scratches and show my mistakes all the time so that people know that perfection is an illusion and the main goal is just to sit down and make something. -
In my opinion the death of the hobby won't come from lack of interest of new builders.
Creating, making and putting things together will always be a human interest for many many people.
Among the things that do the most damage and will help kill the hobby off bit by bit are the critics, the complainers and the whiners that lament everything and anything about every kit on the market. Making those not in the know think every kit is trash and not worth buying or building. 50 pages on roof lines and literally heated arguments about exact curves of decals using graphs and charts.
The ones that criticize people for just trying to share the hobby, with others telling people that they aren't good enough or that their skills need more work before they should try showing it off, etc. Honestly, what kind of person feels the need to trash others work on their hobby? Do woodworkers leave horrendously cruel comments to each other in such great numbers? Models seem to attract that type of angry unhappy person like fly paper.
The guy that tells a kid they 'need' an airbrush to make models or they 'have' to have this and that and not just telling them they can grab a kit and have fun making it, that the rest will come to them as time goes by. No man, you have to buy only AK interactive paints or just throw that kit in the trash. Wait, that's not the perfect Chevy green for that year, why are you even showing this to people?
Trust me, those types of people and their attitudes that they must thrust onto everyone else do far more damage than kids not wanting to assemble stuff.
I've watched to many scare newcomers off than they ever bring in. We need to find a way to get those folks to stop that kind of thing and support each other more.
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Cool stuff!
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4 hours ago, Vince Nemanic said:
So VW expects a model manufacturer to invest over a half million dollars before the kit is licensed? In other words, I'm not holding my breath for any new VW models.
Don't let the speculation by peeps get you upset. Don't put too much faith into guesses and the maybe-so stuff. The same type of rumor or tall tales that tell us molds are 'lost forever' and the kit reappears a year later. It's just spit balling and guesses as to why something is late or held up in most cases here.
VW is NOT the reason the Bandito is held up in licensing for now.
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I have this now. It's molded in black (chassis components, engine), white (body), silver (one set of wheels?), light grey (interior) and lots of chrome (rest of the wheels, fuel tanks, stacks, fenders). Tires are molded on a flexible tree with detailed manufacturer sidewalls.
Decals to match the box art, full dash decals too which is nice. Option to paint the raised detail on the dash as well if you don't want to sand it flat for the decal.
I've never done a big truck with a multi part cab (roof, doors, walls, multi part sleeper walls) so this will be interesting. Hood and fenders are thankfully one piece. -
Revell just sent me the 87 GNX / GN 2n1 boxing so this looks like a G-body intensive summer for them!
If it goes as nice as this Monte it should be a nice build up. -
On 9/6/2019 at 3:02 PM, hpiguy said:
Haha! I should be getting that one for review soon.
I've never even seen it myself so this should be interesting if people say it's a bad kit.
Well, I requested the 69 Yenko in my latest batch of kits but it did not get sent. Oh well.
I got a big box of other kits though so as soon as I get the word I will start gluing and posting builds up for those that are curious what will be in upcoming releases.
Looking forward to the 74 Road Runner, 65 Chevelle Wagon as two of my faves from this shipment (But I like em all). The Italeri/AMT re-boxing of the Peterbilt 378 Long Hauler looks like a big parts count, should be interesting. I hear they are pretty good truck kits.
Time to get gluing!
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The great thing about that 5.0 coming back is that all of us wanting to make a meth dealer diorama are all set! Just need to fab up a trailer home and it will look right in place!