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Yeah, they are just covering their a$$. Because they don't want customers to complain about the quality, even though it was really the un-plated resin part which was inferior resulting in poor finish. With few exceptions, resin parts are imperfect. Like it was said, not perfectly smooth surface (uneven or with pinholes) and often not perfectly cleaned - some of the mold release agent is still on the parts. That is how I see it.

I love it! You figured out a way to build a pristine model tank and have a valid setting for it. Now that is something I could try myself as I hate (and I suck at) weathering.

Were they prepped (cleaned) properly? Was their surface as smooth as equivalent plastic parts would be? What were the specifics of the problem? Vacuum-metalizing will not hide any flaws. It will actually make the flaws more apparent.

No problems connecting to PayPal on my win XP and using older browsers.I paid for a dozen transactions (on and off eBay) just this week. Stay away from Win 10 spyware!

My first computer used a standard portable cassette player to store programs. It also came with 1k of memory, and an 8-bit 4MHz processor! Memory was expandable to 64k! Screen resolution was 256x192 pixels (monochrome) using regular TV set for a monitor. That was Sinclair ZX81 (which I bought as a kit and put it together myself). I added a dedicated thermal paper printer and a 300 baud modem. I used to call BBSs and I could read the words faster than the modem received them. Later I added on an aftermarket dual 5.25" floppy drive. Single-Sided/Single-Density. Then I built a full-size keyboard and light pen for it which actually worked! Those were fun times where you could fully understand the inner-workings of your computer. I learned BASIC and Z80 machine languages on it. Here is a British ad for it (I got mine in US).

While all the detailed explanations and opinions are very good, how about a very simple explanation: Show Quality in models is like Show Quality in real cars. If the real or model car is worth of being entered (and be competitive) in a show, I would consider it Show Quality. That is not to say that if the vehicle (model or real) is not up to show quality, it can still be entered in the show. But it most likely will not win any trophies. But as long as the owner (of the real car or model) had fun building it then that is the most important consideration. As far as Harry P's models go, those would be in yet another category: Concourse Quality models!

Yeah! Thoroughly clean them (so there are not traces of the mold release agent) and send them out to one of the vacuum metalizing companies. Of course of the surface finish on those is not perfect the imperfections will also be visible in the final product.

Because this is the word we live in. No strict laws or even guns will make any difference. There are plenty of f-wads out there who simply just don't care if they go to prison or even get shot if they do something bad. The simply don't think about the consequences of their actions. They just don't think at all.

If it is printed on any standard CYMK consumer printer and the colors used are other than black then it will need to be applied over white colored surface or the colors will not show properly. The CYM inks are translucent and they need white background to show their true colors. That is why Alps MicroDry printers (which can lay down a layer of white ink under the translucent CYM inks are so highly prized in the modeling world.

This is the first time I've seen these and I like what I see. Too bad they were not successful. How many model kits allow you to enter a box-stock model directly into the diorama category at a model show?

EXACTLY!

I don't doubt your statement but I'm also puzzled how with that market saturation and all is it that eBay has more items listed than ever before? Somebody is selling this stuff (in all categories). Or are you saying that only certain markets are saturated and there are now more than ever sellers peddling their cheap new wares on eBay? It seems like eBay is trying to be Amazon and vice versa.

Funny how these things work...

Duh, brain fart! I selected my vote but forgot to hit Submit.

Real - the photo was taken from an interesting angle but every detail of the car says "real" to me. If it ends up being a model then it has to be much larger than 1/24 and whoever built is is an excellent modeler.

Well then, it must be supernatural dude!

Wow! That's f-up! Since the time I joined in 1999, eBay has basically obfuscated most of the personal information about the sellers and buyers. Supposedly for security and privacy reasons. I used to be able to scope out competing bidders by looking at they bidding habits, etc. but now you don't see any useful info about competing bidders (except number of feedbacks and other fairly useless info). Maybe eBay does care more about the sellers (since that is where the fees come from), but OTOH seller cannot leave a negative feedback for a buyer but buyer can leave a negative for a seller.

As you said, it is an addition addiciton. I seem to recall reading that a person produces a bit of dopamine whenever the phone notifies them (makes sound or vibrates) that there is new contents available to look at. They can't help but to look at it.

Seeing the cutaway view of a Tamiya spray can in another thread reminded me about this problem. So what is the verdict Brian? Were you able to ease-up in the shaking force and not damage the bottom of the can?

If the clear "insulation" diameter is close enough then I think this would result in a perfect representation of those clear steering wheels. The real ones also have a steel rod inside them. Those tie-downs can be straightened out and then bent to any diameter you need.

You should try doing it in 1:43 scale!

I have never been successful bonding Delrin to anything. I employ mechanical bonds (drilling and pinning) or heat-welding (melting) parts together.

A 2016 issue featuring the 2015 contests? For several years my club used to send photos to MCM with out contest photos but they were never published (while Scale Auto Contest Annual always features several pages of our photos), so we gave up on MCM.

Wasn't there an old SNL skit (in the '80s) featuring a Chia-car and Clay-car (body work on that one was a breeze)?

Ebay makes (and always did make) money in the end - I never questioned that. But the new fee structure enables BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH like what I described above to go on. Someone is able to re-list the same extremely overpriced item for years at a time without having to pay anything to eBay (until it sells). That's my beef with eBay.