Junkman

G70-15s on an '82 van?

Are you sure?

It's a bit like who gets the first load of Beaujolais Nouveau, just with plastic.

I got my shipping notice today. I'm so excited!

I got my shipping notice today. I'm so excited!

Although all of this is of course factually correct and a total mirror of today's globalist mindset, one could have a slightly more old-fashioned point of view. Despite we all have our bills and mortgage to pay and families to feed, win at the stock market and shovel as much money aside as we possibly can, since whoever has more money, is the better person, there might still be some value left in non materialistic things, although few people nowadays can remember that. What if you just sacrifice a few Dollars by not taking that model apart and sell its components individually? You might give another man the immense pleasure to obtain the model he has been looking for for so long. You anticipate, that he will cherish it and bring it back to life. You know, that once he is done with it, another example is alive and well and preserved for all who see it to enjoy. Am I really the only one, who can actually get some pleasure out of this? Despite I'm not 'rich'? I have never charged anyone a Penny when I was able to supply some parts he was looking for in the Wanted thread, not even for postage. I have given people mint annuals free of charge, because it was one of the few missing in their collection and I thought it's better for someone to have them all. Sometimes, a human's responsibility to help to preserve something that otherwise would be lost forever is simply superior to his superficial greed for money. OK, one could argue that parting out an old model helps more people to complete theirs, but this is usually not the motivating factor, hence I find it morally inferior.

The devil must be delighted, seeing that so many of you obviously traded your souls to him for your abilities.

That sounds to me like a reason for an exhaustive inventory having an even higher priority than top priority?

It says the hanger shot programme was started in the late 90s, then it was cancelled half way through. As much as I appreciate it being a daunting task, not resuming it for the better part of two decades must be the worst case of procrastination in human history. If my assumption is correct (only applying common sense here), the tooling is the single most valuable asset of the company and the only asset that actually can be used for value creation, then one would think doing an exhaustive inventory has to have top priority, no?

Yes, there is a crankshaft and even a rod and piston assy. You need to leave the crankshaft out if you want to drill a hole for the metal axle.

How do these steam pumps actually work? Did they have to keep them steamed up all the time for when there could have been an incident?

No, you had to drill the hole roughly where usually the conrods stick out of a 348.

I'm only connected to 1:18 scale diecast collectors in Thailand, so not of much help, I'm afraid. Have you asked in your local hobby shops? There is also this: https://www.facebook.com/thaiplamo/ Conclusion: No matter where you go on this planet, there are always a few normal people.

That old kits, parts, or builders are expensive, has always been this way and something I accept as a collector. Show me something about this hobby that is cheap. I dislike the practice of disassembling complete builders to offer the individual components, since it is impossible to win all the auctions to get it complete again. Nothing wrong with parting incomplete models and selling the components, though.